(12-1pm UK time) SDRG - 24th June 2027

Dr Kay Guccione (University of Glasgow, UK), Dr Sian Vaughan (Birmingham City University, UK), Tasha Kitano (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) and Prof. Rachel Spronken-Smith (University of Otago, New Zealand/Aotearoa) host a monthly reading group online, especially for the research supervisor developer community.

NOTE: this is a reading group best suited to members who are researcher developers, or academic developers, or academic staff with a remit or interest in developing good cultures of supervision.

Paper: Xu, C., L., (2026) Confronting racialised temporal inequalities: A post-colonial analysis of Zhihu users’ portrayals of doctoral supervisors in Western academia. Time & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X261454516

Our intention for the group is to host is a collegial meeting of the supervisor development community across disciplines and role types, and to support each other to engage with the literature regularly. Our meetings have been consciously designed to be developmental, inclusive and cooperative.