Doctoral supervision and publication in Birmingham
I reached the end of my research supervision at the University of Birmingham in 2022 (I retired officially in December 2019). At that time I had reflected on the international nature of my doctoral research supervision over the past 25 years and its impact on my life. I want to put this (originally a Facebook post) up here. This was really an international work. Of the fifty graduates I supervised to completion, fourteen were from the UK, ten from South Korea, seven from Ghana, six from the USA, two each from India and China, and one each from Indonesia, Nigeria, Zambia, Romania, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, and Canada. Besides those from Pentecostal churches, they often came from mainline Protestant and Anglican denominations. The research was almost entirely empirical work on global Pentecostalism and the relationship between religion and culture. As to where the research was situated, sixteen of these topics were on Africa, sixteen on Asia, eleven on Europe, five on Nor...