Doctoral supervision as leadership : a practice-based proposal with special reference to the university hospital setting

• Leadership issues seem to be strangely absent from discussions about what good doctoral supervision is. The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of doctoral supervision as a form of leadership, with special reference to the university hospital setting. From a personal reflective practice point of view, James Kouzes and Barry Posner's The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® Model is used as a lens through which Anne Lee’s concepts of doctoral research supervision are viewed. Four out of five of Lee’s concepts seem to be leadership-related, when viewed from the perspective of Kouzes & Posner, namely “enculturation”, “critical thinking”, “emancipation”, and “relationship development”. The fifth concept, “functional”, can instead be viewed to reflect managerial skills. Hence, it seems meaningful to view doctoral supervision as a form of leadership. The present concept paper should be viewed as hypothesis-generating, and future studies should examine the proposed hypothesis in a more in-depth fashion, using appropriate empirical methodologies and not as in the present paper mere practice-based reflections.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Annan medicin och hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Other Medical and Health Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

doctoral

supervision

leadership

Kouzes

Posner

Lee

Publikations- och innehållstyp

vet (ämneskategori)

rap (ämneskategori)