About the Course
Are you a postdoc looking for flexible professional development? Are you looking for a place to connect with and regularly interact with other postdocs? This course is built for you!
Join us in the first professional development online course built specifically for postdocs and created with postdocs. The Postdoc Academy provides skill development for postdocs, from orientation to their next career step.
Using inclusive, active-learning approaches, participants in this course will build skills to
- find success as a postdoc,
- draft an actionable career plan,
- work in an effective intercultural environment, and
- to develop resilience.
This course explores the research related to postdoc success and guides you in applying it to your environment. Connect to the experiences of the national postdoc community through the Postdoc Academy!
What you’ll learn?
- Explore identities and roles you hold and how they impact your work environment, identify strategies to transition into a new community, and align your expectations with those of your mentor
- Identify and apply strategies to use career planning tools effectively and build an actionable plan that can both guide and be integrated into day-to-day practice
- Build awareness of your own professional and personal identities and explore strategies to create and support an inclusive research environment
- Develop, implement, and reflect on an action plan to support progress on personal or professional goals that effectively build and sustain resilience
Instructors
- Henry (Rique) Campa
Associate Dean, Graduate School
Michigan State University - Olivia Chesniak
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University - Sarah Chobot Hokanson
Assistant Provost of Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs
Boston University - Denise Drane
Director of Research and Evaluation at the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching
Northwestern University - Bennett Goldberg
Director of the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching
Northwestern University - Noah Green
President
Green Scientific and Educational Consulting - Robin Greenler
Assistant Director, Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning
University of Wisconsin – Madison - Jessica Maher
Associate Director, Delta Program
University of Wisconsin – Madison - Rick McGee
Associate Dean for Faculty Recruitment and Professional Development
Northwestern University - Antonio Nunez
Associate Dean, Graduate School
Michigan State University - Celine Young
Program Director
Boston University - Anne-Sophie Bohrer
Postdoc
Michigan State University
To enroll in this course, click the link below.
Course on Succeeding as a Postdoc by Boston University
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