Conflicts with the tutor - or anyone else

Doing a doctoral thesis involves working with several people. The key dyad-triad is the student-tutor(s) one. If there is a conflict between the student and the tutor, then the best policy is to talk to professors at the SoD before any sudden moves. Their job is to talk to various parties, and to seek a solution for the problem.

There are difficult times in most processes. My own experience is that there is at leat one important conflict in every process. Early stages of the process are usualy smooth sailing, but there comes a time of doubt, lask of trust in one's work, exhaustion, etc. Conflicts belong to the process, but in most cases, this is temporary.

If nothing else helps, the ultimate solution is changing the tutor. Tutors can be changed, and this happens once in a while.

However, a good policy is one of non-confrontation.

Naturally, this policy applies to other parties too, including the custos, the valvoja (SoD nominated academic supervisor), etc.