Intro to College: - Point of college - not vocational, become a better citizen - get what you make of it - grades matter very little - and no one gives a shit if you graduate - what I do - research first, teaching second, service third - describe adjuncts - Time and Data management - allocate 40 hours a week - email organization - organizing files/backup (dropbox) - using text files /todo list - Scheduling and Preparing for upcoming classes - identifying appropriate classes - avoid boring classes - big difference in amount of work between mass lecture and small class - otherwise very little difference upper level/lower level - long term planning - examine syllabi - buying books (avoid bookstore) - Research and the Library - looking up journal articles - google scholar network - citations - guide to lit review - use brain to tell quality of the reference - inter library loan - email author - Writing - There are no "rules", only guides - shorter is often better - Strunk and White Elements - Content is all that matters - outline - write - iterate - get shit down on paper - ?Basics of typography?, ?Intro to word?, ?distribute as PDF? - Presentations - Bad power-point practices - too many words on one slide - repeating slides verbatim - too small of text - gratuitous use of background color, stock images - ditto for Posters - intro, content, ending slide - practice, practice, practice - intro to ?PowerPoint? - Online professionalism - email etiquette, OK Boomer - twitter/facebook no-no's - blog/professional website - resume building - letters of recommendation - ?grad school advice? - letters of recommendation -------------------------------------------------- Phd Profess Course - see also https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1141468280911278081 Fabio Rojas [?Grad School Rulz?] - What a PhD is all about - http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ - independent research - professional time keeping - what you should be doing with that time [projects] - teaching, research, service - Research - literature review types - historical, summary, thematic, similar exhaustive - skimming lit, https://twitter.com/ashleytrubin/status/1082990540671590411 - Google scholar, citation tree - go to the library (Dewey decimal), interlibrary loan - reproducible work in coding - citation management - IRB - Publishing - Types of academic publishing - Journal articles, Books, chapters, other news, Op-Eds - Rank of journals - Criminology, then JQC/JRCD/JQ, then C&PP, CJ&B, C&D, JCJ - journal metrics are shit - creating a CV - Peer reviews, how to do a good one, responding to reviews, ignoring bad reviews - Dissertation - timeline on the board -- you should have a substantive area already! - Proposal, Prospectus, Defense - Choosing committee (avoid dead weights) - scope, topic - focus on problems, not on theory - rigorous, novel (interesting) - not so interesting, direct replications, salami slicing of articles (subsets of data) - stapler thesis - gathering your own data - ICPSR data is typically quite easy to get - Fed data source harder [sit down at data sharing center] - administrative data just requires asking politely - collecting surveys not too expensive, can be difficult outside of Uni (MTurk?) - qualitative/ethnographic data may take multiple years (plan on at least a year) - IRB is easy - NIJ grants, NSF grants, Arnold, Russell Sage, Uni internal grants, ???????? - Comps & Classes - independent study, doing projects and picking advisor - starting your own projects - studying for comps [prior questions, outlines] - OK to take classes outside, audit - learn on own, ICPSR courses - Presenting at Conferences - bad powerpoint - tips for posters - have a PDF - don't need to go to conference unless on the job market - email individuals to set up meetings, be professional - don't over promise, should only say you will do a talk if you have data already collected - professionalism/sexism - Teaching portfolio - necessary to get hired - example teaching statements - don't teach too much/spend too much time - prepping classes & lectures [textbooks, reserving materials, journal articles] - team based learning/flipped classrooms - Types of jobs - academic R1 (2-2 load), mid-tier (3-3, only masters, Bloomsburg, UT San Antonio), teach schools (4-4 or worse) - research expectations (typically 2-3 per year), public service is icing on the cake - probably need at least one where you are the 1st author to be hired at 3-3 or better - alternative research jobs - think tanks (Vera, RAND, Urban), data skills will make you better prepared - private sector (Data Science) - public sector (State govt, Police Analyst) - very difficult to be geographically restricted - programs do not hire their own students - salary, negotiating - start up $$$, course releases, summer funding