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 whether you are in a trainee-centered research environment.

Learning outcomes:

  1. Assess your working relationship with someone who has the authority to evaluate you
  2. Discuss strategies for assessing how trainee-centered a particular research environment is
  3. Discuss strategies to gauge a lead researcher's ability and commitment to building an high-functioning and healthy 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

Upcoming Events

CPD Office Hours: Conducting Successful Rotations (for 1st year PhD students)

Date:
Time: 10 - 11 a.m. PT

Exploring Postdoc Pathways in Industry: A Conversation with Genentech

Date:
Time: 12 - 1 p.m. PT

Research Mentor/People Manager Training, Module 6

Date:
Time: 12 - 2 p.m.