Half-day Workshop for supervisors: Inclusive Research Supervision

This short half-day seminar aims to improve participants’ (research supervisors) understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion in the context of postgraduate research supervision. This approach explicitly looks at gender within research environments and is focused on exposing inappropriate behaviours and exploring appropriate and practical ways inclusive research environments can be created and managed. This seminar runs for small groups of research supervisors, 6-8 people at a time. This seminar will run three to four times depending on the number of participants.

By the end of the seminar, participants will:

• now the University policy and national legal framework that supports fair treatment and respect in work and study environments and know reasons why equality, diversity and inclusive approaches are important in research contexts.
• reflect on and review ways to support graduate research students that encourage achievement at different points in their research project and are effective for diverse students.
• assess the role and practice of inclusive leadership to support research team success including learning ways to resolve conflict within teams.

Structure and Content

Time
Topic
Key outcomes

0-15m
Welcome and introductions, purposes of the day.
Agreed ground rules.

15-60m
Introduce the legal and policy context; define equality diversity and inclusion; explain why EDI matters, broadly and in research contexts. Presentation and discussion.
Background knowledge and awareness of indirect and direct discrimination; bullying and harassment and unconscious bias.

60-140m
Research supervision through an EDI lens. Consideration of the student journey from recruitment to successful graduation identifying good practice approaches to each stage that can be implemented by supervisors and universities. Whole group case-based learning following the fortunes of three fictitious students.
Use of a five stage model of research supervision. Work with James and Baldwin’s (1999) eleven effective supervisors’ practices to reflect on power and empowerment within research supervision. Focus cases on areas where EDI might be particularly important.

140-150m
BREAK
 

150-190m
Managing research teams and EDI. Exploring the responsibilities and approaches that research leaders can take to ensure an inclusive environment among their students and staff and resolve conflicts among team members. Presentation, critical incident role play.
Consider EDI leadership and role-modelling to others. Exploring ways to encourage positive behaviours among team members.

190-205m
Action planning. Consideration and development of personal action plans and actions to be raised to the graduate school. Personal, private reflection.
Personal development plans for participants and any areas for suggested action by the graduate school.

205-210m
Evaluation and Close.
Immediate feedback on value of the seminar.

Lecturer:

Professor Jackie Potter

Professor of HE Learning and Development

Head of Staff and Educational Development and Deputy Director of HR

Oxford Brookes University

When:

30 January 2019 : 13h30-17h

OR

31 January 2019 : 9h-12h30

OR

31 January 2019 : 13h30-17h

Where:

Campus Belval, Luxembourg Learning Center (room to be determined)

Capacity: 6-8 participants per session

Who:

Supervisors only (priority for the ones who already have a doctoral candidate or who are close to supervise one)

How:

Register by sending an email with preferred session to Anne BEGUE (anne.begue(at)uni.lu) before January 25.