Supervising PhD Research (EN)

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  • The language of instruction is English.
  • Participants must be supervising at least one PhD candidate at the time of the course.
  • Attendance is required at all course sessions.
  • For this workshop, different dates are available per series. .

As a daily supervisor or (co)promoter you are a content expert, but also a (co)researcher, coach and assessor. Supervisors learn to handle these roles more efficiently and effectively in this course. Topical questions are raised such as: 鈥淗ow do you help the PhD candidate to become an independent researcher?,鈥 鈥淗ow do you signal problem behavior in time and how do you deal with it?鈥, 鈥淗ow do you take different personal work and learning styles into account?鈥 and 鈥淗ow do you communicate about mutual expectations?鈥

Approach

The course鈥檚 approach is focused on mutual exchange of experiences and sharing of good practices. You will build upon your current supervision practice by evaluating what already works and how you can elaborate on that. The challenging situations that you encounter in daily practice will be analyzed together to search for suitable (intervention) strategies. You will practice with effective communication strategies with your PhD candidate and formulate a supervision plan with goals that are clear to you as well as the candidate, taking into account the limited time available for supervision. You will exchange tips and tricks with your colleagues and reflect on your own supervising practice. In addition, (semi-)scientific literature in the field of supervision of PhD candidates will be used to explore the implications of theory for your day-to-day practice.

Suitable for

This course is primarily intended for daily supervisors and (co)promoters of PhD candidates at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, but is also open to supervisors of other universities and research institutions.

Program

  • The following components serve as the building blocks for the program.

    • Exchanging 鈥渢ricks of the trade鈥 with peer supervisors and reflecting on the implications for your own supervision practice.
    • Developing a supervision plan including the planning of the PhD trajectory and how to guide your candidates towards specific learning objectives.
    • Assessing the progress of your PhD candidate: discussing content and procedure, but also recognizing risks and warning signals.
    • Creating clarity about the mutual expectations of PhD candidates and supervisors .
    • Analyzing concrete challenging situations from your own supervision practice, and discussing suitable intervention strategies with your peers (peer consultation).
    • Applying insights from practice-oriented core literature in the field of PhD supervision. Topics included are motivation and feedback, differentiation in supervision styles, selection and monitoring, and supervising in supervision teams.
    • Practicing with new supervision strategies (for example effective conversational skills) that can be used immediately to improve your own supervision practice.
    • Formulating, implementing and evaluating concrete action points for the improvement of your own supervision practice.
     

Practical information and dates

The course consists of four sessions of approximately 3 hours, spread over two to three months. In addition to these sessions, the participants work on assignments linked to their own practice. The program covers a range of subjects. The level of detail will partly depend on the needs of the participants; the precise program is designed based on a self-assessment completed by the participants before the course starts. The definitive program will be established before the first session. The meetings take place at the Utrecht Science Park-campus.

The trainers of this workshop are: Pieter de Bordes, Martine Broekhuizen, Ivana Brasileiro Reis Pereira, Marjolein Cremer, Sanne Elling, Carien Lansink, Marije Stolte, Florian Verbeek

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