Day and time: Friday, September 1, 11:00-12:30.
Session Leader: Vicky Davies
Description: Supervision is an essential but often ignored part of the teaching profession in higher education. Everyone who has been a PhD candidate has a thorough knowledge of this process from the receiving end. This session will use that experience as a starting point in first defining the expectations toward professors in tutoring and supervision and then discussing how we could best provide the students with these. The session will discuss the meaning, elements, and conduct of supervision and tutoring. One aim of this session is to discuss how to increase efficiency at this area: increase dissertation quality, improve supervisor-supervisee communication, achieve some level of student-satisfaction with the advisory process, and enhance them with adequate time-management for tutors and supervisors.
Preparatory video: Qualities of a good research supervisor (Griffith University, Australia)