Conference Program

Target Audience: Advanced graduate students, post-docs, and people in academic appointments pre-promotion to associate professor (or the equivalent thereof), i.e., first 5 years in an academic appointment.

Description: Turbo-charge your career with an interactive workshop for early-career academic and clinical scholars, led by three internationally renowned researchers with high-level administrative experiences in university and clinical settings. The workshop will focus on skill-building in the three pillars of academic success: scholarship, teaching, and colleagueship/leadership. The specific demands on early-career individuals vary across countries or institutions. Yet, certain expectations and corresponding skills apply broadly. We will address common expectations and demands and, through small group discussions and coaching, strategies focused on participants� unique career paths. In early-career, job opportunities rather than career interest may dictate how we spend our time; it is a time to explore how to thrive within a given context and set the stage for transitioning from where you are to where you wish to be. We will help participants to: identify and consider key early-career challenges and how to meet those challenges; articulate where participants want to be within the next five years and how to prepare for achieving those goals; and prepare for setbacks and how to redirect participants� career efforts as needed.

Scholarship: We will address academic writing; developing research collaborations; fulfilling public impact expectations; supervision of research students; and securing funding.

Teaching: We will discuss crafting a strategic teaching portfolio that creates synergies with scholarly or clinical interests; syllabus development; synergizing supervision of clinical and other students with research; learning to be an effective teacher and achieving positive teaching evaluations

Colleagueship/Leadership: We will invite attendees� exploration of productive mentor-mentee relationships; working with your Chair or Dean; fulfilling institutional service demands; and making contributions to and gaining recognition in the field.

The session will be highly interactive with small group discussions and ample time for questions and discussion among participants and with leaders.