Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 3: Train

About the Series
Starting as a postdoc, junior group leader or junior professor, it is usually expected to supervise doctoral candidates. Supervision however is one of the tasks that are so "normal" in academia that we quite often neglect to further explain and prepare: "Everybody knows what supervision is so we don’t need to talk about it." As a result of this mindset, researchers who start supervising quite often feel abandoned.

The series of short workshops Approaches to Good Supervision addresses different aspects of supervision and provides insights into different aspects and requirements to gain skills (and confidence) to supervise. The approach developed specifically for this topic illuminates the supervision of doctoral researchers from the sociological role theory and describes "supervision" with the three terms: Lead, Train and Facilitate.

Session 3: Train 

The third workshop focuses on training as part of supervision. Training doctoral candidates means to allow them to develop in a structured manner from master to doctoral (=researcher) level.

Selecting and onboarding new doctoral researchers
Developing a "Researcher Development Plan" together with the supervisee following different stands such as deepening research topics and scientific methods, being familiar with publications, HE-structures, academic networks, good scientific practice and third-party funding
Providing a structure for the doctoral phase, setting goals and milestones

Further Workshops from the Series

Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 1 - Getting Started as a Supervisor (9 April, 4:30-6:30 pm)
Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 2: Lead (7 May, 4:30-6:30 pm)
Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 4: Facilitate (9 July, 4:30-6:30 pm)
Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 5: Laws, Rules and Regulations (10 September, 4:30-6:30 pm)

Target Groups: postdocs, junior research group leaders, w1 professors, professors