Episode 10 - Curious Mentorship - Leadership Grounded in Listening

10/16/18 • 40 min

Caren Weinhouse was starting a new position at Oregon Health & Science University. Before she left her postdoc she wanted to capture a graduate student snapshot of what good mentoring looks like. Caren began by listening to Anthony and Jessica, and brought the mentality that each graduate student, within their time in a research group, can really offer insight about what speaks to their perspective, what makes them feel supported. This episode will alter your approach to mentoring.

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Episode 9 - Peer Review Integrity: Mentoring Early Career Researchers

Gary McDowell and Becki Lijek from the Future of Research joined us for conversation about better practices around peer review processes. We learned about the Future of Research (Gary is the Executive Director). FoR is now focused on getting better data on early career researchers. This means getting a handle on how many postdocs are out there and where they are going. Their goal is to give more transparency to the whole process. They also share many insights about the struggles of early career researchers (e.g., postdocs) and how that should play into mentoring them. They are running a survey on peer review with early career researchers. The survey link is in the show notes.

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Episode 11 - Investing in Deep Listening with Oscar Trimboli

Listening is fundamental to what we do in academia, we take the information and progress of others and build upon that. Yet, listening is never formally taught as a skill. It is assumed that listening can be learned like we learn to walk. With his book Deep Listening Oscar Trimboli is on a mission to change this approach to learning listening. In this interview he describes the five levels of listening and helps us understand how they can be put into practice.