Professional Development

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► JOURNALS IN PSYCHOLOGY

- Where can I find a listing of journals in psychology?

- What are considered the top journals in psychology?

- When would you want to publish in broad multidisciplinary journals?

- Will people outside my field know which are the best journals in my field?

- Journals in Social and Personality Psychology

- What are considered the top journals in Social/Personality psychology?

- What are considered the ranking/ratings of all empirical journals in Social/Personality Psychology?

- What are considered the ranking/ratings of review journals in Social/Personality Psychology?

- What is the turn-around time for journals?


► LIFE AS A PROFESSOR

- Your First Year

- Career Planning

- Setting up a lab as a new professor

- Balancing Work and Family

- Politics of academia

- Mentoring

- K-Awards

- Teaching

- Assessing Student Learning Gains Might Be Easier (And More Important) Than You Think


► LIFE AS A STUDENT

- How to survive in graduate school

- Mentoring

- Teaching while in graduate school


► OTHER

- Conferences

- Public Relations and Media


► HOW TO GET A JOB

- Overview of "How to get a Job"

- What is the application process?

- When do you apply?

- What jobs exist?

- What type of job do I want?

- How is finding a non-academic job different than finding an academic job?

- How is finding a post-doc different than finding other types of jobs?

- How your publication record is evaluated

- Curriculum Vitae

- Cover Letter

- What is a Research Statement?

- What is a Teaching Statement?

- The Interview

- The Offer

- Research at RAND


► GRANT FUNDING

- Grant Funding - start here

- How to apply and write Grant applications

- NIH Funding Career Development Timetable

- Links to funding organizations

- Links to databases and listings of grants/awards

- Links to specific grants/awards (with short description)...

• Undergraduate
• Pre-dissertation
• Dissertation
• Grants/Awards for underrepresented groups
• Graduate Student
• Professor
• Early Career Awards
• Distinguished Career Awards
• Best Paper or Book
• Visting Scholar
• Teaching Awards and Lectureships
• Travel to conference
• Conference (organize your own conference)
• Study Abroad
• Summer school and workshops



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This section of PsychWiki started as a Professional Development Series in the Social Psychology Department at the University of Southern California so some of the information above arose from the collective effort of the students and professors at USC. (Learn how to use this wiki to enhance professional development meetings at your school by clicking here)

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