Richard is the best research supervisor I’ve ever had. He has a rare ability to pose the right questions at the right time in order to help me to move my research to the next level. He’s also really supportive, and always finds a way of turning critical input into constructive insight…
Throughout my PhD he has made time to carefully read work, even at short notice, and his comments are consistently insightful… He never pushes his own agenda in my work, and is interested only to help my research be as good as it can be…
I always leave his office feeling inspired – feeling my research is valuable, my writing is good, my project is worthwhile and that I *will* complete my thesis – on time…
He is consistently incredibly generous with his time, his support, and his ideas. He continually creates links between his research students, and between us and his wider network of academic peers in the UK and abroad which has provided a wealth of opportunity for personal, intellectual and career development…
Richard Freeman is one of the most well-loved PhD supervisors. His approach is based on the principles of trust, collaboration, and curiosity. He simultaneously manages to create a space for his students to explore and discover whilst ensuring that they have the support to think again, adjust and fail if need be. Few people approach their work with such joy. He is a continued source of inspiration about the possibilities of academic practice…
He’s given me the space and exactly the right support to be creative and experimental as well as insisting on rigour and thoroughness. Richard takes an active interest in all his supervisees as thinkers and as people, and the result is that we feel part of a community of researchers who are doing exciting work that matters. He encourages you to think about what you find meaningful about your work and to pursue even your most difficult ideas, rather than insisting that you conform to expectations and conventions…