Career Corner
Career Corner is a professional development workshop series where everyone from graduate students to established faculty members can learn how to advance their academic careers, publish and market their research, improve their lesson planning and teaching skills and find out about careers outside of academia. The workshops are free and open to all Congress attendees.
Saturday May 24
- 17:00 to 18:00: Canada/US connections interdisciplinary panel: The mobility of global talent and networking
Sunday, May 25
- 13:00 to 14:30: Ideas matter: Telling your research story
Monday May 26
- 9:00 to 10:30: Brave new world: Digital publishing, reach, and tracking impact
- 14:30 to 16:00: Find work and let work find you: Advanced LinkedIn strategies
Tuesday May 27
- 9:00 to 10:30: Beyond scheduling
- 13:00 to 14:30: Publishing and marketing your scholarly book
- 14:30 to 16:00: At the interface of emerging technologies and society: Learn about research opportunities in genomics and its ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social aspects (GE3LS research)
- 17:00 to 18:00: Canada/US connections interdisciplinary panel: Comparisons of the crisis of PhD surplus, cross border research, and talent mobility
Wednesday May 28
- 9:00 to 10:30: Telling your teaching story: Documenting your experience in a teaching dossier
- 10:30 to 12:00: The e-portfolio: Going digital
- 13:00 to 14:30: Beyond research: Maximizing your benefits as a research assistant
Thursday May 29
- 9:00 to 10:30: The "skinny" on "soft" skills
- 10:30 to 12:00: Putting learning into practice - Putting knowledge to the test
- 13:00 to 14:30: Spare time, rare talent: Mobilize your community researcher skills
- 14:30 to 16:00: Researcher’s Development Framework (RDF): An online professional planning tool
- 17:00 to 18:00: Canada/US connections interdisciplinary panel: Cross border research collaboration
Friday May 30
- 9:00 to 10:30: Say it like it is: Skills translation
- 10:30 - 12:00: CIHR 101: A guide to CIHR for the Social Sciences and Humanities
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