Effective Strategies for Self-Editing Your Manuscript
Have you ever been frustrated with the process of editing and revising your manuscript? Have you had the sense that something wasn’t quite right, but were unsure what the issue is or how to address it? If you answered yes to these questions, join Christine Feak from the English Language Institute and Jiawei Ribaudo from Global REACH at the Medical School in this hands-on workshop on January 24, 2022, as we discuss approaches to editing and revising a manuscript.
Facilitators
Christine Feak
Lecturer IV, English Language Institute
Engaging with Michigan Research Experts to Find Collaborators and Manage Your Online Presence
Michigan Research Experts (MRE) is a searchable database of researcher interests and expertise from across the University of Michigan. It includes research profiles with publications, grants, clinical trials, and more.
Workshop Objectives
In this session, attendees will learn how to use MRE to:
Research Track Faculty Symposium
Thank you to everyone who attended the inaugural Research Track Faculty Symposium will be held on Thursday, March 23rd, 2023.
Networking for Researchers
A success factor for any career, networking can be daunting for shyer people, who then envy the “people-oriented” ones. In fact, both the introverted and the extraverted can benefit from a more systematic approach to professional networking.
This lecture reviews the types of network worth considering and the approaches to effective networking, both face to face and online, each time offering concrete, readily applicable tips.
Leading Your Research Team: Fundamentals of Negotiation, Hiring, and Retaining Your Science Team
This workshop is hosted by the Office of Faculty Development and co-sponsored by the Office of Research.
Join us for a full-day program designed specifically for scientists and faculty in the research space. This comprehensive program offers two tailored workshops to meet the unique needs of the community:
How to Access Data for Your Research Project
This presentation will describe user-friendly tools and services for harnessing clinical, genetic, wearables, etc data for your research projects.
Workshop Objectives
After attending this presentation, attendees should be able to:
Untangling Academic Scholarship: Writing, Reviewing, and Responding
This short workshop will give an overview of the typical scholarly journal structure and reviewing process. Best practices for becoming involved as a reviewer and accomplishing the reviews will be given. Journal rankings and choosing an appropriate journal are also topics. The components of a typical scholarly paper are discussed in turn and writing papers that facilitate acceptance will be examined. Handling reviews effectively will also be covered including the steps of revision, responding to reviewers, and publicizing your accepted paper.
Research Faculty Grant Orientation
The Research Faculty Grant Orientation (RFGO) is a new initiative designed to introduce those new to grant applications – particularly research faculty – to the overall process of submitting grant applications at Michigan Medicine. This in-person, four-session series focuses on “everything but the science” and will dive into the nuts and bolts of grant submission starting with pre-award PAF preparation and continuing through grant study sections and post-award management.
Avoiding Regulatory Pitfalls: Keys to Launching a Successful Research Career
In this workshop, participants will learn to:
- Identify required regulatory approvals and how to abide by them
- Know what information needs to be reported both internally and to federal agencies and how to do it
- Understand research transparency expectations from publishers and the government
Your Research Presence Online: Author Identifiers and Scholarly Profiles
This session introduces author identifiers and online scholarly profiles. We’ll dig into a few of the specific author identifiers that are available including ORCID and Scopus Author IDs, and spend some time looking at the different platforms that scholars use including Google Scholar and Michigan Experts. We’ll cover general best practices and reasons to maintain your online profiles, and also have time to create, claim, or review your profiles.