Centre for Professors | Offers

Supervise doctoral researchers

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Speaker: Dr Neela Enke

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Dates

04.06.2024 | workshop module | 09:30-17:00 and

05.06.2024 | 45-minute individual coaching betweenbetween 9:00 and 17:30

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Goals and contents

The supervision of doctoral researchers is a central task of professors and there is currently a debate in the German higher education landscape about what high-quality supervision can look like. On the one hand, supervision involves challenges in the role as a manager:
What is my self-image as a manager? How can I use feedback effectively and how can I resolve conflicts constructively? How can I motivate? What conditions are needed for working together in an international team?

On the other hand, there are also specific questions that do not arise with "other" employees. For example:
Which topics do I pass on to the doctoral researchers? Which do I "keep" for my own profiling? How can the multiple roles of doctoral researchers (e.g. doctorate, teaching tasks, tasks for the Faculty) and the associated resource conflicts be well moderated?

The workshop is practice-orientated. It allows participants to reflect on their individual situation and provides easy-to-implement tools for day-to-day supervision.

Contents in bullet points:

• Role clarification: Who am I as a supervisor?
• Clarifying expectations as the basis for collaboration
• Conducting discussions and formats: Feedback and development meetings
• Typical conflicts in doctorate / Phd studies and how to deal with them
• Good practice in doctoral supervision

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Speaker

Dr Neela Enke has been working as a trainer specialising in conflict and diversity management and career development in universities and research since 2011. As a certified coach and trained mediator, she supports postdocs, university employees and managers and helps people, teams and organisations to resolve conflicts constructively. She has trained in the areas of intercultural competence, diversity management (including gender) and systemic organisational development, is a board member of the Coachingnetz Wissenschaft e.V. and is actively involved in the Fachverband für gender_diversity-kompetente Bildung und Beratung e.V. and the Bundesverband MEDIATION e.V. Dr. Neela Enke has initiated an event specifically on mediation and conflict resolution at universities and research institutions, which has taken place several times as part of the International Mediation Day. Dr Neela Enke studied biology at the Philipps University of Marburg and completed her doctorate at the Free University of Berlin. She has worked as a postdoc and lecturer at various universities and research institutions in Germany and other European countries and has coordinated and led research projects and initiatives at European level. She has also been a reviewer for research funding organisations in several countries, e.g. in Belgium (BELSPO). She provides training, mediation and counselling in German and English.

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Registration

If you would like to participate in the workshop "Doctoral Supervision", please contact the Centre for Professors (centre-for-professors@uni-bielefeld.de).