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Gift for academic supervisor

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  • 17-02-2016 11:23am
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    intheclouds
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    I did a masters recently by distance learning and am expecting to get a result/award any day now.

    I never met my dissertation supervisor but he was really nice and helpful throughout the whole masters, he was also the programme co-ordinator of the distance learning course so I had contact with him throughout for admin type stuff as well as later for academic support.

    Id like to send him a gift to say thanks for being so helpful.

    As Ive never met him, I have no idea of his likes/dislikes etc!

    Anyone any ideas? I was thinking of a nice pen perhaps or a set of cufflinks? Maybe engraved?

    Any other ideas?


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    Ruu
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    Personal note or maybe a nice hardbound copy of a book related to your field.


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    Tipperary Fairy
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    It'd quite likely he's not allowed to accept gifts in his position, you really should check up on that first.


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    intheclouds
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    Ruu wrote: »
    Personal note or maybe a nice hardbound copy of a book related to your field.

    Oh yes, I'll definitely include a personal note. I'd never know what book in the field he didn't have though so that's why I'm leaning more to a pen.....


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    tuisginideach
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    I think a personal note is worth a million times more than a pen/book/cufflinks - the man may never use anything other than a biro/live in teshirts/already have millions of books but he won't have a duplicate personal note.


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    dudara
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    People rarely say no to a decent bottle of wine, or something they can consume. Pens & cufflinks are dust gatherers. Just keep it to a moderate value in case there are any thresholds on gift values.


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    intheclouds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭intheclouds


    The personal note is a given.

    Some good ideas here, didn't think of wine as I hate receiving it myself.

    Yes, token value only, I was thinking 25 euro type range.


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