SERIES ON SUPERVISION – PART II, The Dos of Supervision, Episode 44

• Guests: Erwin Dekker (George Mason University), Charles Rose (PhD from King’s College London), Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (The American University of Paris), Pedro G. Duarte (Insper), Ariane Dupont Kieffer (Université Paris 1), Luca Timponelli (Centre Walras Pareto, Unil), María Gutiérrez Ruan (Centre Walras Pareto, Unil), Elizaveta Burina (Université Paris 1), Léa Lakjaa (Université de Reims), Adèle Gaillard, (PHARE, Université Panthéon Sorbonne), Steven Medema (Duke University), Marianne Johnson (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students, supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision.

In the first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts” that both PhD students and their supervisors should be aware of to ensure a healthier, more productive PhD journey. In this second episode, I offer up lots of solutions or rather the dos of supervision. Then there will be an episode on all the cases where it’s not clear what the best solution is, or the solution is rather different depending on context: I am calling them the in-betweens. In a fourth episode I will be talking to a sort of PhD coach, who has lots of experience with supervising and thinking about supervision. A final short episode will offer us a list of 10 key things that supervisors and PhD students need – the 10 commandments of supervision, if you will.

The Dos of Supervision

1. Establishing Basic Foundations of Support
2. Building Trust and Structure
3. Supporting Intellectual Growth and Independence
4. Tools and Organization for Success
5. Advanced Guidance on Research and Focus
6. Dealing with Challenges and Growth in the Process
7. Ongoing Support
8. Building a Sense of Belonging and Integration
9. Dealing with Tough Situations and Navigating Change

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Awakening (loop ver.3) by AudioCoffee — https://freesound.org/s/762743/ — License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0