Acting Out Supervison Scenarios Training Doctoral Supervisors in Artistic Research

The paper presents and reflects on a scenario-based training resource for supervising artistic doctorates developed for the ERASMUS + Strategic Partnership Project ‘Advancing Supervision of Artistic Doctorates’. It will describe how the project partners developed an inclusive understanding of Artistic doctorate supervision and how the outcomes of the project's other work packages helped identify topics to explore in the scenarios. The paper will present how narrative structures and supervisor and candidate archetypes were developed and included in a scenario-based learning structure inspired by Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed format. It will unfold how testing led to a redevelopment of the format to a video-based online resource. Finally, it will discuss the feedback from users and identify further research needed to continue the development of the format.