The purpose of the course is to establish, support and develop local, collegial, and scholarly based reflection on supervision among experienced doctoral supervisors across all faculties at AU. This course provides

• a structure for experienced doctoral supervisors to reflect on their own supervision practices
• the possibility to observe and give feedback to other supervisors to strengthen their practice and build a collegial community
• develop a teaching portfolio text on supervision experience.

Learning outcome

• Participate in peer-mentoring together with experienced peers.
• Observe and reflect on other experienced doctoral supervisors’ supervision.
• Provide concrete and context-specific feedback on supervision practice.
• Engage in a reflective collegial community with other experienced supervisors.
• Produce a reflective text about own doctoral supervision practice for a teaching portfolio.

Content

The course will run over a total 20 hours over a six-week period. The first meeting is a whole day workshop that sets the scene for the course and provides the tools for the period between the first and final meetings. The second meeting takes place in a faculty-based collegial mentoring triad either on the pre-set day or on another date agreed by the triad. The final meeting concludes with cross-faculty reflection on the collegial mentoring as well as reflection work on the portfolio texts.