Using the grassroots approach: Incorporating recent graduate researcher voices in the design and delivery of research supervisor training

Abstract

This presentation showcases a participatory research methodology (Bergold & Thomas, 2012) that fosters ownership by the novice supervisor participants in the design and implementation of a supervisor training program that was developed for and with them. The design of the supervision workshops was also informed by the principles associated with the pedagogy of supervision (Bruce et al., 2009) and a collection of supervision-focused resources were embedded throughout the workshops to model benchmarks of high quality supervision, sourced from literature and expert voices. The presentation concludes with recommendations for: (1) engaging novice supervisors in the design of their own supervisor training; and (2) developing professional learning for research supervisors across varied cultural contexts.