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Looking Good on Paper: A CV Clinic

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The “What’s Next?” Workshops continue on this semester…
Please join us for a workshop on:

Looking Good on Paper: A CV Clinic (bring your current CV)
Tuesday, October 24th
4:15pm-5:30pm
CMB Practice Suite (1st Floor)
Led by: Karen Gregory

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Karen & Lisa

Upcoming Workshop dates:
November 14th: “Looking Good on Paper: Cover Letters”with Karen Gregory and Lisa McCormick
November 27th: “Research and Teaching Statements” with Angus Bancroft

All workshops will be held in the Practice Suite (1st Floor of CMB) from 4:15-5:30pm.

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What’s Next? AUTUMN 2017

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The “What’s Next?” Workshops continue on this semester… Please join us for a workshop on:
 
 
How to Read and Understand an Academic Job Posting
Tuesday, October 10th
4:15pm-5:30pm
CMB Practice Suite (1st Floor)
Led by: Lisa McCormick and Tod Van Gunten
 
 
Looking forward to seeing you there,
 
Karen, Lisa, and Tod
Upcoming Workshop dates: 
  • October 24th: “Looking Good on Paper: CV Clinic” with Karen Gregory. (Bring your current CV!)
  • November 14th:  “Looking Good on Paper: Cover Letters and Teaching/Research Statements”  with Karen Gregory and Lisa McCormick
  • November 28th: TBD

All workshops will be held in the Practice Suite (1st Floor of CMB) from 4:15-5:30pm.

What’s Next? Workshop Schedule

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Workshop 5: February 15th: “Writing, submitting, and publishing an excellent journal article” led by Nathan Coombs (CMB staff room)

Workshop 6: March 29th: “Looking even better in person: The Interview ” led by Lisa McCormick and Karen Gregory (CMB practice suite) 

Workshop 7: April 12th: “Writing a book proposal” led by Lisa McCormick (CMB staff room)

Workshop 8: May 17th: “Developing a Media Presence as a PhD” led by Karen Gregory in conjunction with the Digital Day of Ideas. Details here: http://www.digital.hss.ed.ac.uk/ All participants in the workshop will be provided with a “Domain of One’s Own.”

Please note: all workshops are run 4:00pm-5:30pm, except for May 17th. 

2016/17’s Autumn “What’s Next?” Workshops

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Hello everyone!

And we’re back – and set with the line-up for 2016/17’s Autumn What‘s Next Workshops! We continue to try to better craft our efforts toward what would be most useful for you, with the intention of extending and deepening some of the advice covered in earlier workshops on assembling your dossier and crafting your ‘academic self’. We want to do this in very supportive, practical and concrete terms now since the job market season has just opened, so please bring your materials, specific questions and details about particular posts to which you are applying.

Workshop 1, 12th October, 4:00-6:00, Seminar room 2: Classifieds for Academics: Where to Look for Jobs and How to Read a Job Call 

Workshop 2, 26th October, 4:00-6:00, 26th October, 6th Floor Common Room: Looking Good on Paper, Part 1: the CV and the Cover Letter

Workshop 3, 16th November, 4:00-6:00, Seminar room 6:  Looking Good on Paper, Part 2: Teaching and Research Statements

Workshop 4, 7th December, 4:00-6:00,Seminar room 5: What‘s up Doc?: Post-docs and Bring your own docs

The Winter Workshops line-up is also taking shape:

Workshop 5, date tbc, room tbc: Looking Even Better in Person, Part I: the Interview

Workshop 6, date tbc, room tbc: Writing, submitting and publishing an excellent journal article 

Workshop 7, date tbc, room tbc: Writing a brilliant book proposal

Workshop 8, date tbc, room tbc: Looking Even Better in Person, Part II: the Job Talk

Research Postgraduate Seminar & Interactive Workshop

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Thursday, 31st March, 3:30-5pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building
1 st Floor Practice Suite

Presented by Lauren Wilks & Lisa Kalayji

Queries: LKalayji@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Event Flyer here: Women%27s Worlds Flier

Alternative forms of research dissemination are proliferating and growing in popularity amongst academics and our publics alike. These new sites of research communication include online open-access journals, blogs, and social media platforms, amongst others. As knowledge producers learn to explore these exciting new ways of communicating our research to the people who can use it, it can be easy for us to inadvertently conflate ‘alternative’ with ‘new’ media. In some cases, however, people who use our research are unable to reach across the digital divide to access our work in these forms. In others, the communities with whom we wish to share our work maintain existing infrastructures or practices of knowledge sharing which do not answer the siren call of the online space. In this workshop, we will explore ways of thinking about alternative communication of our research which are transferable to both new media and the brick-and-mortar alternative media that some of our user communities continue to rely upon.

Firstly, we will explore ways of rethinking the content of our research in order to facilitate its communication through alternative media, and will discuss how the act of reworking research to be communicated to users in new and different ways gives us new analytic insight into the substance of the work itself.

Secondly, we will engage in a fun and playful practical exercise in alternative dissemination by splitting into thematically linked groups and making ‘zines’ about our research. Zines, a mainstay of alternative media amongst many grassroots political activists, are a type of ‘do-it-yourself’ magazine characterized by aesthetic imperfection, accessible language, inexpensive production materials, and irreverently playful styles of expression and presentation. By making group zines about our research, we will be able to identify theoretical and empirical links between seemingly disparate projects, as well as to practice expressing our academic ideas in a widely accessible way which can easily translate to other alternative forms of online and offline textual media.

What’s Next Workshop

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Hello everyone!

This Wednesday 16th March at 4:30 in 2.15 CMB is the last ‘What’s Next Workshop’ before we resume again in the Autumn. We’ve decided to offer it in two components.

During the first half of the workshop, Alex Janus will introduce you to an exciting – but little known! – way of introducing yourselves to universities and colleges in the US/Canada in connection with their applicant searches. #whatcouldthissecretbe

Then in the second half of the workshop, we’ll be collectively available to give you individual feedback – on an ‘open surgery’ basis – on any piece of work related to what’s been offered in past workshops: your CVs, book proposals, articles,  application cover letters, dossiers, social media use, starting a wordpress page/twitter, and so on. So if you’d like to bring something for individualized feedback, could you please get in touch with me in advance so that the four of us can plan accordingly?

And finally, some of you might find this useful as you plan your lives &#X1f609: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/workload-survival-guide-for-academics

Look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday!