References & Resources for Canadian Geotechnical Society webinar, 28 May 2021

My slides from today’s training are available here:

The monthly column that I write for University Affairs is called Ask Dr. Editor. Please feel free to send me a question!

Three of my favourite books on learning:

I’ve written about P&T dossiers in my column, notably in the pieces:

Andrew Rumbach shares his own dossier and letters on his “my tenure dossier” webpage.

Research that shows that diversity and inclusion are good for research includes:

Hong, L., & Page, S. E. (2004). Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(46), 16385-16389. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403723101

Campbell, L. G., Mehtani, S., Dozier, M. E., & Rinehart, J. (2013). Gender-heterogeneous working groups produce higher quality science. PloS one, 8(10), e79147. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079147

My favourite tip to make writing more dense and efficient: cut “is.”