ASKED TO BE A SUPERVISOR?
As an attendee at this e-course you have probably all been contacted and asked to be a candidate's supervisor. And it is probable that you'll be contacted again. This is how to navigate such an enquiry:
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Is the candidate an applicant to a research fellow position at the faculty
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In this case you need to decide if you will supervise or not, but you are not involved in the evaluation process of the candidate, unless you also are a part of the committee
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Is the candidate an external candidate employed, or in an employment process elsewhere? Maybe a PhD student with scholarship ?
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For these groups you will be asked to write a recommendation letter if the supervision is of interest to you. This letter is a part of the evaluation process. Remember to inform/discuss the enquiry with the Head of Department.
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The faculty has a guideline for assessing applicants with external employers. This guideline states what you should assess in a recommendation letter. The proposed main supervisor shall evaluate the project description/proposal and:
- Discuss the extent to which the work can lead to a dissertation of international standard and at a high academic level in terms of problem formulations, conceptual clarification, methodological, theoretical and empirical basis, documentation and presentation
- Discussion of the extent to which the research work represents an independent contribution to existing knowledge. Such contributions can be concept analysis, theory as well as method development and empirical contributions
- Discuss the realism of the research project
- Carefully assess whether the content and framework conditions for the project are likely to be carried out within the framework of the scholarship period, i.e., three years
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