Check out this quarter’s Career Development Resources for 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
- Infographic—How to Write Better Scientific Papers
- Explaining Your Science
- 6 Speaking Tips for Scientists and Engineers
Funding Opportunities or Opportunities for Assistance
- Butler Williams Scholars Program
- Travel Award for Secondary Data Analysis of Archived Studies: Award recipients will participate in the CLDR Symposium at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) annual conference. Funds, up to $2,500, will support conference registration, travel, and accommodations.Applications are now open and are due by May 1.
- NINDS Faculty Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research (K01) – Clinical Trial Required (PAR-18-486)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Standard dates apply. - NINDS Faculty Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research (K01) – Clinical Trial Not Allowed (PAR-18-490)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Standard dates apply.
Meetings
- ACRM 2018 Annual Conference
- Federal Interagency Conference on Traumatic Brain Injury
- ACRM Mid-Year Meeting
- Big Data in Biomedicine Conference: Transforming Lives Through Precision Health.May 23-24, 2018. Silicon Valley, California. Researchers and leaders from academia, hospitals, government and industry will for two days at Stanford Medicine to spark collaborations, address challenges, and identify actionable steps for using large-scale data analysis and technology to improve human health.
Career Development Training/ Jobs / Promotion/ Tenure
- ACRM Rehab Job Board – Free to Job Seekers!
- ACRM Training Institute – Concurrent to the ACRM Mid-Year Meeting in Dallas, the ACRM Training Institute offers your choice of 6 full- or half-day Instructional Courses for up to three days of continuing education activities.
- Evaluating Evidence for Practice Guidelines
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives to Functional Measurement and Assessment of the Stroke Survivor
- Integrating Outcome Measurement into Clinical Practice
- Mentor Training for the Clinical, Academic and Research Environments and the ACRM Mentoring Program
- Measuring Up: An Introduction to Improving the Meaning of Your Clinical Assessments With Rasch Analysis
- Wheelchair Skills Assessment and Training
- Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity: The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Neurorehabilitation Laboratory, directed by Dr. Joseph T. Giacino, is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our team. The mission of the SRH Neurorehabilitation Lab is centered on the development of more precise clinical outcome assessment measures and more effective treatment interventions for persons who sustain severe acquired brain injury. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to multiple research projects, including those funded by the National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). For more information about this opportunity, please view the position description. Inquiries can be addressed to Dr. Michael Bergin, SRH Neurorehabilitation Laboratory Manager.
Mentoring
- Maximize Your Mentoring
- Learning to Manage Your Mentoring Relationships
- Mentoring Advice for Doctoral Students
Leadership, Collaboration & Networking
- Collaboration and Team Science
- Interdisciplinary Collaborations
- Business Sense: Starting an Academic Lab
Work-Life Balance/Quality of Life
- Why Work-Life Integration Trumps Work-Life Balance
- What Successful Work-Life Integration Looks Like
- The Mother-Scholar’s Work-Life Integration
Online Continuing Education Opportunities
