Ready for Doctoral Supervision: Expectation Management, Supervision Agreement, and Onboarding
- Attendance:
- Online event
- Event location:
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- online
- Event Organizer:
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- Graduate Academy
- Category:
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- Workshop
- Target group:
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- Junior Research Group Leaders
language: english.
The workshop "Ready for Doctoral Supervision: Expectation Management, Supervision Agreement, and Onboarding" is designed for those who supervise doctoral candidates and want to ensure a focused, effective, and productive supervision process from the very beginning.
Key topics include managing expectations, creating a clear supervision agreement, and structuring the onboarding process for doctoral candidates. This workshop will help you reflect on your own expectations for supervision and provide strategies for communicating these expectations effectively and transparently with your doctoral candidates, preventing misunderstandings and disappointments. Additionally, you'll learn how a well-structured supervision agreement can offer guidance and support to both you as the supervisor and your doctoral candidates.
Another focus is on developing a smooth onboarding process, helping your doctoral candidates integrate successfully into their research projects and the academic community.
Contents
- Basics of expectation management: The importance of discussing expectations at the start of the supervisory relationship; reflecting on your own expectations; formulating clear and realistic expectations
- Communication techniques for effective expectation management: Clarity and precision, encouraging doctoral candidates to reflect on expectations, structuring and documenting conversations
- Goal setting and support through supervision agreements
- Structuring a smooth onboarding process
- Addressing common challenges and conflicts during onboarding
Methods
The workshop combines short impulses and discussions. Through interactive exchanges of experiences and best practices, you will develop actionable strategies for your supervision practice. Reflection phases ensure the transfer of workshop content into your own supervision approach and support sustainable implementation.
Prerequisites
None
To participate, you will need a laptop/PC with a camera, microphone and internet access. The Zoom platform as well as other tools will be used during the workshop and you will receive the link to the online platform a few days prior to the event.
Additional Terms of Use: With your registration, you accept the use of specified platforms/tools and the possibly necessary provision of specified data (name and email address). Additionally, the guarantee of the technical requirements is made by the participants themselves.
More information about this event
Event location:
online
Event Organizer:
Graduate Academy
Contact:
Dr. Isabelle Schulze
Universität Kassel
Graduate Academy
General Manager
0561-804 1968
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Speaker:
Dr. Annika Bartsch
Dr. Annika Bartsch works as a trainer and coach for "Karriereberatung für Akademiker*innen" (Career Counselling for Academics). She has several years of experience in research and teaching as a researcher as well as in coordination and consulting as a science manager in the field of promoting young academics. The main focus of her work as a trainer and career counsellor are leading doctorates to success – from both the supervisor's and the doctoral student's perspective–, competence profile analysis and career planning, as well as self-management
Waiting queue
Unfortunately, the event is fully booked. However, you are welcome to register on our waiting list. As soon as places become available for this event, we will inform the waiting list participants in the order in which they were registered. You can then register for the event later with an access code.
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