Supervisors Workshop
As academics we are often given new and exciting challenges in teaching and research. No challenge is greater or more exciting than supervising a research student towards their Masters or Doctoral thesis. As new academics we ask ourselves: "how do I get started supervising?" and after we get started we ask "how can I do this better?" CINet has recognised the need to work with members to help them develop their skills as supervisors and organised a supervisors workshop prior to the annual CINet conference, on Sunday 7 September 2008 in the afternoon (we will start around 13:00).
Fee
Participating in this workshop is free for conference participants.
Interested in participating?
Express your interest in an email to j.m.visser-groeneveld@utwente.nl.
Programme outline
| Time |
Content |
Speaker |
| 30 min |
Setting the stage: Supervision
What are the objectives of supervision? What does the supervision process involve? What characterizes good supervision? What are some of the most common challenges to supervision? |
Lise Kofoed (LK) & Frances Jørgensen (FJ) |
| 45 min |
Empathic exercise: Identifying the role of the supervisor
The participants will be divided into two groups with one group focusing on identification of the PhD students’ expectations and needs and the other group focusing on identifying the supervisor’s expectations. |
Participants |
| 30 min |
Presentation of results:
Each group is given 15 min to present and discuss the topics identified. |
Participants + LK & FJ |
| 15 min |
Break |
|
| 90 min |
The supervision contract – a process
1) Research-based contribution on the importance of negotiating the supervision contract. In-put on topics, roles and methods for doing so.
2) The upsides of clear expectations. Contribution from PhD students with positive experience with negotiating supervision expectations. |
LK & FJ
Participants |
| 30 min |
Discussion: Identification of “Best Practices”
Summary of lessons learned and directions for developing supervision action plans |
Participants + LK & FJ |
| 15 min |
Wrap-up and introduction of next year’s topic |
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