Training and Professional Development
As part of the requirements set by funding bodies, all supervisors are expected to undertake training on the expectations, roles and responsibilities of graduate supervisors.
Graduate Supervisions: Workshops for Supervisors
Personal and Professional Development (PPD) provides workshops, which through discussion of case studies, will make you aware of issues that can arise to help you develop in your role as an effective supervisor. These workshops are of interest to all graduate supervisors - old and new.
Aims (at the end of the course you will):
- consider your role as a supervisor: expectations and duties
- have a deeper understanding of approaches to supervising
- have a greater awareness of the issues that can arise while supervising and where to go for support.
- Further information
- Graduate Supervisions: Workshops for Supervisors (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Graduate Supervisions: Workshops for Supervisors (Sciences and Technology)
Please note: additional bespoke courses (school or department-based) can be arranged on request by emailing PPD.
PPD (ppd@admin.cam.ac.uk)
Other workshops are provided by a number of bodies within the University, and it will be up to you to determine which of these programmes will be most useful to you. A list of courses that you are expected to undertake are listed below.
- Further information
In addition to supervisor training, you will also find useful information about training for your students, and programmes that you may wish to encourage them to attend. Detailed information is available from Cambridge University Skills Portal.
- Further information