Effective PhD Meetings and Efficient Feedback in Doctoral Supervision

Supervising PhD students is one of the many functions that make up an academia career. Holding supervision meetings can occupy a large percentage of our schedules; however, supervisors and students aften avoid them (in favor of emails, for example). On the other hand, PhD students may feel that the meetings are not fruitful or even useful, and supervisors may feel that PhD students do not make the most of the time allocated for the meeting.

Both may feel that there are not enough hours in the day to hold them, along with other commitments and expectations. However, the literature has shown that very few Higher Education Institutions issue guidelines for supervision meetings (Coutts, E & Marshall, P 2019; Woods & Berger, 1988).

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The ‘Effective PhD Meetings and Efficient Feedback in Doctoral Supervision‘ workshop will be held online on October 9th, from 2pm to 5pm. The session will be conducted in english.

This workshop costs 100€. For the CIIMAR PhDs, registration is free.

Registrations are open until September 30th.

NOTE: The attendance certificate will be issued if the trainee attends at least 80% of the total course time.

If tickets are sold out, you can sign up for the waiting list (you will be notified in order of registration).

DESCRIPTION:

This training aims to present and discuss strategies to make supervision meetings more efficient for both supervisors and students.

The followiong topics will be covered:

• Reflection on the objectives of meetings;
• Presentation of the main gains of different formats;
• Yerkes-Dodson Law;
• Usefulness of group meetings and 1-on-1 meetings;
• What to covere in the first meeting;
• Meeting structure;
• Feedback.

Trainer: Ana Freitas