Lasting from one to three days, ABG’s supervision trainings give considerable prominence to discussion between supervisors and to concrete role-play.
Rather than presenting a catalogue of management tools, the training focuses on the supervisor’s posture and on structuring concepts, and address the potential difficulties of supervision. The legal framework of the doctorate is also covered.
Finally, time is set aside for a contribution from a senior figure within the institution, to address its organisation and its doctoral policy.
Programme – two-day format
- The roles of supervisor and doctoral candidate, and building an effective relationship — developing a shared vision
- Welcoming and integrating a doctoral candidate; the key role of the first year — reflection, exchange of practice, methods
- Welcoming international doctoral candidates — reflection, exchange of practice, input
- Managing doctoral candidates — management fundamentals applied to doctoral supervision — simulations and role-play
- Ensuring quality in the recruitment of a doctoral candidate — reflection, exchange of practice, methods
- Supporting your doctoral candidate’s professional development — reflection, exchange of practice, methods
Learning outcomes
- Know how to welcome and integrate a PhD candidate and jointly establish a way of working
- Know how to clarify the respective roles, remits and expectations of supervisors and candidate
- Know how to practise active listening with PhD candidates and colleagues
- Know how to guide a PhD candidate towards autonomy
- Know how to give recognition sincerely and appropriately
- Know how to design and conduct an effective recruitment interview
Pedagogical approach
Participative, active learning; concepts fully tailored to researchers and put into practice so that participants can try them out and make them their own:
- Learning by doing
- Peer-to-peer discussion
- Attention to participants’ backgrounds and aspirations
Assessment & follow-up
- Practical exercises with immediate feedback, or a skills quiz
- Post-session satisfaction survey
- Follow-up survey
