Just One Thing (JOT) series
The JOT series consists of one-hour online shared practice events, highlighting practical areas of supervisory support and CPD.
Purpose
What is JOT and what is it for?
Our main objective with the JOT series is to share compelling methods and tools, and to provide a platform in which to update Practitioner Partner leads on the piloting programme which is due to start in October 2025. As the title suggests, we aim to provide one usable idea or resource per session to support the professional development of research supervisors. This will generally be easily replicable without dependency on significant resources or equipment.
Audience
Who can attend JOT sessions?
In the first instance, JOT is only intended to enable a sharing of practice across and within the RSVP Consortium and Practitioner Partners. The current target audience is researcher developers and those supporting supervisors, and we are only advertising to our internal network at the moment.
We will evaluate the effectiveness and usefulness of the JOT series among the Practitioner Partners and use this to inform a decision about whether to create a new JOT series for the sector in the future.
Content and structure
What type of content will it include and how frequently will they run?
The current JOT series will cover a broad range of topics with sessions taking place on a monthly basis, generally the 20th day of the month, until October 2025. Each session will largely focus on one topic and may include the following type of content:
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Practical tools to support the professional development of supervisors
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Preparatory materials for the CPD menu
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If you would like to contribute or present as part of the JOT series, please let us know by emailing rsvp-admin@york.ac.uk.
Upcoming sessions
View and register for our upcoming sessions.
There are no sessions until September 2025.
Past sessions
If you missed a session or would like to revisit it, you can access the session resources and recordings, where available, below. We cannot guarantee that every session will be recorded as this depends on the format and level of interactivity.
Active Listening
with Mirjam Godskesen
Session 1
Monday 20 January 2025
In this highly interactive session with breakout rooms, Mirjam introduced active listening as a tool in PhD supervision.
Watch the session recording or download the slide deck below:
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​Mirjam Godskesen's Active Listening Workshop for RSVP JOT January 2025 (Slide deck, PDF)
Peer mentoring approaches
with Julia Rayner
Session 2
Thursday 20 February 2025
In this session, Julia will provide an introduction to mentoring, approaches that lend well to supporting supervisor professional development and how this could be piloted at your own institute.​
Delivering effective feedback in PGR supervision
with Natasha Kitano
Session 3
Thursday 20 March 2025
In this session, Natasha will explore how the functions of speech impact feedback practices in postgraduate research (PGR) supervision. The session will provide PGR supervisors an opportunity to consider the ways they deliver feedback and enhance their feedback practices.
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Watch the session recording or download the slide deck below: