Penn Graduate Student Center
Navigating the Dissertation
About Navigating the Dissertation
Navigating the Dissertation seeks to help doctoral students be successful in the dissertation process through workshops, resources, dissertation groups, and Dissertation Boot Camp. This program is cosponsored by Penn Graduate Student Center and GAPSA.
The Library offers a great many workshops to help in the research and dissertation process.
Career Services offers extensive programming to help doctoral students transfer their skills to the academic and non-academic job market process.
Writing Days
Writing and (optional) Meditation Mondays
Feel like you're stumbling over your writing?
Stressed out after a long period of intensive writing?
Or just don't know how to clear your mind to start writing?
Join us for Writing and Meditation Mondays!!!
Each Monday (unless noted), there will be two sessions: morning session (10am-12) and afternoon session (1-4pm). You will be writing intensively with a community of dissertation writers.
In between sessions, we will have Sandi Herman, M.S., Health and Wellness Educator at Student Health Service, lead us in an optional group meditation circle featuring:
- guided seated meditation
- moving meditation (qigong)
- self-massage
The meditation will help you to better organize your mind and refresh yourself to be more productive in writing!
Morning sessions:
9:50 am: Sign in at Room 305
10:00 am -12:00 Intensive writing with a community of dissertation writers, Room 305
Meditation Circle (optional) from 12-1pm. If you do not wish to participate, you must leave the room for the 1 hour period.
Afternoon sessions
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Meditation circle led by Sandi Herman, Room 305
1:00 - 4:00 pm: Intensive writing with a community of dissertation writers, Room 305
Sign up for one or both sessions! On our registration page, you can also sign up for the optional meditation.
Career Services
Careeer Services offers workshops designed to help graduate students plan for their careers after graduation. For more information, or to register for one of these workshops visit the website http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradstud/programs.html
Expanded Career Opportunities for PhDs
Last session on: Thursday, May 03, 2012
Expanded Career Opportunities for PhDs, 2011-12
Co-sponsored by Career Services and the Vice Provost for Education
Converting Your CV to a Resume
Monday, February 6, 12-1 pm, Room 97, McNeil Building
Workshop by Career Services staff
Understanding Careers in Digital Humanities
Wednesday, February 22, 4-5:15 pm, Room 286-87, McNeil Building
Mitch Fraas, PhD, Bollinger Fellow for Library Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
A Ph.D. Headhunter's Top Five Insider Tips for Finding a Job outside Academia
Wednesday, April 5, 4:30-6 pm, Room 102, Annenberg School for communication
Susan Basalla May, PhD, Co-author, So What Are You Going to Do with That?: Finding Careers Outside Academia. Co-sponsored with GAPSA
Alternative Careers for Science-Based PhDs and Postdocs
Thursday, May 3, Time, location and speakers to be announced
Register for programs at http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradstud/calendar.html
Event Archives
Electronic Dissertation Workshop, March 16, 2010
Submission Instructions
FAQ
Copyright and your Dissertation
Graduate Student Center
3615 Locust Walk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-6221
215-746-6868
center@gsc.upenn.edu
