Lectures and seminars Bites of Learning lunchwebinar: Managing emotions in challenging supervision and teaching encounters
This session creates a reflective and supportive space where doctoral supervisors and teachers can share experiences and gain practical strategies for navigating emotionally challenging encounters in supervision and doctoral teaching contexts. We will also highlight available support structures at KI and discuss how educators can look after their own well-being while maintaining professionalism and constructive relationships with their students.
Supervising and teaching doctoral students offers meaningful, long-term academic relationships, but it also involves emotionally complex situations. Difficult conversations about progress, conflicting expectations, uncertainty around roles, emotionally charged feedback, or navigating students’ personal and academic struggles can place a significant emotional burden on doctoral educators.
This webinar is for educators and administrators who want to strengthen their ability to handle emotionally charged situations with greater clarity and self-awareness. In a compact format, you will gain insights into common emotional challenges in supervision, learn about supportive strategies, and explore where to find help for yourself and your students at KI.
Join us for an open and engaging conversation on how doctoral educators can navigate emotional situations when supervision or teaching encounters become emotionally challenging.
Participants will:
- Reflect on practical approaches for managing emotional responses in conversations related to performance, expectations, or conflict.
- Consider how boundaries, role clarity, and communication can reduce emotional overload in doctoral supervision.
- Learn where to find relevant support at KI for supervisors, teachers, and doctoral students.
Target Audience
Supervisors, teachers, course leaders, examiners, program directors, and administrators involved in doctoral education at KI who encounter emotionally challenging interactions in their work with doctoral students.
Speakers
Speaker: Juha Nieminen is a specialist psychologist, psychotherapist and educational developer with more than 25 years of experience working with professional competence development, the psychology of teaching and learning, and research on higher education. At Karolinska Institutet he leads a team of educational developers who give courses to our educators, consult in educational matters, and contribute to the evaluation of teaching and learning at KI.
Moderator: Zoe Säflund is an educational developer at the Unit of Teaching and Learning at KI. With a background in Psychology, specializing in Psychometrics and survey methodology, Zoe has a strong focus on question design. She is also responsible for managing the course evaluation process at KI.
Registration
- Sign up for the session.
- You will receive a link in your inbox to the online webinar on the day of the event.
- Click on the link and join the webinar.