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Vitamin PhD is a "supplement" to doctoral study produced at Boston University. Our podcast delivers career narratives and skills know-how through two formats. In Career Pathways episodes, we help you explore career options by interviewing people who have earned their doctorate and now work in a variety of sectors. In our Navigating Challenges episodes, we discuss issues that can present difficulties in graduate school, and we provide tips to help you succeed.
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On the final episode of season 10, the hosts are talking with Dr. Patricia Fabian about taking an academic career path after getting a PhD. We hope you have enjoyed this season of Vitamin PhD on career development!Dr. Patricia Fabian's Links:Website: https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/m-fabian/Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatriciaFabianS@ PatriciaFabianS
On this episode, our hosts speak with Dr. Lindsey Butler, Director of Climate and Health Resilience at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, about deciding to take a non-academic path after getting a PhD.Websites:https://coverage.bluecrossma.com/author/dr-lindsey-butlerTwitter:https://twitter.com/drlindseybutler@drlindseybutler
Welcome to episode 3! Today, the hosts speak with Maria Erb, Director of the Newbury Center for First Generation students at Boston University, about supporting students, especially first generation students and students from underrepresented groups, in navigating career opportunities and education.Website:https://www.bu.edu/newbury-center/about/meet-the-staff/Newbury Center at BU: https://www.bu.edu/newbury-center/
For this episode, hosts Alexa and Adrianna speak with Dr. Autumn Asher BlackDeer, a queer decolonial scholar-activist from the Southern Cheyenne Nation who currently serves as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. They discuss the idea of decolonizing the academy and considerations for professional development. You can find out more about Dr. BlackDeer on her website.
In this episode, our hosts speak with Dr. Gertrude Nonterah, the founder of The Bold PhD and speaker, expert panelist, and workshop facilitator. They discuss the meaning behind a personal brand and how to use social media to facilitate career development.
Welcome to season 10 of Vitamin PhD! In this episode, we are introduced to this season's core capacity, career development, and we meet our new hosts: Adrianna Spindle and Alexa Friedman. We hope you enjoy listening! Stay tuned each Thursday for new episodes of this season.
Today the hosts speak with Dr. Susanna Harris, founder of PhD Balance, on how we can use self-awareness to better practice communication and advocate for our mental health. Links:PhD BalanceDr. Susanna Harris's TwitterDragonfly Mental Health
Today, the hosts are talking with Dr. Hannah Čulík-Baird on the importance of using self-awareness to navigate academia and work on long-term projects. Links:Cicero and the Early Latin PoetsDr. Hannah Cúlik-Baird's TwitterHaruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Welcome back to Season 9 of Vitamin PhD!Today the hosts finish their conversation with Dr. Emily Roberts, Owner of Personal Finance for PhDs. This is part 2 of an episode discussing how we can use self-awareness to take control of our finances and set ourselves up for a fiscally sustainable and successful future.Links:Personal Finance for PhDsMoney Scripts QuizErin Lowry's Broke Millennial Book SeriesPhD Stipend SurveyNAB Budget Planner
Welcome back to Season 9 of Vitamin PhD!Today the hosts are speaking to Dr. Emily Roberts, Owner of Personal Finance for PhDs. This is part 1 of an episode discussing how we can use self-awareness to take control of our finances and set ourselves up for a fiscally sustainable and successful future.Links:Personal Finance for PhDsMoney Scripts QuizErin Lowry's Broke Millennial Book SeriesPhD Stipend SurveyNAB Budget Planner
Welcome to our first official episode of Season 9: Self-Awareness. In this episode, our hosts speak with Maria Erb, Director of the Boston University Newbury Center for First-Generation Students, about using self-awareness to accept our various identities and advocate for ourselves as well. Check out the Newbury Center website and sign up for their newsletter for updates about upcoming events!Boston University Newbury Center
In this episode, we will be meeting our new hosts for Season 9 of Vitamin PhD, Tachira Pichardo and Grace McGowan. They will be speaking with Aly and Emma, the season 8 hosts, about what their season about self awareness entails and who they will be speaking with. They also discuss their own PhD experiences in regards to how it pertains to self-awareness, along with management and leadership.
This episode features a chorus of BU graduate school alumni who share how they leverage skills from graduate school to find success in their post-graduate careers. Guests represent sectors ranging from consulting to public history and from arts administration to science writing. They bring varied experience levels, ranging from newly-minted PhDs who recently entered the workforce to mid-career and recently retired professionals. In a culmination of our season’s focus on management and leadership, they touch on management skills, transitions, and the qualities of good leadership. Guests include: Bridget Muckian, Marty Blatt, Chenguang Peng, Rebekah Beaulieu,Kelsey Gustin, Deboki Chakravarti
In this episode, the hosts talk with Dr. Joyce Wong about an approach to leadership, which foregrounds collaboration, power, critical self awareness, and relationships. How does identity intersect with approaches to leadership? Especially for minoritized groups such as women and BIPOC working in STEM? And, how is the pandemic affecting leadership in those spaces?
In this episode, Aly and Emma explore power dynamics that affect learning and working in groups and institutions with Harvard Lecturer Houman Harouni. The conversation addresses topics including group dynamics, power, leadership, social change, self-awareness and relationships in a wide variety of countries and contexts.
In today's episode, hosts Emma and Aly talk with independent global consultant Debra Wahlberg about project management. Everything from adaptability, interpersonal skills, problem solving, and leadership is discussed. Debra Wahlberg is an independent consultant who has provided strategic leadership on international development programs in culturally diverse and politically sensitive environments. She has managed teams across a range of technical areas, including administrative reform, taking market systems approaches to economic growth, strengthening civil society, youth development and more. Debra earned her MSc in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.
In this week's episode, Emma and Aly speak with Joshua Finkelstein, Executive Director of the Boston University Biological Design Center. They speak with him about collaboration and creativity, identifying a gap, risk/reward, and more. They dive into some of the structural problems with innovation, and how these issues tie into leadership.
In this week's episode, Emma and Aly start off their season with a conversation with Dr. Shari Tishman. Dr. Tishman is a Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on the teaching of thinking, the role of close observation in learning, and learning in and through the arts. This week's episodes discusses how to utilize tools within the field of metacognition in teaching and leadership, along with how to continue your personal learning and growth in the teaching field. Shari Tishman's Projects/Work:Arts as Civic CommonsOut of Eden LearnAgency by DesignVisible ThinkingArtful ThinkingSlow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation
In this episode, we will be meeting our new hosts for Season 8 of Vitamin PhD, Alyssa Kreikemeier and Emma Bortz. They will be talking with Jenna and Shaunesse', the season 7 hosts, about their most rewarding teaching moments, along with who influences them within the teaching field. The hosts also discuss what the management season will bring for listeners.
In this episode, Jenna and Shaunesse’ are joined by guests LaNysha Adams, education consultant and owner of Edlinguist Solutions LLC, and Rhonda Caston, post-doctoral fellow at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. This episode, we reach beyond academia to gain insight into how we can use our teaching skills elsewhere. We learn about the challenges and rewards of engaging with learners who may not have experienced traditional education pathways and helping them to navigate the mysteries behind job progress.
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