Supervision is a key element of the PhD process. Learn and discuss the issues, roles and challenges of PhD supervision in this compulsory course for all PhD students at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University.    

Learning outcome

• Be familiar with the typical challenges of a PhD process with regards to supervision
• Be familiar with core issues dominating the discourse on the supervisory dialogue and challenges regarding such dialogues
• Be able to reflect on different supervisor and student roles present and lacking in the participants’ own supervision processes
• Be able to reflect on their own writing process and how it affects the process of supervision 

Content

• PhD supervision as a didactic genre in higher education, reflected on from the PhD student’s point of view
• The supervisory dialogue as a key element of the supervision process. Roles and relations between supervisor and student
• The connection between the writing process and different forms of feedback during supervision meetings