Train-the-Trainers: Best Practises for PhD Supervisor Training Programs
This site provides brief answers to these challenging questions and points to further resources for more in-depth advice ➡️
Purpose
Many universities have started to offer TTT (Train The Trainers) workshops for their doctoral supervisors in response to the increased intake of doctoral candidates and the increased complexity of doctoral education.
This site is intended for educational developers and instructors seeking advice for organizing effective PhD supervisor trainings.
Instructors, particularly those designing a workshop from scratch, are often faced with a number of challenging questions:
- How do you design a successful supervision workshop?
- What are effective workshop activities?
- Which themes do you need to include in a supervisor workshop, and which are nice to include?
- How do you best get busy and potentially reluctant research supervisors to attend trainings and take them seriously?
- To what extent do you have to adapt best general practices for supervisor training to your specific institutional culture?
Workshop organizer
Dr. Toby Wikström
Project Manager, the Graduate School
Research Assistant Professor, Faculty of Languages and Cultures
University of Iceland tew@hi.is
Website credits
Text: Mirjam Godskesen, Gitte Wichmann-Hansen & Toby Erik Wikström
Design: Eyrún Lóa Eiríksdóttir
Photography: Kristinn Ingvarsson
Video: University of Iceland Division of Marketing and Public Relations
This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme within the framework of the ERA TALENT Project funded under grant agreement No. 101103476.
The project was also supported by an 2024-2026 Icelandic University Cooperation Grant (Samstarf háskóla) from the Icelandic Ministry of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education.