I was told recently by my thesis advisory group that the third and final part of my PhD is not strong enough to be a part of it and that I should think of something else instead, and that the second part of my PhD has to be redone. I was very shocked to hear that (and I cried for days) because the topic had been approved by my new supervisor and I had been working on it for months. More over I can't help thinking that if my supervisor had been doing his work properly then he would have given me the right feedback on my work so as to spare me the trouble (and especially the time) of redoing the second part.It's been 3 weeks since then and I still am not getting any help from him. Unfortunately he has now moved abroad and won't be coming back for quite some time.

I started my PhD 3 years ago and 2 years into the PhD my supervisor, who I had a great relationship with, decided to sell himself to the competitive salary of an American university. As a result I was allocated to somebody else who has very little to do with my research area and is possibly not thrilled to be supervising me (ok I understand this is quite common). The problem is though that I can't help feeling my new supervisor does not care about my progress as much as I think he should, and that is causing me a number of very serious problems.