Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

PhD supervision: next level
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3992-25-00-00	There are 22 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 30/08/2025

Date and time	20.11.2025, at: 09:00 - 21.11.2025, at: 15:00
Regular seats	24
Lecturers	Mirjam Godskesen Gitte Wichmann-Hansen

Contact person	Mia Dabelsteen E-mail address: mia.dabelsteen@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content Are you a busy research supervisor looking for strategies on how to make your supervision even more efficient and fruitful? And would you like to get inspiration from other experienced supervisors? Then you will find this advanced seminar very relevant. The setting is a 2-day residential course, and the teaching form is highly interactive, tailored specifically to your needs, and based on sharing local best practices among experienced supervisors at SUND, KU. The seminar is facilitated by two internationally leading educational developers within the field of PhD supervision. We are looking forward to taking supervision to the next level together with you! The main purpose of the seminar is to support scholarly based reflection and exchange of best practices among experienced supervisors at SUND to ensure a high-quality PhD education. The purpose is also to increase participants’ awareness of their role as culture bearers and research leaders while being PhD supervisors. Target group Experienced supervisors who have supervised and completed at least five PhD students as principal PhD supervisors. Alternatively, PhD Supervisors, who can document that they have equivalent experience to this, can apply for exemption via email to the Graduate School: graduateschool@sund.ku.dk. Learning goals After the seminar you are able to: • balance a multitude of dilemmas in supervision • solve concrete challenges in close collaboration with your colleagues and rely on your own judgement in critical cases • ask questions that promote your PhD students’ independent thinking and ownership • prevent, address and mediate potential conflicts on an individual and group level • use the research community as a resource in supervision and to orchestrate different interests and expectations in a group • support PhD students’ well-being and role-model an appropriate work-life balance in academia • formulate a strategy for how to continuously develop your PhD supervision practice Teaching format The basis of the seminar is your experiences and best practices, and therefore, the teaching form is highly interactive and composed of many formats: short presentations by the teachers/facilitators, plenary discussions, group exercises, casework, walk-and-talk, Forum Theatre and participant presentations. Presentations by the facilitators will focus on providing a range of research-based tools applicable to the participants' practice. Structure The course is structured as pre-course activities and a 2-day residential course. The workload is estimated to be around 16 hours. Programme – dates, time and venue The two-day residential course takes place on the 20-21 November 2025. The first course day starts at 9.00. It ends on the second course day at 15.00. Venue: Marienlyst Hotel, Helsingør. Programme: Programme for 2024 https://healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/for-supervisors/phd-supervision-next-level/ Programme for 2025 TBA. Requirements In order to pass the course, you need to be actively involved and be present at least 80% of the time. Registration and admission • First of all, please make sure you are in the target group for the course (see the section Target group). • Second, please apply and reserve the course days in your calendar. Registration deadline: 30 August 2025 Cancellation Cancellation of the seminar must take place before 16 September 2025. Cancellations received hereafter will be invoiced DKK 3,000.00 corresponding to the cost of hotel and catering expenses.

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