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The PhD Supervisor: How One Mentor Can Build Your Career and Another Can Destroy It
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Series: Inside the PhD, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798189374463
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Two PhD students begin with the same dream. Two supervisors lead them toward very different futures.
Maya Rahman and Ethan Cole arrive at university full of ambition, convinced that talent and hard work will determine their success.
Maya is assigned to Professor Daniel Hart, a demanding but supportive mentor who challenges her ideas, protects the ownership of her research, and gradually teaches her to become an independent scholar.
Maya Rahman and Ethan Cole arrive at university full of ambition, convinced that talent and hard work will determine their success.
Maya is assigned to Professor Daniel Hart, a demanding but supportive mentor who challenges her ideas, protects the ownership of her research, and gradually teaches her to become an independent scholar.
Ethan is supervised by Professor Victor Hale, a celebrated academic whose charm hides a far more dangerous form of control. At first, Victor offers access, praise, and opportunity. But the promises soon become pressure. Feedback is delayed, credit is taken, opportunities are withheld, and Ethan's future is used as leverage against him.
As Maya's confidence grows, Ethan begins to lose control of his work, his relationships, and his sense of self. When he finally decides to speak out, he discovers that challenging a powerful supervisor may be harder than completing the PhD itself.
The PhD Supervisor is a compelling novel about mentorship, ambition, academic power, stolen credit, institutional silence, and the fragile boundary between guidance and control.
It asks a question every doctoral researcher should consider:
What happens when the person responsible for building your career also has the power to destroy it?
Perfect for readers interested in academic fiction, university politics, psychological drama, workplace power, and the hidden realities of doctoral life.
Book One in the Inside the PhD series.
As Maya's confidence grows, Ethan begins to lose control of his work, his relationships, and his sense of self. When he finally decides to speak out, he discovers that challenging a powerful supervisor may be harder than completing the PhD itself.
The PhD Supervisor is a compelling novel about mentorship, ambition, academic power, stolen credit, institutional silence, and the fragile boundary between guidance and control.
It asks a question every doctoral researcher should consider:
What happens when the person responsible for building your career also has the power to destroy it?
Perfect for readers interested in academic fiction, university politics, psychological drama, workplace power, and the hidden realities of doctoral life.
Book One in the Inside the PhD series.
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