One day Training Course for Supervisors

• Duration: 9am to 5pm• Target group: MPHil and PhD supervisors (PhD

holders)• Goal: building trust with Students• Sub goals: – ability to dialogue with students– Clarifying mutual expectations

First Session

• Goal: ability to dialogue with student• Activity: form small groups to write a list of

words describing how supervisors see themselves in relation to their students

• In the large group: discuss all words and discuss how these affect interaction/dialogue with student.

Second Session

• Goal: Clarifying mutual expectations

• Activity: role play on Supervisor and student setting mutual expectations

• What to watch out for: adoption of issues discussed in the previous session.

Third Session

• Goal : Building Trust• Activity: brain storming• How to build trust– Active listening– Being reliable– Openness– Honesty– Clarity– (Source: Jens Dolin, 2012)

• Some classic ways to undermine your relationship:

• Hiding (yourself or real or imagined problems)• Ignoring (feedback you don’t understand or don’t like)• Forgetting (appointments, deadlines)• Mixing (business with personal issues)• Gossiping (about your PhD-student/supervisor or colleagues)• Assuming (what something meant, what you’re entitled to

do)• (Source: Jens Dolin, 2012)

• Evaluation – questionnaire.