Advanced Supervisor Modules

Course schedule

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26 March 2024
MODULE 1: Registration, procedures and agreements: Roles and responsibilities
13:30 17:00 ORION building room B3015. Bronland 1, Building 103, Wageningen Campus Wageningen Graduate Schools (WGS) 15 / 25 Registration ended at 23/03/2024
21 May 2024
MODULE 2: Communication, feedback & conflict management
 13:30 17:00 ORION building room B5015. Bronland 1, Building 103, Wageningen Campus Wageningen Graduate Schools (WGS) 25 / 25 Add to waiting list

Course description

Wageningen University hosts a diversity of PhD-candidates regarding background, type of PhD appointment and funding. This diversity requires a set of regulations, procedures and agreements that cover all options to prevent mishaps and overcome pitfalls.

In this module we will deepen the understanding of arrangements and agreements of the PhD-trajectory and explore the roles and responsibilities within the process of these arrangements.

We start off with identifying the various challenges that are attached to finding the fitting PhD-candidate for the position and understanding the arrangements of scholarship and registration procedures. We follow-up with discussing the next 15 month up to the go-no go decision and finish the session with the final stretch of the trajectory towards the defence. We will discuss based of a series of anonymised real life cases and conflicts to deepen the understanding of arrangements and agreements with PhD-candidate, supervisors and third parties involved.

General Information

Target Group: Staff
Group size: max. 25
Course duration: 1 afternoon (13:30 - 17:00)
Language: English
Lecturers:
  • Fennie van Straalen, WASS
  • Claudius van de Vijver, PE&RC
  • Experts from SSG Liaisons office, a data steward or legal services
Venue: See course schedule above

Topics & programmes

Topic 

Programme

MODULE 1:

Registration, procedures and agreements: Roles and responsibilities
  • Welcome and introduction
  • Before registration
    • Finding and hiring the fitting PhD-candidate
    • Understanding scholarship arrangements  / Identifying potential draw backs / pit-falls of funding schemes (e.g. grant funding)
  • Registration
    • Procedures (attention points depending on the type of PhD)
    • Expectations management and the PhD as learning trajectory
    • Pay roll agreements & financial aspects of projects
  • Break
  • After registration, towards the go-no go decision and what follows
    • Deliverables (TSP, proposal, data management plan)
    • Agreements of co-authorship, data use, third parties involved
    • Go-no go process
    • (annual) Progress evaluation
  • Break
  • The final stretch
    • Timeline from date to defence
    • Thesis requirements
    • Agreements on supervision team and division of promotion bonus
    • End of contract / scholarship vs end of PhD-trajectory
    • Education certificate
  • Synthesis of the session

MODULE 2:

Communication, feedback & conflict management

 Programme will follow
MODULE 3 More info will follow later this year
MODULE 4 More info will follow later this year

 

Fee: 

The workshop is free of charge but in case of a no show a fee of € 100,- will be charged.

Information

For more information please contact wgscourses@wur.nl