The pipe-smoking, tweed-suited tutor handing back a sheaf of paper with hand-written notes in the margins is a staple of film and television.
But the reality is that marks and comments for our students are usually delivered via an online platform, and the exchange of feedback is mediated by technology.
This is now broadly commonplace in undergraduate education, and with this comes the attendant investment in plagiarism software and standardised general comments.
The more open plains of PhD supervision, however, are not as well-defined, and there is discrepant practice across the sector.
