Fostering Self-Efficacy in PGRs: Coaching and Mentoring Approaches to PhD Supervision

Supervisors aim to get their students to be independent researchers.

Supervisors who draw on mentoring and coaching approaches will help students to cultivate their self-efficacy.

In this workshop you will review the benefits of these approaches and gain practice in enabling conversations that you can use with your PGR researchers.

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will be better able to:

1. Recognise the importance and value of dialogic, collaborative supervision in today’s research environment
2. Identify the four dimensions of self-efficacy
3. Explain the core principles of a coaching approach and how these differ from mentoring
4. Practice and evaluate active-listening techniques in a supervised triad

This course is open to Main, Co- and Assistant supervisors of doctoral researchers.

Background

This workshop is based on the resources piloted by the Cornerstone team in the context of the national project Next Generation Research Supervision Project (RSVP), in which Imperial has been a Practitioner Partner Since 2024.

How to book

This session is run by ECRI’s Cornerstone Team. This workshop has a limited number of places (24). A waiting list will be created if there is more interest.

To book a place on this course, please complete the following 

09 November 2026 booking link

04 May 2027 booking link