Professional Development Archives | Current Grad Students

March 20, 2021

A New Approach to Graduate Professional Development

These days, Carleton graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have access to a newly revamped professional development (PD) program that is only growing in size and scope. David Lafferty, Coordinator of... More

November 19, 2020

A Fantastic Professional Development Experience

These days, Carleton graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have more resources than ever to assist them with their professional development (PD). Says PD coordinator David Lafferty: “We know that students... More

September 22, 2017

Interested in Supplementing Your Carleton Coursework?

Carleton University has joined the N2 Network for a second year to allow all Carleton students, staff and faculty to apply for online certificate programs offered by the CITI program. The Collaborative Institutional Training... More

January 29, 2016

Why Participate in the 3MT?

There are countless great reasons to participate in the Carleton Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! Develop your Elevator Pitch When you sign up for the 3MT, you’re going to learn... More

November 30, 2015

Life After Grad School

On Nov. 26, the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, along with Co-op and Career Services, sponsored a Professional Development day to help grad students explore careers outside academia when... More

September 8, 2015

Why Professional Development is so Important

More and more graduate students are looking for ways to gain practical skills and experience to ensure success in their studies and to be more prepared when looking for work.... More

August 21, 2014

Professional Development is Not ‘Just One More Thing to Do’

More and more grad students are looking for ways to gain practical skills and experience to ensure success in their studies and to be more prepared when looking for work.... More

July 4, 2014

Work-Life Balance: Don’t Let Your Dissertation Define You

By Shaun Stevenson, PhD Student, Carleton University The dissertation process can be all-consuming. With constant deadlines, committee meetings, research, writing and endless hours of anxiety-ridden procrastination, tackling your dissertation can... More

June 2, 2014

The Three Best Dissertation Writing Blogs

By Shaun Stevenson, PhD English Student For those of you looking for non-traditional resources to help you through the dissertation process, blogs can provide insightful perspectives, reserves of relevant articles... More

May 9, 2014

Some Notes on Technical Writing

Written in 2014 by Rozita Rashtchi, PhD Student Systems & Computer Engineering Science and engineering programs often require grad students to produce technical documents including conference papers, journal papers, reports,... More