Guidance for Academic Developers
The Research Supervision Recognition Programme offers a range of benefits for supervisors, when embedded by Academic Developers. You can:
1/ Embed the Good Supervisory Practice Framework in your programmes.
Align your own supervisor development programmes, both initial training and ongoing training, to the Good Supervisory Practice Framework to validate and complement your existing programmes.
2/ Enable targeted professional development.
Use the Structured Self-Reflection Toolkit to identify supervisors’ ongoing professional development needs and create development programmes targeting the areas of need.
3/ Bolster the criteria used in your institution’s recognition awards scheme.
If you are designing recognition awards, the Good Supervisory Practice Framework can strengthen the criteria used in the judging process.
4/ Develop a community of practice within your organisation.
Supervisors can join a community of peer reviewers for applications to the Research Supervision Recognition Programme, which encourages them to regularly engage in reflective practice while simultaneously helping others to flourish.
“Supervision uses a range of specific pedagogies, but it’s not like designing a module or delivering lectures. It’s messier, more relational, more embedded in the dynamics of human connection. And the only way to get really good at that, I believe, is through reflective practice. What the Research Supervision Recognition Programme offers is a structured way of doing that thinking, underpinned by the Good Supervisory Practice Framework.”
- Joanna Royle, Researcher Development Manager at the University of Glasgow.
Timelines
Applications can be submitted at any time, however there are three windows in any given year when materials will be sent for review.
“The most effective elements of the Research Supervision Recognition Programme have been those that create space to think. The protected writing time, peer conversations, and reflective prompts to help articulate thoughts and practice. This kind of environment helps people realise they’re not alone, and that their contributions matter, even if they’ve gone unrecognised.”
- Heledd Jarosz-Griffiths, Researcher Development Advisor (PGR Development) at the University of Leeds.