A deep approach to doctoral supervision
Would you like to broaden your mind as a research supervisor? Do you think that you have been at it for quite some time now supervising doctoral students? Would you like to get familiarized with tools that are really effective? Any desire to take on a new approach to your supervision? If so, taking a set of seminars entitled “A Deep Approach to Doctoral Supervision” could be recommended.
This course is aimed at
- Docent
- Research supervisor
Topic
- Pedagogy
About the seminars
The Division for Quality Enhancement at Uppsala University, Academic Teaching and Learning offers a series of six independent seminars running each study year.
Target Group
This series of seminars targets mainly experienced doctoral supervisors (above all, associate profes-sors/docents and full professors) but also doctoral supervisors who have taken “Supervising Doctoral Students”, as well as some shorter doctoral supervisor training course offered at Faculty level. It is a requirement to be actively involved in doctoral supervision.
Extent and Teaching Qualifications
Every seminar is given independently and corresponds to half-a-day on campus and half-a-day´s work off-campus (e.g., reading an article or part of a book in preparation for the seminar).
That being said, it will be possible for you to single out and take any seminar of interest at your own convenience, in due course of time.
A Certificate of Completion will be issued when a participant has taken a total of five independent seminars.
This set of seminars aims at partly giving international and national perspectives on the doctoral supervisor´s views of supervision and research education, partly making it possible for participants from different subject areas, faculties and departments to share interdisciplinary ideas of doctoral supervision, partly promoting the professional development of the doctoral supervisor, including the ability to make self-reflections.
Seminar and course dates
The calendar contains the dates for the seminars.
26th of March, 10.00-12.00 Group supervision or cohort supervision
In this seminar we look into the potential as well as challenges with group supervision or cohort supervision, based on literature on the topic as well as practical examples. In what situations is supervision in groups suitable? What models for doing so are there, and what are the benefits for the doctoral students? What are the roles of the participants in a group supervision setting? We reflect together and with the help of one or more supervisors with experiences of group supervision.
Guest: Mikael Karlsson, Department of Earth Sciences, UU
The seminar is given in English and on Zoom. Supervisors from Uppsala University as well as SLU are welcome to participate.
23rd of April 10.00-12.00 Challenges in supervision
In this seminar, we will focus on a number of cases related to doctoral supervision, addressing various challenges that you may encounter as a supervisor. It is a chance for you to bring up something you yourself have encountered as challenging, but also to get a wider range of tricy situations to relate to.
If you have experiences of a problem related to doctoral supervision that might be interesting to discuss, e-mail Anette Månsson, before the 15th of April. We will then be able to anonymize the case for use in the seminar!
The seminar is given in English and on Zoom. Supervisors from Uppsala University as well as SLU are welcome to participate.
21st of May, 10.00-12.00 DEI - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - in doctoral education
We discuss different perspectives on how to adress aspects of DEI in our supervision practice. The seminar is done jointly with Aarhus University, Denmark.
Guests: Dorina Gnaur and Katrin Heimann, Centre for Educational Development - CED - Teaching Development, Aarhus University
The seminar is given in English and on Zoom. Supervisors from Uppsala University, Aarhus University s well as SLU are welcome to participate.
Teaching and Learning Activities
Presentations by invited speakers (subject-specific experts) in combination with group discussions, exercises and peer conversations between and among the participants. The seminars are going to facilitate active participation.
For course dates, see Calendar.
Financial Conditions
The number of participants is restricted to 24. The seminars are free of charge for staff members affiliated with Uppsala University.
Convenor
Cesar Pay Gómez and Anette Månsson from the Division for Quality Enhancement, Academic teaching and Learning will be convening the seminars.
More Information
The Division for Quality Enhancement is responsible for organising the seminars.
Cesar Pay Gómez, phone: 018-471 68 18, e-mail: cesar.paygomez@uu.se
Anette Månsson, phone: 018-471 13 39, e-mail: anette.mansson@lingfil.uu.se
Format
Presentations by invited subject specialists combined with group discussions, exercises and peer-to-peer dialogue between seminar participants. The seminars normally require some preparation and follow-up work, and are based on active participation.
Some seminars are organised online, which is indicated in connection with each seminar. The language of the seminar is indicated during each seminar, but even in cases where the presentation is in Swedish, it is possible for participants to use English in the discussion.