Promoting Yourself via Building Academic Community: A practical and hands-on why-to and how-to

Promoting Yourself via Building Academic Community:
A practical and hands-on why-to and how-to

Via Zoom
Registration is limited to U-M Faculty (all tracks)

Self-promotion can feel awkward, slimy, or inauthentic; it doesn’t have to. In this workshop, we will discuss self-promotion framed within notions of building connectedness and situating you (more) in your discipline and related networks. We will discuss why we should self-promote and how to do it, using concrete examples of what has worked in the presenter’s experience and how.

We will use hands-on activities and exercises, and attendees will take home individualized examples to jump-start or enhance their own practice. In addition, we will discuss how our own social locations (intersecting axes of oppression and/or privilege) may affect whether and how we do/n’t self-promote and people’s responses to that, and what to do given this. Self-promotion can be an important part of building your academic community and critical to many kinds of recognition and opportunity, and this workshop will help you think through this important aspect of academic life in ways that make sense for you.

Presenter: Sari van Anders, Sari van Anders, Canada 150 Research Chair in Social Neuroendocrinology, Sexuality, and Gender/Sex, and Professor of Psychology, Gender Studies, and Neuroscience, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

Presenter Bio:
Sari van Anders is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Social Neuroendocrinology, Sexuality, and Gender/Sex, and Professor of Psychology, Gender Studies, and Neuroscience, at Queen’s University after spending a decade at the University of Michigan. Dr. van Anders has been recognized with the 2013 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science, the 2014 Frank Beach Young Investigator Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, the 2016 and 2020 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology, the 2016 Committee on Women in Psychology Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association, and as one of 50 Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Revolutionaries from the University of Minnesota’s Program in Human Sexuality in 2020 as well as a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of new Scholars in 2021, and more. Dr. van Anders is committed to progressive transformation efforts for academic spaces and beyond.