PhD projects are about going and finding out something that’s not known. Adequate supervision is important, but it dries up very quickly if you’re working on so

PhD projects are about going and finding out something that’s not known. Adequate supervision is important, but it dries up very quickly if you’re working on something novel. You cannot expect an academic to be on top of the fine details of everything in all of the sub areas of what their PhD students and post docs work on - they’re coordiators more than active researchers normally at that level.