inviting supervisor and his family for meal after graduation?

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Hi. I'm an overseas student just been awarded the PhD. I want to thank my supervisor for his support and I'm thinking of inviting him and his family for a meal or sth. In the past I occasionally had lunch with him, but I have not met his family before. Do you think it is a good idea to invite his family for a meal? What's the norm here in the UK?

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I would say not. Normally people would just buy their supervisor a present like a bottle of wine or something. If you had met the family before because he brought them along to university functions or something, that would be a bit different, but still unusual.

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Hi. I'm an overseas student just been awarded the PhD. I want to thank my supervisor for his support and I'm thinking of inviting him and his family for a meal or sth. In the past I occasionally had lunch with him, but I have not met his family before. Do you think it is a good idea to invite his family for a meal? What's the norm here in the UK?


I've not heard of this amongst home-based students. A bottle of wine as suggested by TreeofLife is probably the most you should do.

Ian (Mackem_Beefy)

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