Overview
Publication date: Aug 2014
Core activities: 1 hour
Additional activities: 2.5 hours
Introduction: The doctoral context introduces the programme and prepares participants for later units. It asks the pressing question ‘What skills will supervisors need to successfully support candidates through this long, varied and complex process?’, which the full programme aims to answer.
Syllabus
- Introduction to the programme and features
- Characteristics of an effective doctoral supervisor
- The contemporary doctorate and wider context
- Institutional drivers and supervisor requirements
- Diagnostic activity to help participants to map a route through the programme]
Author: Dr Douglas Halliday
Former Dean of the Graduate School and current Director of the Multidisciplinary Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy, Durham University; member of the Executive Committee for the UK Council for Graduate Education; QAA Institutional Reviewer
Reviewer: Professor Nicholas Steneck
Director of the Research Ethics and Integrity Program of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research and Professor Emeritus of History, University of Michigan, USA