MF CASR Book talk with Fredrik Saxegaard - Doctoral supervision across boundaries: Interdisciplinarity as process and practice

The book explores how increasing emphasis on interdisciplinarity and internationalization on the one hand, and efficiency and professionalization on the other, affect doctoral supervision. 

Based on experiences from a Scandinavian interdisciplinary research school, the volume explores supervision as a distributed practice in a particular context. The book contributes to research on interdisciplinary doctoral education and supervision. It highlights how PhD students and supervisors experience supervising interdisciplinary projects and analyzes how committees evaluate interdisciplinary dissertations.
The volume broadens the field by adding new empirical and theoretical insights on how larger transformations of the context of PhD education in late modern knowledge societies shape interdisciplinary supervision practices. A core argument for practice and future research is that supervision cannot any longer be limited to the dyadic, pre-scheduled meeting between a supervisor and a PhD student but needs to be approached as a distributed practice across temporal and spatial modes of organization.

The book talk will be streamed live on Zoom.