Career Development

The Graduate Student Peers and Instructional Development are collaborating to host an Academic Job Market Pop-In space on Tuesday, October 17 from 2-3:30pm. Graduate students working on their academic job applications are invited to bring questions, concerns, or work in progress. Drinks and light snacks provided!

Did you miss our Special Guest Workshop with Alison Miller but want to learn to be more productive and effective at writing and conducting academic research? Would you like to develop and use a sound project-management approach to completing your dissertation or thesis? Then be sure to watch the recording from the event! Read on for more info and a link to the video.

Join the UCSB Library for a workshop on November 1 all about patents. UCSB librarians will provide a presentation on patents geared to graduate students, although everyone is welcome. Learn more about the valuable legal, business, and technical information patents provide, how to find them using open and proprietary databases, and what UCSB inventors need to know about applying for patents.

Applications are currently being accepted for a Professional development for Emerging Education Researchers (PEER) field school in Chicago, December 14-17. This intensive in-person PEER field schools gives opportunities for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students in STEM disciplines to develop their own educational research practice. Scholarships are available. Apply by October 13.

The organizing committee is seeking nominations for students to be considered for the 22nd annual St. Jude Children's Research Hospital National Graduate Student Symposium (NGSS) and the 9th annual Future Fellow Research Conference (FFRC). The NGSS and FFRC are all-expenses-paid symposia to which top Ph.D. students from around the country are invited to participate. Faculty nominations are due by October 16.

South Orange County Community College District's (SOCCCD) Faculty Internship Program, known as Building Leadership Opportunities through Outstanding Mentorship (B.L.O.O.M.), is now accepting applications for its Spring 2024 program. The intent of the B.L.O.O.M. program is to increase the diversity pipeline of future community college faculty within SOCCCD and/or other California Community Colleges. Appliations due October 16.

UCSB’s Health Communications is now hiring a Content Creator & Media Generalist for the 2023-2024 academic year. This position will work to improve health equity and student well-being at UCSB. Apply by September 20!

Applications are now open for the Supporting Outstanding Academic Research (SOAR) Awards. The selection committee is soliciting applications from post-doctoral researchers and graduating PhD students in Psychology, Neuroscience, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, or related fields with identities or perspectives under-represented in science and/or research interests that foster inclusivity in behavioral and brain sciences. Apply by October 25.

UCSB's Fall campus-wide TA Orientation is required for all graduate students who will be teaching assistants (TAs) or readers for the first time during the 2023-24 school year. Live events run on September 25 and 26, and asynchronous modules are available from September 18-26. Register now and save the dates!

The Graduate Simulation Seminar Series (GS^3) is very excited to announce that their 2023-2024 Invited Speaker, Maryam Ghazisaeidi (Ohio State University, Ghazisaeidi group) will be visiting UCSB on Thursday and Friday, September 28-29! Sign up by September 14 to meet and eat with Prof. Ghazisaeidi.

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Hope Okere, a MFA student in the Art Department, who used the IPS funds to attend a basket weaving workshop. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Join a group of graduate students to discuss strategies for equitable teaching and collaboratively workshop your teaching materials! The community of practice (CooP) will meet three times during Fall 2023 and Winter 2024, for a total of six meetings. Apply by September 18.

The application for the 2024 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is now open. This program brings graduate students and early-career professionals to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The 2024 Fellowship will run from March 4-May 24, 2024. Applications are due October 16, 2023.

CNSI at UCSB is launching the second cohort of the Innovation 360 workshop, successfully piloted last year through BioPACIFIC MIP. The workshop’s modules will kick off on October 12. Space is limited, so sign up today!

Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)--an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community--about the difficulty of actually writing every day. Membership in the NCFDD (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face.