Supervising PhD's

RESULT

After this training course participants will have learned how to:

• Adjust their leadership style to specific situations
• Communicate effectively
• Give constructive feedback
• Supervise the planning
• Coaching the writing process
• Deal with cultural differences

CONTENT

• Supervisors are expected to operate in a difficult situation: a PhD student has to develop his or her creativity, but is expected to achieve this in a time frame of three or four years. A PhD student is an employee as well as a student. A supervisor is a coach as well as an assessor.
• Discussing the model of Situational Leadership is an important subject in this workshop. A good coach is aware of her or his own strong and weak points in supervising others and can determine a supervision strategy depending on the situation and the PhD student that enables the student to solve problems independently as much as possible, completing the PhD program in a pleasant atmosphere and within the required time frame.
• In this training the five principles of scientific integrity (KNAW, 2022) will be addressed: Honesty, Carefulness, Transparency, Independence, and Responsibility. We also discuss various forms of dishonest and or unethical/toxic behaviour and individual experiences with it.
• Using a system for planning a PhD project is a subject in the program (see our website www.projectmanagementforphds.com).
• We will also discuss which strategies can be used to help PhD students with the writing process.