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Scenario

When your dissertation advisor disagrees with your research direction

My dissertation advisor and I have fundamentally different ideas about what my research should become and we've been dancing around this disagreement for eight months through polite revisions and careful language. I can feel us both getting frustrated but neither of us is naming what's actually happening and I'm supposed to defend in six months.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are locked in an unacknowledged power struggle over intellectual ownership while pretending it's just about methodology.

Your guide for this
Aurelius
Aurelius works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Education — Higher Education & Academia?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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