Programs for Faculty
Creating an Optimal Research Group: Establishing Lab Culture and Setting Expectations
Paula Welander, Professor of Earth System Science & Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education
Practical guidance for faculty on building and managing effective research teams while balancing mentorship and the demands of leading a lab, especially when success is closely tied to both individual and team performance. Learn strategies to foster a positive lab culture and set clear expectations to ensure the success of your research program.
Building Trust in Research Communities: Evidence-based strategies to support graduate and trainee success
Successful research communities require trust so that everyone feels they can function and contribute from the standpoint of their backgrounds and identities. Join us for a conversation in which we consider a chief barrier to success—the identity threat we can pose to each other based on the role of our identities in the history and structure of society—and strategies for building the trust needed to achieve success for our trainees and graduate students, both interpersonally and at an organizational scale.
Claude M. Steele, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Psychology
Joseph M. DeSimone, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine, Professor of Chemical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Chemistry, of Materials Science and Engineering, and of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business; Founding Faculty Director, Center for STEMM Mentorship at Stanford
How to De-escalate Conflict: Troubleshooting Real-world Scenarios
At this workshop you will have an opportunity to discuss, with faculty peers, existing, anticipated or previously managed examples of conflict you have navigated at Stanford. You will work in small groups and gain insights on how your colleagues may have navigated similar challenges and brainstorm with them a path forward. Brenda will then debrief cases in the large group setting, and offer proven conflict de-escalation and resolution strategies that are applicable to these and other disputes.
Hypothetical cases, drawn from Brenda’s real-world experience, will also be available for discussion for those who may not have a specific concern in mind. Faculty will have the opportunity to schedule confidential follow up meetings with Brenda to discuss specific concerns.
Vaughn Rasberry, Associate Professor of English & Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education
Brenda Berlin, University Ombudsperson
How to De-escalate Conflict: Proven Approaches for Graduate Advisors
Vaughn Rasberry, Associate Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, Associate Vice Provost, VPGE
Brenda Berlin, University Ombudsperson
Conflict is unavoidable in all professional relationships, including those between faculty and graduate students. How do faculty minimize the likelihood of a conflict arising? And when a conflict does arise, how do they resolve it? Though it may not be possible--or even desirable—to eliminate all potential for conflict, proven methods exist for reducing these situations or resolving them successfully. This workshop introduces strategies for managing conflict and offers case studies for participants to apply these strategies and exchange insights with their faculty colleagues. Faculty will have the opportunity to schedule confidential follow up meetings with Brenda to discuss specific concerns. Brenda Berlin, University Ombuds, has decades of experience as both a trained mediator and faculty member.
Providing Effective Feedback as a Graduate Advisor
Giving effective feedback to advisees and mentees is a critical responsibility of graduate advising, yet it can be difficult to do and stressful to receive. In this workshop, we will describe a simple, step-by-step process for delivering feedback early and often. With this approach, advisees and mentees benefit from receiving important and useful feedback and graduate advisors will experience less stress and have to deal with less conflict in their role as “manager" of the research team.
Paula Welander, Professor of Earth System Science & Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education
How to De-escalate Conflict: Proven Approaches for Graduate Advisors & Case Studies
Conflict is unavoidable in all professional relationships, including those between faculty and graduate students. How do faculty minimize the likelihood of a conflict arising? And when a conflict does arise, how do they resolve it? Though it may not be possible--or even desirable—to eliminate all potential for conflict, proven methods exist for reducing these situations or resolving them successfully. This workshop introduces strategies for managing conflict and offers case studies for participants to apply these strategies and exchange insights with their faculty colleagues. Faculty will have the opportunity to schedule confidential follow up meetings with Brenda to discuss specific concerns.
Vaughn Rasberry, Associate Professor of English & Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education
Brenda Berlin, University Ombudsperson