WiSER Seminars

WiSER seminars will run throughout the academic year 2012/2013. The seminars provide networking opportunities for women in Trinity, in addition to offering advice and information on a wide variety of useful topics.

Upcoming Events

Wednesday 27th February

Life in the Blogosphere: Social media for academics and researchers

Date: Wednesday 27th February
Time: 1.00 - 2.00 pm
Location:School of Maths Seminar Room, 20 Westland Row (Entrance through Hamilton Building)
http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/map.php?q=27-29
Speaker: Prof Kevin Mitchell
A light lunch will be provided from 12.45

Registration: To register your place click here. Registration is free and all are welcome to attend.

Prof Kevin Mitchell will discuss how to start and grow a blog as a scientist, the benefits and impacts it can have on a research career, and the use of Twitter for academics.

Kevin Mitchell is an Associate Professor in the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity College Dublin, a member of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. Since 2009, he has been writing a research-based blog called “Wiring the Brain”, which deals with issues at the intersection of genetics and neuroscience. 

It is aimed primarily at researchers in these fields at all levels but also attracts considerable interest from the general public and averages over 600 visits per day. It has been quoted in The Scientist and covered in The New York Times. He has also written invited guest blogs for Nature, Scientific American and BigThink.

He is also active on Twitter (@WiringtheBrain), where he discusses the latest research and broader ideas in genetics and neuroscience.

To register your place click here. All are welcome to attend.

About Prof Mitchell
Kevin is a graduate of the Genetics Department, Trinity College Dublin (B.A., Mod. 1991) and received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (1997), where he studied nervous system development with Prof. Corey Goodman.  He did postdoctoral research with Prof. Marc Tessier-Lavigne at the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University, using molecular genetics to study neural development in the mouse.  Since 2002 he has been on the faculty at Trinity College Dublin as a Science Foundation Ireland Investigator.  He was an EMBO Young Investigator and was elected to Fellowship of Trinity College in 2009. His interests are in understanding the genetic program specifying the wiring of the brain and its relevance to variation in human faculties, especially to psychiatric and neurological disease.  He is particularly interested in schizophrenia, autism and synaesthesia.

Past Events

Tuesday 11th December WiSER Lecture

” Transitioning from post-doc to a leadership role; aspirations versus reality”
The career progression of post-doctoral research fellows at Imperial College London

Dr. Bergin will deliver the lecture on soon to be published quantitative data collected from Imperial College London examining the career aspirations of post-doctoral research fellows versus the reality of their next career move. The data was collected through two large scale surveys, the first of the post-doctoral staff in the three faculties at ICL (Natural Science, Engineering, and Medicine), the second from all  principal investigators (in the same faculties) requesting information on the destination of their last 5 post-doctoral employees. The resulting data was analysed by gender.

Imperial College London, where Dr. Bergin was based for three years, is a world leading research and teaching institution ranked 6th in the world QS university rankings.

Date:Tuesday, 11th December
Time: 1.00pm
Location: To be announced
(A light lunch will be provided from 12.30pm)

To register your place please click here, all are welcome to attend.

Tuesday 27th November WiSER Workshop

Successful People Management in Research

At this workshop participants will be presented with leadership and people management challenges in small groups and will work together to develop strategies for successful team, peer and senior management relationships.
This workshop is open to all researchers and academics, all are welcome.

Date: 27th November
Time: 1pm-2pm
Location: Luce seminar hall
(A light lunch will be available from 12.30)

Join us on the 27th to challenge yourself to develop your leadership and people management skills.

To register your place click here.

Wednesday 13th June WiSER Academic Writing Group Seminar

Publish and Flourish!
Join a WiSER writing group

• Receive constructive feedback on your writing from interested peers
• Have an incentive to get some writing done before the next meeting
• Talk to other academics going through the same process
• Combat the solitude and isolation often associated with writing
• Writing groups provide commentary, deadlines and accountability
  
  

To learn more about writing groups and have the opportunity to join one come along on:
Wednesday, 13th June
Time: 1-2pm
Location: Large Conference Room, O’Reilly Institute
Speaker: Dr.Fiona Lithander, School of Medicine

http://tinyurl.com/map-to-OReilly-Institute

(light lunch provided, all welcome)

Upcoming Public Lecture

Thursday 24th May

European Research Council: Strategies for Incorporating Gender Policy in Research

Identified by Time magazine as one of Europe’s most influential women in Science, Prof. Helga Nowotny President of the European Research Council, will be highlighting the role the ERC has taken to incorporate gender policy within European research. 

Speaker:      Prof. Nowotny, President, European Research Council

Chair:           Prof. David Lloyd, Chairperson, Irish Research Council

Date: 24th May
Time: 9.15am-10.15am
Location: The Knowledge Exchange, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (click here for map)

Prof. Nowotny will discuss the issues identified by ERC in incorporating gender policy, actions taken, and what lessons can be transferred to other national and international research funding institutions. 

The ERC's mission is to support frontier researchers across Europe, irrespective of nationality, gender or age.  An ERC Gender Equality Plan, based on mainstreaming gender with the focus on excellence, has been approved and is being implemented within the organization.

Please feel free to circulate this invitation, all are welcome to attend

Thursday 10th May

The First Steps into a ‘Leaky Pipeline ’ – A Longitudinal study of the Pipeline within a Danish University

Date: 10th May
Time: 4.00-6.00pm
Location: Faculty of Engineering, Maths & Science Conference Room, Hamilton Building,
http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/map.php?q=o%27reilly+institute
Speaker: Ruth Emerek


Professor Emerek’s research illustrates that the higher the level of academic positions at universities the lower the percentage of women among employees in Danish universities. Earlier studies have revealed that the increasing proportion of women among university graduates has not resulted in their increasing representation among university academics. This has been attributed to a historical backlog or to a ’leaky pipeline’. This study, based on a longitudinal analysis of data from Aalborg University, documents that women leak from the ‘pipeline’
at the very first steps of the career ladder.

Prof. Emerek's key research areas are gender and migration research as well as statistical methods. She is member of ENEGE, the European network of experts on gender equality, and SEN, the European network of socio-economic experts in the anti-discrimination field, and Director of CoMID, Center for the study of Migration and Diversity at Aalborg University.

This talk and the reception which will follow will also give attendees the opportunity to discuss issues surrounding the underrepresentation of women researchers in the Faculty and potential actions required.

Thursday 19th April - WiSER Harnessing the H-index

CHANGE OF VENUE

Due to the high demand for places at the WiSER Seminar “Harnessing the H-index, smart and effective use of publication and evaluation metrics” there has been a change of venue.

The seminar will now take place in the LBO4 lecture room on the lower basement floor of the Lloyd Building.

Date: 19th April
Time: 12.45-2.00pm 
Location: LB04 Lower Basement, Llyod Building http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/map.php?q=lloyd
Facilitator: Niamh Brennan, TCD Library

Niamh Brennan is a TCD librarian and a published expert on research evaluation standards and bibliometrics.
In this seminar Niamh will provide a basic understanding of publication and evaluation metrics and practical ways in which they can be used to raise your research profile and strengthen promotion and grant applications. Topics will include:

• A brief introduction to H-index and other evaluation and publication metrics
• Applying evaluation & publication metrics to your CV and research profile in a way that works for you
• Research Quality Metrics (RQM)– College’s method of evaluating research success
• Using publication metrics for a research grant proposal
• Using publication metrics for research reports and reviews

This seminar is open to all academic staff and researchers from any discipline within College.
A light lunch will be provided from 12.45 onwards with the seminar beginning promptly at 1pm.

Tuesday 14th February - WiSER Network Event 
Time: 1-2pm
Location: Large Lecture theatre, O'Reilly Institute

WiSER Workshop: A WiSER approach to the challenges of research

WiSER presents an interactive problem solving session where attendees, in small groups, share their experience and knowledge and propose solutions to common problems and barriers encountered in research and along the academic career path. 
Light refreshments will be provided.

If you have any recommendations or requests for future seminar topics, we’d love to hear from you. Send us an email to wiser@tcd.ie and explain what you’d like to see dealt with that is relevant to you as a woman in SET.

Sample topics from past seminars include:

• Negotiation Skills
• Writing an article for publication
• Effective Networking
• Managing Maternity
• Presentation Skills

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