The main purpose of the programme is to support systematic exchange of best practices among experienced supervisors at Aarhus BSS and to increase the individual’s professional supervisor competencies.
Learning outcome
After successfully completing this course, participants should be able to
- describe and substantiate their practice as supervisors
- match expectations with students early and regularly in a project
- encourage students' writing processes and provide constructive feedback
- apply communication methods that ensure progression in supervision meetings and promote students’ independence
- identify and manage typical conflicts in supervision, such as balancing between support and structure, between product and process supervision, between private and professional elements in supervision relationships
- utilize the disciplinary community as a resource in supervision
- analyze and assess specific dilemmas in their own supervision practice
- receive and provide collegial feedback as part of developing own as wells as others’ supervision.
Content
The programme focuses on supervision of Master’s students and PhD students. Taking research results, local best practice, and participants’ own experiences as its starting point, the programme intends to advance participants’ supervision skills in terms of:
- text-related skills: to convey criteria for academic papers, to support students’ writing processes, and to provide feedback that is forward-looking, accurate, specific, and criteria-based
- relationship and process management skills: to establish and maintain constructive working relationships with students and potential co-supervisors, and to match expectations early and regularly
- communication skills: to ask questions that encourage students' independence, to listen actively, and to meta-communicate the content and process of the supervision.