The basic task of a supervisor is leading a doctoral student in their scientific development. For this reason, it is very important that every supervisor is aware of what the education of a student at the Doctoral School looks like.
Scope of a supervisor’s responsibility
Pursuant to Resolution no. 409 of the Senate of the University of Silesia in Katowice of 25th June 2019, art. 26 point 2, a supervisor’s duties include:
- providing the doctoral student with tutelage in implementing their research plan;
- providing the doctoral student with assistance pertaining to the essence, content and methods present in their scientific work, including the preparation of an individual research plan;
- performing yearly evaluation of the student’s progress in scientific work, especially progress in following the curriculum and the individual research plan, providing opinion in writing
- cooperation with the evaluation committee;
- providing advice pertaining to teaching methods and assistance in gaining experience in the doctoral student’s teaching work;
- providing opinion on the doctoral student’s applications;
- teaching or co-teaching doctoral seminars;
- informing the dean about circumstances forming basis to expel the doctoral student.
Supervisor’s teaching duties
The supervisor works with the doctoral student during doctoral seminars amounting to 15 hours every semester for the whole period of education at the Doctoral School. The seminars are taught as part of teaching duties of a member of the University of Silesia research-and-teaching staff or based on a civil law agreement made with an entity external to the University.
A researcher supervising two or three students at the Doctoral School teaches the same number of hours of doctoral seminars.