Research Process: Becoming an Efficient Researcher, 1 cr

The managing of everyday life as a researcher requires a series of basic skills. These skills are seldom spelled out but have to do with the organization of information flows, time management, priority setting, the setting-up of a publication and conference presentation plan, the decoding of how peer-reviewed journals work (and what that means to our writing skills), communication skills for different occasions, conference presentation skills, people skills and networking skills.

Designed as a two-day course, this course will dedicate the first day to bringing attention to these basic skills through an interactive lecture, the taking of ‘tests’ to assist course participants in articulating their own personal goals as far as academic work is concerned, and discussions based on the reading that will be assigned beforehand.

The second day will focus on the two skills that sometimes take the longest to master and tend to eat up a considerable amount of our everyday lives: 1) the writing for peer-reviewed journals and 2) using of international conferences as network-building opportunities.