(from Univ. of Toronto)
Research Supervision
from Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford
The "Being a Supervisor" section covers the following topics: new supervisors, experienced supervisors, graduate admissions, supervisory styles, student-supervisor relationships, co-supervision, giving and receiving feedback, monitoring student progress, avoiding potential difficulties, and improving your supervisory practice.
Promising Practices for Mentoring and Advising
from Council of Graduate Schools
Best Practices and Mentoring in Doctoral Education
from Rutgers University
Who wants Einstein? Supervision of PhD students
from Science-Network.tv
The first two parts of the three-part videos are about supervision of PhD students.
# Part 1 - The Good Example (41:45)
1. Ensure student work is fun
2. Clarify expectations and structure
3. Often no truth, just choices
4. Realize that student grows
5. Talk openly about disagreement
6. Have the right amount of supervisors
7. Students should decide pretty much
8. Supervisor must encourage and support
# Part 2 -- Disagreements are OK (33:05)
1. Students lack of influence
2. Supervisor is not up to date
3. Sometimes bad advice is given
4. Student needs to mediate between supervisors
5. Personal chemistry and emotions
Supplemented by a research article: Gunnarsson, R., Jonasson, G., & Billhult, A. (2013). The experience of disagreement between students and supervisors in PhD education: a qualitative study. BMC medical education, 13(1), 134. Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/13/134
Halse, C. & Bansel, P. (2012). The learning alliance: ethics in doctoral supervision, Oxford Review of Education 38(4), 377-392, DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2012.706219 Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2012.706219
Halbert, K. (2015). Students’ perceptions of a ‘quality’advisory relationship.Quality in Higher Education, 21(1), 26-37. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13538322.2015.1049439
Resources on new and emerging types of dissertations (from Council of Graduate Schools), including articles and web sites:
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