Summer 2023 Research and Writing Jumpstart In-Person / Online
We invite faculty and instructors of all ranks to a week-long program to jumpstart your research and writing for the summer, Tuesday, May 30-Friday, June 2, from 9-4. Participants may attend in person or online.
The week will begin with intention setting, and each day will feature morning and afternoon writing sessions, with a lunch-and-learn break featuring presentations on grant writing, scholarly profiles, and finding the right journal for your work.
Daily schedule: 9-11:30: Morning writing session
Noon-1: Lunch-and-learn (lunch will be provided for in-person attendees)
- Tuesday: Grant Writing, with Maneesha Kelkar
- Have a vague idea about a grant? Not sure how to start? At this session, Maneesha Kelkar will lead participants through a basic overview of grant writing, with particular attention to grants in the social justice field. Although individual grants and fields have their own requirements, Maneesha will draw on her experiences writing and reviewing grants to offer some more broadly applicable tips. Bring ideas you have for your own grant proposal or learn some ideas for future applications.
- Have a vague idea about a grant? Not sure how to start? At this session, Maneesha Kelkar will lead participants through a basic overview of grant writing, with particular attention to grants in the social justice field. Although individual grants and fields have their own requirements, Maneesha will draw on her experiences writing and reviewing grants to offer some more broadly applicable tips. Bring ideas you have for your own grant proposal or learn some ideas for future applications.
- Wednesday: Creating a Scholarly Profile, with Siobhan McCarthy (Sprague Library)
- How are scholarly profiles different from any other professional or social network, and how can maintaining one improve your visibility as a researcher, or help with job prospects as a graduate student? In this workshop, we will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the various scholarly networks, including Research Gate, Google Scholar, ORCID, and Selected Works (Digital Commons).
- Thursday: Finding Venues for Publication: Research Tools and Considerations, with Catherine Baird (Sprague Library)
- In this mini-session, we'll talk about discovering journals, as well as considerations of quality, open access, predatory and peripheral publishers.
1:30-4: Afternoon writing session
Can't make all 4 days? You are still welcome! Can't stay all day? Just want to come to the lunch-and-learn? You are still welcome!
- Date:
- Thursday, June 1, 2023 Show more dates
- Time:
- 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Special Collections - 218
Professor and Executive Director of the Office for Faculty Excellence, has been at Montclair State University for 25 years. Her areas of research expertise include higher education pedagogy, teaching writing, assessment, and public higher educational practices.
Catherine Keohane is Associate Director for Teaching and Learning for the Office for Faculty Excellence. Catherine has a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University. She has designed and taught upper- and lower-division literature, humanities, and composition courses, and has experience teaching in multiple modalities. She has presented on student engagement at MLA, and has begun to develop open-educational resources that work to mitigate financial barriers to students’ success while also serving students' sense of belongingness.