{"id":5778,"date":"2025-08-20T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:23:15","slug":"supervisor-case-study-sion-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/supervisor-case-study-sion-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Supervisor Case Study: Si\u00f4n Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Si\u00f4n Llewelyn Jones, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0has supervised students as part of our On-Campus Internships project and took part as a student himself. Here he talks about his experience.<\/h3>\n

What was your initial motivation for undergoing the placement, both as a student and supervisor?<\/h4>\n

As a student, I was within my third year studying sociology in Cardiff University, and I wasn\u2019t too sure what I wanted to do after graduation. I was considering completing a PhD at the time and became aware of this funded project via email. I felt this project aligned with my interests and something different to do compared to research I conducted during my degree. I hadn\u2019t completed anything around the medical field before.<\/p>\n

My core motivation as a student was:<\/p>\n

1) I wanted a career in research so I thought it would be good for my PhD application<\/p>\n

2) I thought it would be an interesting project to do<\/p>\n

3) I had family who lived in Cardiff; therefore, it was a great paid opportunity to stay with them.<\/p>\n

As a supervisor, I thought it was a good experience to provide students and for them to develop their experiences further. It was also a good way to apply for extra funding to get someone to provide extra help.<\/p>\n

Did you feel the CUROP (On-Campus Internship) helped you feel more equipped when approaching your PhD?<\/h4>\n

It helped me when it came to my application, especially for my interviews. It was just something I could discuss. My supervisors also really helped with my PhD application.<\/p>\n

CUROP (OCI) helped me in terms of gaining insight into the sort of work PhD students do, which I would\u2019ve not got in my undergraduate course.<\/p>\n

I believe it aided me in 1) Getting the PhD and 2) The skills necessary for the PhD<\/p>\n

I think doing the program cemented that aspiration of really wanting to do a PhD. After completion, it became apparent that this was something I could see myself doing.<\/p>\n

As a supervisor, did you think the internship scheme influenced your own professional growth, as well as development within your career?<\/h4>\n

It definitely helped. I was maybe a bit na\u00efve when I first started. I thought I could leave students to do things themselves. I realised consistent contact and meetings were necessary to ensure they could deal with the work, and that my instructions were clear.<\/p>\n

I believe both my management and mentoring skills have changed and changed for the better.<\/p>\n

Are there any specific skills you gained throughout the internship as a student and a supervisor?<\/h4>\n

As a student, CUROP further extended my qualitative and quantitative research skills, by providing me with the opportunity to use different software that I didn\u2019t have access to in my course, such as \u201cSPSS\u201d.<\/p>\n

The program also aided my time management skills as I had to deal with various responsibilities at once.<\/p>\n

What sort of impact did your project have on your research? Could you have done this yourself?<\/h4>\n

I would\u2019ve been able to do it myself, but it would\u2019ve taken me a longer time to complete. For my second research project where I was able to gain funding from CUROP, I was able to employ two students. It was great to have both students who could bounce ideas off from each other and brought ideas that I hadn\u2019t really thought about myself.\u00a0 This did bring innovative and fresh ideas to the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Si\u00f4n Llewelyn Jones, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences\u00a0has supervised students as part of our On-Campus Internships project and took part as a student himself. Here he talks […]","protected":false},"author":7054,"featured_media":5779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1004],"tags":[],"custom_author":[1058],"class_list":["post-5778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oncampusinternships","custom_author-katherine-evans"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":5778,"cy":5788},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KqgK-1vc","meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2025\/08\/Sized-58.png","pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}