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The act of supervision

This sections looks at various issues around the act of supervising research candidates. Supervisors can use the activities in this section to explore and deepen awareness of their own practice as supervisors and their supervision contexts.

Exploring different ways of supervising

This resource contains a reflective interview task for supervisors and briefing and debriefing notes for workshop facilitators. The task was designed for participants to do in between workshops in a supervisor development program. Participants interview an experienced supervisor, then reflect on the interview in relation to both their own experiences and an article on the 'delicate balance' in supervision (Delamont, Parry & Atkinson, 1998). They then come to a workshop where the task is debriefed in pairs and with a whole group. Exploring different ways of supervising