Workshop Synthesis

What We've Learned at this Workshop

• Teaching strategies (i.e. jigsaw, gallery walk)
• Research contracts and/or guidelines for students
• Setting the scope for undergraduate and Masters' level research projects
• Feedback on proposals
• Try to write every day
• How to lead discussions, especially in graduate seminars
• Staking your claim: this is what I'm going to do
• SERC has a wealth of online resources
• It's okay (even good) to take time for ourselves
• We are not alone
• We have a lot of collective wisdom
• Take your iPhone out of your pocket before canoeing
• Enjoyed learning about other people's research plans
• Our senior colleagues want to help us and want to see us succeed
• It's okay to recycle your own work, and you don't need to reinvent the wheel
• Keep trying -- resubmit your declined proposals

How We Can Support Each Other Going Forward

• Set up Google group or other virtual spaces to use for community
• Use the earlycareer11 and EC2011PUI email lists
• Collaborate (in research and in teaching!)
• Invite each other for seminars
• Share our ideas when we see each other (at conferences, etc)
• Give honest criticism
• Ask each other to review proposal summaries (and teaching activity ideas, and ....)
• Point exceptional students to each other
• Informal gatherings at national meetings (lunch?) (self-organized)
• Say hello when we see each other (and remind each other of who we are, when and where we met)
• Form writing accountability groups (writing support groups, writing buddies,....)
• Join ESWN (if you are female): Earth Science Women's Network
• Look for other networks