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Good Feedback: A workshop for supervisors by Hugh Kearns
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Sunley Lecture Theatre
University of Northampton Park Campus Boughton Green Road Northampton NN2 7AL United KingdomDescription
Good Feedback: A workshop for supervisors
Hugh Kearns
This workshop is for any research supervisor. It covers:
- The benefits of positive feedback
- How to provide criticism without crushing the recipient
- Varying your type of feedback depending on the candidate's stage
- Formats: hard copy, track changes, audio, face to face
- Turnaround time: How long is too long for response time
- A few pages or a whole chapter
- When the writing/grammar/expression is bad
- When they don't listen to your feedback
About Hugh Kearns
Hugh Kearns is recognised internationally as a public speaker, educator and researcher. He regularly lectures at universities across the world and has recently returned from a lecture tour of the UK and the US which included lectures at Oxford, Harvard and Stanford.
His areas of expertise include self-management, positive psychology, work-life balance, learning and creativity. He draws on over twenty years of experience as a leading training and development professional within the corporate, financial, education and health sectors in Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand and Australia.
Further information is available from Simone Apel (simone.apel@northampton.ac.uk; 01604 893418).
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The Graduate School plays a central role providing a University-wide framework for skills development, career preparation and administration to support all postgraduate research degree students, their supervisors and early career researchers.