The Centre for Higher and Adult Education (CHAE) held its first international conference on postgraduate supervision in April 2007 with the theme 'Postgraduate supervision: state of the art and the artists'. Since then, six more conferences were held, in 2009 on 'Postgraduate supervision research and practice', in 2011 on 'Promoting a culture of postgraduate scholarship', in 2013 on 'Candidates, supervisors and institutions: pushing postgraduate boundaries'. In March 2015, the conference theme was 'Looking ahead: the future of postgraduate supervision in the knowledge society' and, in 2017, the deliberations were around the topic: 'Spaces, journeys and destinations in postgraduate supervision'. The seventh conference with the theme ‘The global scholar: Implications for postgraduate studies and supervision’ was held in March 2019. Several book publications from previous Postgraduate Supervision conferences are available free of charge at the following sites:
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We are pleased to announce that the 9th Postgraduate Supervision conference will take place in-person again as follows:

Conference Theme and Date

The main theme of the 2025 conference will be ‘Postgraduate Supervision as Relational’

The conference will start on Tuesday, 25 March and closes on Friday 28 March 2025.

Conference Venue

Protea Hotel, Technopark, Stellenbosch (Click Here)
(Unfortunately Spier has closed its conference facilities, so we had to find a good alternative close to Stellenbosch)

More information will follow in due course.

Also please note the dates of the next QPR conference of our partners in Adelaide, Australia:
17 – 19 April, 2024
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