• Supervision-related resources
• Research reports
• General research training related

Supervision-related resources

Gateway for Research Supervision
An excellent starting point for finding resources on postgraduate supervision, this site was developed by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in the United Kingdom. The gateway offers annotated links to a large collection of resources on topics such as the induction of new supervisors, accreditation of supervisors, and quality assurance. The site is aimed at new and experienced supervisors, policy makers, and trainers across all fields of study.
http://www.iah.bbsrc.ac.uk/supervisor_training/

Guidelines: national level

ESRC Postgraduate Training Guidelines (UK)
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ptd/guidelns/guidelns.htm

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (UK)
Code of Practice for the Assurance of Academic Quality and Standards in Higher Education: Postgraduate Research Programmes
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/public/COP/codesofpractice.htm

National Postgraduate Committee (UK)
Guidelines on Codes of Practice for Postgraduate Research
http://www.npc.org.uk/publications/guidelines/research.html

Guidelines on Accommodation and Facilities for Postgraduate Students
http://www.npc.org.uk/publications/guidelines/research.html

Guidelines on a Code of Practice for Instructional Postgraduate Courses
http://www.npc.org.uk/publications/guidelines/tas.html

CAPA (Australia)
Model Code for the Conduct of Postgraduate Research and Statement of Minimum Resources
http://www.capa.edu.au/web/policy/wcode.html

PDF version
http://www.capa.edu.au/pdf/Supervis.pdf

Guidelines/codes of practice: institutional level

University College London Graduate School
Code of Practice for Graduate Research Degrees
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gradschool/codes/research/index.htm

University of Canberra
Various stages leading to a higher degree by research
http://wasp.canberra.edu.au:80/stuadmin/
grad_studies/researchlink.htm

University of Western Australia
Information for supervisors & heads of department, code of practice etc.
http://www.acs.uwa.edu.au/research/postgradschool/

Michigan State University
Graduate Student Rights and Responsibilities
http://www.vps.msu.edu/SpLife/gradrights.htm

University of Natal
"Guide to the procedures relating to the admission, registration and examination of research masters and doctoral candidates and the responsibilities of the various parties concerned"
http://innerweb.und.ac.za/depts/admin/guide.htm

Guidelines/codes of practice: departmental level

Birkbeck College: Department of Organizational Psychology
Code of practice for PhD/MPhil Supervisors and Students
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/Departments/Org_Psych/
Research_Degrees/Code_of_practice_for_
Supervisors_and_Students.htm

Supervision-related articles

University of Sydney Postgraduate Supervision site
Case studies on effective supervision at the University of Sydney.
http://www.usyd.edu.au/ctl/pg/browse/cases/

ultiBASE articles on supervision
http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/dec96/elphi1.html
http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/dec96/green1.html

Miscellaneous supervision-related

University of Sydney Postgraduate Supervision site
Variety of resources and link to supervision guidelines.
http://www.usyd.edu.au/ctl/pg/browse/

ultiBASE
Supervision-related Academic Development Unit resources
http://ultibase.eu.rmit.edu.au/Resources/ADUResources.html

University of the Witwatersrand
1999 Seminar/training series for supervisors
http://www.wits.ac.za/supervise/

NRF Proposal Writing Workshop Kit
This zipped set of documents contains materials for use in proposal writing training workshops, including

• Readme.txt file with explanatory notes
• MS PowerPoint presentation
• NRF proposal writing guide
• Sample proposals
• Proposal evaluation form

http://www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/zip/proposal.zip

Research reports

The following research reports on aspects of research training are products of NRF-funded projects (all documents in PDF format):

Research Methodology and Writing Composition: Two Faces of Emergent Scholarship (Elizabeth Henning, Angela Mamiane & Mapule Pheme) 
Research project funded through the NRF's former "Research into Postgraduate Education and Methodology" grant category. 2000.
http://www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/pdf/henning.PDF

Qualitative Research Teaching in South African University Psychology Departments (Caitlin Evans)
Research project funded through the NRF's former "Research into Postgraduate Education and Methodology" grant category. 2000.
http://www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/pdf/evans.PDF

Workshop Training in Participatory Research (KJ Collins)
Research project funded through the NRF "Research into Postgraduate Education and Methodology" grant category. 1999.
http://www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/pdf/collins.pdf

Audit on Research Methodology Teaching at South African Tertiary Institutions (Ann Tothill and Charles Crothers)
Report on a 1996/1997 survey of research methodology teaching conducted by the Centre for Science Development of the Human Sciences Research Council to obtain baseline information on the state of research training. 1997.
http://www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/pdf/rmarep.pdf

General research training related

Research Training for the 21st Century (Australian Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs Higher Education Division)
http://www.deet.gov.au/highered/hes/hes33.pdf

University of Adelaide
Structured programme for PhD students
http://web.acue.adelaide.edu.au/SP/

Australian University Research Offices
http://www.swin.edu.au/sgrs/ausresch.html