Typology: Manuals and Guides
Language: English
Date: 2017
Insights from practice: A handbook for supervisors of modern doctorate candidates
Theme: Methodologies and Strategies
Author: Annette Fillery-Travis, Kate Maguire, Nico Pizzolatti, Linda Robinson, Andrew Lowley, Nora Stel, Patrick Mans, Jakomijn van Wijk, Elena Prodi, Francesca Sprerotti, Claudio Dobrinski, and John Peacock.
Keywords: student experiences, supervisory experiences, processes and procedures, transdisciplinarity, purposes and outcomes, structures, relationships, pedagogies, contexts and settings, communities of practice, supervisory practices and models, policy and policy making, transformations and identities, postgraduate programmes, transferable and generic skills.
ABSTRACT: The supervision of work-based research requires complex capabilities from supervisor(s) as they seek to: address the diverse needs of a candidate operating at doctoral level within a work environment where their priorities are, in part at least, set by the needs of their organisation and work role; and supervise the creation of knowledge at doctoral level. And yet there has to date been little study of these needs and no commonly accepted framework of practice for supervisors is currently available to draw upon. In moving beyond this state of the art the project team won Erasmus funding for a project whose objectives were to: Access best practice in the supervision/advising of modern doctorates: Identify the host/sponsoring organisation’s requirements from supervision (if any) and their contribution to it; Develop a framework of practice (supported by training resources) suitable for modern doctorates . Disseminate this best practice framework to all stakeholders; Produce a sustainable impact on supervisory practice throughout the EU. This handbook is one of the outputs for the project and its aim is to provide a quick reference guide for supervisors wishing to enhance their practice in the area of modern doctorates through accessing the rich experience of others in the field.
Fillery-Travis, A., N. Pizzolato, L. Robinson, A. Loxley, N. Stel, P. Mans, J. Wijk, Insights from practice A handbook for supervisors of modern doctorate candidates, UK, December, 2017, 1 – 57
