[Behsci] PhD lab sessions: Agenda change

[Till Stowasser]

Dear PhD lab,

Apologies – I meant to write this e-mail last week already, but I ran out of hours in a day. :-)

This is a quick update for everyone who wasn’t at last week’s lab. During the last lab session, we decided that


  1.  We will give the hidden curriculum sessions more structure.
     *   Rather than you preparing questions about certain topics and us supervisors answering them in a fireside chat-type format, we will convert these sessions into a book club
     *   We can alternate book club sessions with sessions in which a student presents their progress
     *   We will use Hector’s suggested reading (Marc Bellemare (2022) Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School ― But Didn’t) for this
        *   Please reach out to Hector, if you’d like a pdf version of the book
     *   There are 5 Chapters (not counting the Introduction)
        *   Ch 2: Writing Papers
        *   Ch 3: Giving Talks
        *   Ch 4: Navigating Peer Review
        *   Ch 5: Finding Funding
        *   Ch 6: Doing Service
     *   So there are 5 book club sessions we can run throughout the term
     *   Proposed structure:
        *   Everyone reads the respective chapter ahead of the book club
        *   One PhD student gives a 15-20 minute presentation about the chapter as a discussion starter
        *   We then discuss the boom chapter together and supervisors can offer their own views and experiences on the respective topic that way
     *   The first book club session will take place next week, 15th of February
        *   To prepare, please read: Chapter 2 – Writing Papers
        *   Katie kindly volunteered to give the first presentation on this
        *   Kevin will give the presentation on Chapter 3 – Giving Talks, either end of February or after the Reading Week (mid March)

  2.  This Wednesday, Jasmine will use the PhD lab as a dry run for her upcoming annual review presentation.

See you Wednesday!

Best,
Till
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