Thesis Information: Supervisors

Consultation Service

The Graduate Research School Manager, Bronwen Stephens, offers an independent and confidential 1:1 consultation service for supervisors to discuss issues and challenges. Contact manager.grs@otago.ac.nz for an appointment, at her drop-in surgery on Thursday afternoons between 2:00pm and 4:30pm.

Doctoral study and supervision

Quality in Postgraduate Research features conference papers on the development and delivery of doctoral education. See the link to Past Conferences.

Ebook:  Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers by Susan Gasson; Jillian Blacker; Ian Stoodley; Abbe Winter; and Christine Bruce (2023).

Library Insights for Supervisors

The not so secret ways we help your doctoral students.

This is a workshop hosted by HEDC and run by subject librarians several times a year.

Find out which topics, online resources and techniques subject librarians use to foster a community of practice toolkit for your doctoral students at Otago. Keep current and aware of best-practice initiatives and strategies in areas such as the literature review, data management, reference management, getting published, increasing research impact and researcher profiles.

Workshop outline

Workshops and Updates for Supervisors of Graduate Research Candidates

HEDC, in conjunction with Graduate Research School, run workshops for supervisors including:

• Building a positive relationship with postgraduate students

• Recruiting postgraduate students

• Assisting postgraduate students to write

• Providing quality postgraduate supervision

• Doctoral supervision: the early phase

• Assisting students to engage with the literature

• Helping postgraduate students to read and write critically (for Sciences & Health Sciences postgraduate supervisors)

• Examining a doctoral thesis

• Preparing postgraduate students for the oral examination

Graduate Research School maintain a Supervisors Update page here.