Posted on: February 27, 2024
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This project aims to transform the culture and practice of research supervision.
RSVP brings together experts from industry and academia to design, pilot and evaluate continuing professional development (CPD) and guidance for research supervisors.
This four-year project, funded by Research England, aims to transform the culture and practice of research supervision by providing resources, training, self-assessment tools and pathways to reward and recognition for research institutions. is. RSVP will enable institutions to introduce support that increases supervisors’ confidence in supporting candidates from diverse cultural backgrounds and fosters the development of new doctoral programs such as hybrid learning and professional practice. Designed.
new contract
RSVP is UKRI’s new approach to postgraduate research. The New Deal outlines recommendations to ensure that all graduate research students have a high-quality, consistent experience at institutions across the country. We are calling on research organizations and universities to ensure that everyone on their supervisory team has adequate support, including through the recruitment of new supervisors and CPD of experienced supervisors. This is also reflected in the revised Doctoral Training Expectations Statement, which outlines enabling research institutions to invest in CPD as supervisors, including mental health, welfare, bullying and and harassment, and raising awareness about issues of equality, diversity and inclusion. .
Dr Karen Clegg, co-principal investigator at RSVP, said: “Postdocs and their supervisors are essential to a positive research culture, but department-wide support to enable students, supervisors and universities to make the most of opportunities is patchy.Our RSVP for him The project aims to resolve these contradictions.”
Expertise
RSVP draws on the experience and expertise of supervisors from organizations such as GSK, Unilever, the BBC and the Royal Shakespeare Company. This project will develop an open-source toolkit of resources for supervisors to support their ongoing professional development.
Dr Clegg added: “We believe RSVP is the biggest culture change project in research supervision to date. It is a call to arms for the field to join, share ideas and pilot professional development initiatives. .
“We want to expand and diversify our workforce of confident, trained supervisors who can support our inclusive culture and the next generation of researchers. We want to change the.
“Learning from such a diverse industry will help us bring best practice to the forefront and secure a brighter future for research supervision, something that will benefit us all.”
collaboration
RSVP is a four-year research program funded by Research England. The project consortium includes Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Nottingham, King’s College London, Coventry University and the UK Council for Graduate Education. This research was supported by seven of his UKRI Research Councils, the Wellcome Trust and the Crick Institute.
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