[Academic] FW: PGR Supervision through the COVID-19 Crisis

[physics-hod at strath.ac.uk]

Dear All

Please see email below.  Gordon Robb will be attending and will report back on this.  If you are interesting in attending also please sign up as below.

Thanks.

Catherine


From: studentships at stfc.ac.uk <studentships at stfc.ac.uk>
Sent: 23 June 2020 15:19
Subject: PGR Supervision through the COVID-19 Crisis

Dear Head of Department

We have been asked to circulate the following information to PGR Supervisors about a national online meeting to discuss STEM postgraduate supervision during the current COVID-19 crisis in association with the IOP PhD supervisor network, the IP Learning and Teaching Higher Education network as well as the Chemistry DryLabs that will be held the afternoon of Wednesday 24 June.


Dear post graduate supervisors in STEM,
Over the last twelve weeks in lockdown we have struggled as a community to keep engaged with and to support all our students, both undergraduate and post graduate. In recent weeks, several groups have set up online discussion meetings to help address problems that have arisen with undergraduate teaching during the Covid-19 crisis.
Here, we invite you to join us in online meetings focused on sharing good practice in the supervision of our post graduate students. The first, on Wednesday 24th June 3pm, will be a discussion meeting on "PGR supervision through the Covid-19 crisis". Another meeting, in late-July or early-August, will focus on "The role of PGRs who Teach in the online environment" and will be announced and arranged separately.
The first of these meetings will be run in direct collaboration with the recently founded Physics LTHE group, and Chemistry DryLabs, along with the IOP PhD supervisor network.
If you are interested in attending these meetings, can you please register with a new Post graduate  specific Physics-LTHE e-mail list e-mail hosted by Helen Vaughan at the University of Liverpool. For the time being, at least, invitations for the specific Zoom links for each meetings will sent from this e-mail list.
To register for this e-mail list, please use the link below:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=MVElUymxEECG4UdL_X6Adl9b713uraNFjWfBjckfQjdUMFAxWVNLUlpXNDcxVVcyUDZIVTdOR0ZJRS4u<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2FPages%2FResponsePage.aspx%3Fid%3DMVElUymxEECG4UdL_X6Adl9b713uraNFjWfBjckfQjdUMFAxWVNLUlpXNDcxVVcyUDZIVTdOR0ZJRS4u&data=02%7C01%7Cphysics-hod%40strath.ac.uk%7C6ac21a23d1e24a0182af08d817807c7f%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C637285188682955930&sdata=Ah1VQ7gj4Obx%2FgHrN2W8%2BysR7yTdPb2Bj9UIl%2BeZsBU%3D&reserved=0>
On Wednesday 24th June 3pm we will be hosting a remote discussion meeting to on "PGR supervision through the Covid-19 crisis". The meeting will provide a space for supervisors to discuss ongoing issues and solutions that they have found, focusing on 4 main questions, asking:

  1.  How do you run meetings with your students online and what online networks are students accessing students?
  2.  How do you ensure you have time with your students, balanced against your other staff commitments?
  3.  How do you ensure the wellbeing and welfare of your students?
  4.  How do you share best practice with others within your community, and how do you act to protect students that are currently not receiving adequate supervision?
In order to foster the best discussions, we will randomly split all attendees into smaller discussion rooms. After each question, we'll all return back to the main room and we will ask one person from each room to report back the highlights from their discussion.  In this way, we hope to highlight some of the problems students are facing in the current crisis, as well as sharing best practice solutions.
At the halfway mark, Doug Cleaver (Sheffield Hallam University; UKCGE) will be introducing the recent advice, resources and best practice for remote supervision provided by the United Kingdom Centre for Graduate Education, anchoring our discussions.
 Schedule -   24th June 3pm via Zoom
3:00 - 3:10pm: Arrival and general chit-chat with a mini intro to the session, with Bethan Cornell, Tom Stallard and Helen Vaughan
3:10 - 3:20pm: Q1. How do you run meetings with your students online and what online networks are students accessing students
3:20 - 3:30 pm: Reporting back on Q1 in main meeting room
3:30 - 3:40 pm: Q2. How do you ensure you have time with your students, balanced against your other staff commitments?
3:40 - 3:50 pm: Reporting back on Q2 in main meeting room
3:50 - 4:10 pm: Doug Cleaver gives a national UKCGE perspective on supervisory best practice during the Covid-19 crisis (12 minutes + 8 mins Q&A)
4:10 - 4:20 pm: Q3. How do you ensure the wellbeing and welfare of your students?
4:20 - 4:30 pm: Reporting back on Q3 in main meeting room
4:30 - 4:40 pm: Q4. How do you share best practice with others within your community, and how do you act to protect students that are currently not receiving adequate supervision?
4:40 - 4:50 pm: Reporting back on Q4 in main meeting room
4:50 - 5:00 pm: General discussion and conclusions from the meeting & future plans
This meeting is being organised by The University of Liverpool on behalf of the physics community. To be able to send you a registration link to the Zoom meeting, again, it is necessary for you to sign up to the PG Physics-LTHE list advertised above.  A link to the meeting will then be sent in w/c 22nd June.
Looking forward to seeing you Wednesday,
Bethan, Tom and Helen




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