Comments: Development of an early career academic supervisor in Statistics - a discussion on a guiding rubric

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We thank the authors for the well thought out and interesting paper; one can clearly see that a great deal of research, diligence, and time went into this atypically non-mathematical exploration of the world of post-graduate supervision in the Mathematical Sciences. The authors mention that funding is a challenge, especially for young academics. In this respect, we would like to point out that the university capacity development programme (UCDP) has gone to great lengths to provide funding for graduate academics that are busy with their PhDs (or within 5 years after completing their PhDs). Their funding extends to conference attendance, staff time buy-out, and research visits, to name but a few funding opportunities that they provide.