Description
The Training and Development Core offers easily accessible support for career and research development at no cost.
The Training and Development Core is a “one-stop shop” for training, mentorship, research team development, and grant proposal writing for UConn investigators at all stages of their careers, from graduate students to tenured faculty. We offer extensive services including one-on-one support connecting with InCHIP Directors and Research Development Specialist, our NIH R-Series Boot Camp, FY20 seed grant competitions, grant proposal incubator, Ideas Labs, and NIH Career Award Writing Group (and more).
Training and Development Core Services
To see a list of and to access our Core services, please visit the role tabs above.
Upcoming Workshops
Getting Started: Find Funding and Build Your Research Team
Led By:
Grace Morris, MA – InCHIPs Research Development Specialist
When:
October 19, 2020 at 12:30-1:30pm
About
Interested in finding funding for your next project not sure where to start? Need to identify UConn-based faculty with specific expertise? This workshop will provide an overview of the basic methods, databases, and resources available to UConn Faculty. It will also go over the resources and best practices available to researchers during the nascent team formation process.
Your Science Sales Pitch: Crafting Effective Specific Aims
Led By:
Amy Gorin, Ph.D. — InCHIP Director
When:
October 27, 2020 at 12:15-1:15pm
About:
Specific Aims are arguably the most important section of an NIH grant proposal. They act as a summary of goals, a sales pitch, and a digestible snapshot of what your planned project entails. For all these reasons, Specific Aims can be difficult to get right. This workshop will go over how to structure and compose effective Specific Aims sections.
Graduate Students
InCHIP offers many training and development services through this core to graduate students. Below you can find all of the workshops offered through the training and development core, as well as some resources for fellowship opportunities.
UConn Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships
The UConn Office of National Scholarships and Felowships provide a number of resources to graduate students interested in securing fellowship funding for during their graduate career. Please take a look at the link above to view some of their resources and services for graduate students.
Graduate School PCP
A handy new tool from the graduate school that provides a good overview of UConn events and resources available to graduate student, faculty,and post-docs. The events and resources are grouped into three categories: Personal growth, Career development, and Professional engagement, hence PCP).
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 atamy.gorin@uconn.edu.Find Collaborators and Build Your Research TeamAccess MentoringGet Help Finding Funding
Mid-Career and Senior Faculty Services
InCHIP’s Training and Development Core offers a number of workshops and research development that post-tenure faculty may be interested in.
Do you have a suggestion for a training program not listed here? Email Amy Gorin atamy.gorin@uconn.edu.
Find Collaborators and Build Your Research TeamBecome a mentorGet Help Finding Funding
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
Getting Started: Find Funding and Build Your Research Team
Led By:
Grace Morris, MA – InCHIPs Research Development Specialist
When:
October 19, 2020 at 12:30-1:30pm
About
Interested in finding funding for your next project not sure where to start? Need to identify UConn-based faculty with specific expertise? This workshop will provide an overview of the basic methods, databases, and resources available to UConn Faculty. It will also go over the resources and best practices available to researchers during the nascent team formation process.
Your Science Sales Pitch: Crafting Effective Specific Aims
Led By:
Amy Gorin, Ph.D. — InCHIP Director
When:
October 27, 2020 at 12:15-1:15pm
About:
Specific Aims are arguably the most important section of an NIH grant proposal. They act as a summary of goals, a sales pitch, and a digestible snapshot of what your planned project entails. For all these reasons, Specific Aims can be difficult to get right. This workshop will go over how to structure compose effective Specific Aims sections.
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10/1InCHIP Lecture Series: Deborah Carr, PhD
InCHIP Lecture Series: Deborah Carr, PhD
Thursday, October 1st, 202012:30 PM - 01:30 PMOtherVirtual Event Deborah Carr, PhD, Boston University
Thursday, October 1, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 PM
"Interpersonal and Institutional Discrimination among U.S. Adults with Disability"
More than one in four U.S. adults reports at least some difficulty with vision, cognition, mobility, self-care, or independent living. Rates of impairment among working-age adults have increased in recent years, raising concerns about the short- and long-term consequences for their social integration, psychological well-being, and economic security. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), enacted 30 years ago, has been instrumental in expanding opportunities for and fighting institutional discrimination against persons with impairment. However, less is known about the more subtle yet pernicious forms of stigmatization and microaggressions experienced by persons with impairment. Using data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), a national sample of U.S. adults, I examine whether persons with impairment are at a heightened risk of multiple forms of interpersonal and institutional discrimination, and the extent to which these experiences are a mechanism linking disability status with mental health symptoms. Drawing on stigma, life course, and double jeopardy perspectives, I also show how the psychosocial consequences associated with disability status differ on the basis of age/life course stage, gender, and occupational status. The results demonstrate that impairment does not operate as a “master status” and its interpersonal consequences vary by one’s social location. I discuss the implications for theory, research, and practice.
Receive important news and annou ncements via the InCHIP listerv: http://chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office /listserv/.
Access the RSVP, lecture lineup, and archives: https://chip. http://uconn.edu/lecture-series/2020-2021-lecture-series/
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10/2Geography Colloquium - Dr. Michael Widener
Geography Colloquium - Dr. Michael Widener
Friday, October 2nd, 202012:15 PM - 01:15 PMOtherWebEx event The Food Activities, Socioeconomics, Time-use, and Transportation Study: A New Approach to Food Environment Research and Preliminary Findings
Dr. Michael J. Widener, University of Toronto
Event link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/onstage/g.php?MTID=eda20c1d56544be1456e3bc538bcf60fd
This talk will introduce the Food Activities, Socioeconomics, Time-use, and Transportation (FASTT) Study, a project which integrates concepts of time geography with theories from food and health geographies. In March 2019, time-use diaries, GPS trajectory data, and dietary questionnaires were collected from partnered-parents in households from two Toronto neighborhoods - one urban and one suburban. These data are used to explore questions about time pressure and dietary behavior, the division of food labor, and the role of the built environment in food shopping. Findings from two papers currently underway - one on coupled exposure to food retail and the other on how food-related time use patterns link to differing geographies - will be presented, and implications for future work discussed.
Dr. Michael Widener is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Transportation and Health in the Department of Geography & Planning and incoming Director of Health Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Geography at SUNY - Buffalo. He is primarily interested in topics related to health, transportation, and urban geography and planning. His current research projects explore the impact of the built environment on food access and dietary behaviors, how older adults’ mental health and well-being is affected by their mobility options, and the links between time use and health outcomes.
If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Rich Mrozinski at mrozinski@uconn.edu (preferred method of contact) or 860-486-3788 by September 25, 2020.
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10/19Getting Started: Find Funding And Build Your Research Team
Getting Started: Find Funding And Build Your Research Team
Monday, October 19th, 202012:15 PM - 01:15 PMStorrs CampusOnline via WebEX Interested in finding funding for your next project not sure where to start? Need to identify UConn-based faculty with specific expertise? This workshop will provide an overview of the basic methods, databases, and resources available to UConn Faculty. It will also go over the resources and best practices available to researchers during the nascent team formation process.
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10/26On Racism: Raising The Bar To Publish On Racial Health Inequities
On Racism: Raising The Bar To Publish On Racial Health Inequities
Monday, October 26th, 202003:00 PM - 04:00 PMOtherWebex "On Racism: Raising the Bar to Publish on Racial Health Inequities"
Rhea Boyd MD, MPH is a pediatrician, public health advocate, and scholar who writes and teaches
on the relationship between structural racism, inequity and health. She has a particular focus on the child and public health impacts of harmful policing practices and policies. She serves as the Chief Medical Officer of San Diego 211, working with navigators to address social needs of San Diegans impacted by chronic illness and poverty. And she is the Director of Equity and Justice for The California Children's Trust, an initiative to advance mental health access to children and youth across California.
Dr. Boyd graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Africana Studies and Health from the University of
Notre Dame. She earned a M.D. at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed her
pediatric residency at University of California, San Francisco. In 2017, Dr. Boyd graduated from
the Commonwealth Fund Mongan Minority Health Policy Fellowship at Harvard University’s
School of Public Health, earning an M.P.H.
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Collaboration, Health, Intervention and Policy and the Health Disparities Institute.
To RSVP visit: https://chip.uconn.edu/inchip-talk-rhea-boyd-md-mph/
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10/1InCHIP Lecture Series: Deborah Carr, PhD
InCHIP Lecture Series: Deborah Carr, PhD
Thursday, October 1st, 202012:30 PM - 01:30 PMOtherVirtual Event Deborah Carr, PhD, Boston University
Thursday, October 1, 2020
12:30 - 1:30 PM
"Interpersonal and Institutional Discrimination among U.S. Adults with Disability"
More than one in four U.S. adults reports at least some difficulty with vision, cognition, mobility, self-care, or independent living. Rates of impairment among working-age adults have increased in recent years, raising concerns about the short- and long-term consequences for their social integration, psychological well-being, and economic security. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), enacted 30 years ago, has been instrumental in expanding opportunities for and fighting institutional discrimination against persons with impairment. However, less is known about the more subtle yet pernicious forms of stigmatization and microaggressions experienced by persons with impairment. Using data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), a national sample of U.S. adults, I examine whether persons with impairment are at a heightened risk of multiple forms of interpersonal and institutional discrimination, and the extent to which these experiences are a mechanism linking disability status with mental health symptoms. Drawing on stigma, life course, and double jeopardy perspectives, I also show how the psychosocial consequences associated with disability status differ on the basis of age/life course stage, gender, and occupational status. The results demonstrate that impairment does not operate as a “master status” and its interpersonal consequences vary by one’s social location. I discuss the implications for theory, research, and practice.
Receive important news and annou ncements via the InCHIP listerv: http://chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office /listserv/.
Access the RSVP, lecture lineup, and archives: https://chip. http://uconn.edu/lecture-series/2020-2021-lecture-series/
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10/2Geography Colloquium - Dr. Michael Widener
Geography Colloquium - Dr. Michael Widener
Friday, October 2nd, 202012:15 PM - 01:15 PMOtherWebEx event The Food Activities, Socioeconomics, Time-use, and Transportation Study: A New Approach to Food Environment Research and Preliminary Findings
Dr. Michael J. Widener, University of Toronto
Event link: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/onstage/g.php?MTID=eda20c1d56544be1456e3bc538bcf60fd
This talk will introduce the Food Activities, Socioeconomics, Time-use, and Transportation (FASTT) Study, a project which integrates concepts of time geography with theories from food and health geographies. In March 2019, time-use diaries, GPS trajectory data, and dietary questionnaires were collected from partnered-parents in households from two Toronto neighborhoods - one urban and one suburban. These data are used to explore questions about time pressure and dietary behavior, the division of food labor, and the role of the built environment in food shopping. Findings from two papers currently underway - one on coupled exposure to food retail and the other on how food-related time use patterns link to differing geographies - will be presented, and implications for future work discussed.
Dr. Michael Widener is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Transportation and Health in the Department of Geography & Planning and incoming Director of Health Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Geography at SUNY - Buffalo. He is primarily interested in topics related to health, transportation, and urban geography and planning. His current research projects explore the impact of the built environment on food access and dietary behaviors, how older adults’ mental health and well-being is affected by their mobility options, and the links between time use and health outcomes.
If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Rich Mrozinski at mrozinski@uconn.edu (preferred method of contact) or 860-486-3788 by September 25, 2020.
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10/19Getting Started: Find Funding And Build Your Research Team
Getting Started: Find Funding And Build Your Research Team
Monday, October 19th, 202012:15 PM - 01:15 PMStorrs CampusOnline via WebEX Interested in finding funding for your next project not sure where to start? Need to identify UConn-based faculty with specific expertise? This workshop will provide an overview of the basic methods, databases, and resources available to UConn Faculty. It will also go over the resources and best practices available to researchers during the nascent team formation process.
-
10/26On Racism: Raising The Bar To Publish On Racial Health Inequities
On Racism: Raising The Bar To Publish On Racial Health Inequities
Monday, October 26th, 202003:00 PM - 04:00 PMOtherWebex "On Racism: Raising the Bar to Publish on Racial Health Inequities"
Rhea Boyd MD, MPH is a pediatrician, public health advocate, and scholar who writes and teaches
on the relationship between structural racism, inequity and health. She has a particular focus on the child and public health impacts of harmful policing practices and policies. She serves as the Chief Medical Officer of San Diego 211, working with navigators to address social needs of San Diegans impacted by chronic illness and poverty. And she is the Director of Equity and Justice for The California Children's Trust, an initiative to advance mental health access to children and youth across California.
Dr. Boyd graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Africana Studies and Health from the University of
Notre Dame. She earned a M.D. at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed her
pediatric residency at University of California, San Francisco. In 2017, Dr. Boyd graduated from
the Commonwealth Fund Mongan Minority Health Policy Fellowship at Harvard University’s
School of Public Health, earning an M.P.H.
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Collaboration, Health, Intervention and Policy and the Health Disparities Institute.
To RSVP visit: https://chip.uconn.edu/inchip-talk-rhea-boyd-md-mph/