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- | ====== | + | ====== Student guides ====== |
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- | //This is a short to-do list and listing of discussion topics to cover during the Student | + | |
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- | ===== Hosting seminars ===== | + | |
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- | As part of your journey as PhD students, you may have the opportunity to host and organise seminars. This can include departmental seminars, conference/ | + | |
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- | - //Finding a suitable room:// what makes some rooms good/bad? how do you book a room? what tech is available in each room? | + | |
- | - //Planning the day:// who will the speaker meet beforehand? who will they meet after? do you arrange for students and staff to meet? | + | |
- | - //After the day:// how do they claim for expenses? what expenses can be covered? are there further networking opportunities after? | + | |
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- | ===== Networking | + | |
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- | Academia (and its ' | + | |
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- | - Helping you to reach out to further contacts | + | |
- | - Helping you in your career | + | |
- | - Helping you in your research work | + | |
- | - Helping you to make friends (particularly other postgraduates) | + | |
- | - Helping you to help others connect to others (!) | + | |
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- | Obviously as young students, you may feel tentative about networking. How do you begin to network? | + | |
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- | - Go to events, including: (i) seminars; (ii) conferences; | + | |
- | - Ask your supervisor or staff to help you (" | + | |
- | - Contact people yourself ("Dear X, I very much enjoyed your seminar last week. I was wondering if..." or "Dear X, I was referred to you by A. I was wondering if..." | + | |
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- | ===== What do I do in a seminar? ===== | + | |
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- | - Before/ | + | |
- | - //During the seminar:// | + | |
- | - you're in good shape if you understand the first 15 minutes. | + | |
- | - be OK with not understanding; | + | |
- | - //Asking questions:// | + | |
- | - Put yourself into the host position: you must always be ready to ask a question...but what if you're utterly confused? | + | |
- | - Beginning from the start, try to find at least one question by the end of the talk. Generic questions can be: | + | |
- | - **Extensions and generalisations**: | + | |
- | - **Personal research journey**: "How did you get to this work?" "Is it difficult to work together with experimentalists and what kind of challenges do they bring?" | + | |
- | - **More details:** "I didn't understand the graph on slide 24. Can you explain what the axes mean and what we're supposed to take from this?"; | + | |
- | - **Fleshing out stuff they mention:** "You mentioned briefly on slide X that this was hard to do. Can you say more about that?" | + | |
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+ | This is a misc. collection of guides for students, used at various points. | ||
+ | - [[guides_seminars|Hosting, | ||