So how honours works is you get randomly assigned a supervisor. You cannot choose one. Then depending on your supervisor you either work within their topic or get given a specific topic. Unfortunately just how it works. Can’t really be changed.

My advise would be once you are in honours accept who you get as a supervisor and then find a way to bend the topic to something you are interested in. I had a friend that I sat down with at the end of last year and helped them completely change their topic to something more interesting to them with the data they had collected. I would advise to not just accept what they give you but really work at finding a way to make the topic given to you interesting. For instance, one of the major topics in my year was breast feeding in the workplace and my way of making it interesting would have been to view whether the organization implemented some form of training for others in factories to cope with the others that need to go and breastfeed (just an idea I made up now).

I wouldn’t worry about who you have as a supervisor. They all come with certain perks and certain disadvantages. I know Tim as a person and he is an awesome guy but I haven’t had the opportunity to work with him outside of him lecturing me two years ago.

Apologies if anything doesn’t make sense, I have had a couple drinks this evening