Approaches to Good Supervision. Session 5: Laws, Rules and Regulations

About the Series
Starting as a postdoc, junior group leader or junior professor, it is usually expected to supervise doctoral candidates. Supervision however is one of the tasks that are so "normal" in academia that we quite often neglect to further explain and prepare: "Everybody knows what supervision is so we don’t need to talk about it." – As a result of this mindset, researchers who start supervising quite often feel abandoned.

The series of short workshops Approaches to Good Supervision addresses different aspects of supervision and provides insights into different aspects and requirements to gain skills (and confidence) to supervise.

The approach developed specifically for this topic illuminates the supervision of doctoral researchers from the sociological role theory and describes "supervision" with the three terms: Lead, Train and Facilitate.

Session 5: Laws, Rules and Regulations
This workshop will focus on formal aspects and administrative requirements.

- Doctoral regulations, doctoral agreement, supervision agreement and rules of graduate schools: How should these regulations and agreements be legally categorised and what relevance do they have?
- Supervision of international doctoral candidates: residence permits (§16 / §18), fictitious certificates („Fiktionsbescheinigungen“) and duration of residence for non-EU citizens. What obligations does a supervisor have towards the authorities?
- Joint degree, cotutelle, sandwich doctorate: research stay of doctoral candidates. International cooperation and degrees explained in a nutshell.

Career Stage: Postdoctoral Phase

The event is open to all users of the Hamburg Research Academy, participation is free of charge. Please register here.