Towards Super Supervision

Abstract

During the fall term of 2023 we were seven PhD supervisors from the division of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences who gathered weekly to discuss questions related to our role as supervisors and important aspects of PhD supervision. Each such meeting was centered around a pre-determined topic, e.g. “what makes a good first research project”, and minutes were taken and distributed among the participants. We think our discussions have been valuable for us and our students, and that our experiences may be relevant for other teachers and supervisors as well. It is therefore the aim of this reflective text to describe these “Super supervision meetings”, how they were organized, what topics we discussed, how our discussions relate to ideas in the research supervision literature, and, finally, the impact the meetings could have on our supervision practices.