Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates introduces a step-change for institutional and system-level learning outcomes concerning the organisation of doctoral supervision in artistic research. By establishing the basic principle of triangulation of the supervisory process – involving a systematic commitment between supervisor, doctoral student and institution –as a red thread through all outputs and activities of the projects, as well as fostering exchange and further development of good models and practices across countries, the project fosters the development of transnational co-operations and joint training courses in order to further enhance the quality of doctoral supervision in artistic research. All higher education institutions in art who offer doctoral programmes will benefit from the results of the project.

Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates will strengthen the processes by which doctoral supervisors (i.e. university teachers whose responsibility is also doctoral supervision) are recruited. One of the key issues of the project is the identification of the competences of supervisors in artistic research, and to draw up a precise competence profile which can be used in the process of recruiting and/or selecting supervisors. The training concept which is developed as a key activity during the project is of modular type, thus can be implemented by all higher education institutions in art according to their institutional needs. Educators themselves have benefitted from this training. It can be implemented as a form of induction (inexperienced supervisors as the target group), but also as a form of advanced training for experienced supervisors. Finally, doctoral students, some of them becoming the educators of tomorrow, will profit from this mutual advancement in supervision processes.

The partners include: The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (lead partner); Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich; The University of Art and Design, Linz; Norwegian Artistic Research Programme; Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen; The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow; The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague; Orpheus Institute, Gent; Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus; ELIA.

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