This Quarter’s Career Development Resources

Check out these articles, links to useful resources, tips, and opportunities to find the information you need to keep your career on track. This quarter you’ll find several articles about scientific writing.

Ready for your next job or promotion? See the post-doc announcements, interview tips, and tips for success on tenure-track.

Grant Resources and Scientific Writing

• A New Series on Scholarly Productivity: ‘Are you Writing?’
• The Worst Writing Advice in the World
• 8 Academic writing blogs you should be following

Funding Opportunities or Opportunities for Assistance

• Multiple funding opportunities from Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
• National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Research Grant, February 13^th deadline
• Parkinson’s Association
• CLDR Pilot Project Awards, letter of intent due Feb 1^st

Meetings

• International Neuropsychological Society in New York City (Feb 20-23). Abstract deadline: Aug 10^th
• International Brain Injury Association World Congress (March 13-16, 2019)
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society (March 23-26, 2019)
• American Occupational Therapy Association Conference and Expo (April 4-7, 2019): http://www.aota.org/Conference-Events/annual-conference.aspx

Career Development Training/ Jobs / Promotion/ Tenure

• How to be Strategic on the Tenure Track
• Try to Lower the Stakes of the Job-Interview Dinner
• How to Improve your Teaching-Philosophy Statement
• Don’t let Prestige Bias Keep you From Applying to Community Colleges
• Want to Give a Great Talk? Leave Your Slides at Home
• ACRM Rehab Job Board

Mentoring

• What kind of mentor do I want to be?
• An elephant in the room: How we set ourselves to be bad at mentoring
• How to mentor undergraduates as a postgraduate, and why it’s important

Leadership, Collaboration, and Networking

• The science of networking: what sort of contacts are best?  
• Networking: Never too much
• Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network

Work-Life Balance/Quality of Life

• Work-life balance: What do professors do?
• Work-life balance: The unicorn that is the 40-hour academic work week
• How I learned to purse my career at my own pace

Continuing Education Opportunities

• ACRM Training Institute at Spring Meeting
• Cognitive rehabilitation training from ACRM
• ACRM 96th Annual Conference: Progress in Rehabilitation Research
• VA HSR&D Cyberseminars
• BIAA Webinars
• Disability Awareness and Support
• Service Transformed: Lessons in U.S. Veteran Centered Care

General Research Resources

• Open Mike blog by NIH Deputy Director of Extramural Research Dr. Michael Lauer
• Federal Reporter
• “All About Grants” Podcasts
• How to Choose the Right FOA
• The Official PLOS Blog
• National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)
• Veterans Rehabilitation and Disability Research Channel

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