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A recap of the 2023-24 MIT Career Exploration Series

CAPD

The Career Exploration Series is an initiative led by Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) at MIT to promote career exploration throughout the fall and IAP for students and postdocs. In previous years, events were primarily condensed in the week leading up to the Fall Career Fair in September.

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Musical Pathways

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Through three community-building workshops, the project generated opportunities for dialogue between current students, academic staff, University services and external professionals. The three events are documented in the project website.

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Helping students with their studies

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this post I will introduce and talk about four mechanisms which we have developed and use to support students who encounter difficulties during their studies. The four mechanisms are: Note of concern Student welfare week Student Leadership Award Professional Development course.

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Risk it, you’re worth it!: A cabaret of careers at Employ.ed

Teaching Matters Student Employment

programme quickly reveals vast sets of management skills essential to working life related to well-being, professional development, and even the dreaded imposter syndrome. Both skills I had been fortunate enough to practise at a student-led mental health charity the preceding year during term time. However, the Employ.ed

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Representing a diverse learning community in the School of Health in Social Science

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Recognising this as a team of five postgraduate research students (PGR) representatives, we organised intellectually stimulating events focusing on the academic, social and wellbeing development of our diverse PGR learning community. We kicked off the year with an event titled, “PhD is a Rollercoaster”.

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Excellence in Doctoral Education and Career Development Programme

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The Excellence in Doctoral Education and Career Development Programme is made up of three interrelated work streams: supervisor training and support, mentorship and wellbeing and personal and professional development record. Places can be booked for the lunchtime launch event on the 21 st of June.

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Learning from each other: Adventures in student engagement with learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Two of our AFHEA students from the 2018 cohort presented on their own approaches to teaching at the vet school’s Celebrating Teaching event (see picture below). Both presentations were professional and thought-provoking, and sat comfortably alongside talks by members of teaching staff.