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Early careers researchers and academics receive little to no on-going training for providing support to doctoral students. In light of this, this book addresses the needs of prospective and current supervisors of doctoral students, by providing you with guidance on: • Engaging with the process of selecting researchers and developing reliable expectations, • Identifying the most effective supervisory style and your role in shaping students’ skills, • How you can contribute to your students’ progress and reflective practices, • Your role in the final assessment stages, and how your support can extend beyond their studies. Through a wide range of multidisciplinary case studies, you will find valuable guidance on how to support your students, and be empowered in the process.
What will be the most effective supervisory style?
What will be the most effective supervisory style?
Within this chapter you will:
- Gain a clearer understanding of your own natural supervisory style
- Learn about different styles, and their strengths and weaknesses
- Explore how supervisory style and doctoral research behaviour influence each other
- Discover ways of gaining confidence utilising different styles to adapt to the needs of your doctoral researcher
Understanding your own supervisory style
Everyone has their own style and approach to supervision. This is one of the individual differences to celebrate. Most supervisors will also acknowledge that they modify and change their approach over the course of the doctorate, reflecting the changes in expectations over the doctoral journey, discussed in Chapter 3. Similar to those expectations, our individual approach to supervision ...
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