Remote doctoral supervision experiences: Challenges and affordances
Gina Wisker, Michelle K. McGinn, Søren Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen, Irina Lokhtina, Faye He, Solveig Cornér, Shosh Leshem, Kelsey Inouye, Erika Löfstrôm
Abstract
The global pandemic has forced academics to engage in remote doctoral supervision, and the need to understand this activity is greater than ever before. This contribution involved a cross-field review on remote supervision pertinent in the context of a global pandemic. We have utilised the results of an earlier study bringing a supervision model into a pandemic-perspective integrating studies published about and during the pandemic. We identified themes central to remote supervision along five theory-informed dimensions, namely intellectual/cognitive, instrumental, professional/technical, personal/emotional and ontological dimensions, and elaborate these in the light of the new reality of remote supervision.