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:
- Collaborative approaches
- Capacity building
- Diverse Research Environments
- Future focus.
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 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.
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