Date: Thursday, September 4th
Time: 9.00 – 12.00
Room: UK 220 (PhD Academy)
Lecturer: Dr. Dana Lynn Driscoll, Professor of Writing & Founding Director of the Center for Scholarly Communication, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
The landscape of doctoral education is evolving rapidly, placing new demands on faculty supervisors. This workshop is designed to enhance your effectiveness as a doctoral supervisor and mentor through exploring of expertise development and examine how faculty influence shapes doctoral students' professional trajectories with feedback practices. This includes including learning more about managing mentoring relationships and time, structured approaches to dissertation feedback, and ethical integration of AI into your supervision practices. Through interactive sessions, reflection exercises, and practical feedback training, you'll gain concrete strategies for nurturing doctoral students' growth from novice researchers to independent scholars. Ideal for faculty seeking to strengthen their feedback practices and maximize their impact on student success.
Faculty Supervisors who attend will learn how to:
· Understand and apply theoretical frameworks for expertise development in doctoral education
· Implement time management strategies that benefit both supervisors and students
· Provide targeted feedback at different stages of the dissertation process
· Integrate AI tools strategically into supervision and feedback practices
· Create sustainable mentoring relationships that foster independent thinking
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We are looking forward to seeing you!
About Dr. Dana Driscoll
Dr. Dana Lynn Driscoll is a Professor of Writing and the Founding Director of the Center for Scholarly Communication at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the United States. She has offered numerous keynotes and workshops globally and has published over 60 articles on learning theory, writing development, writing centers, and writing expertise. At IUP, she teaches writing for publication, research methods, teaching writing, and learning development in the Doctoral Program in Composition and Applied Linguistics at IUP. Her forthcoming book Becoming an Expert Writer: A Holistic Guide to Writing for Publication focuses on helping students become experts and get their academic ideas into print. She recently completed a 3-year term as a co-editor of Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, and while completing Ph.D. at Purdue, also ran the world-famous Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), one of the largest and oldest writing-related websites in the world. Feel free to contact Dana directly with questions: dana.driscoll@iup.edu