Career & Tools

Read on for tips from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)--an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community--about the difficulty of actually writing every day. Membership in the NCFDD (free for UCSB students!) provides several forms of professional support to help combat common problems academics face.

Graduate Division's Academic Services unit will offer Filing Pre-check sessions August 28-September 1 (no sessions on Thursday). Schedule your Zoom appointment today!

With this year’s theme of “Re-envisioning Roles,” the Engaging Teaching Symposium invites participants to submit research-based contributions as well as case-studies that make use of available evidence to discuss improved teaching, student learning and engagement, or professional development as teachers. Submit an abstract by the extended deadline, September 15.

UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) Learning Hub is hosting our next coreR course in October 2023. This is a five-day introductory course on collaborative, open, reproducible, and essential data science skills. Register by August 18. You can also apply for the Director's Scholarship, which covers tuition, travel and lodging, by August 11.

Are you in the middle stages of your dissertation and running into roadblocks? Do you need some new strategies and habits to help you finish up? Then apply for the second session of the 2023 Dissertation Write-In, which runs from September 18-21! The application deadline is August 11.

Are you a PhD candidate interested in helping first- and second-year doctoral students? Consider applying to be mentor for the Graduate Scholars Program! GSP supports graduate students from diverse and historically-underrepresented backgrounds throughout their graduate careers. Mentors receive stipends of $500/quarter. Apply by August 31.

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Maya Dentzel, a PhD student in Global Studies, who used the IPS funds to attend the ETHDenver 2023 Community Conference. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Attention graduate students! Are you employed through the university? If so, be sure to take advantage of the free training available to you through LinkedIn Learning. You have access to more than 5,000 software, creative, and business skills video tutorials that are current and taught by industry experts by logging in with your UCSB netID and password. Read on for more info!

Are you mentoring a novice researcher this summer or planning to in the future? You are invited to attend the final session of the Mentoring Workshop Series on July 27 hosted by the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP).

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Ariana Salas Castillo, a PhD student in Political Science, who used the IPS funds to attend the International Association of Public Transport Summit. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Muna Saber, a PhD student in Chemical Engineering, who used the IPS funds to attend the Gordon Research Conference. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Meet the winners of the 2023 Graduate Student Internship Fellowship! Read on to learn more about their fun and exciting internships, and what they are gaining from their experiences.

If you will be a teaching assistant (TA) or reader for the first time during the 2023-24 school year, you are required to complete the campus-wide TA Orientation, which will be held between September 18-26 this year (on-campus workshops held on September 26). Read on for more information and the registration link.

Check out this UCSB series on grad student and postdoc professional development experiences funded by the Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Program. This week's featured video is by Eva Wilson, a Master's student in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management department, who used the IPS funds to take an Ecological Outcome Verification training course. Read on to watch the video and learn more about the IPS program!

Are you mentoring a novice researcher this summer or planning to in the future? If yes, you are invited to attend the Mentoring Workshop Series hosted by the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP).