Tools for Success – Getting into Graduate School, Surviving Graduate School, & Getting a Job
Articles, Chapters, & Other Resources
Being “Nontraditional” in Academe
- “The Ideal PhD Researcher Has No Baggage” – A Critique of Traditional Views of Doctoral Study
- Transparency about the Hidden Curriculum in Higher Ed: Class & the First-Generation Student (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Graduate Study for First-Generation College Students (Inside Higher Ed – GradHacker Blog)
- From First-Gen College Student to First-Gen Graduate Student (Inside Higher Ed – GradHacker Blog)
- A Reality Check about the Lives of Today’s Undergraduate Population (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- The Realities of Marginality for Black Professors (Inside Higher Ed)
- On Being a Black Professor – Rationality, Intellect, and Full Humanity Held Hostage (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- On Race and Gender for Black Women in the Professoriate (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- “How to Make Graduate School More Humane” – On Graduate Student Mental Health (Pacific Standard)
Being a Junior Colleague: Research, Teaching, & Service (In That Precise Order)
- Navigating Authorship Ethically within Research Teams (Committee on Publication Ethics)
- Times Higher Education: Essential PhD Tips
- Know the Difference: Graduate School is Supposed to Be Challenging, Not Traumatic (Chronicle Vitae)
- 10 Ways to Make Your PhD Experience Easier and More Enjoyable (Elsevier)
- Mentoring Undegraduate Students as a PhD Student (Association for Psychological Science)
- 31 Things to Consider When Choosing which Journal to Submit Your Paper (Medium)
- InsideHigherEd.com GradHacker Blog: “Conferences: ‘Adulting’ for Grad Students” (How to Make the Most of Conference Travel)
- ThoughtCo. (Tara Kuther) – Time Management Tips for Grad Students
- University of Maryland Counseling Centers – Time Management Tips for Graduate Students
- How to Create a Syllabus – The Basics (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Mind/Shift Blog: Manu Kapur’s Work on Productive Failure
- FinishYourThesis.com (Dora Farkas) – 10 Surprising Time Management Strategies to Help You Graduate
- APA gradPSYCH – Where Do the Hours Go?
- InsideHigherEd.com – Managing Your Adviser
- InsideHigherEd.com GradHacker Blog: “Going Alt-Ac: How to Begin” (Navigating the Non-Academic Job Market with a Ph.D.)
- Defining a Proposal in One Table: How to Write a Blumenfeld Chart (Medium)
- When Advising Goes Wrong – Toxic Mentors & Academic Bullying (Tenure She Wrote Blog)
- Considerations for Choosing a Dissertation Adviser (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- The Chronicle of Higher Education – “Going Rogue” – Reflections on Developing Independence as Scholar while a Ph.D. Student
- Do You Have a Toxic Collaborator? (Research Whisperer Blog)
- Advice for Faculty Supporting Students with Disabilities (Univ. of Washington)
Self-Mentorship Themed Sites
- InsideHigherEd.com’s Career Advice Section
- PhD Life Blog (University of Warwick)
- The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Vitae Site – Career Advice Center
- The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Vitae Site – Resource Center
- The Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker Blog
- Edge for Scholars Blog
- Research Whisperer Blog
- Rutgers University TA Project Article Archive
- Magna Publishers (Teaching Advice)
- TheProfessorIsIn.com’s Graduate Student Concerns Blog
- Times Higher Education: PhD Advice Section
Organizations & Relevant Communities
- Ethnic Minority Psychology Organizations List (American Psychological Association)
- Includes Association of Black Psychologists, National Latinx Psychological Association, and Asian American Psychological Association
- Scholarly Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education – Includes grad student mentorship programs
- American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Adolescence and Youth Development Special Interest Group (SIG) – Includes grad student mentorship programs
- American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Cultural-Historical Research SIG
- Cultural Praxis (Related to Mind, Culture, & Activity Journal)
- Critical Psychology/Critical Praxis
- Resources for Qualitative Research in Psychology (Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology – APA Division 5)
- International Society for Theoretical Psychology
- Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology (APA Division 24)
Useful Tools & Other Articles
- Scimago Journal Rank Database – Identify journals in your research area, ranked by impact factor
- MyTomatoes.com – Pomodoro Timer Technique
- Tomato-Timer.com – Pomodoro Timer Technique
- LifeHacker.com – Productivity 101 – A Primer to the Get Things Done (GTD) Philosophy
- Productivity Challenge Timer (App)
- Evernote – Note-taking Tool (also app)
- MindMeister – Mindmapping/Concept Mapping Tool
- Asana – Collaborative Task Management Tool
- Google Keep – Sticky Notes (sync between app and desktop, permits use of images and checklists, shareable)
- Trello – Collaborative Project and Task Management
- Slack Collaboration Platform (App and desktop version)
- Tips for College Students with ADHD (Univ. of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign)