Supervising Graduate Students: Workshops for Supervisors (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

If you are new to supervising graduate students at Cambridge (studying both for one-year courses or PhDs) the Board of Graduate Studies strongly recommends you to take part in some form of professional development. In collaboration with BGS, Personal and Professional Development offers training and support for newly-appointed supervisors of graduate students and for those new to the Cambridge system. The workshops, which run over lunchtime, are designed to consider reciprocal expectations and duties, as well as approaches to supervising, and to raise awareness of possible issues and where to go for support.

This is a brown-bag workshop - please bring your lunch!

University staff who supervise graduate students either as principal supervisor or co-supervisor

Number of sessions: 1

• to consider your role as a supervisor: expectations and duties
• to provide an introduction to the administrative requirements of the role
• to reflect on best practice to guide students successfully and on how to avoid pitfalls
• to have an awareness of the range of sources of support available in the collegiate University
• to consider a range of approaches to supervising

Additional bespoke courses (School or Department based) can be arranged on request, please email PPD

The dates above are for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. If you require the Sciences and Technology sessions please click on the link below.

One session of one and a half hours