0.10 Expectations, guidelines, and keys to success for phd students  (Page 4/4)

Group expectations and activities

A cohesive and collaborative group will be important for our success, and help all of us to work more productively and enjoyably. We are too small of a group for anything other than highly effective teamwork.

• I expect you to excel in your classes and to make continued efficient progress towards your dissertation and publishable research. While your own research is your primary focus, you are expected to contribute to the group’s overall success. This includes participating and collaborating in group or sub-group research projects, reviewing one another’s papers and presentations, helping to train and mentor undergraduate or new graduate research assistants, contributing to group meetings and discussions, helping to host collaborators or seminar speakers hosted by our group. In addition, as noted in our Ph.D. program requirements, you may be required to assist in course instruction for my courses as a part of your advanced degree training. Finally, our group benefits from collaboration, discussion, and synergy with other research groups in the department or on campus. It is expected that you will periodically participate in multi-group efforts or activities, such as presentation rehearsals, seminars, etc.
• You can expect me to:
  • Advise you toward successful completion of your degree
  • Mentor you in preparing for and establishing your career, and identify and provide opportunities that will enhance your potential for future success
  • Listen attentively and provide constructive feedback
  • Review your papers and presentations in a timely fashion
  • Be responsive to issues that keep you from working productively
  • Support your participation in conferences, professional development, and other scholarly activities, and help you to identify additional sources of support
  • Provide you with direction, but also freedom to pursue your own ideas and endeavors
  • Provide you with the resources needed to conduct your work
  • Point toward contacts and additional information sources
• Meetings:
  • We will hold individual meetings once a week to discuss your research progress and next steps. Before the meeting, send me items to review for discussion in our meeting (i.e. paper outlines, a brief writeup of recent work or findings, etc). Bring to the meeting printouts of work completed, results to discuss, and an outline of topics to guide an organized meeting discussion. Please be sure to take notes during our meeting and leave with a plan of work for the coming week. Additionally, I expect regular communication with written documentation of research progress, and timely responses to email , particularly when I am traveling. In short, I work very hard to be accessible, responsive, and attentive; I expect that in return you provide written documentation of regular progress, help facilitate orderly and effective meetings, keep in regular contact, and are responsive to requests.
  • We will hold group (or sub-group) meetings periodically to discuss relevant literature, group research, and provide a forum for presentation rehearsal before conferences or other events. Depending upon our research projects, you may expect to have supplemental group meetings or conference calls with our collaborators.

I am looking forward to working with you and am very pleased to have you as a part of the Padgett Research group!