Supervision of PhD Students
The overall aim of the course is to help supervisors make their supervision practices more effective, targeted at the individual PhD student and at the same time supportive of the PhD student’s competence development. You will get the opportunity to meet with other PhD supervisors and exchange ideas, concerns and experiences regarding PhD supervision.
Intended learning outcomes
Throughout the course, you are provided with tools, ideas and a range of techniques in order to:
- navigate in the rules and regulations of PhD supervision in general and in the faculty
- adapt your supervision to the needs of the doctoral student and the phase in the doctoral studies
- align expectations with PhD students, thus preventing problems
- provide feedback on texts and presentations
- engage in cross-cultural supervision
- use questioning techniques and active listening in the supervision situation
- develop your supervision practice continuously
- engage in discussions about research education at the participant's institution and faculty while drawing on theoretical justifications and reasoning
The course is structured as a full course day followed by two half days, with interim periods for individual and group assignments.
The total work load is estimated to be around 25-30 hours. In order to pass the course, you have to participate in all the course days.
By the end of each day, time is set aside to reflect on lessons learned. Together with your goal setting and assessment, the reflective notes can feed into your teaching portfolio.
The course consists of presentations by the course teachers, group work and assignments.
We expect you to participate in peer feedback on actual supervision in the interim period and to engage actively in the activities during the course days and to document your competence development. Tools to identify your goals and assess your competences will support this.
Before the first day of the course, participants should submit information on their expectations to the course and their current practice (guidelines will be sent out).
PhD supervisors, principal or supplementary, new as well as experienced, from post docs to professors.
The course is free for members of the faculty of SCIENCE.
For others DKK: 2000,-
Department of Science Education, Rådmandsgade 64, 2200 Copenhagen N
Download the Inspiration Sheet (pdf) for clarifying mutual expectations between PhD and supervisor about supervision.
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Dates
The course is structured as a full course day followed by two half days, with interim periods for individual and group assignments.
The total work load is estimated to be around 25-30 hours. In order to pass the course, you have to participate in all the course days.
Autumn course 2024
Day 1 Tuesday 17 September 09:00 – 15:00
Day 2 Tuesday 22 October 09:00 - 12:30
Interim day (to be decided in peer groups)
Day 3 Tuesday 5 November 09:00 - 12:30
Deadline for registration was 27 August 2024
Spring course 2025
Day 1 Wednesday 5 February 09:00 - 15:00
Day 2 Wednesday 5 March 09:00 - 12:30
Interim day (to be decided in peer groups)
Day 3 Wednesday 9 April 09:00 - 12:30
Please make your registration here
Deadline for registration is 15 January 2025
Language
English
Teachers
Course responsible Katrine Lindvig
Teacher Lars Ulriksen