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Junior Faculty: Supervising doctoral researchers (online short workshop)

Details

Time: Tue, 05 March + Wed, 06 March 2024, 09:00-15:00 each day + 3 hours of pre-workshop activities
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Target group: Junior Professors (with and without tenure track), Junior Research Group Leaders, Habilitation Candidates of the UA Ruhr Universities; max. 12 participants
Trainer: Dr. Thomas Koch
Registration deadline: 20.02.2024
Contact for organizational questions: Dr. Ursula Justus (RUB Research School)

Description
Content and aim of the workshop

The programme supports doctoral supervisors in developing and reflecting the necessary knowledge, understanding and skills to guide a diverse range of candidates to successful and timely completion. It explores the changing roles and responsibilities over the doctoral life cycle and provides hands-on tools and recommendations to establish and maintain a positive working relationship – not only with doctoral candidates but also masters’ students and postdocs.

Learning Outcomes

By participating in the workshop, you will be better equipped to:

  •     understand the evolving nature and purpose of doctoral education
  •     build working relationships with both candidates and co-supervisors
  •     identify your requirements and recruit appropriate candidates
  •     support doctoral research projects and monitor progress
  •     scaffold professional and personal support to individual needs
  •     prepare effectively for thesis completion and examination
  •     develop your supervisory practice

Methods

This highly interactive workshop employs presentations and plenary discussions, individual and small group work, experience sharing and expert advice.

Trainer
Dr. Thomas Koch is a research management consultant and certified business trainer and coach. He provides hands-on workshops and individual guidance for researchers to realise their career objectives and research ideas. Holding a PhD in physical chemistry from the UK, he builds on 10 years of international experience as a researcher and 12 years of professional experience as a research manager and senior administrator at universities in Bochum (RUB) and Munich (LMU).

* In order to provide you with a comfortable registration process, we use registration forms of our service partner eveeno®. Please note the information on the allocation of places on the program overview page.