New eBook Release: Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers

 

JCU Library staff are pleased to announce the release of a new eBook, Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers, edited by Susan Gasson, Jillian Blacker, Ian Stoodley, Abbe Winter and Christine Bruce.

Confident Supervisors is intended to be both a textbook and a professional development tool. The book outlines different theoretical frameworks that can be used by supervisors in managing the unique challenges and opportunities of research supervision. 

Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers has been written for those completing formal coursework, for professional development and as a tool for lifelong learning. It aims to develop supervisors' reflective practice and contains many additional resources to extend your knowledge including; activities, further reading, links to reference materials and videos. The book is split into four main sections:

1. Collaborative approaches
2. Capacity building
3. Diverse Research Environments
4. Future focus.

This eBook project has been led by Dr Susan Gasson, HDR advisor development coordinator for JCU's Graduate Research School, and is a collaborative effort from a diverse group of people across multiple Australian universities and Papua New Guinea. Chapters are authored by Higher Degree Research supervisors, librarians and Graduate Research School academics from JCU, QUT, Macquarie University, Western Sydney University, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Curtin University, UNSW, RMIT and Deakin University.

JCU Library staff have contributed a chapter on building literacies for the HDR research lifecycle, in addition to the overall production, hosting and publication of the eBook. 

Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers is openly licensed and freely available to read via JCU Open eBooks.

The JCU Open Educational Resources Program

The JCU Open Educational Resources Program is a project in the Education Division, spearheaded by JCU Library. The aim of the project is two-fold: 

• To support lecturers in adopting, adapting and creating Open Educational Resources including textbooks and workbooks in order to better support the learning of our students at JCU 
• To make information about the people and places of the Tropics more widely accessible and understood. More than 40% of the world's population live in the Tropics and 40% of the world's surface is within the Tropics, but the area is often underrepresented in teaching materials.