How to improve PhD supervision
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Date:
26.-27.02.2026
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Speaker:
Dr. Bärbel Tress
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Source:
Workshop
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This course supports supervisors in reflecting on and developing excellent supervision of their PhD candidates. Participants become familiar with international standards of good supervisory practice and how to give the best support to their PhD candidates. They get very practical tools and tips that can be implemented right away in their own supervisory situation. Exchanging experiences with colleagues and learning about their practice is part of this course as well as discussion of individual topics in peer groups. You get input on the decisive early steps of the relationship between supervisor and PhD student, the entire supervisory process until PhD completion, and tools for evaluating and further developing your supervisory skills.
Dr. Bärbel Tress (TRESS ACADEMIC) was awarded a PhD in Landscape Ecology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She has many years of experience as a researcher, supervisor and lecturer at Roskilde University, DK, Wageningen University, NL, and the University of Aberdeen, UK. In 2007, Bärbel and Gunther Tress founded TRESS ACADEMIC to provide training in key academic competences for researchers.