Building and Leading Successful Research Teams
Format: 60-minute interactive workshop
Audience: faculty at all career stages
This 60-minute interactive workshop will provide attendees with practical skills for developing efficient and productive research teams, managing the work of the team, and creating a collaborative culture across members of a research team. The presenter will draw on her experience managing staff and student members of several different research teams. From concrete, practical issues such as creating and assigning work tasks to conceptual and ethical issues related to dealing with conflict, the workshop will provide an overview of the work involved in running research teams from hiring to project completion.
Mentoring Grad Students and Postdocs for Diverse Careers
Format: 45-minute presentation with 15-minute Q&A
Audience: advisors, mentors, PIs, department chairs, directors of graduate study
In this hour-long webinar, participants develop an understanding of the diverse career paths open to and increasingly pursued by PhD students. Drawing on her research on the career paths and outcomes of PhDs across disciplines, along with her experience in the graduate student career and professional development field, Dr. Simula shares strategies and resources for effectively advising, mentoring, and supporting PhD students for diverse careers beyond the traditional faculty path. Participants leave the webinar with resources and tools they can immediately begin using in their work with graduate students.
Preparing and Revising Academic Manuscripts
Format: 45-minute presentation with 15 minute Q&A
Audience: early career faculty
Drawing on her own experience publishing numerous academic articles and book chapters, as well as her experience as a reviewer and editor of several special issues and edited volumes and as incoming Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Positive Sexuality, Dr. Simula shares strategies for preparing academic manuscripts, identifying potential manuscript homes, communicating with editors, and responding to reviewers. Participants will take away from the workshop a clearer understanding of the academic review process, tools for effectively communicating with editors and reviewers, and strategies for managing and responding to critical feedback.
Developing and Running a Research Agenda and Publication Pipeline
Format: 60-minute interactive workshop
Audience: early career faculty
In this interactive workshop, attendees will learn strategies for developing an intentional, focused research agenda and tools for developing a realistic publication pipeline and timeline. The workshop will address how to build a research agenda that moves forward multiple projects in different phases of research (e.g. development, data collection, drafting, revising), how to effectively manage collaborative projects, and how to set realistic, sustainable research and publication goals.
Creating and Sustaining Your Mentoring Network
Format: 60-minute interactive workshop
Audience: early career faculty, early career administrators
In this interactive workshop, participants will develop an understanding of how mentoring can help advance their scholarly and/or professional goals and contribute to personal and professional flourishing. The workshop is focused on how to develop a mentoring network, including identifying one’s areas of mentoring needs, understanding the distinctions among advisors, mentors, and sponsors, identifying and approaching potential mentors, setting mentoring relationship expectations, and navigating challenges in mentoring relationships. Participants will leave the workshop with a map of their own ideal mentoring network and concrete strategies for developing and sustaining their mentoring network.
Project Management for Academics
Format: 90-minute interactive workshop
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
In this interactive workshop, attendees learn the basic principles, concepts, and tools of project management and how to apply those to academic projects, from dissertations to books to course design and preparation and beyond. Focusing on project management techniques that maximize efficiency and productivity while minimizing burnout, rework, and overwhelm, this workshop provides concrete strategies for managing academic life and work, including time management and organization. Participants will leave the workshop having learned how to develop and use a project management plan to keep work organized and on track and will complete their own project management plan for a project of their choice.
Cultivating Professional and Personal Flourishing as an Academic
Format: 60-minute workshop
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
In this interactive workshop, participants will identify their core values and learn how to use those values to set goals, and develop their academic mission and vision. Participants will identify practices and strategies for developing and sustaining work-life balance and holistic well-being while enhancing professional productivity and achievement. Attendees will learn about the common limiting beliefs and ruts that lead to burnout and overwhelm among academics and strategies for addressing those challenges. Workshop attendees will take away their personal plan for cultivating their own individual flourishing.
Crafting Your Semester Strategic Plan
Format: 90-minute workshop
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
In this interactive workshop, participants will develop a personalized plan for using their values to set goals and strategic plan for the semester. The workshop will discuss how to set productive, realistic goals, developing an individual strategic plan that supports both professional and personal flourishing, translating big-picture goals into actionable steps, and how to use strategic planning to guide day-to-day work and prioritizing commitments. Participants will leave the workshop having developed their own personal semester strategic plan.
Developing and Running a Research Agenda as a Scholar-Administrator
Format: 60-minute interactive workshop
Audience: PhDs working in staff and administrative positions in higher ed
This 60-minute interactive workshop provides participants with practical strategies for developing and running a productive research agenda as a scholar-administrator. Recognizing that maintaining an active research agenda and writing practice as a scholar in a full-time administrative position presents a unique set of challenges, the workshop provides concrete tips for navigating challenges including lack of time, lack of funding and research support, and navigating one’s identity as a researcher and scholar working in an administrative role. Participants will learn how to negotiate for research support and resources in the context of administrative and staff positions, how to build and maintain motivation for their research agendas, how to create writing accountability structures, and how to create time for research and writing in the context of an administrative position.
Flourish While You Write: A Virtual Writing Retreat
Format: 3-hour writing retreat
Audience: grad students, postdocs; all disciplines
In this three-hour retreat, participants identify concrete, achievable goals for a writing project of their choice to work on during the retreat, receive structure and support in achieving those goals, learn tips and strategies for simultaneously deepening their flourishing and productivity while you work, and spend 2 ½ hours making progress on the writing project they bring to the treat.
Format: 60-minute interactive workshop
Audience: faculty at all career stages
This 60-minute interactive workshop will provide attendees with practical skills for developing efficient and productive research teams, managing the work of the team, and creating a collaborative culture across members of a research team. The presenter will draw on her experience managing staff and student members of several different research teams. From concrete, practical issues such as creating and assigning work tasks to conceptual and ethical issues related to dealing with conflict, the workshop will provide an overview of the work involved in running research teams from hiring to project completion.
Mentoring Grad Students and Postdocs for Diverse Careers
Format: 45-minute presentation with 15-minute Q&A
Audience: advisors, mentors, PIs, department chairs, directors of graduate study
In this hour-long webinar, participants develop an understanding of the diverse career paths open to and increasingly pursued by PhD students. Drawing on her research on the career paths and outcomes of PhDs across disciplines, along with her experience in the graduate student career and professional development field, Dr. Simula shares strategies and resources for effectively advising, mentoring, and supporting PhD students for diverse careers beyond the traditional faculty path. Participants leave the webinar with resources and tools they can immediately begin using in their work with graduate students.
Preparing and Revising Academic Manuscripts
Format: 45-minute presentation with 15 minute Q&A
Audience: early career faculty
Drawing on her own experience publishing numerous academic articles and book chapters, as well as her experience as a reviewer and editor of several special issues and edited volumes and as incoming Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Positive Sexuality, Dr. Simula shares strategies for preparing academic manuscripts, identifying potential manuscript homes, communicating with editors, and responding to reviewers. Participants will take away from the workshop a clearer understanding of the academic review process, tools for effectively communicating with editors and reviewers, and strategies for managing and responding to critical feedback.
Developing and Running a Research Agenda and Publication Pipeline
Format: 60-minute interactive workshop
Audience: early career faculty
In this interactive workshop, attendees will learn strategies for developing an intentional, focused research agenda and tools for developing a realistic publication pipeline and timeline. The workshop will address how to build a research agenda that moves forward multiple projects in different phases of research (e.g. development, data collection, drafting, revising), how to effectively manage collaborative projects, and how to set realistic, sustainable research and publication goals.
Creating and Sustaining Your Mentoring Network
Format: 60-minute interactive workshop
Audience: early career faculty, early career administrators
In this interactive workshop, participants will develop an understanding of how mentoring can help advance their scholarly and/or professional goals and contribute to personal and professional flourishing. The workshop is focused on how to develop a mentoring network, including identifying one’s areas of mentoring needs, understanding the distinctions among advisors, mentors, and sponsors, identifying and approaching potential mentors, setting mentoring relationship expectations, and navigating challenges in mentoring relationships. Participants will leave the workshop with a map of their own ideal mentoring network and concrete strategies for developing and sustaining their mentoring network.
Project Management for Academics
Format: 90-minute interactive workshop
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
In this interactive workshop, attendees learn the basic principles, concepts, and tools of project management and how to apply those to academic projects, from dissertations to books to course design and preparation and beyond. Focusing on project management techniques that maximize efficiency and productivity while minimizing burnout, rework, and overwhelm, this workshop provides concrete strategies for managing academic life and work, including time management and organization. Participants will leave the workshop having learned how to develop and use a project management plan to keep work organized and on track and will complete their own project management plan for a project of their choice.
Cultivating Professional and Personal Flourishing as an Academic
Format: 60-minute workshop
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
In this interactive workshop, participants will identify their core values and learn how to use those values to set goals, and develop their academic mission and vision. Participants will identify practices and strategies for developing and sustaining work-life balance and holistic well-being while enhancing professional productivity and achievement. Attendees will learn about the common limiting beliefs and ruts that lead to burnout and overwhelm among academics and strategies for addressing those challenges. Workshop attendees will take away their personal plan for cultivating their own individual flourishing.
Crafting Your Semester Strategic Plan
Format: 90-minute workshop
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
In this interactive workshop, participants will develop a personalized plan for using their values to set goals and strategic plan for the semester. The workshop will discuss how to set productive, realistic goals, developing an individual strategic plan that supports both professional and personal flourishing, translating big-picture goals into actionable steps, and how to use strategic planning to guide day-to-day work and prioritizing commitments. Participants will leave the workshop having developed their own personal semester strategic plan.
Developing and Running a Research Agenda as a Scholar-Administrator
Format: 60-minute interactive workshop
Audience: PhDs working in staff and administrative positions in higher ed
This 60-minute interactive workshop provides participants with practical strategies for developing and running a productive research agenda as a scholar-administrator. Recognizing that maintaining an active research agenda and writing practice as a scholar in a full-time administrative position presents a unique set of challenges, the workshop provides concrete tips for navigating challenges including lack of time, lack of funding and research support, and navigating one’s identity as a researcher and scholar working in an administrative role. Participants will learn how to negotiate for research support and resources in the context of administrative and staff positions, how to build and maintain motivation for their research agendas, how to create writing accountability structures, and how to create time for research and writing in the context of an administrative position.
Flourish While You Write: A Virtual Writing Retreat
Format: 3-hour writing retreat
Audience: grad students, postdocs; all disciplines
In this three-hour retreat, participants identify concrete, achievable goals for a writing project of their choice to work on during the retreat, receive structure and support in achieving those goals, learn tips and strategies for simultaneously deepening their flourishing and productivity while you work, and spend 2 ½ hours making progress on the writing project they bring to the treat.