Workplace Navigation: Assessing a Lab or Research Group

Overview

Understanding the environment you work in is critical to planning for success. Here you can learn how to assess your research mentor, your manager, and the level of inclusivity in a research environment.

Learning outcomes:

  1. Assess your working relationship with someone who has the authority to evaluate you
  2. Discuss strategies for assessing the inclusivity of a particular research environment
  3. Discuss strategies to gauge a lead researcher's ability and commitment to building an inclusive environment
  4. Use questions during an interview to determine whether an organization values a healthy environment

Materials:

Assess Your Working Relationship With Your PI Quiz
Using the Interview to Avoid a Toxic Position slides
Handout describing verbal, para-verbal, and non-verbal things to look for
Assessing the Level of Inclusivity Present in Your Lab and Navigating the Gap slides - coming 2023

Events:

Using the Interview to Avoid a Toxic Position
Assessing the Level of Inclusivity Present in Your Lab and Navigating the Gap - coming 2023

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