SKH strengthens supervision within artistic research education
Mandatory course for principal supervisors
SKH has long had supervisor seminars to support its supervisors, but now a course is being introduced that goes even deeper. It consists of four parts held on four occasions during one year. The first course started in September 2024 and is mandatory for all principal supervisors. The next part of the course will be held in March 2025. The course aims to provide supervisors with new tools and knowledge that are specifically adapted for artistic doctoral education. In the long term, the goal is also for SKH to be able to open the course to others who are curious about becoming supervisors.
“The course was central to better understanding and structuring the complex role of the doctoral supervisor in terms of responsibilities and ethical approaches. An important part is to understand the structure of doctoral training and how to plan and organise supervision with the doctoral student, so that the doctoral student can carry out - and complete - his/her project in the best possible way. The course introduces the national guidelines for research as well as the specific rules that apply at SKH through practical examples and discussions”, says Jenny Sunesson, course participants, artist and affiliated researcher at SKH.
An important step for SKH
With this new course, SKH is strengthening its efforts to ensure the quality of supervision in artistic doctoral education. The course is part of the commitments that SKH made in connection with the application for a degree licence for artistic doctoral education, which was granted in 2016. Until now, supervisor seminars have served as a meeting place and network for supervisors, and they will continue, but the course provides more in-depth support and training.
“Artistic research is a relatively new field of research that is still, and hopefully always will be, shaped by the enormous palette of diversified, experimental and challenged artistic practices that art and artistic research entail. The course is important in that it opens up for dialogue and some form of common discourse between widely different art practices about what artistic research at SKH can be and how it can be conducted”, says Jenny Sunesson.
The course is held at SKH, Valhallavägen 189 and has space for 24 participants.
The course coordinators:
Kent Olofsson, Professor of Performing Arts for the profile area Concept and Composition
Lena Hammergren, Professor Emerita of Theatre and Performance Studies
Hanna Husberg, Assistant Professor of Performative and Media-based Practices
(Jenny Sunesson with the mic in the head image).
