7th Annual Doctoral Supervision Seminar 2025
This seminar will focus on different aspects of doctoral supervision through keynotes, workshops, and informal discussions. Below you will find a preliminary version of the content of the seminar.
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October 6th - 7th, Grand Hotel Terminus, Bergen
We welcome you to NORED's聽7th Annual Doctoral Supervision Seminar 2025.
The background for the seminar is to highlight supervision experiences from the pandemic, research on PhD-supervision, continuing professional development (CPD) within PhD-supervision, guidelines for the mid-term evaluation, "new supervisor" induction training, and the 鈥渟ilent revolution鈥� within doctoral education the last ten years where doctoral supervision seems to be an especially important area to focus on in the years to come. Since the pedagogy of doctoral supervision internationally has been described as poorly articulated and under-theorized it seems to be a need to move from 鈥済rand narratives鈥� to a more well-founded pedagogy of doctoral supervision. The seminar aims to focus on different aspects concerning this issue through keynotes, workshops, and informal discussions (during lunch and dinner). The main aspects will be:
- The pedagogy of doctoral supervision
- Supervisor development: what is needed, and where is it going?
- Doctoral supervision and transferable skills
- New regulations of doctoral education and supervision
- Psycho-social aspects of doctoral supervision
In the workshops and panel discussions, we will focus on what is the supervisor鈥檚 and doctoral candidate鈥檚 roles and responsibilities. And we will also ask what is the department, the faculty, and leadership at universities and university colleges' responsibilities concerning doctoral supervision.
As a preparation for the discussions in the workshops we encourage the participants to reflect upon the following questions:
- What is the supervisor鈥檚 and doctoral candidate鈥檚 role and responsibilities?
- Is it necessary to raise the status and awareness of doctoral supervision?
- 聽How could one improve the pedagogy of doctoral supervision?
- 聽How could one qualify the new supervisors for supervising?
- Does your institution provide or support research supervisors with continuing professional development (CPD)?
- Is doctoral supervision mainly attached to research or education? Or both?
- How could doctoral supervision be a part of a 鈥渃areer track鈥� considering promotion applications and teaching excellence in higher education?
- How could PhD-supervision contribute to increasing the completion rate in doctoral education?
- What kind of psycho-social factors seems to be crucial in doctoral supervision?聽
A possible outcome of the seminar could be to create a doctoral supervision forum in NORED. A second outcome could be to encourage each member institution of NORED to put doctoral supervision systematically and strategically on the agenda in the years to come. A third outcome could be to integrate doctoral supervision as a part of the course portfolio in the University Pedagogy at each member institution of NORED.