Updated: Yes, Professor Price Was my Undergraduate Supervisor

We cannot rewrite history. The following selection of emails shows clearly that Professor Anthony W Price was my undergraduate supervisor from start (July 2012 consultation) to finish (March 2013, 2nd/final supervision) and nobody else gave me any input. 

As you can see, Professor A W Price and I got on famously during the degree. And he never even mentioned Plato once during supervisions! 

However, he seemed, inexplicably, to 'go off the boil' after I graduated (see my example at end of this blog post), leaving me without any support or references from someone who had both supervised my research thesis and been one of only 4 lecturers who were my tutorial tutors / markers in my final year. 

A W Price conducted and marked my 2nd term tutorials for the History of Philosophy {Ancient Philosophy, focusing on Aristotle}  

The other three markers were:

Michael Garnett (Political Philosophy, 2nd term)

Sarah Patterson (History of Philosophy {Early Modern} 1st term)

Christian Constantinescu: I recently discovered that Christian Constantinescu seems to have not completed his PhD before he was allocated as the Political Philosophy tutor/marker for my tutorial group. At the time, I assumed he was a fully qualified member of staff / early career lecturer, otherwise he wouldn't be named as a lecturer on the departmental staff list and wouldn't be taking final year tutorials. The university stated in all their written materials that students are guaranteed a lecturer for final year tutorials, instead of PhD students, so Constantinescu shouldn't have taken this tutorial as a student especially since it's not his specialisation! 

It, therefore, should have been Susan James taking my Political Philosophy tutorials, as she was the lecturer that autumn term for Political Philosophy. 

Despite this exchange of emails, amongst other friendly email correspondence with him during my final year, I'm not in touch with Professor Price:

1) he's in Ancient Philosophy, whereas my research interests in the History of Philosophy lie in the 17th - 19th century. 

2) he was unhelpful the first time I asked him to be one of my referees on standby (2014) claiming he couldn't write me a reference at that time because he didn't have access to my records; 

and then the following year (2015), despite initiating the invitation to connect with me himself on LinkedIn and me obliging, he was just plain rude and unprofessional when I merely politely requested permission to put his name down as a referee on my future application forms. This was rather crucial for me, not only for work and study generally but his support was especially relevant to my ability to move on to a postgraduate research degree / PhD. 

So I 'pulled the plug' on Professor Price being a 'connection' on my LinkedIn. 🚽🪠

Here's the 2015 LinkedIn messages I'm referring to:

Nevertheless, I hope all is well with him. 

However, if I'd had the supervisor I'd originally wanted, Professor Susan James, I wouldn't have this problem because she's always professional, ethical and doing the right thing. As we can see here, she's abiding by the rules in my departmental Student Handbook which stated that academic references come from your supervisor and tutorial tutors: she was never allocated any of these roles. So she's quite right to state that she hasn't ever taught me (as a lecturer, she was only eligible to teach final year tutorials but she wasn't allocated for any of my tutorial groups) and hasn't marked any of my student work therefore cannot comment on my academic work as she is required to focus on when writing an academic reference for postgraduate study.