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 ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159