Purpose
- Expand supervisors’ repertoire of concrete hands-on tools and strategies to make supervision a professional, effective, and enjoyable process
- Create a safe space for supervisors to reflect on their role and to exchange experiences with other supervisors at the faculty
Expected learning outcomes
- Aligning expectations with PhD candidates early and regularly regarding roles, time plans, and outcomes of the project
- Navigating multi-cultural research supervision
- Balancing conflicting needs, e.g., between support and structure, between product and process, and between being private and professional
- Providing constructive text feedback
- Encouraging PhD candidates’ independence and ownership of their projects
- Applying questioning and listening skills to ensure progression and efficiency in supervision meetings
- Assisting PhD candidates in project planning and support their progress
- Managing potential crises in the candidates’ research journey
The course takes place as two consecutive workshop days, 9:00-16:00 and 9:00-15:30. The teaching form is highly interactive based on a combination of group work, exercises, plenary discussions, and lectures.
Participation
At least 80% attendance at the course is required. Attendance will be registered.
Course leader
Gitte Wichmann-Hansen is a Senior researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark and Professor II at University of Agder. She also owns the consultancy “Academic Supervision” that offers high quality professional training of research supervisors.
Gitte Wichmann-Hansen has more than fifteen years of experience with running supervisor development programs at European Universities at all levels from Bachelor supervision to PhD supervision.
Course dates and venue 2026
- 7-8 May
The course will take place at Blindern (Niels Treschows hus, HF-12).
Registration and course fee
By signing up for the course, you are committed to attend the whole course, including preparatory activities.
Apply for the course in Supervision
Please note that unless you are employed by the Faculty of Medicine (University of Oslo), you must confirm that your employer will pay the fee of NOK 2000 for your admission to the course.