I advise students to spend several hours over several sessions
just perusing the current psych literature in the library and finding
what in the literature sounds like something they would like to be
doing. then see who is doing hte work and where it is done and apply
there/to them.
annette
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Pat Cabe wrote:
> I'd appreciate feedback on the following tactic for identifying graduate
> programs. The context is this: Students have wondered (to me and other members
> of this list) how to find programs appropriate to their interests. One means is
> to look in directories for programs with the relevant label. But there may be
> right many other potential graduate mentors working on problems of the sort the
> student is interested in who are not associated with programs having that
> label. So another suggestion is to identify individuals who are currently
> engaged in research on the problem of interest, and apply to the programs
> (irrespective of label) those researchers are affiliated with.
>
> Here's another possibility that occurred to me and I'm curious what others of
> you might think about it. The APA Monitor and the APS Observer run lots and
> lots of ads for new faculty with specializations often listed. If a student
> finds an advertisement for a new faculty member in an area he/she is interested
> in, it would seem to follow that the advertising department would offer
> instruction in that area (provided, of course, that the department does
> graduate education at all). So applications to the program advertising for the
> new faculty member in the specified specialty area might expand the
> possiblities for students attempting to find appropriate places to go.
>
> Granted, there are some obvious drawbacks to this (e.g., the department may
> change its mind about that specialty, or might not find anyone, or....). But I
> can imagine a new faculty member coming into a department just delighted to
> find applications from prospective graduate students waiting for him/her.
>
> 'Preciate any thoughts...
>
> Pat Cabe
>
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