The UB and the LERU organise training sessions on doctoral supervision and tutoring
The opening conference, held at the Faculty of Geography and History of the UB, included a roundtable about doctoral supervision, which analyzed aspects such as the detection of research talent, good practices in tutoring, and the skills that a thesis supervisor should have to help the progress of his or her doctoral student, among others.
The Aula Magna of the UB's Historic Building hosted the second session, which focused on strategies that can improve the recognition and visibility of good doctoral supervision, particularly in terms of the long-term development of academic careers.
The sessions, organised by the UB's Vice-rector’s Office for Doctoral Studies and Research Staff in Training, the Doctoral School and the UB's Vice-rector’s Office for Research, were attended by teaching and research staff from the 23 universities that make up LERU and the universities that form part of the Central European Universities (CE7) group.
The doctoral studies and the supervision of the academic careers of young researchers are two central issues for LERU, as evidenced by the fact that one of its publications is entirely devoted to this issue.
The paper includes recommendations for supervisors and provides them with tools to support them in acquiring the necessary skills to carry out this task and, in turn, to ensure that their institutions receive the necessary visibility and recognition. One of the paper's conclusions is that universities must create an institutional culture that fosters commitment to supervision.