These archived PFFP videos are available to support students in professional development for success as a graduate student and in planning for your career beyond your degree. A minimum of 3 new videos are added per semester, so check back periodically to view new content.
(Note: videos are listed in chronological order, newest to oldest).
Communicating Research: How to Leverage Social Media
Speaker: Erika Kramer, the Social & Digital Specialist in UWM’s Division of Marketing, Communications & University Relations. She oversees UWM’s main social media accounts, developing strategies and content for both organic and paid initiatives, and supervises a team of student social media employees and content creators. Her background also includes an emphasis on search engine optimization (SEO).
This session will explore ways to communicate academic research on social media, including best practices for optimizing your profile, tailoring content to specific platforms and reaching your target audience.
Scholarly publishing and open access
Speaker: Stephanie Surach, UWM Social Sciences Librarian. Stephanie is a member of the Research Services Team of the User Services Division and member of the Scholarly Communications Committee at UWM Libraries.
Are you wondering about the current state of scholarly publishing including open access options? This workshop will define the important concepts, discuss the recent trends, and provide practical guidance to navigate the publishing landscape across the disciplines. We’ll explain the difference between various open access options, clarify important terminology from author submission guidelines, and describe how new library/publisher contracts can benefit you.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series, Spring 2024.
Intro to Evidence Synthesis Reviews
Speaker: Stephanie Surach, UWM Social Sciences Librarian
This workshop will provide an overview of evidence synthesis review types, question frameworks across disciplines, and how to develop a well-formulated research question for each review type.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series and Grad 801, Fall 2022.
Conducting Systematic Reviews
Speaker: Stephanie Surach, UWM Social Sciences Librarian
This workshop will help attendees conduct systematic reviews, including developing research questions and identifying inclusion/exclusion criteria, determining reporting guidelines, registering protocols, and working with a librarian to identify databases and develop a search strategy.
UWM Libraries Evidence Synthesis Reviews Guide
UWM Research Consultation Form
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series and Grad 801, Fall 2022.
Intellectual Property in University Research (rescheduled from Spring 2020).
Presenters: Mark Harris, Vice Provost for Research, Professor, Geosciences; Kris O’Connor, Associate Vice Provost for Research, Professor, Kinesiology; Jessica Silvaggi, Director of Technology Commercialization, UWM Research Foundation.
University research creates complex issues related to intellectual property. Who owns the data when students and advisors collaborate? What can visitors to a lab take away or use later? What rights does the university have over intellectual property created on campus? Experts from UWM’s Office of Research and the Research Foundation will help graduate students think through the roles and responsibilities of everyone involved in university research.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series and Grad 801, Fall 2020.
Data Visualization 201: Qualitative Data Visualization.
Presenter: Kristin Briney, Data Services Librarian.
Making better charts and visuals is an increasingly important skill for humanities scholars too! In our second presentation from the UWM libraries, a data specialist outlines strategies for visualizing qualitative information in novel and memorable ways.Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series, Fall 2018.
Data Visualization 101-Quantitative
Presenter: Kristin Briney, Data Services Librarian – UWM.
With the trend toward collecting ever more data, it’s increasingly important to present that data effectively. Often, that means with a chart. This session reviews how to pick the right chart for your data and how to streamline that chart to best tell your story.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Series and Grad 801, Spring 2018.
Developing a Writing Habit
Presenters: Margaret Mika, Director, UWM Writing Center; Shevaun Watson, English; Rachel Bloom-Pojar, English.
We all write and all grad students are concerned with writing, but we seldom talk about how we write, or how we go about developing effective writing habits. Learn tips and tools, and explore specific strategies for building a writing habit – including accountability measures, writing groups, time management.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Series and Grad 801, Spring 2018.
Introduction to Peer Review.
Presenter: Tracey Heatherington, Associate Dean, Graduate School, Anthropology.
A discussion of the peer review process in publishing and what it looks like from the reviewers’ side.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Series and Grad 801, Spring 2018.
Hot Topics in Academic Publishing.
Presenters: UWM Libraries User Services Librarians: Linda Kopecky, Kristin Miller Woodward, Kristin Briney.
Aimed at researchers new to academic publishing, this session will cover options for finding the best journal match for a topic, author rights, the right way to publish with Open Access, copyright basics, finding UWM experts available to assist, and more.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series and Grad 801, Spring 2018.
Communicating Your Work to Outside Audiences.
Panelists: Jean Creighton, Physics; Bernie Perley, Anthropolgy; Laurie Marks, Center for Community-Based Learning, Leadership, and Research; Arijit Sen, School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Academics are expected to publish and present work at conferences in a clear and engaging way. However, in both academia and professional contexts outside of academia, faculty and professionals are increasingly being expected to present their work to diverse audiences and reach out to a wider public. This panel share their experiences, successes, challenges, thoughts about, strategies for working, talking about their work, and engaging with non-academic academic audiences.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Series, Spring 2017.
Getting Ready for Human Subjects Research: IRB Boot Camp.
Presenter: Melissa Spadanuda, Institutional Review Board Manager.
Research involving human subjects is an essential comopnent of many graduate products. knowing how to comply with regulations overseeing such work is critically important to becoming an ethical, responsible researcher. This session provides a basic understanding of the background and purposes of the IRB review system and the protocols for securing IRB approval.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series, Spring 2017.
The Importance of Publishing: Publish Young Padawan!
Presenter: Tracey Heatherington, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Anthropology.
In this session, Dr. Heatherington offers advice to graduate students about how to publish, not perish. Topics may include: why (not) publish, the publishing process, how to choose a target journal, responding to reviewers, and dealing with rejection/revision.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Series, Spring 2017.