University of the Arts Helsinki

Open Call: Doctoral Supervisors' Summer School 20-23 August 2025, Helsinki

Apply by 16 March 2025

Quality of supervising artistic research – Supervising quality in artistic research

The target group for the Doctoral Supervisors' Summer School 2025, hosted by Uniarts Helsinki, is artists, artist-researchers and academics supervising doctoral students in the arts. Experience of at least one ongoing or completed doctoral supervision process is required. […]

The summer school continues the series of doctoral supervisors' summer schools previously organised in Utrecht (2023) and Copenhagen (2024). The focus will remain on the doctoral supervision in the arts. In the Helsinki edition, specific focus will be put on questions of quality: What constitutes the quality of a supervision process in the arts? The question addresses both the quality of supervision practices and the challenges of aiming at high quality of the artistic and research outcomes as well as the quality of the experience of the process itself. […]

Issues we imagine to be worked on include:

the tensional relation between ethical reflection and evaluation
data as profitable resource vs generous sharing of materials
coping with the canon – politics of citing
are we witnessing a shift from ethical reflection to ethical regulation?
rules and responsibility
sharing and developing of feedback methods
practices of group supervising and supervising groups
how to deal with AI?

The summer school will be held at Hanaholmen/Hanasaari, a cooperation- and cultural centre for Sweden and Finland, located at a beautiful setting by the sea.

The deadline for applying to the Doctoral Supervisors' Summer School 2025 is 16 March 2025.

The application consists of a motivation letter in which you indicate what kind of quality issues you would like to work on in the collegial setting of the summer school. You belong to the target group if you are supervising at least one doctoral artistic research project. Decisions will be communicated to all applicants at the latest 31 March 2025.

The full Call text with more practical infomation and the application online form can be found on our website.

Read the full Call text online