The research development is nowadays very important to the higher education institutions, once is one of the indicators that some higher education’s rankings used to classify the institutions. Related to the research field in each institution are teachers and researchers and, usually doctoral students who are initiating is career in the research area. As important as the students’ attitudes and perceptions towards the research and the supervision process, is the supervisor´s perception about the research process and how he handled with the student, and manage the process. It is known from the literature that the supervisor is crucial to the development of the doctoral research process. It is also known that doctoral education is usually the trigger of the research development, as one of the aims of it, is to produce original and meaning knowledge. The Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) is a Portuguese University that plays an important role in the internationalization of the Portuguese higher education, being well positioned in the QS World University Rankings 2017/2018 as one of the TOP 10 Young European Universities. To learn more about doctoral supervision in UNL, research has been carried out in this Portuguese University, during the last year. A survey was applied to doctoral supervisors and doctoral students at UNL regard to the supervision. Some results as already being attained: the ideal supervisor characteristics, from the doctorate point of view; identification of the supervision practices from the student’s point of view and supervisor point of view. It is interesting to see that in some points both refer the same practices, but the perception of them sometimes doesn’t fit /converge. With this research, it will be possible to see a first glimpse of what is doctoral supervision in UNL.