Supervisor Forum

From 2024, SGSAH has set up a Supervisor Forum – a series of drop-in sessions for colleagues at SGSAH member HEIs, whether currently supervising, planning to supervise, or working in PGR support roles. 

If you have an idea for a session you would like us to run, or suggestions for someone who would be good at delivering a session, please get in touch with SGSAH’s Director, Claire Squires, via director@sgsah.ac.uk. 

Current sessions include: 

On Supporting Neurodiverse Doctoral Researchers 

Thursday 10 October, 1-2.30pm 

Led by Professor Almuth McDowall, Professor of Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck University of London.  

Professor McDowall’s expertise spans diversity and neurodivergence, wellbeing and WorkLife balance, coaching and professional competence and development. She will be speaking on ways to support doctoral researchers with neurodiversity. 
 
Sign-up: https://tockify.com/sgsah/detail/267/1728561600000  

Creative Practice Research Supervision: Discussions and Reflections 

Monday 18 November 2024, 1-2pm 

Led by Dr Anthony Schrag, Reader of Arts Management and Cultural Policy, Queen Margaret University. 

Creative Practice Research is growing in attention as an acceptable methodological research approach, with many PhD candidates using this methodology - or using some related methods - to explore domains which are perhaps are more affective, ephemeral or relational. As such, it can often work very freely between disciplines, as well as being highly focused on particular processes and practices, centred in creative production.  

Recent Creative Practice Research projects have been apparent in healthcare contexts, water management policy, management and infrastructural studies, social work, as well as expected domains such as arts, literature, crafts and performance domains.  

Problematically, however, it is a methodology that seems to be at odds with traditional academic structures because it is process-based, messy and unpredictable, and it is often critiqued for its high subjectivity and/or a lack of rigour. This short presentation and discussion aims to provide some high-level talking points that can help supervisors reflect on the ways in which they support their candidates, and some main sticking points when supervising candidates in this domain. 

Sign-up: https://tockify.com/sgsah/detail/268/1731934800000