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The VIPER Lab
Pravin Prakash, Doctoral Fellow at the Heidelberg Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HGGS) and PhD Candidate at the Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, has invited experts from different areas to speak about Violence, Intolerance, Polarization, Extremism and Radicalization (VIPER). Pravin Prakash and his colleagues at the HGGS also organised the HGGS and 4EU+ conference around these topics at Heidelberg University.
Episode 1
Pravin Prakash in conversation with Dr. Eviane Leidig, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies at Tilburg University.
Episode 2
Pravin Prakash in conversation with Kunal Purohit, Award-winning Independent Journalist and the author of "H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars".
Episode 3
Pravin Prakash in conversation with Prof.Cherian George, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Supervision: Successful PhD partnerships and where to find them ( Graduate Academy and HGGS- Summer 2020)
Guests: Hannah Mieger (Faculty of Modern Languages, Heidelberg University) and Ulrike Freitag (Faculty of Modern Languages, Heidelberg University)
Host: David Jara (Graduate Academy Heidelberg University)
While there are many factors that can influence doctoral candidates' PhD experiences, both in terms of their performance and achievements as well as their intellectual growth over time, the relationship between them and their supervisor is likely to have the most significant impact. As such, effective doctoral supervision plays a key role in ensuring PhD candidates' general success. In the best of cases, rather than establishing rigid hierarchical relationships, candidates and supervisors constitute strong, mutually beneficial partnerships which are based on open communication and positive reinforcement. This enables them to build on each other’s strengths, knowledge bases and areas of expertise, often allowing them to make outstanding achievements in the process. More importantly, positive experiences of doctoral supervision are likely to have equally beneficial long-term consequences for both parties even years after a candidate’s original thesis submission. By creating lasting bonds between different generations of academics, a positive experience of doctoral supervision may often foster the establishment of emergent academic networks, ultimately laying out the foundation for further research collaboration. More often than not, such networks will in turn end up influencing even younger generations of researchers as the supervisor-PhD candidate cycles grow and diversify. In addition, this process is likely to have an even broader area of influence as it frequently creates links between universities and non-academic sectors, in particular when former PhD candidates pursue career paths outside of academia. With all of this in mind, in 2020 we invited current PhD candidates at Heidelberg University at all dissertation stages to share with us their positive thesis supervision experiences in a writing contest. One first place and five runner-up awards were awarded.
Podcast-Supervision: Successful PhD Partnerships and Where to Find Them
