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Developing Research Supervision Capacity in Clinical Health Professions: Structured Peer Group Mentoring as Collegial Support in a Research School Context

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This chapter reports on the interactional patterns and topics addressed in problem-based peer group mentoring (PPGM) with PhD supervisors affiliated with a national research school in health and social sciences. The textual data comprised video-recorded observations of the interactions in PPGM groups over the course of 1 year, which were supplemented by an analysis of written case descriptions submitted prior to meetings and meta-discussions after the sessions. The analysis revealed a broad range of problems and topics of concern for the participating PhD supervisors. The interactions, framed by the PPGM model, allowed the participants to analyse the problems raised by their colleagues in depth from different angles. These discussions frequently resulted in radically new understandings of the discussed cases. The meta-discussions following the PPGM sessions suggest that the structured interactional patterns supported by the PPGM model provide the supervisors with new insights that help open up new avenues for action and interaction between supervisors and their PhD students. The outcome of the PPGM activity is here pointing towards a reconceptualisation of how supervisors defined their roles and relations to their students. PPGM proved to be particularly useful in addressing specific problems presented as concrete cases, while participants presenting principal and overarching issues related to PhD supervision tended to end up with less useful input and more vague discussions.

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    Marit Kirkevold & Thomas de Lange

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Kirkevold, M., de Lange, T. (2023). Developing Research Supervision Capacity in Clinical Health Professions: Structured Peer Group Mentoring as Collegial Support in a Research School Context. In: de Lange, T., Wittek, L. (eds) Faculty Peer Group Mentoring in Higher Education. Higher Education Dynamics, vol 61. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37458-6_6

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