Research Supervision: Developing as a Doctoral Supervisor

This 2 ½ day workshop is designed to exchange approaches, tools and good practices in supervising doctoral researchers. It is aimed at supervisors with initial, first experience(s) and generally seeks to increase awareness of supervision challenges and whilst providing insights on how to deal with them.

Specific aspects that the workshop focuses on include:
- developments in doctoral supervision
- reflections on supervisory styles, roles and approaches
- issues related to the recruitment of doctoral researchers
- tools for clarifying mutual expectations and creating a good working relationship
- instruments for critical situations such as peer counseling and mediation techniques

In the workshop, participants are given work assignments to meet in small groups for further peer counseling and mutual exchange. Experiences and challenges of the groups will be discussed in the online follow-up session. No preparatory work for day 1 and 2 is required.

Day 1 and 2 of the workshop take place as in-person events at the Hamburg Research Academy. Day 3 as a follow-up session takes place online.

Dates:
Mon, 20 November 2023, 09:00 am - 05:00 pm, face-to-face event
Tue, 21 November 2023, 09:00 am - 05:00 pm, face-to-face event
Fri, 22 March 2024, 09:00 am - 12:00 pm, online

The event is open to all users of the Hamburg Research Academy, participation is free of charge, please register here.

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