Date: November 18, 2008

Topic: Post-doctoral students will be discussing the research projects on which they are currently working.

Date: October 28, 2008

Workshop Leader: Dafna Lemish, Professor, Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Goal: This workshop will explore two of the most important endeavors engaged in by academics: Submitting and reviewing manuscripts for academic journals. While the skills necessary for these two challenging activities are in many ways complementary, they are also often completely unrelated; that is, being an excellent reviewers does not necessarily prepare you for submitting good manuscripts, and visa versa. Accordingly, we will discusses the following questions: How to decide which journal to submit your manuscript? How to handle revisions? Whether to argue with the editor? And what about reviewing, what does an editors and an author really look for in a review? When should you refuse and when you shouldn't dare to do so? How does one write a good review? And why is it important? Creating and charing knowledge is a collective effort, and in this workshop, we will discusses your participation in this community and how to excel in doing so.

Date: October 14, 2008

Workshop Leaders: Amy Jordan, Senior Researcher, The Annenberg Public Policy Center; Priya Nalkur-Pai, Post-doctoral Fellow

Goal: To explain the uses of Atlas.ti in qualitative analysis in communication research. Experiences with the software will be discussed and its functions will be shown. An all-day training on the software will follow later in the semester.

Date: September 30, 2008

 

Workshop Leaders:  Deborah Linebarger, Assistant Professor, The Annenberg School for Communication; Amy Jordan, Senior Researcher, The Annenberg Public Policy Center

 

Goal:  To give students and fellows strategies for securing external funding for communication research. 

Workshop participants will be offered an overview of the different funding sources that exist for new researchers in our field (from private philanthropy to governmental agencies), strategies for identifying appropriate funding sources, and approaches to writing grant proposals.  We will look at concept papers, grant proposals, and sample budgets.  You will leave with resource materials to develop your own grant proposals for your post-Annenberg years.