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 attended the course “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 via Zoom and half-a-day´s work off-campus (e.g., reading an article or part of a book in preparation for the seminar and submitting a written reflection text).
This seminar series will now be maintained through a dedicated page in Studium. On this page all the topics, dates and zoom links to the seminars will be available, as well as hand-in areas for your written reflection texts. Parts of the page may be locked until specific dates, and made available as the seminar approaches.
When you have signed up for a seminar, you will get information about how to access that Studium page. This will be sent out about a week before the seminar in question.
In the future you will also be able to sign-up for the available seminars directly via Studium. New topics are published every semester.
A Certificate of Completion will be issued when a participant has taken a total of five independent seminars over a period no longer than five years.
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.
Dates and themes autumn 2026
Language English
15 October: Stress in supervision
19 November: AI in supervision: Best practices, Policies and Ethics
10 December: Regulating Doctoral Supervisory Practices
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.
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.