3.1. Supervising PhDs across cultures

This workshop is only available in English

Do your interactions with your PhD students leave you baffled at times? Do you struggle to understand why they behave so “weird”? Are you finding it difficult to communicate with them clearly? In this training course, you will get answers to these questions and you will get practical insights on how to work more effectively with PhD candidates from different cultures. This training course consists of 2 workshops. In the first workshop, we introduce the core concepts of intercultural communication through interactive activities. The second workshop will focus on culture-specific values and norms of China and The Netherlands.

1. Basis workshop: Supervision across cultures. Focus on cultural awareness and differences
   
   “A stranger knows only what he sees” - African proverb
   In the first workshop, we explore how culture affects the way we learn, work, and give feedback. The workshop will help you become aware of different cultural norms all of us tend to follow unconsciously. These tacit norms influence how we behave, how we communicate, what we consider as good, bad, normal, weird, etc.
   
   

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2. Culture specific workshop: Zooming in on China and the Netherlands
   

   “We don’t see the things as they are, we see them as we are” Anais Nin
   Culturally speaking the Netherlands and China seem miles apart, which may lead one to wonder how to create bridges between these two cultures. In this workshop, we will dig into the core values of China and the Netherlands, how these set the two cultures apart and how these manifest in daily interactions and communication. Further we will discuss strategies that can help in bridging these differences and how it can help you in effectively supervising across cultures.

   
   

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