Employability in Academia - Free MUPSA Seminar

An Academic Job: How do you get one? A free seminar for post graduates preparing for careers in academia.

Advice in a friendly setting on strategies to increase your chances of an academic career including:

• Promoting your skills and your research.
• Networking, the supervisory relationship and cultivating mentors.
• Maximising your research impact and understanding bibliometrics.

Presented by senior Murdoch academics and research management staff: Professor Benjamin Reilly, Dr Megan Paull and Alasdair MacDonald.

Post graduates at all stages of candidature and from all disciplines are invited to attend. For graduate research degree candidates and Masters by Coursework students who intend to undertake a a graduate research degree in the near future.

Bring your questions on career paths, forming contacts and measuring research impact (e.g. building a citation profile).

Registration and attendance are free, light refreshments will be served. Join us for more networking after 4.30PM at the Murdoch University Tavern (optional).

Please RSVP via mupsa@the-guild.com.au by 30 May 2014. Register ASAP as places are limited.

For more information about the seminar and presenters' bios, please view MUPSA’s facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/246735318862709/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming