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SSHRC Insight: Knowledge Mobilization Plan and Intended Outcomes
Those of you deep in the application form might be wondering what these 2 sections are and how they differ. The Knowledge Mobilization Plan is the concrete things you will do to get the results of your research out to … Continue reading
Posted in Funding
Tagged audience, conferences, Insight, intended outcomes, knowledge mobilization, Publishing, SSHRC
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From Conference Presentation to Journal Article (reprise)
This is an update version of a post first published in 2009. You’ve just presented a paper at your association meetings or other conference. A conference presentation is an important stage in the development of your research. It allows you … Continue reading
Networking 101
You know networking is important but the thought of it makes you want to shudder. Or worse. It sounds so instrumental. And fake. And like it involves talking to people you don’t know. Out of the blue. If you’re an … Continue reading
Posted in Career Planning, Research
Tagged conferences, Congress 2011, networking, relationship building
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Getting useful feedback on your conference paper
There is plenty of evidence that conference presentations don’t necessarily get you any useful feedback.
But that doesn’t mean they couldn’t.
You have to build an audience
Do you tell people you know are going to be at the conference when you are presenting? Do you ask them to come? Do you tell them you would like feedback? Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged conferences, Congress 2011, discussion, feedback, intellectual stimulation, presentations, relationship building
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