Research supervision as a mutual learning process: introducing salutogenesis into supervision using ‘The Collegial Model’

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1200-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Research Supervision ◽  
Team Supervision ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Salutogenic Model ◽  
Doctoral Supervision

Abstract Research using salutogenic factors to promote health is extensive. Salutogenesis, and its core concept ‘sense of coherence’ (SOC), is a resource-oriented theory and framework, applicable in different contexts. Research combining health promotion and doctoral supervision in higher education is scarce. This article places research supervision in a broader context of sustainable working life by focusing on stress management. It is about health promotion in an area of research supervision, a new approach not described earlier. Research on supervision in general is extensive, focusing on co-generative mentoring, counselling and coaching. A new salutogenic model, ‘The Collegial Model’, is presented as an example of practical application. The aim of the present article is to introduce and discuss how the salutogenic theory and model of health can be applied to research supervision of postgraduate students. Knowledge about how SOC impacts health and learning has benefit from a systematic review on salutogenic research covering published papers from 1992 to 2003 and until today. ‘The Collegial Model’ examines fundamental characteristics of supervision related to ethics and sense of coherence: relations, communication, processes, reciprocity, reflection, learning, comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness and coherence. Principles for carrying out supervision ‘the salutogenic way’ are suggested. The conclusion is that doctoral supervision involves mutual learning processes between colleagues in the supervisory team. Supervision has to be theory driven, implying that supervisors could benefit from applying a salutogenic way of thinking and working, particularly in development of guidelines for research supervision.

scholarly journals Re-envisioning health promotion: Thinking and acting salutogenically towards equity for historically resilient communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 175797592110350
Author(s):  
Fungisai Gwanzura Ottemöller ◽  
Tulani Francis L. Matenga ◽  
J. Hope Corbin ◽  
Humaira Nakhuda ◽  
Peter Delobelle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Specific Resistance ◽  
New Model ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Salutogenic Model

This paper explores how the salutogenic theory can enable us to re-envision health promotion work with marginalized communities, towards an approach that acknowledges and honours their resilience. We use the three core concepts in Antonovsky’s salutogenic model of health – sense of coherence, generalized resistance resources and specific resistance resources – to explore the theory’s relevance to health equity, thus presenting new opportunities for how we might radically re-evaluate current health promotion approaches. We conclude that a more equitable health promotion requires increased participation of marginalized communities in shaping their futures and suggest a new model for historically grounded salutogenic health promotion.

scholarly journals Future Perspectives of Health Care: Closing Remarks

2021 ◽  
pp. 375-380
Author(s):  
Gørill Haugan ◽  
Monica Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Professional Leadership ◽  
Salutogenic Model

AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of our health care systems as well as our societies. During the year of 2020, we have witnessed how whole societies globally have been in a turbulent state of transformation finding strategies to manage the difficulties caused by the pandemic. At first glance, the health promotion perspective might seem far away from handling the serious impacts caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, as health promotion is about enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, paradoxically health promotion seems to be ever more important in times of crisis and pandemics. Probably, in the future, pandemics will be a part of the global picture along with the non-communicable diseases. These facts strongly demand the health care services to reorient in a health promoting direction.The IUHPE Global Working Group on Salutogenesis suggests that health promotion competencies along with a reorientation of professional leadership towards salutogenesis, empowerment and participation are required. More specifically, the IUHPE Group recommends that the overall salutogenic model of health and the concept of SOC should be further advanced and applied beyond the health sector, followed by the design of salutogenic interventions and change processes in complex systems.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Challenges in Research Supervision at South African Universities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
King Costa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
South African ◽  
National Development ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Research Supervision ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning

Postgraduate students in South Africa and other parts of the world, particularly in developing nations struggle to complete the research component of their studies. According to the National Development Plan ( 2013) it has become a requirement for South African institutions to play a pivotal role in knowledge production so as to transform South Africa from a resource-based economy towards a knowledge-based economy.  In pursuit of meeting this requirement and further to increase subsidy from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), South African institutions of higher learning have been on the drive for recruiting postgraduate students en masse. One of the main problems facing South African institutions is that the number of students enrolled does not correspond to those who graduate at the end of the postgraduate programme study period.  This study is a systematic review of literature on challenges in postgraduate supervision and further proposes a possible solution.  Five South African institutions of higher learning’s postgraduate throughput data is carefully studied and substantiated by previous research on postgraduate supervision challenges on these particular institutions. Study findings present challenges related to research capacity development and burden of supervision at these institutions.  Collaborative methods of supervision such as the C.O.S.T.A model are hereby proposed as possible solutions to the current throughput problem in South Africa.

scholarly journals Doctoral Supervision Practice: What’s the Problem and How Can We Help Academics?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Carter ◽  
Barbara Kensington-Miller ◽  
Matthew Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Research Supervision ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Supervision Practice ◽  
The Right ◽  
Doctoral Supervision ◽  
Discipline Differences

Academics are feeling squeezed by increasing research supervision demands within tightening time constraints. In a changing higher education environment, demands on doctoral supervisors need to be better understood in order to provide them with the right support at supervision pressure points. As academic developers, our aim was to better understand supervision challenges across multiple disciplines. A two stage study firstly sought differences in research and supervision practice between faculties by means of an anonymised digital questionnaire [n226]. Twenty-two questions explored supervisors’ experiences of project management, communication and writing. Secondly, we interviewed 11 experienced supervisors from disciplines other than our own (education), focusing on supervision’s discipline-specific challenges and constraints. We expected to find discipline-differences between science and humanities. However, analysis showed that supervision challenges are the same across disciplines. We report on what these entail and argue that, as graduate numbers rise in an internationalised academy, supervision support can and should be developed centrally in order to address the growing pressures on faculty.

Future directions for the concept of salutogenesis: a position article

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
G F Bauer ◽  
M Roy ◽  
P Bakibinga ◽  
P Contu ◽  
S Downe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Health Promotion And Education ◽  
Salutogenic Model ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Aaron Antonovsky advanced the concept of salutogenesis almost four decades ago (Antonovsky, Health, Stress and Coping. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1979; Unravelling the Mystery of Health. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 1987). Salutogenesis posits that life experiences shape the sense of coherence (SOC) that helps to mobilize resources to cope with stressors and manage tension successfully (determining one’s movement on the health Ease/Dis-ease continuum). Antonovsky considered the three-dimensional SOC (i.e. comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness) as the key answer to his question about the origin of health. The field of health promotion has adopted the concept of salutogenesis as reflected in the international Handbook of Salutogenesis (Mittelmark et al., The Handbook of Salutogenesis. Springer, New York, 2016). However, health promotion mostly builds on the more vague, general salutogenic orientation that implies the need to foster resources and capacities to promote health and wellbeing. To strengthen the knowledge base of salutogenesis, the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis (GWG-Sal) of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education produced the Handbook of Salutogenesis. During the creation of the handbook and the regular meetings of the GWG-Sal, the working group identified four key conceptual issues to be advanced: (i) the overall salutogenic model of health; (ii) the SOC concept; (iii) the design of salutogenic interventions and change processes in complex systems; (iv) the application of salutogenesis beyond health sector. For each of these areas, we first highlight Antonovsky’s original contribution and then present suggestions for future development. These ideas will help guide GWG-Sal’s work to strengthen salutogenesis as a theory base for health promotion.

scholarly journals Healthy lifestyle choices: could sense of coherence aid health promotion?

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 871-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. W J Wainwright ◽  
P. G Surtees ◽  
A. A Welch ◽  
R. N Luben ◽  
K.-T. Khaw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Choices

scholarly journals Strengthening sense of coherence: opportunities for theory building in health promotion: Fig. 1:

2015 ◽  
pp. dav071 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Super ◽  
M. A. E. Wagemakers ◽  
H. S. J. Picavet ◽  
K. T. Verkooijen ◽  
M. A. Koelen
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Theory Building

Are insights from Indigenous health shaping a paradigm shift in health promotion praxis in Australia?

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Crouch ◽  
Patricia Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Future Health ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Funding Cuts ◽  
Policy Shifts

Health promotion really is at a cross-road. Traditionally guided by the Ottawa Charter, it has been thought of as principle-guided actions, processes and technique, as well as outcomes or results. Health promotion has been characterised by its products and some even call it theory. In Australia, public funding for health promotion has, for many years, shaped its practice into behaviour change interventions. However, governments around the country are reconsidering their investments, evidenced by ideologically motivated policy shifts and associated substantial funding cuts. Recently, themes of empowerment, community control and community agency have emerged as new directions for future health promotion praxis and reports of activism-based approaches that seek to mobilise community energies around sexual health inequity have started to appear in the literature. Noting parallel developments in the social determinants and social change discourses, this paper posits that cutting edge health promotion efforts by Indigenous communities in Australia are shaping a new approach with potentially global application.

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