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Supervising PhD dissertations: stories, theories, and strategies

Engaged scholarship and the implications for phd-supervision

A reflective workshop with Danish PhD Supervisors in the IS field

Giovan Francesco Lanzara University of Bologna & London School of Economics and Political Science

The University of Copenhagen, May 27-28, 2010

Objectives of the workshop:

 - conduct a joint reflective inquiry on the major aspects, problems and challenges of PhD supervising

- share experiences, strategies and problems of PhD supervising

- diagnose major problems and dilemmas of PhD supervising through the experiences and the interventions of the participants

- map out different frames, theories, models of how to do effective PhD supervising and advising

- jointly design possible strategies of intervention to improve PhD supervising, both at the individual and the institutional level.

Organization, activities, and working materials

 - The workshop will be organized as a joint discussion and a reflective inquiry into the nature, problems and dilemmas of PhD supervising.

-  Issues concerning educational premises and strategies, institutional frameworks, academic policies, personal competence and effectiveness, and interpersonal interaction will be explored and discussed.

-  An important part of our efforts at redesigning PhD supervision will be done through group discussion.

-  Each participant writes his/her case in the form of a short story reporting a problematic situation or an episode of interaction experienced as difficult or challenging (deadline May 10, see below for further directions).

-  The cases will be circulated to all the prospective participants about two weeks before the workshop. The participants’ cases will constitute the working materials of the workshop.

-  Each participant should be prepared to discuss his or her own case and the cases of the other participants.

-  Each participant is a co-researcher in a group of co-researchers contributing to discussion with her or his own case data.

Time schedule

The workshop will last two days (May 27-28), from 9 am to 5 pm approximately, with breaks for coffee and lunch. There will be sessions in which the individual cases will be discussed by the group and an ending session in which the group will make an appraisal of the work done together.

This will be arranged later on when we know the number of participants and the time constraints. A more detailed schedule will be provided a few days before the workshop.

Enrollment and costs

The workshop is aimed at supervisors in the DaRSIS program. You sign up by sending an email to the DaRSIS secretary, Maria Stovgaard (mst(at)epa.aau.dk). Participation and refreshments and lunch are free of charge.

Directions for preparing the cases

(What is requested from the participants before the workshop)

Write a report on a difficult situation and your intervention in/on it. The format can be  a short case story (max 1000 words)

- Illustrate a situation which you experienced as problematic in your role as a PhD supervisor (for example, an important problem that you tried to solve; a difficult interaction with the student; poor communication; tensions; misunderstandings, etc.). Also make a short description of the background to the situation. There is no limit on the problematic situation or the subject selected except that you should evaluate it as challenging and crucial to your own effectiveness as a teacher and a supervisor.

- What made the situation difficult for you? Which were your objectives? What did you want to achieve in the interaction with the student? What went wrong/right? (as you perceived it)

- How did you frame your own role and your task in the situation? What concrete actions did you take in order to solve the problem and achieve your objectives? What did you tell the student? And what did the student tell you? What kind of conversation you had?

- Describe the feelings – the mood – that you experienced as you were engaged in the situation.

- The story can report a single episode of interaction with the student, or multiple experiences at different points in time, or even contextual problems (academic policy, organizational, institutional) that have seriously conditioned your performance as a supervisor, and the actions that you took in attempting to change the situation and their consequences.

- Provide all the additional information on contextual circumstances that you deem might be helpful for discussion with the other participants, or that you want to share and discuss with them.

- If you think it is useful, you may add a few post facto comments to the story, with your own feelings, evaluations, and reflections.

Submit your case to Keld Bodker (keldb(at)ruc.dk) no later than May 10. Keld will circulate the cases to all participants two weeks ahead of the seminar.

Be prepared to make a short informal presentation (5-10 minutes) of your case to open the group discussion.

- the presentation and the discussion will last about 40’ – 45’ minutes,   or less, depending on the overall number of case stories.

Stories are not complete case studies; rather, they are just cases or situations of action to be jointly discussed and reflected upon. It is indeed the participants who collectively study the case, on the ground of the working materials provided by each participant.

DARSIS would like to invite you to participate in a dialogue with 20 faculty members on the principles of engaged scholarship and the implications for phd-supervision.

Andrew Van de Ven will guide us through the day. Detailed program to be posted at DARSIS.

When and where: October 7 from 9:30-16:00, 2010, Copenhagen Business School.

Organizer: DARSIS.

Enrollment and costs: PhD supervisors within the DARSIS network, 20 max. (first come, first serve), free of charge.

Refreshment and lunch: Will be served free of charge for the participants

The seminar is financed by DARSIS

More information: Professor Kim Normann Andersen (andersen(at)cbs.dk)