From PhD to Life-FR
Helen Kang earned her PhD in sociology, with a focus on medical sociology and history, from Simon Fraser University. She is now a self-employed consultant who specializes in health-care communication. Find her online on Continue reading ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-helen-kang-health-care-communication-consultant/
Café Carrières
Liz Koblyk explores the role that confidence plays in both career exploration and the job search.
While I’m writing this, “Continue reading?” tops University Affairs’ Most Emailed list and nearly tops the Most Read list. The article has me thinki...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/the-confidence-game/
Articles de fond
Campus support programs are helping a diverse set of students to succeed in a system that wasn’t designed for them.
Dominique Oliver-Dares remembers being a first-year undergraduate student at Dalhousie University, looking around at the other students in her “humongous” introductory classes and seeing only a handful of Black students like her spread out around the room. “It was very isolating,” she recall...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/make-way-for-the-non-traditional-student/
Contenu commandité
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https://universityaffairs.ca/magazine/sponsored-content/a-first-in-canada-women-in-academic-leadership/
Responsabilités potentielles
Research has shown that student mental wellness is a growing concern, but what can we do about it?
Graduate students are adults with an array of life responsibilities including: financial commitments, work, parental, and family demands. But as students, they also balance coursework, teaching, exams, research, and thesis writing, many of which are not bound by workplace hours.
The rising costs ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/supporting-student-success-requires-looking-out-for-their-mental-health/
Responsabilités potentielles
Educational development is an alt-ac career that leverages teaching experience and ‘enhances the work of colleges and universities, with a focus on teaching and learning.’
Continue reading for graduate researchers have grown over the past decade. Inside the university, these careers can be as diverse as grant...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/finding-your-voice-in-educational-development/
From PhD to Life-FR
On my new LinkedIn group (called Continue reading, natch), Continue reading asked me what I thought were "the greatest areas of need" wh...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/coaching-graduate-students/
Conseils carrière
Envisioning the PhD journey as three distinct stages: the marathon, the discourse and the compass.
Listening to jazz and deep in the postdoctoral blues, I am writing a few lines about my recently completed PhD journey. My goal is to create a “PhD students’ toolkit,” grounded in my own experience to help fellow sailors navigate the high seas of doctoral studies.
Research work teaches us t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/a-useful-guide-for-anyone-considering-a-phd/
Articles de fond
Over the past year we've read and reported, edited and produced, hundreds of stories. Here are six that stayed with us.
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https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/what-well-remember-from-2019/
Speculative Diction-FR
From November to March is prime time for academic burn-out in graduate programs — I’m convinced of that. Perhaps it’s a seasonal thing; it can be easy to sink into a trough of exhaustion and stress, and not climb out of it for months. But rather than just the seasonal doldrums, my sense is tha...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/my-grief-lies-all-within-phd-students-depression-attrition/
The Black Hole-FR
Career planning and mental health in academe were some of the most-read topics addressed on the Black Hole in the past year.
Happy New Year to all of our readers. The Continue reading is marking its 10th year of existence and Jonathan and I are excited to be in the final stages of compiling our first book on the core issues facing academic science today – we a...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/2019-year-in-review-exploring-the-topics-that-resonated-with-our-readers/
The Black Hole-FR
Any decision to do something new is based on our confidence in ourselves to succeed at it.
imposter+syndrome">imposter syndrome is real. You are incredibly driven, intelligent, hard-working and exceptionally capable. You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t, and you’ll do great at whatever you’re challenged with (you’ve always done great). The rest of us have little doubt that yo...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/when-should-i-take-the-next-career-step/
The Black Hole-FR
Feedback from multiple sources ensures that faculty are not disillusioning themselves with misguided opinions on their strengths and weaknesses.
Damien Wilpitz joins me this week for a co-written article on the practice of 360-degree and reverse reviews, and their noticeable absence from academic labs. Continue reading is a laboratory research manager at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/why-labs-should-embrace-360-degree-faculty-reviews/
À mon avis
Determine early on, with a sort of resolve that you may have to fake at first, that you are absolutely worthy and so is your work.
I recently had my first experience as an external examiner for a PhD candidate. I entered the process toward the end, got to engage with original research before anyone else, and supported someone’s journey into this quirky world of academia. I loved it. But then I’m also the person who likes ev...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/after-they-call-you-dr-advice-upon-entering-an-academic-career/
À mon avis
The challenges of being true to oneself while representing the collective.
The Indian author Arundhati Roy reminded us in her Continue reading that there is no such as thing as the voiceless – there are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard. And ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/you-of-all-people-being-a-woman-faculty-union-president-of-colour/
Revue de presse
The Globe and Mail
Continue reading
Some student loan recipients are potentially fa...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/media-scan/headlines-for-dec-14-2020/
Articles de fond
University leaders need to recognize that each of us is at a different stage in our journey toward equity, justice and self-determination, and that racism within the academy cannot be swept away with one brush.
When I was an undergraduate student, many decades ago, I never spoke in class. I lived in fear that one of my professors would call on me to answer a question. I avoided all courses with a presentation or class participation component. Like many students from the working class, I experienced the uni...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/reflections-from-the-second-national-forum-on-anti-asian-racism/
Articles de fond
Universities across the country are reassessing historical figures and renaming the buildings that commemorated them.
When Eva Jewell taught her first lecture at Ryerson University in 2019, she was nervous. Burdened by imposter syndrome, she was worried about the prospect of standing in front of a class of some 100 students. To counter those feelings, the sociology professor from Deshk...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/reconsidering-ryerson-why-indigenous-and-non-indigenous-students-faculty-and-staff-are-demanding-the-university-change-its-name/