Overview: While every discipline is different, effective graduate students share habits that make them more effective at managing their advisors, their research agenda, and their careers. In this presentation, the speaker will offer pro-active suggestions for PhD students interested in managing these three pillars of their career. To manage advisors, the speaker will provide tips for establishing effective communication patterns, preparing for meetings and completing projects. To build a research agenda, the speaker will provide suggestions on how to identify topics, keep projects moving forward, and managing collaborations. To develop their careers, the speaker will underscore the need for students to build relationships across institutions and within their disciplines. If graduate students take care to manage the three pillars, they will move more quickly towards graduation, publication, and securing their first academic position.
Date: 17 January, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Beijing Time)
Dr. Jason Bennett Thatcher holds the Milton F. Stauffer Professorship in the Department of Management Information Systems at the Fox School of Business of Temple University. He has also held visiting faculty appointments at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Information Technology University-Copenhagen. He is Honorary Professor of Management Information Systems at Nottingham University Business School China, UNNC. He has been ranked among the top scholars in Social Sciences by Research.com and named among the top 2% most productive researchers in the world in a study published in PLOS Biology. Jason’s work has earned 15,000+ citations.