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Provides insights and advice that supervisors can use to advance their support of their research students' writing and, at the same time, survive increasing supervisory demands. Book parts are framed by empirical supervisor and doctoral student experiences and chapters within each part provide multiple approaches.

This practical guide is based on a series of workshops on postgraduate supervision and presents the most frequently encountered difficulties in the student/supervisor relationship.

The world of postgraduate medical education is changing, and educational supervisors need the knowledge and skills to be able to do their job effectively. Many of those who want to do this job well feel unprepared for the task. Essential Guide to Educational Supervision is a handbook for educational supervisors everywhere. The topics covered are generic to medical education, whatever the specialty. Although the focus is on postgraduate medical education, many of the topics in this book are also applicable to undergraduates.

Available as ebook and in print.
The book builds on the success and practical knowledge of the first edition and has been re-written and extended to take into account the latest scholarship in doctoral supervision, address new contemporary themes and present updated examples and case studies. With a self-interrogatory style which enables supervisors to reflect upon and, where appropriate, consider how to enhance their practice, this book is an essential read for anyone involved in doctoral supervision.

This essential guide offers a new approach to doctoral writing, written specifically for doctoral supervisors. Rejecting the DIY websites and manuals that promote a privatised skills-based approach to writing research, Kamler and Thomson offer a new framework for scholarly work to help doctorate students produce clear and well-argued dissertations.

This timely new book is based on the precepts of the Quality Assurance Agency's recent Code of Practice for the management of Postgraduate Research Programmes. It presents practical information on the QAA Code of Practice, to serve both as a ready reference source for supervisors and as a manual for research supervisor training

Making Supervision Work For You discusses the entire supervision process from the student's perspective, as well as considering the supervisor's viewpoint and constraints. The author covers all phases of the student's 'journey', from induction through to final completion and examination of the thesis and the viva voce. The book illustrates many of the key issues in supervision by drawing upon extensive material from recent interviews with a range of supervisors and students.

This book is for higher education faculty and staff who wish to deepen their approach to mentoring all students, but it is especially concerned with “outsider” students—those who come from groups that were long excluded from higher education, and who have been marginalized and minoritized by society and academia.

This ebook from Quality Assurance in Education, edited by Guest Editors Professor Pamela Green and Professor John Bowden, addresses the supervision of higher degree by research candidates. The papers highlight the increasing diversity involved in research supervision and illustrate the significant change from the past when research higher degree candidates were predominantly young Honours degree graduates researching fulltime in a laboratory or office adjacent to the supervisor’s office.

Offers a research-based practical framework for academics to be able to examine and further develop their effectiveness as research supervisors.

Supervising Practices for Postgraduate Research in Art, Architecture and Design offers insights into supervisory practices in creative and design-based research by academics at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Australia. The book focuses on practices of supervising candidates who are undertaking postgraduate research in art, architecture, design and creative writing. It addresses a decisive shift in the academy towards an emphasis on applied practice-led research undertaken through project-based investigations.

This is a resource book to assist supervisors of Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students to develop the quality of their supervisory practice. It is also a useful resource for anyone, who is associated with supporting HDR students and seeking to better understand the supervision role. It provides supervisors with knowledge and tools to improve supervision practices. It can be used to: equip individual supervisors, who wish to improve their supervisory practice with relevant knowledge and tools; provide materials that explore the dilemmas of supervision practice to stimulate individual thought and collegiate discussion in Communities of Practice relating to HDR supervision; support formal university seminars aimed at improving the practice of supervisors and those associated with supporting HDR students; and support online courses aimed at improving the practice of supervisors.