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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