Here you will find some useful links regarding different aspects of professional development. Most of them are early career resources, useful to graduate students or postdocs. But things are continuously changing and new challenges may come at any stage. I will try to include those here whenever I find them. If you have resources that you found useful (or that you have created) and want to share them, please, feel free to contact me and I will add them to the list.
Teaching
- The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence: Great web from the Schreyer Institute at Penn State that includes a lot of resources to improve and update teaching and learning skills. From planning your first class, create rubrics, syllabi, techniques to engage students and much more.
Research
- Project management:
- Payne et al. 2011: An article that shows why to use project management for your own scientific work.
- Making the right moves "A practical guide to scientific management for postdocs and new faculty". Book by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Very good source of information to start your career as a professor. Information about funding, project management, teaching, mentoring etc.
- Gantt Project: Free software to manage your project.
Individual development
- My Individual Development Plan: In their own words "myIDP is a unique, web-based career-planning tool tailored to meet the needs of PhD students and postdocs in the sciences"
Mentoring
Job seeker: The academia
- The professor is in: You will find here information and tips to prepare the materials you need for your job application in the academia (by Dr. Karen L. Kelsky).
- I found a tenure... What to expect from the experience of searching for a tenure-track job in USA.
- Jobseeking Tips in the UK: From the application to the interview process. Good source of information if you want an academic position in the UK.