my co during my master is just a name only. never involve in anything, and got his name listed in all my master publications.

For my case, all paperworks need to get his signature and this caused much delay. Also, my opinion is that authors should contribute or add value to the paper, not just because one is co-supervising. But that time, i was just a small fish

Hehe procedures. When i was about to submit my thesis after viva, it was delayed by 3-4 weeks because need my co-supervisor signature and he was too busy to flip my thesis. Lucky you, some lecturers / researchers are ethical enough to refuse having their names in paper when they have no contribution, while others will go berserk .

Anyway, back to the topic, i think it is good to keep co-supervisor in the loop so that he or she will know what is happening.

Yeah i did that and he started giving me problems (thats why he took a long time to sign off my thesis).

My perfect co would be someone that is not too protruding and does not insist on being at every discussions (due to time constraint). Would be good if he or she can complement the main supervisor in some areas, or maybe having good networks

My master supervisor also expected the same thing from me, and kept delaying my thesis until i have submitted a certain number of papers with his name as first author. Of course i refused and all hell breaks lose. During viva, i was not afraid of the external examiners but my supervisors instead! Was a very intense and stressful period towards the end of my master.

This post has been edited by Human Nature: Apr 25 2012, 06:56 PM