Establishing yourself as an independent researcher is a pivotal but often isolating career stage. While getting your new program and responsibilities off the ground and trying to make headway on publishing and securing funding, you’re probably simultaneously adjusting to living and working in a new location. This juggling act can make networking a lower-priority task, and yet it’s an important … Read More
The Mid-Career Pivot: How to Expand Your Research into New Areas
By the time you’ve reached mid-career, you’ve likely built a strong foundation in your field: a defined research identity, a stream of publications, and even the long-sought tenure status. But what if that foundation starts to feel more like a box than a launchpad? What if you find yourself returning to the same questions, even as your curiosity stretches beyond … Read More
Raising Your Profile: How to Be More Visible to Advance Your Research and Career
Among the various promotion and tenure (P&T) metrics commonly applied to research faculty, one of the more nebulous is “reputation”. Where papers and grants can be quantified with numerical targets, reputation is harder to define with numbers. The vague nature of this assessment criterion understandably poses challenges to faculty who wish to establish their reputation but aren’t sure what exactly … Read More