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The faculty panelists answer student questions about communicating their research, including topics such as building partnerships with communities outside of academia, effectively demonstrating the value of one’s research, and handling situations where your audience may disagree with you.
The panelists offer advice on discussing your research (or others’ research) with journalists to ensure that your message is accurately represented in the media.
How do you know your audience has understood your message? In this segment, the faculty panelists emphasize the importance of using audience questions to gauge their level of understanding, and what to do if you’re not being understood.
Faculty members share the techniques they use to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences, such as analogies, concrete examples, graphics, and interactive methods.
The faculty panelists discuss the importance of engaging the audience with concrete, relatable examples that address the “So what?” and help the audience understand the importance and impact of the research.
In this segment, faculty members discuss some of the common mistakes academics often make when trying to communicate their research to non-academics, and how to avoid them. They stress the importance of knowing one’s audience, having a focused message, and avoiding using lingo or jargon that may be unfamiliar to an audience.
In this segment, Dr. Roosa offers advice on how graduate students and faculty can avoid common mistakes in submitting their IRB applications. He also discusses types of research that always require review by the Full Board, ensuring that you have obtained informed consent, and the responsibilities of the Principal Investigator (PI).
Dr. Roosa provides an overview of the IRB approval process, including categories of research, protection of information, and how you can facilitate approval for your study. He also answers questions regarding the ownership of data shared between a faculty mentor and student and data collected at another institution.
Dr. Mark Roosa, Professor in the School of Social and Family Dynamics and Chair of the Social Behavioral Institutional Review Board (IRB), discusses historical events in the U.S. and other countries that led to the development of federal regulations and ethical codes governing research involving human subjects, He also reviews the key aspects of these regulations as they apply to research at ASU.
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Questions discussed include: When should you simply cite previous work versus granting authorship? Is there a limit on the number of co-authors, and can too many authors weaken a paper? What constitutes a significant intellectual contribution to a project? If data is generated at ASU, does it belong to the student or the advisor? Free royalty-free music from danosongs.com.
Faculty members describe ethical dilemmas they have faced when collaborating with graduate students. What are the pros and cons of collaboration in the humanities? When should others be included on patent applications? Can work from a forthcoming dissertation be published as a coauthored piece? Find out the answers and learn how you can be proactive to avoid problems down the road. Free royalty-free music from danosongs.com.
Who should be listed in the first author position? What about the last position? What does it mean to be listed first, last, or somewhere in between? Order of authorship means different things across disciplines. Learn more about what the positions mean and how the order is determined in various fields. Free royalty-free music from danosongs.com.
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Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development describes requirements for safeguarding vulnerable populations involved in online studies.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development answers questions about conducting research over the internet and utilizing social media applications.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development discusses issues regarding compensating mail survey respondents.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development answers questions about procedures for paying research participants.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development discusses protocol for using data previously collected as part of a study at an outside agency or in the classroom.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development answers questions about working with researchers at another university with existing IRB approval for their project.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development describes procedures when working with an outside agency that has an internal IRB process.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development discusses ways that researchers can be proactive and sensitive in working with vulnerable populations.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development explains the rationale for having a faculty member as the principal investigator (PI), even if it is a graduate student’s research.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development describes the training that is required by the IRB for all researchers submitting applications.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development answers questions about procedures to change a study that has already been approved by the IRB.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development discusses what to do and what not to do when designing your study and preparing your IRB application.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development answers questions about when to submit your IRB application and common misconceptions about the full board meeting deadline.
Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development describes the full board review process and the makeup of each board.
All research activities involving the use of human subjects must be reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) before data collection can begin. Susan Metosky, Senior Compliance Coordinator at the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, explains the process for Dr. Elizabeth Segal’s Graduate Social Work Seminar. The graduate students ask critical questions about the process especially when working with high risk participants, from teenagers to prostitutes.
Lee Gutkind and Dr. Dan Sarewitz engage in a friendly back and forth about how too much substance and not enough style or too much style and not enough substance can leave the reader unfulfilled. Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
Lee Gutkind describes the importance of keeping the reader engaged with scene and story while at the same time giving them the information you want them to have. Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
Pagan Kennedy walks you through the process of taking your research and converting it to a medium that can reach the public at large and some of the pitfalls to avoid in that process. Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
Terry Green Sterling provides a number tips to help you transform from an academic writer to a writer of creative nonfiction. Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
Lee Gutkind provides an in-depth overview of creative nonfiction and discusses the importance of using the narrative to communicate your point and engage the audience. Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
Dr. Stephen Pyne provides a framework for authors and provides some rules that must be followed when writing creative nonfiction. Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
Joel Garreau talks about the importance of connecting with your audience in a way that will make them want to continue reading and not lose them when you discuss the specific details of the topic you are sharing. Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
David Fugate, a successful literary agent, talks about the market for creative nonfiction and what publishers are looking for. Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
Lee Gutkind provides a brief overview of the purpose of creative nonfiction and how creative nonfiction written by academics can provide much needed information to the general public. Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
Two scholars, Dr. Kay Norton and Dr. Sandra Stauffer, from the ASU School of Music come together to offer advice about writing from a performer’s perspective. Similar to the preparation for a musical performance, Norton and Stauffer suggest that students apply the same principles to writing. These principles include breaking down a large project into smaller component and perfecting the individual pieces and then assembling the piece in its entirety to create a polished final product.
Learned professionals are those who write well, communicate well and have a firm grasp of the expectations of the discipline they represent. Dr. Jenefer Husman, an Associate Professor in ASU’s School of Social & Family Dynamics emphasizes the need to “read a lot and write a lot”, incorporate the help of peers, and seek out esteemed scholarly works and use them as a guide to develop the “Scholarly Voice.”
For students in interdisciplinary fields, it is important to be able to write so that the work can be understood by the entire audience, including those who are not in your specific discipline. In this podcast, Dr. Douglas Fridsma and Dr. Graciela Gonzalez, from the Department of Biomedical Informatics, discuss some of the challenges faced by graduate students in fields that are relatively young and not well known to broader academic community. They also talk about the writing process being a slow one, in which each piece builds upon the previous and where revisions often seem endless, and strategies for not getting bogged down.
Beyond grammar, the logic and flow can make or break a piece of writing. Dr. Chris Buneo and Dr. Vincent Pizziconi, from the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, explain that a piece of writing must be cohesive and guide the reader through the argument and not just individual pieces. As science writers, they discuss how the use of the charts, graphs, and other figures can be used to, in a sense, tell a story of the data in a way that your audience is able to understand what your intend.
The nature of a writing project, whether it is for a class or for publication or for a thesis/dissertation, impacts the expectations faculty have of that writing. Dr. Subramanian Rajan and Dr. Edward Kavazanjian, from the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, discuss how they approach different types of writing and what they expect of writing that is for a class, for publication, or for the thesis/dissertation and the nature of the feedback they give for each type. They also talk about the importance of organization, creating an outline, and amount of effort required to accomplish quality writing.
Dr. Jane Maienschein, a Regents professor in the School of Life Sciences describes the editorial review process and shares strategies for improving your chances of being published. She advices graduate students to "get a point" in their writing, seek feedback and to be persistent.
Dr. Kory Floyd, a Professor in the Hugh Down's School of Communication, shares some insights about what journal editors are looking for and provides some helpful information about what you can do to better your chances of getting published.
Dr. Stephen West, a Professor in Psychology at ASU outlines the review process used in peer-reviewed journals. He provides advice on submitting a paper to a journal for the first time, and how to recover and handle revisions and rejections from a journal.
Dr. Ranu Jung, a Professor in Bioengineering, discusses the routines, habits and tactics to increase your research productivity to help you accomplish your dreams.
Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Regents' Professor and Joaqin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, speaks to the importance of passion and discipline in order to be a successful, productive, and engaged researcher.
Dr Nancy Rodriguez, Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, shares strategies for publishing while in graduate school. She talks about writing with a purpose, the impact a mentor can have on your publication success and the role that research plays in attaining future employment.
Dr. Paul Hirt, Professor in History, discusses how you should not let your hard work on seminar papers go to waste by providing advice on turning them into a conference presentation and then a publication.
Dr. Subhash Mahajan, Regents' Professor and Director of the School of Materials, talks about the importance of making good decisions in order to be successful in your graduate career and beyond, starting with choosing your advisor and research topic.
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