Doctoral Supervision
Doctoral supervisor training programme
Initial doctoral supervisor training
This suite of 3 sessions is designed to introduce new doctoral supervisors to the practices and processes of doctoral supervision.
Session 1: Supporting PGR Development and monitoring progress
Session 2: Responding to student needs and having challenging conversations
Session 3: Giving Feedback
To book, visit .
PGR pastoral tutor training
The PGR pastoral tutor has pastoral responsibility for the student and provides an additional layer of support to the supervision team. To support new PGR pastoral tutors, our training programme offers a two-hour workshop Introduction to PGR pastoral tutoring.
PGR examinations training
For those involved in examining doctoral degrees, we offer a suite of online resources on .
CPD
The CPD for supervisors page offers resources on a range of themes for departments to use and adapt, including:
- Supporting online supervision
- Navigating challenging conversations
- Exploring coaching approaches to supervision
The Educator Development team provide mandatory supervisor training for those new to doctoral supervision at the University, and for colleagues who have not engaged with supervision training in the last 2 years.
For further details, and to book onto the mandatory training sessions, please visit:
To explore resources that support supervision practice across a range of themes, including viva examination, please visit the doctoral supervision pages on the Education Toolkit: .
If you have any questions about the doctoral supervision training programme and resources, please contact the Educator Development team: eduexe@exeter.ac.uk