mentoring Workshops

Overview

Welcome to the online doctoral consortium! The purpose of the Doctoral Consortium is to welcome early career researchers into the Society. We will create space for presentations and discussions about a range of topics associated with the academic profession. We hope we will contribute to creating a sense of community by facilitating meetings with peers, more senior researchers and editors of relevant journals in the field of learning sciences.

The Doctoral Consortium workshop activities are planned between May 31 and June 3. Part of the program consists of mentoring sessions in small groups of 2 participants.

Before the start date of the workshop, participants are asked to prepare a poster presenting their research project, to be uploaded in Gather.Town by May 27 the very latest. Submit your poster through the channel provided by the DC organizers in the email correspondence.

During the Doctoral Consortium workshop, we intend to use GatherTown for discussions, poster display and informal gatherings. A Zoom solution will be prepared as back up.

Overview

The Mid-Career Workshop is an interactive event that offers the opportunity for learning sciences researchers to reflect on their existing work and strategically plan for the next phase of their careers. We will discuss what is known about the mid-career research stage and look at varying conditions and challenges for mid-career researchers across countries and contexts. The workshop will feature whole-group and break-out sessions to create, reflect on, and promote individual career plans, learn from each other about leadership roles and supervising junior researchers, and find effective ways to self-organize and manage the competing demands of research, teaching, and service. Workshop participants will share experiences among themselves, develop and collect feedback on their own research agendas and plans for a satisfying and successful mid-career, and learn to apply effective knowledge management strategies.