Research Supervision: Developing as a Doctoral Supervisor

Unfortunately this workshop has to be postponed. The new dates will be 27./28. May 2024 in SoSe24. Registration will be open in March. For any questions, please contact us via office@hra-hamburg.de.

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.

After the workshop, supervisors who wish to remain active in a peer network of mutual support regarding issues and topics related to doctoral supervision will be supported by the Hamburg Research Academy.