Doc101

By Self, Rademaker, and Williams

A podcast for doctoral students, with special attention to some of the "soft skills" necessary to earn one's degree. New episodes publish every other Monday.... more

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November 02, 2020 Episode 20: Use the Force - Carefully
We discuss the role of being an expert in the public square - and at the holiday table - and some of the responsibilities and considerations of developing expertise in inquiry.
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Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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31min
October 19, 2020 Episode 19: A Soul in Tension
We discuss the challenge of synthesizing feedback, especially in a context where there are no right or wrong answers. Understanding feedback as discussion and discovery is a valuable posture to growing.
Links and Notes:
"Learning to Fly" written by Ezrin and Gilmour
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Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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31min
October 06, 2020 Episode 18: Of Figs and Simplicity
We discuss the challenge of communicating scholarship in ways that are accessible to a larger audience.
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Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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29min
September 21, 2020 Episode 17: Standing in Front of Trains
We discuss the ways in which job opportunities come to new docs, and how we find and curate our work.
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Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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33min
August 24, 2020 Episode 16: The Art of Being Confused
We discuss the value of learning to live in a place of cognitive dissonance, and how doc students experience the development of this skill.
Links and Notes:
"Not by Chance Alone with the Legendary Social Psychologist Elliot Aronson" by Scott Barry Kaufman
"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong." By M. L. Mencken in "The Divine Afflatus" in New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917)
Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory. (2006). In J. E. Roeckelein (Ed.), Elsevier's dictionary of psychological theories. Elsevier Science & Technology. Credo Reference:
Posselt, J., 2018. "Normalizing struggle: Dimensions of faculty support for doctoral students and implications for persistence and well-being. The Journal of Higher Education, 89(6), 988–1013. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2018.1449080 ABSTRACT Faculty mentoring is a durable structure of doctoral education that facilitates intellectual growth, professional socialization, and progressive independence. We must more deeply understand, however, professors’ role in supporting doctoral students’ persistence and well-being, especially for students from groups who have been historically excluded and marginalized in their fields. This study strived for such understanding by evaluating findings of a phenomenology of faculty support in 4 high-diversity science, technology, engineering, and mathematics PhD programs at 2 research universities. I found that holistic faculty support has academic, psychosocial, and sociocultural dimensions, which faculty enact through specific behaviors. Students reported meaningful experiences with faculty that normalized struggle and failure by promoting a growth mind-set, validating student competence and potential, and opening discussion about racialized and gendered dynamics in academia. Collectively, these activities may prevent students from misconstruing the difficulty of graduate school with their ability to succeed. The article discusses how the findings may advance future higher education research and faculty professional development.
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Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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37min
August 10, 2020 Episode 15: Valuing the Literature Review
Larry Machi joins us to discuss the literature review, and recommends ways of approaching the literature review in terms of a practice of critical thinking. Literature reviews are often treated as evidence that the doc student read a lot of articles. In this discussion, we discuss the deeper purposes and value of the literature review.
Links:
The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success by Lawrence A. Machi and Brenda T. McEvoy
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Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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31min
July 27, 2020 Episode 14: Crazy Walls and Literature Reviews
We discuss the mechanics of literature review; using a citation manager, annotating sources, and mapping/outlining literature. Neill, C. (2017). Writing & Research. Writing a Literature Review. Radiation Therapist, 26(1), 89–91. Bloomberg, L. D., & Volpe, M. (2016). Completing your qualitative dissertation :A road map from beginning to end (Third edition.). SAGE.
Links:
Scott's Annotated Bibliography Checklist
Examples of "Crazy Walls"
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Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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40min
July 13, 2020 Episode 13: Getting Paid
We are joined by Dr. Rose Opengart, who helps us discuss the skills employers want beyond the credentials.
Link:
"Find Your Where: Turn the Tables, Negotiate Your Success, and Do Work and Life on Your Own Terms" by Rose Opengart
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Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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34min
June 29, 2020 Episode 12: Beyond the IRB
We discuss the ethics of research and the deeper challenges of thinking about the effects of data collection and dissemination.
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Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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31min
June 15, 2020 Episode 11: Project Management
We discuss the ways in which the life of doc students (and folks who have earned their doctorates) is really a kind of free-lance lifestyle. We discuss the processes, and some of the tools, we use to approach managing our projects. Scott recommended Linnea recommended Also, since Linnea mentioned checklists, check out
Links:
"Getting Things Done" by David Allen
"Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day" by Joan Bolker
"The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande
Contact Us:
Email: Dr. J. Scott Self
Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker
Email: Dr. Peter Williams
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35min

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How many episodes does Doc101 have?

The podcast currently has 51 episodes available.