Plymouth based CODEX supervisors are drawn from across the established research clusters in the School of Art, Design and Architecture,  Jiangnan University based CODEX supervisors are drawn from across the established Research Centres in the School of Design, Nanjing University of the Arts based CODEX supervisors are drawn from Design, Media and Digital Art, Soochow University based CODEX supervisors are drawn from across the established Research Centres in the School of Architecture.

Each CODEX student will have a First Supervisor (the Director of Studies), a mandatory Second supervisor and a Third Supervisor. Two supervisors will be from the University of Plymouth, including the Director of Studies) and one supervisor will be from the CODEX Research Network. The two or three supervisors will comprise the Student’s supervisory team.