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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