Table 2.

Interesting quotes per topic

THEME	QUOTES
Supervisors’ role	So, it’s really about finding the balance between guiding and letting someone develop himself (the PhD candidate). It’s a question of trust, and it’s not the same strategy for every candidate (P11)
	The supervisor should communicate effectively as regards the standards, rules and procedures, including the legal ones and some customary rules of academy integrity and academic honesty (P5)
Supervisors’ responsibility level	I would feel quite responsible for the research part, let’s say the technical end. I would feel partly responsible as well, if rules were broken. It’s hard to read everything, it’s hard to read every line, there’s trust relationship with the students(P15)
Supervisors’ practices in relation to RI	It’s a kind of informal training, often these kinds of questions are all. I have team meetings every week and I also have a select environment where we’re all together (P9)
	I think this responsibility of the supervisor and really lowered their stress level because I think that kind of mistakes that happens in a reset, it’s not the responsibility of the student (P21)
Supervision style	Mentoring is also how to learn to respond to students’ different needs (P 7)
	It is very much dependent on the level of established trust between the supervisor and the student (P 17)
Exp licit practices	I do not consider regular meeting as a special practice, it is more a standard way to supervise student (P 19)
Implicit practices	It is much more difficult because they are all kind of equally important (P 12)
Virtues expressed in role modelling	I think the first one is respectfulness. Because without respectfulness, you cannot provide a trustworthy environment and a peaceful learning and research environment (P5)
Institutional training for supervisors	Institutions have to take responsibility for training their supervisors (P 1)
	Courses are often led by someone without experience in guiding PhD candidates (P 14)
Institutional support	It would be helpful to have a kind of contract, a formal written agreement between the supervisor and the PhD candidate (P 12)
	Because if we put in a lot of funds and can get people for doing the administrative work, this helps the researcher to focus only on the research and on the methodology (P19)
Supervision practices as extra criteria for assessment and promotion	Good mentorship. Yeah, absolutely, because I think, you are guiding the new generation into academia for that. That should definitely be. I mean, teaching is the criteria for promotion. This is teaching as well.
Relation between being a good researcher and a good supervisor	It’s important to be a good researcher, which means that you have good research practice and you know the topic you are working on. This is, of course, an important aspect of being a good supervisor as well. But there is so much more in being a supervisor than only being a good researcher (P 14)