A peer-mentoring program for experienced doctoral supervisors

Course Content
Are you a busy research supervisor looking for strategies to make your supervision even more efficient and effective? Then you will find this advanced program relevant. The main purpose is to establish, support and develop local, collegial, and scholarly based reflection among experienced supervisors at CBS.The program is based on peer-mentoring where supervisors observe each other’s supervision and provides peer-feedback. Peer mentoring is a structured and systematic means of sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues at similar professional career stages. The peer-mentoring process is facilitated by a highly experienced educational developer within the field of doctoral supervision.

Outcome: The program offers:
A collegial community with other experienced supervisors.
Concrete and context-specific feedback on your daily supervision practice.
Research-based knowledge about high quality supervision.
Feedback on how to solve critical cases in supervision.

Design:  The program includes two half-day workshops. In between the two workshop days, participants engage in observations of each other’s supervision.

Dates:
Workshop day: 19. September 2025, 9:00-12:30
Workshop day: 28. November 2025, 9:00-12:30

Program:
Workshop day 1:
9:00 Welcome and introduction
9:30 Successful PhD supervision. Presentation of research-based advice and tools for good supervision based on the challenges described by the participants beforehand.
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Successful PhD supervision (continued)
11:15 Bio break
11:20 Peer-mentoring: Why and how? Introduction to key principles and methods in peer-observations 
11:50 Working lunch with sandwiches. Planning your coming observations. Calendar logistics in your groups
12:30 End of workshop

Workshop day 2: 
9:00 Welcome back
9:15 Follow-up on peer-observations, Sharing of key insights from participants’ observations
10:00 Coffee break
10:15 Sharing best practices, Participants share concrete strategies, which is supplemented with research-based input from the facilitator
11:15 Bio break
11:20 Case discussions, Based on participants’ experiences, we share ideas for how to overcome current problems/conflicts in supervision
12:00 Lunch with sandwiches, Evaluation + informal chats with colleagues
12:30 End of workshop

Target group

Associate Professors or Full Professors at CBS with experience as main PhD supervisor.

Competencies


Registration deadline

12/09/2025

Fee (external participants):

15000 DKK

Sign up here

Date

19 Sep 2025 - 28 Nov 2025

Time

9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Category
Gitte Wichmann-Hansen

Organizer

Gitte Wichmann-Hansen
Email
gwh@edu.au.dk

Other Organizers

Annemette Kjærgaard
Annemette Kjærgaard
Email
am.msc@cbs.dk