Graduate Student and Post Doc Services

InCHIP offers many training and development services through this core to graduate students and post-doctorate fellows. Below you can find all of the workshops offered through the training and development core, as well as some resources for starting research teams and finding a mentor.

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*Postdoctoral Fellow’s only

Junior Faculty Services

InCHIP’s Training and Development core offers many different workshops and services for UConn junior faculty to take advantage of. This includes writing groups, a mentorship program and the grant writing bootcamp. The core also offers resources that can help you build a research team and get feedback on your project ideas. Have a suggestion for a training program not listed here? Email Amy Gorin at amy.gorin@uconn.edu.

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Interdisciplinary Mentoring Teams

• Pilot program for junior faculty
• Be assigned to a team with mentors across departments/colleges/campuses
• The goal of this program is to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations in health research
• Email grace.morris@uconn.edu to find a mentoring team

Mid-Career and Senior Faculty Services

InCHIP’s Training and Development core offers many different workshops and services for UConn faculty to take advantage of. This includes opportunities for support in grant writing. The core also offers services such as research colloaboration development and proposal feedback. We have also offered training in Team Science, grant writing in the past.

Do you have a suggestion for a training program not listed here? Email Amy Gorin at amy.gorin@uconn.edu.

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Resources

Podcasts

• NIH“Top 10 List: Things Scientists Ask about Finding an Industry Job”
• NIH“Grant Writing 101”
• NIH“Academic Job Search: Applying and Interviewing”

Mentoring Womenin Academia

• ACE Women’s Network: National system of networks within each state with the goal of advancing and supporting women working in higher education. The network emphasizes the importance of leadership for women in academia.
• Hersnet.org: is an organization with the goal of creating a meaningful network of female leaders within the acedeme. The HERS Institute provides leadership training and development training opportunities for women in higher education.
• Moody, Joann. 2004. “Supporting Women and Minority Faculty: To retain and promote a more diverse workforce, institutions need to welcome newcomers differently” Academe 90 (1): 47-52.This article poses some tactics for universities, departments, and senior faculty can undertake to promote more inclusive incoming faculty that are women or people of color.

Tele-mentoring

• MentorNet: Connects faculty and practitioners working in STEM and Healthcare fields with either a mentor or mentee.
• Talk to mike about the SREM mentor/mentee match up system
• Society for Teaching Psychology (APA): provides an opportunity for faculty to mentor or gain mentorship aimed disseminating greater expertise in teaching psychology.

Grantmanship

• #FundingFridays:The Department of Health and Human Services has a weekly blog on grants.gov. The blog features content and resources for current and prospective grant writers seeking to apply for federally funded grants.
• Grants 101: This is info provided by Grants.gov that gets at the basics of grants.
• InCHIP Funding Announcements: External Funding Announcements are posted onto the InCHIP website, this list has a lot of health related grants many of which are through the NIH.
• Human Frontier Science Program: Art of Grantmanship.

Team Building & Interdisciplinary Research

• Science of Team Science Resources:The Science of Team Science is of great interest to us at InCHIP, it basically refers to the process of managing and developing collaborative research teams. This site contains a number of resources, including, blogs/social media accounts, organizations, and articles that may be useful for building teams. (hereis a link to join their listserv for even more resources)
• Team Science Toolkitt: The National Cancer Institute runs the Team Science website, which offers a good introduction to team science and the extent work going on within the field.

Training and Development Events

May 2019

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				12pm InCHIP Ideas Lab: Webinar × InCHIP Ideas Lab: Webinar Thursday, May 2nd, 2019 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM Other Webinar Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) is holding it's first Ideas Lab on June 4th-5th. InCHIP’s Ideas Labs are designed to: Engage teams of interdisciplinary researchers in tackling wicked problems by exploring new ways of thinking about, studying, and generating novel solutions to those problems. The focus of this Ideas lab is to generate and examine questions such as: How can we better utilize wearable, mobile-based, and other data-rich technology to promote health and well-being and ultimately prevent and manage chronic disease in an ethical and legally sound fashion? Internal Funding Opportunity This ideas lab also provides an opportunity for participating faculty to apply for internal seed funding. Following the two-day Ideas Lab, the newly formed interdisciplinary teams will emerge with nascent project ideas that they will continue to develop over the following weeks. Teams will then submit proposals to compete for internal pilot funding from InCHIP of up to $50,000. As part of the preparation for the event, we would like to invite you to attend a one-hour webinar on May 2nd from 12-1PM. This interactive webinar will: 1) Give you an overview of the different ways of thinking about this problem 2) Describe how an Ideas Lab works 3) Explain the steps leading up to the event. 4) Describe the pilot funding program for this Ideas Lab and possible directions for external funding. Although the webinar will be recorded, we encourage everyone interested in the topic to attend the live event, if possible. To learn more about InCHIP's Ideas Lab: https://chip.uconn.edu/inchip-ideas-lab-april-2019/ Register for Webinar: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/7f964b976cf268c57c24e00bf0acd2b8 Contact Information: Grace Morris grace.morris@uconn.edu More
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				9am Qualitative Research Methods Workshop: Building Your Qualitative Toolbox × Qualitative Research Methods Workshop: Building Your Qualitative Toolbox Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM Storrs Campus InCHIP, Room 204 (J. Ray Ryan Building) See https://chip.uconn.edu/2019/04/05/21916/ for a description of the workshop. Contact Information: gregory.champion@uconn.edu More
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			12pm Instagram for Academics Workshop × Instagram for Academics Workshop Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM Storrs Campus InCHIP room 14, J. Ray Ryan Building Facilitator: Paul Jasper, PhD, Res Group Instagram is a way to directly connect with thousands, if not millions of people. As academics, it is to our advantage to use this tool to source new ideas, stimulate participation in research studies, to disseminate research findings, and ultimately to build a window into your laboratory, clinic, or Center. Integrating social media into your work represents a significant opportunity for both increased funding, innovative ways to engage with student and patient populations, enhanced student/staff recruitment, and media influence. Dr. Jasper, a full time computational biologist, who also runs a successful woodworking company on Instagram (@copper_pig_fine_woodworking), will discuss the nuts and bolts of Instagram with emphasis on how best to grow on the platform for use in your research and/or to represent yourself as a scientist as well as your laboratory. Topics to be covered include: basics of Instagram, growing your following, content development (i.e., what to post), post format (video vs. picture vs. carousel), posting frequency, features (e.g., stories, chat), organic reach vs. paid promotions, how the algorithm works, etc. Sponsored by the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media Contact Information: Grace Morris (grace.morris@uconn.edu) More

1. 5/2InCHIP Ideas Lab: Webinar
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   InCHIP Ideas Lab: Webinar

   Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
   12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
   
   Other
   Webinar

   Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) is holding it's first Ideas Lab on June 4th-5th.
   
   InCHIP’s Ideas Labs are designed to: Engage teams of interdisciplinary researchers in tackling wicked problems by exploring new ways of thinking about, studying, and generating novel solutions to those problems. The focus of this Ideas lab is to generate and examine questions such as: How can we better utilize wearable, mobile-based, and other data-rich technology to promote health and well-being and ultimately prevent and manage chronic disease in an ethical and legally sound fashion?
   
   Internal Funding Opportunity This ideas lab also provides an opportunity for participating faculty to apply for internal seed funding. Following the two-day Ideas Lab, the newly formed interdisciplinary teams will emerge with nascent project ideas that they will continue to develop over the following weeks. Teams will then submit proposals to compete for internal pilot funding from InCHIP of up to $50,000.
   
   As part of the preparation for the event, we would like to invite you to attend a one-hour webinar on May 2nd from 12-1PM.
   
   This interactive webinar will:
   1) Give you an overview of the different ways of thinking about this problem
   2) Describe how an Ideas Lab works
   3) Explain the steps leading up to the event.
   4) Describe the pilot funding program for this Ideas Lab and possible directions for external funding.
   
   Although the webinar will be recorded, we encourage everyone interested in the topic to attend the live event, if possible.
   
   To learn more about InCHIP's Ideas Lab: https://chip.uconn.edu/inchip-ideas-lab-april-2019/
   
   Register for Webinar: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/7f964b976cf268c57c24e00bf0acd2b8

   
   

   Contact Information: Grace Morris grace.morris@uconn.edu More

1. 5/23Qualitative Research Methods Workshop: Building Your Qualitative Toolbox
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   Qualitative Research Methods Workshop: Building Your Qualitative Toolbox

   Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
   09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
   
   Storrs Campus
   InCHIP, Room 204 (J. Ray Ryan Building)

   See https://chip.uconn.edu/2019/04/05/21916/ for a description of the workshop.

   
   

   Contact Information: gregory.champion@uconn.edu More

1. 5/29Instagram for Academics Workshop
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   Instagram for Academics Workshop

   Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
   12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
   
   Storrs Campus
   InCHIP room 14, J. Ray Ryan Building

   Facilitator: Paul Jasper, PhD, Res Group
   
   
   
   Instagram is a way to directly connect with thousands, if not millions of people. As academics, it is to our advantage to use this tool to source new ideas, stimulate participation in research studies, to disseminate research findings, and ultimately to build a window into your laboratory, clinic, or Center. Integrating social media into your work represents a significant opportunity for both increased funding, innovative ways to engage with student and patient populations, enhanced student/staff recruitment, and media influence. Dr. Jasper, a full time computational biologist, who also runs a successful woodworking company on Instagram (@copper_pig_fine_woodworking), will discuss the nuts and bolts of Instagram with emphasis on how best to grow on the platform for use in your research and/or to represent yourself as a scientist as well as your laboratory. Topics to be covered include: basics of Instagram, growing your following, content development (i.e., what to post), post format (video vs. picture vs. carousel), posting frequency, features (e.g., stories, chat), organic reach vs. paid promotions, how the algorithm works, etc.
   
   Sponsored by the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media

   
   

   Contact Information: Grace Morris (grace.morris@uconn.edu) More