6 modules
Supervisory Biography
Contents: Comprehensive overview of all core tasks and challenges in the PhD trajectory
Skills acquired: Awareness of all responsibilities, tasks and tools in supervising a doctorate; ability to start with well prepared initial meetings
Supervisory Roles, Expectations, Relations, Styles and Conflicts
Content: Changing roles of supervisors, mutual expectations, supervisory relationship, supervision styles and conflicts
Skills acquired: Awareness of the portfolio of supervisory roles, the ability to really clarify mutual expectations, to establish and maintain good relationship, to use suitable supervisory style and to prevent and solve supervisory conflicts
Defensive Routines and Productive Learning
Contents: Identifying defensive routines and enabling productive learning in doctoral supervision
Skills acquired: Ability to identify defensive routines in actions and conversations of supervisors and supervisees and to overcome the systematic learning inhibiting loops by enabling valid information and trustful relations
Recruitment and Selection of Doctoral Candidates
Contents: Concepts, criteria, strategies and techniques of recruiting and selecting doctoral candidates
Skills acquired: Ability to successfully prepare and conduct selection processes, to test the required research capabilities and to establish a talent pool
Supervisory Inquiry
Contents: Early warning signs, the analysis of the reasons for worse performance and the search for suitable remedies
Skills acquired: Ability to carry out a supervisory inquiry, to identify early warning signals, to carefully analyse the underlying problems and to jointly develop solutions
Intervision
Contents: Method and process of Intervision – a technique of peer group supervision for presenting, discussing and solving supervision cases
Skills acquired: Ability to set up and conduct peer group counselling processes