From: Rachel Manes [mailto:rachel.manes@gmail.com]
Making professional contacts: A scientist’s guide to networking
The APA Science Directorate Science Student Council will host a skills-oriented symposium that addresses how to maximizenetworking opportunities among psychological science-oriented graduate students. Networking strategies will be discussed as a broadly defined tool that through different avenues of face-to-face and electronic media communications can advance disciplinary research and practice in a multitude of practical ways.
| Session Title: | Making Professional Contacts---A Scientist’s Guide to Networking |
| Session ID: | 3328 |
| Session Type: | Symposium |
| Division/Group: | APA Board of Scientific Affairs, 3, 14, 22, 28, 34, APA Science Student Council |
| Building: | Convention Center |
| Room Description: | Room W110B |
| Room Location: | Level I |
| Day/Time: | Sat/3:00PM - 3:50PM |
Our panelists and their presentation titles are as follows:
Debra A. Major, Ph.D. (Division 14, Industrial and Organizational Psychology)
The Short-Term and Long-Term Benefits of Networking – Insights from Research and Experience
Jodi Quas, Ph.D. (Div 7, Developmental Psychology)
Networking Strategies When Applying for Academic Jobs: Perspectives from a Search Chair
Pauline Wallin, Ph.D. (Division 46, Media Psychology)
Applying Psychology To Online And Offline Networking
If you have any questions, please contact the chair of this session, Rachel Manes (rachel.manes@gmail.com).
Other sessions organized by the APA Science Student Council, which would also be of interest to science-oriented graduate students and others, are:
Playing well with others: interdisciplinary and translational research – Friday August 3, 12-12:50 p.m., Room W304C
Stay on the cutting edge of research in this symposium. Research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, with new fields emerging as combinations of traditionally distinct areas. This symposium will cover how and why to get involved in interdisciplinary and translational research, including talks by leading experts.
Session Chair: David Kille, Social/Personality Psychology representative, University of Waterloo
Pay Day! How to Find and Secure Research Funding in Psychology – Friday August 3, 3-3:50 p.m., Room W304B
Speakers from the National Institutes of Health and American Psychological Foundation discuss grants, scholarships and fellowships available for psychological science research, addressing mechanisms of support and ways to write successful proposals throughout graduate school, post-doc and beyond.
Session Chair: Michael Dunbar, SSC Health Psychology representative, University of Pittsburgh
Psychological Science Idol (PSI): 6th Annual Datablitz – Saturday, August 4, 2-2:50 p.m., Room W110B
Who will emerge as your “Psychological Science Idol?” Selected graduate students will present their novel and cutting-edge psychological science in a rapid, blitz-style fashion (two minutes each). A panel of judges will select the best presentation and that student will win a special prize.
Session Chairs: Natale Sciolino, SSC Behavioral Neuroscience representative, University of Georgia, and Evgeniya “Jenny” Pavlova, SSC I/O Psychology representative, University of South Florida
“When I Grow Up”... Nontraditional Career Options – Saturday August 4, 4-4:50 p.m., Room W110B
This panel highlights nontraditional career options for psychological scientists. Job opportunities, job search strategies and career trajectories will be discussed. Careers of panelists include research funding, video games and animal behavior.
Session Chair: Hallie Bregman, SSC Chair and Clinical Science representative, University of Miami
