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Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

Sgoil Cheumnaichean Saidheans Sòisealta na h-Alba

Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

Sgoil Cheumnaichean Saidheans Sòisealta na h-Alba

Supervisors' Resource Library

Supervisors' Resource Library

SGSSS are working on developing a suite of resources to help support and guide our Supervisor community.

These will be updated on an on-going basis.

Doctoral Supervision: Expectations (year 1)

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Doctoral Supervision: Expectations (year 2)

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Doctoral Supervision: Expectations (year 3+)

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A Guide to the Length of our Awards

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Research in Practice Overview

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Supervisor's Support Statement (for Student-Led Open Competition)

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Independent Review of the PhD in Social Sciences.

Source: ESRC
Generative AI, ChatGPT, and the Impact on Postgraduate Work

Source: UKCGE
Supporting Excellent Supervisory Practice Report

Source: UKCGE
What does success look like in postgraduate research? Defining, measuring and supporting success

Source: UKCGE
A Guide for Research Supervisors in Organisations Outside Higher Education

Source: UKCGE
Supervising PhD students at a distance - a bibliography

Source: UKCGE
Effective Distance Supervision of PhD students

Source: UKCGE
Mental Health and Wellbeing of PGRs: Pinch Points and Good Practice

Source: UKCGE
Free templates for PhD supervision (for supervisors and students)

Source: IThinkWell

Supervisors’ Community of Practice  

SGSSS are excited to announce a series of supervisor Communities of Practice (CoP) sessions in collaboration with Scafell Coaching Ltd (Elizabeth Adams) and MyConsultants (Robin Henderson). These sessions are funded by the Scottish Funding Council.

 

Each CoP session will be a 90 minutes and will discuss a topic (see full list below) in details. All sessions will be held via Zoom.

 

We welcome participation from :

  • Current/Incoming SGSSS supervisors
  • Prospective / former applicants of our supervisor-led competitions
  • Any social science PhD supervisor in Scotland

We have a limit of 16 participants for each session. 

For a downloadable version of the topics, click here. 

To register to the sessions above, click here

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