Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 5: Laws, Rules and Regulations

About the Series

Starting as a postdoc, junior group leader or junior professor, it is usually expected to supervise doctoral candidates. Supervision however is one of the tasks that are so “normal” in academia that we quite often neglect to further explain and prepare: “Everybody knows what supervision is so we don’t need to talk about it.” – As a result of this mindset, researchers who start supervising quite often feel abandoned.

The series of short workshops Approaches to Good Supervision addresses different aspects of supervision and provides insights into different aspects and requirements to gain skills (and confidence) to supervise. The approach developed specifically for this topic illuminates the supervision of doctoral researchers from the sociological role theory and describes “supervision” with the three terms: Lead, Train and Facilitate.

Session 5: Laws, Rules and Regulations

This workshop will focus on formal aspects and administrative requirements.

• Doctoral regulations, doctoral agreement, supervision agreement and rules of graduate schools: How should these regulations and agreements be legally categorised and what relevance do they have?
• Supervision of international doctoral candidates: residence permits (§16 / §18), fictitious certificates („Fiktionsbescheinigungen“) and duration of residence for non-EU citizens. What obligations does a supervisor have towards the authorities?
• Joint degree, cotutelle, sandwich doctorate: research
  stay of doctoral candidates. International cooperation and
  degrees explained in a nutshell.

Further Workshops from the Series: 

• Session 1: Getting started as a supervisor (18 April, 3:45-5:45 pm)
• Session 2: Lead (16 May, 3:45-5:45 pm)
• Session 3: Train (6 June, 3:45-5:45 pm)
• Session 4: Facilitate (20 June, 3:45-5:45 pm)

Please note: As the five sessions build on each other, we recommend attending all of them and to make use of the opportunity of sharing your experience in the course of the series. However, participants can also choose to attend selected sessions. You have to register separately for each session.

The HRA booking limit of 2 workshops does not apply to this short workshop series!