Promoting Yourself via Building Academic Community: A practical and hands-on why-to and how-to
February 13, 2025 10:30 am
Virtual
This workshop is open to all U-M Faculty. This is a virtual workshop. A Zoom link will be shared with registrants via a Google Calendar invitation closer to the event date. If you have any questions, please contact adv-events@umich.edu. Please note that any non-U-M faculty registrants will have their registration dropped.
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.
About the Presenter:
Dr. 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. With over 35 awards and honours for research and teaching, recognitions include being elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Scientists, and Artists (2021), the Outstanding Theoretical Paper Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (2023), the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (2022), the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology (2016 and 2020), the 2016 Committee on Women in Psychology Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association, and the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science (2013). Dr. van Anders is committed to progressive transformation efforts for academic spaces and beyond.