Supervision is a central and defining element of doctoral education. It is through supervised research that doctoral candidates develop a research mindset, and it is the supervisor-supervisee relationship that determines the experience of doing a doctorate. It is therefore clear that few institutional policies can be implemented successfully without taking doctoral supervision and supervisors into account.
With professional management of doctoral education, supervision has become much more than an apprenticeship for research, and supervisors have more responsibilities than before. It is time to reflect on the nature of doctoral supervision, considering the main tasks of the supervisors and how these can be supported by institutions.
Specifically, the workshop looked at the supervisor-supervisee relationship, institutional practices and how to engage with supervisors. It was an opportunity to learn and exchange good practices with colleagues from across Europe.
The workshop was aimed at vice-rectors, deans, heads of doctoral schools and research staff responsible for doctoral programmes.
The workshop was only open to EUA-CDE member institutions.
Karel Luyben, Rector, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Melita Kovačević, CDE Steering Committee Chair
Peter Wieringa, Vice-Rector, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Chair: Melita Kovačević, CDE Steering Committee Chair
Tara Brabazon, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Yves Mny, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Training programme for doctoral thesis supervisors in University of Turku
Elise Pinta, University of Turku, Finland
Culture, Structure, and Community: Lessons from about a dozen years of cross-faculty support for PhD supervision
P, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Data guided improvements of doctoral supervision – Insights from the collaboration between the Dahlem Research School at Freie Universität Berlin and the doctoral candidates panel study ProFile
Jakob Tesch, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Berlin
Agnieszka Wenninger, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
How to promote good doctoral supervision – Good practices and recommendations for universities
Gunda Huskobla, UniWiND/GUAT (German University Association of Advanced Graduate Training), Germany
Good practices and challenges in supervision in an interfacultary doctoral programme
Saskia B, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Viewpoints on the expectations of the supervisors and the PhD candidates
Mat Dumont and Gentiane Haesbroeck, University of Liège, Belgium
Improving Inclusive Doctoral Supervisory Skills through Collegial Reflection
Ulrike Schnaas, Asa Cajander, Uppsala University, Sweden
New approaches to developing the next generation: the practices and responsibilities of a mentoring supervisor
Janet Metcalfe, Vitae, United Kingdom
Involving PhD Candidates in their Own Education: Consequences for Supervision
Martin Brokate Felix Dietrich, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Janet Carton, University College Dublin, Ireland
Franciska Kringss, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Paper Session II.a
Lessons learnt – feedback from doctoral candidates, supervisors and alumni
Heike Zimmermann-Timm, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Doctoral supervision – from traditional “one man show” to “team collaboration” model
Horia Iovu University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Developing a consistent approach to the delivery of a Doctoral candidate e-Diploma Supplement
Vaughan Robinson, King's College London and Huw Morris of Swansea University, UK
Paper Session II.b
From institutional policies to multiple pathways to support PhD supervision at Ghent University
Nele Bracke, Ghent University, Belgium
How to help making critical, innovative and independent scholars - between giving and suffocating in the process of supervision. The case of Swedish Archaeology.
Per Cornell and Tove Hjrungdal, University of Gothenburg , Sweden
Developing research based practices of doctoral supervision in the UniOGS –graduate school
Kirsi Pyhlt, University of Oulu, Finland
Paper Session II.c
Rules of engagement - the supervision of practice based doctoral researchers
Parmjit Dhugga, University of Nottingham, UK
The Challenge: Educating Educators
Victoria Sarafian Medical University – Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Changing practices and responsibilities in Doctoral Supervision at KU Leuven; challenges and opportunities
John Creemers, KU Leuven, Belgium
Helmut Brentel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Ercilia Garca lvarez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Alexandra Samper Martinez Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain