Early Career Workshop

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The Early Career Workshop provides an opportunity for CSCL and learning sciences researchers early in their careers to discuss their own research, to discuss early-career challenges with peers and senior mentors and to initiate international networks related to their research topics. Applications are invited from individuals in a variety of early career positions, such as, tenure track, post-doc, private sector or similar.

The goals of this Workshop are to:

• foster community building among the cohort of early career researchers, and between early career researchers and more senior researchers in order to develop academic, professional, and personal support networks; and
• deepen participants’ understandings of the elements of successful academic and professional development, including the building of a research program, requirements for tenure and other professional benchmarks, pointers for grant proposal and journal writing, mentoring graduate students, preparation for multidisciplinary and multi-cultural collaborations, and negotiating a balance among institutional service, academic writing, and teaching.
  

Overview

The workshop will run for a day and a half during the pre-conference events – from the morning June 7th to lunch June 8th. Activities will include panels on topics such as negotiating career paths (including careers in museums, research institutes, NGOs, or the private sector), publishing and funding. A significant amount of time will be devoted to small group interactions where early career participants can present their research and receive feedback from peers and mentors. There will also be opportunities for informal interactions with peers and mentors on an impromptu basis and as part of organized social events. Mentors and panelists are mid-career and senior scholars who are active in the CSCL and ISLS community.

Chairs

Nancy Law (University of Hong Kong, China)
Jianwei Zhang (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)
Ulrike Cress (University of Tuebingen, Germany).

The call for CSCL 2015 Early Career Workshop can be downloaded as a pdf.