LAHP Roundtable Series: Roundtable 3 – Rethinking Supervision
Date: Friday 4 December 2026, 6pm – 8pm
Location: Live Art Development Agency – LADA, The Garrett Centre, 117 Mansford St, London E2 6LX
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This session will focus on supervision, a crucial but under-examined process in the ecology of PhD research.
From the Latin super (over/above), and videre (to see/observe), the concept of supervision has roots in colonial administration and managerialism.
Together, we will attempt to re-imagine the process of supervision in ways that are innovative, experimental, hopeful, critical, radical, ethical, care-ful, as speculatively as we can.
The session will cover:
- What good supervision should look and feel like;
- How to avoid the abuses of power, knowledge, authority, etc that are unavoidably immanent to the process of supervision;
- How reimagined processes of supervision could reshape doctoral education in the arts and humanities.
Contributors:
- Dr Danah Abdulla (University of the Arts London)
- Professor Johnny Golding (Royal College of Art)
- Dr Yaiza Hernández Velázquez (University of Southampton)
Chair:
- Dr Wing-Fai Leung (King’s College London)
This event is organised by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), grant ref AH/R012679/1. This consortium, including this event, is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). By registering for this event, you agree to your information (name, email address, organisation, UKRI-funded status) to be shared with UKRI. The number of UKRI-funded and non-UKRI funded attendees are reported to UKRI annually, as aggregated data.