Research Education team: supervisor training
Supervising@UniSA (compulsory)
As part of its commitment to provide its HDR candidates with the best possible experience of their research training, UniSA ensures its supervisors are well-prepared and supported in their performance of this vital and complex part of their academic practice.
Supervising@UniSA is the University's official blended induction program and a requirement for all new supervisors at UniSA. Advanced supervisory practice workshops are also available, along with a number of contemporary video resources to enhance skills in supervision. The Research Education team are also research-active academics who supervise and publish in the field of doctoral education.
Supervising@UniSA - the essentials is delivered online.
Supervising@UniSA - Supervisory practice is delivered by synchronous workshop. To book a Supervising@UniSA practice workshop click here.
Developing your skills in supervision - full-day program
Delivered by the Research Education team. The series is designed particularly for those in the early stages of their HDR supervisory careers but open to all. It extends UniSA’s HDR mandatory supervisor induction program, ‘Supervising@UniSA’.
Part 1: (Commencing): Getting started and the research proposal
the current (inter)national context of HDR supervision and UniSA
- styles of supervision (including different roles) and the development of good supervisory practice
- strategies for maintaining the student/supervisor and supervisory panel relationship.
- planning matters (policies, administration, meetings, expectations, thesis timeline, leave)
- the research proposal.
Part 2: (Continuing): Research practices and processes and providing feedback on writing
- integrating doctoral students into a scholarly research community and a research writing culture
- pedagogies for providing effective feedback
- maintaining progress (and the significance of the reviews of progress).
An
online site for HDR supervisors and UniSA staff is available and provides practical tools to assist Academic Units (AUs) and supervisors of Higher Degree by Research (HDR) candidates (both PhD and Masters) in their work supporting candidate research writing. The site pertains to two aspects of working with student writing, though writers are likely to learn about both within a single writing activity or event:
1. facilitating the writing process through writing retreats, writing groups, and feedback activities,
2. 'teaching' research writing as a genre in your discipline.
Part 3: (Completion): Completion, submission and examination
- supervisory issues and considerations for the 'final' stage of candidature
- administration requirements for thesis submission and completion
- selecting examiners and the examination process (both the written component and the oral defence for doctoral students)
Pre-requisites:
It is expected that all those who attend these workshops have already completed, or plan to complete, the full-day induction program Supervising@UniSA.
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