Resources for Students

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)
  • How to Write Measurable Learning Objectives -Basics (Arizona State University – TeachOnline)
• 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)