CC Workshops

Professionalization of PhD Supervision

by Dr Helmut Brentel

Europe/Berlin
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Description

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