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.
Forging the path to thesis and dissertation completion: Timelines and goals as your compass.
Speaker: Dr. Bonnie Klein-Tasman, Associate Dean Graduate School and Professor, Psychology
Larger projects such as theses and dissertations are complex and can sometimes be daunting. Developing a detailed timeline of the anticipated steps along the way is often a centrally important task. In this workshop, elements of timeline planning and goal-setting for thesis and dissertation projects will be discussed with pragmatic suggestions. Come with a specific project in mind, and we’ll begin the work of mapping the project and developing a timeline.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series, Fall 2023.
Leading and Participating in Collaborative & Group Writing
Speakers: Dr. Amanda Seligman, Professor, History; Affiliated Professor, Urban Studies
Dr. Jacqueline Nguyen, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Educational Psychology
Dr. Tara Jenson, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health; PhD in Public Health, 2023 UW-Milwaukee
Developing a writing habit is important for graduate students, and writing groups are gaining popularity to support students in writing theses and dissertations. What does joining or leading a writing group require? How do you approach participation in a writing group? This session will address what writing groups are, how they work, how to show up ready to participate and benefit, and what’s required to lead or convene a writing group. The panel includes two faculty who have been conveners of writing groups and a recent UWM PhD who used a writing group to complete her dissertation.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series, Fall 2023.
Conference travel and you: How to do it and why it’s important for your career
Dr. Karyn Frick, Distinguished Professor, Director of Neuroscience Area, Psychology
Dr. Jocelyn Sczcepaniak-Gillece, Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies
Conference travel is critical to graduate student development and professional formation. This session will provide students with faculty advice on how to select a conference, how to use the conference agenda to plan for engaging with conference programming, and how to approach networking and/or take advantage of sessions for students and new professionals.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series, Fall 2023.
Keys to Successful Grant Writing for Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Graduate Students
Presenters: Office of Research: Kari Whittenberger-Keith and Michelle Schoenecker
Designed for the grant writer with limited experience, this presentation starts from the premise that nothing succeeds like a good idea. But a good idea is not enough. There are other important ingredients of success, from assembling a winning team to achieving a strong match between the idea and a potential sponsor. This talk presents key concepts related to success in grant writing . It stresses the importance of planning over wiring, and presents the sponsor as a potential ally, not an adversary.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series, Fall 2019.