Registration deadline:
30 August 2025.
PhD supervision: next level
SUND offers a voluntary PhD supervision course for experienced PhD supervisors
Who
Experienced supervisors who have supervised and completed at least five PhD students as principal PhD supervisors.
What
Highly interactive, tailored to your needs, and based on sharing best practices.
Duration
The course is structured as pre-course activities and a two-day residential course.
PhD supervision: next level is designed specifically for PhD supervisors at SUND and affiliated hospitals and research institutions. Participation is voluntary.
The aim of the course is that participants can:
- balance a multitude of dilemmas in supervision
- solve actual challenges in close collaboration with your colleagues and rely on your own judgement in critical cases
- prevent, address and mediate potential conflicts on an individual and group level
- use the research community as a resource in supervision and to orchestrate different interests and expectations in a group
- support PhD students’ well-being and role-model an appropriate work-life balance in academia
- formulate a strategy for how to continuously develop your PhD supervision practice
The course will address themes such as:
- Optimising supervision: Learning from experience
- Sharing best practices concerning supervision meetings, motivation, and collaboration in research groups
- Dealing with conflicts and solving difficult cases
- Time management, well-being and avoiding stress
- How to create an ideal research environment
- Future supervision practice
Experienced supervisors who have supervised and completed at least five PhD students as principal PhD supervisors.
Alternatively, PhD Supervisors, who can document that they have equivalent experience to this, can apply for exemption via email to the Graduate School: graduateschool@sund.ku.dk.
Dates: 20 -21 November 2025
Venue: Marienlyst Hotel, Helsingør
Programme: Please see the programme.
The course is structured as pre-course activities and a two-day residential course. The workload is estimated to be around 16 hours.
In order to pass the course you need to be actively involved and be present at least 80% of the time.
The course 'PhD supervision: Next level' will be offered once per academic year and will take place in November.
• First of all, please make sure you are in the target group for the course (see the section Target group).
• Second, please apply and reserve the course days in your calendar.
Registration deadline: 30 August 2025
Click here to register for the course PhD supervision: next level
What did you like about the course?
"I appreciated the course’s focus on relevant topics such as supervision styles and conflict handling. It provided a wonderful opportunity to exchange experiences with peers in a safe, inspiring, and engaging atmosphere".
Hartwig Roman Siebner (MD, DMSci), Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
"The course was structured in a way that allowed optimal sharing of challenges and experiences among the participants, offering numerous great examples that were always relatable in one way or another, despite our different research backgrounds".
Camilla Hartmann Friis Hansen, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.
What do you think was the most important thing you gained from participating in the course?
"I came home with plenty of inspiration and ideas on how to strike a good balance in supervision. The course strengthened my reflective attitude and boosted my enthusiasm. Effective and empathic PhD supervision is highly rewarding—for both the student and the supervisor".
Hartwig Roman Siebner (MD, DMSci), Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
"Gaining new tools to address both current and future challenges was incredibly valuable. I left the course with so many new concrete ideas on how to improve my own supervision practices, realizing they may not have been as perfect as I initially thought".
Camilla Hartmann Friis Hansen, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.
"I would wholeheartedly recommend the course to colleagues because it offers valuable knowledge and inspiration in an effective and genuinely nice format."
Hartwig Roman Siebner, Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine
"I highly recommend it to colleagues as it is always beneficial to explore approaches different from your own, and then the atmosphere was just so pleasant and enjoyable, fostering meaningful interactions with colleagues from across the University."
Camilla Hartmann Friis Hansen, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.