Goals:
- The participants are able to supervise Bachelor and Master students a) socially and b) scientifically in their daily scientific work/ internship and in their writing process.
- Participants know their role, mission and limitations as supervisors.
- Participants are able to act as supervisors /are able to communicate in an effective and supportive way
Workshop contents:
- Basic knowledge of scientific supervision and leadership; Differences between a supervision process, coaching and mentoring; Handling your own expectations and the expectations of others; Role, tasks and limitations of supervisors; Integrating Bachelor and Master students into projects and teams; Integrating supervising tasks into the supervisor‘s own daily scientific work
- How to support your students in: planning the process of their scientific project/ project work/ internship; setting and reaching their goals; identifying their needs and values; achieving a reasonable work-study-life-balance and taking care of themselves; taking care of family, financial and health issues; coping with success, obstacles and disappointments, coping with lacks of motivation and mood swings, becoming self-aware of emotional and physical limits, coping with unexpected feelings; plan of action in cases of sexual harassment.
- Approach and methods: working with the inner team; determining values and needs; DILTS method; Kanban-Board; key intercultural competences in scientific and non-scientific supervision processes.
- Communication skills: 4-sides model; preventing conflicts; nonviolent, mindful communication with regard to diversity; active listening; giving and receiving constructive feedback.
Course methods:
- Interactive hands-on workshop with exercises and scientific input, enabling the participants to supervise students/ interns in an effective and respectful way, comprising interactive individual, pair and group work (oral, performative), trainer and group feedback, self-reflection and development of different action and communication strategies.
Trainer: Dr. Imke Lode, ProSciencia
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This workshop is part of the transferable skills portfolio of the PIER Education platform on the science campus Bahrenfeld/DESY. The workshops are usually one-day courses for a maximum number of 12-15 participants and are offered once or twice a year. The trainers are carefully selected experts with many years of experience in teaching scientists. Some of the workshops are open for postdocs.
The workshops offered in the PIER Education Platform are a cooperation between the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School and its partner organisations and institutes Quantum Universe Research School QURS, the Collaborative Research Center SFB 925, The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, the International Max Planck Research School for Ultrafast Imaging & Structural Dynamics IMPRS-UFAST, DASHH, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL and HELIOS.
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