Brown Bags and Talks

The CARR Brown Bag Series is back this Fall 2023! Join us in conversation about issues and directions in the field of addiction and recovery. This happens every TUESDAY 11 am - 12 nn at Weeks Hall Conference Room 228 (unless otherwise another venue is specified).

The Center for Addiction Recovery Research hosts a series of brown bag sessions, which are exciting and insightful learning activities aimed at providing opportunities for open conversations, idea sharing, and collaborative reflections on the essential and foundational aspects of addiction recovery research. It caters to new graduate students and prepares emerging researchers for the rigorous and meaningful journey of graduate-level research and scholarship.

Life begins at PhD: Career trajectories Post-PhD (September 5; Weeks Hall Conference Room 328) 
Resource Person: Dr. Antover Tuliao
This short seminar discusses the possible career trajectories post-PhD. Industries covered in the discussion include academia and research institutions (from research-intensive universities, liberal arts colleges, medical-teaching universities, and research centers), government and non-governmental organizations, policy-making bodies and "think tanks", and clinical practice. Presenters will discuss the baseline requirements for entering these industries with a Ph.D. degree and what skills and accomplishments are needed to be marketable in these industries.

From Master's to PhD:  What do you focus on during the journey? (September 12)
Resource Person: Dr. Devin Mills
This short seminar discusses how graduate school changes from the master's level to the Ph.D. level.  We will discuss general expectations of the program and research advisors, and the importance of engaging with your advisor early on in your studies.  We will also discuss the transition from a "mentor/mentee" relationship to a colleague relationship with your advisor.  Finally, we will discuss the importance of managing the expectations you may place on yourself and the importance of self-care. 

How to: Read a Journal Article using Meta-Reading (September 19; Weeks Hall Conference Room 227)
Resource Person: Dr. Antover Tuliao
This short seminar introduces graduate students to the concept and skill of meta-reading journal articles. This hands-on seminar helps students to dissect a journal article. But rather than focusing on what the author is "saying", students will be taught how to focus on what the author is "doing". Skills taught in this seminar will help the students not only be better readers, but also teach students how to be better writers of publishable scientific manuscripts and how to be better peer reviewers.

How to: Do a Literature Review  (September 26 & October 3)
Resource Person: Nephtaly Joel Botor/Dr. Antover Tuliao
This short seminar is a continuation of the How-To: Meta-Reading seminar. This seminar provides graduate students with tips on how to perform a literature review for their own research and in preparation for a dissertation. Different types and purposes of literature review will be briefly discussed, followed by tips on how to aggregate and synthesize copious amounts of information.  

How to: Develop a Research Question (October 10) 
Resource Person: Dr. Antover Tuliao
This seminar provides graduate students tips on how to start, craft, and develop their research questions and research agenda. Faculty present will give their own processes in how they develop their own research agenda and questions.

Publish or Perish: The Peer Review Process  (October 17)
Resource Person: Dr. Antover Tuliao
This short seminar introduces graduate students to the process of peer review, from tips on picking a journal outlet that would fit the manuscript, the peer review process, authorship, to having the manuscript accepted and being in press. Other faculty members will also be present to share their thoughts and experiences on submitting manuscripts for publication.

How to: Do Peer Reviewing  (October 24)
Resource Person: Dr. Antover Tuliao
This seminar provides students with an introduction to how to do a peer review of scholarly manuscripts. The seminar will start with a brief review of the peer review process, followed by the anatomy of a review, and finally discussing what to look for in the various parts of a scholarly manuscript.  

Conversations about Succeeding Graduate School (October 31) 
This is an open conversation among students on their plans, aspirations, and strategies on how to achieve their academic and career goals.

Self-Care (November 7) 
Resource Person: Dr. Heather Austin-Robillard 
This short seminar tackles how graduate students can foster their own personal well-being as they take on their academic journey.

Frontiers in Data Collection and Analytics in the Context of Addiction Sciences (November 14 & 21) 
Resource Persons: TBA
This two-session seminar provides graduate students an orientation on emerging approaches in data collection (e.g., computer-assisted experiments, virtual reality and drinking topography, biopotential and heart variability measures) and analytics (e.g., use of panel and large-scale data sets, social network analysis and/or machine learning). [These are also open for suggestions if participants wish to discuss specific approach or method.]

Critical Discussion on Scientific Reasoning (November 28)
Resource Person: Dr. Antover Tuliao 
This short seminar introduces students to the works of Kahneman and Tversky (Cognitive Biases) and Paul Meehl (Prediction Procedures), as well as emerging issues such as replication, the Scientist-Practitioner Model, and open-science.

Should you have any queries regarding the Brownbag Sessions or if you have suggestions about topics that will be helpful to emerging scholars like you, feel free to email us at hs.carr@ttu.edu.

PAST BROWN BAG SERIES

• Brown Bag Series Spring 2022
• Brown Bag Series Fall 2021