Episode 18 - How to find enjoyable and generous relationships with senior faculty when you are just starting out

01/29/19 • 34 min

Dr. Beth Calhoun joined the show to discuss when and how to navigate out of bad relationships with senior faculty. How to avoid the confidence traps she sees young faculty fall into. How to be flexible and not set in stone what your biosketch will look like in the future. How team science helped her early in her career and still helps her to this day. She also shares the advice she would have for her early career-self.

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Episode 17 - Reprograming Your Technology Relationships to Regain and Maximize Your Most Creative Self

Is your brain more important than your teeth? Do you have daily mental hygiene habits? Author Matthew Kent joined us for this episode based where we discuss his Medium article 5 Ways Your Technology Is Destroying You (and What to Do About It) We get into just how addictive multi-tasking can be and how you brain pushes you to believe you should do more of it. We also talk about the importance of scheduling your brain to have off periods so that your work can be much more creative and productive. We hope this episode helps you as much as it helped us!

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Nurturing Industry Relationships for Research Sponsorship, Collaboration and Student Mentoring

Dr. Richard Huysmans joined the show to discuss how to develop and nurture relationships with industry. These relationships will lead to more well-rounded mentoring for your students, more research collaboration opportunities and possible sponsorship of you work. How do you start? Ask your senior mentors to introduce you to their industry collaborators. Develop a LinkedIn profile where you talk about what you are passionate about in your research life. Avoid jargon on social media platforms if you intent is to connect with members of industry. Project the type of collaborator that you want to work with onto those platforms.