For research supervisors
ThinkWell offers a number of services to PhD supervisors, including:
- workshops
- book
- PhD supervisor toolkit
Workshops
We offer a number of workshops for PhD supervisors, including:
- Creating the seven secrets of highly successful research students
- Fundamentals of postgraduate research supervision
- Research supervision masterclass
- Supervising research students flexibly
- Giving effective feedback
- What supervisors need to know about the imposter syndrome
- Masterclass: Supervising large cohorts of research students
Please contact us for more information.
Books
Free templates and guides
These free downloadable templates will help the supervisor improve the experience of doctoral research not just for themselves but also their PhD students. Some of the tools are for the supervisor themselves and the others are for the supervisor to use with their students.
Tools for the supervisor
- Characteristics of good supervision
- Delegation of Supervision
- Expectations of research supervision
- Focus of editing
- My feedback style
- Overview of progress
- Development of students
- Professional development
- Questions for potential students
- Assessment of PhD thesis
- Supervision and working arrangements
- Things to tell new PhD students
- Your supervisory practice self assessment
Tools to give to your student
- Assessing feasibility
- Career planning discussion
- Completion plan
- Core competencies - self assessment
- Critical reading
- Expectations of research supervision
- Focus of editing
- Meeting agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Overview of progress
- PhD viva questions
- Planning questions
- Questions to ask as you write a paper
- Rapid assessment of PhD thesis
- Self assessment of professional networks
- The first 100 days