Postgraduate supervision conference 2019

Spier estate is where the 2019 Postgraduate supervision conference will take place. One of the olive trees on the farm 

The call for abstracts on postgraduate supervision 2019 is open and closes on 3 September 2018. Early registration is open until 25 January 2019 and the final registration date is 4 March 2019. This is one of the conferences that I can only attend every second year when it is hosted by Spier in South Africa. All equal years, the conference is held in Australia. Every unequal year, it is time to pack your bags and make an early booking at Spier to attend this conference. You need to book your accommodation now already as this venue tends to be fully booked months before the event. And Spier is one of the most beautiful places in the Western Cape. But, if you cannot book accommodation at Spier, there are awesome hotels and wineries in the vicinity and in Stellenbosch that is only a few kilometers from the Spier Estate.

In 2019, the seventh Postgraduate Supervision conference will take place from 26 to 29 March and the theme for the conference will be: The global scholar: Implications for postgraduate studies and supervision. Sub-themes include the following topics, but other, relevant issues can also be addressed:

Researcher and supervisor connections, exchanges and joint scholarly work.

The mobility of research candidates and research supervisors.

Supervising / examining across geographical borders, cultures and disciplines.

The relation of local contexts, cultures and knowledge to the global arena.

The implications of global scholarship for language and writing.

The implications for the careers of research candidates and research supervisors.

The implications for fees, fee-structures and the costs of globalised postgraduate research and supervision.

The implications for distance and electronic supervision.

Both theoretical and empirical contributions in any of the following three tracks are welcomed:

Postgraduate supervision theories and policies

Postgraduate supervision practices

Postgraduate supervision trends and trajectories.

Hope to see you all there!