Research & Data Analysis

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Learn to conduct original and independent research within and beyond your discipline using methods that will enhance knowledge across many fields. 

Key Topics:

  • Conduct research within and beyond your discipline
  • Use digital technologies and programming languages
  • Leverage data visualization tools
  • Support socially-engaged research
  • Develop and manage budgets

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Signature Programs

  • Tell Me More: Humanizing Your Research (A GradFUTURES Learning Cohort)

    Tell Me More: Humanizing Your Research (A GradFUTURES Learning Cohort)

    Join distinguished faculty including President of the University Emerita Shirley Tilghman and Professor Tracy K. Smith for a dinner series that will help you connect your research with specialists and non-specialists alike. Tell Me More is a six-part series of 90-minute dinner conversations for graduate students who wish to heighten their professional impact by conveying the personal and social significance of their research to those who do not share their expertise. Meeting monthly in the Joseph Henry House from 6:00-7:30 p.m. between January and June, 2020, you will have an opportunity to converse with distinguished members of Princeton’s faculty who can help you...

  • Drug Discovery & Management (A GradFUTURES Learning Cohort)

Resources

  • Center for Career Development

    Center for Career Development

    Princeton’s Center for Career Development assists graduate students in exploring and preparing for their careers. The Center offers one-on-one advising and programs for career development tactics such as self-assessments, networking, internship and job options and more.

  • ImaginePhD

    ImaginePhD

    ImaginePhD is a career exploration and planning tool for Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers and scholars dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. It is a free, online resource that enables you to explore careers by evaluating and reflecting on your own abilities, values and interests that navigates related professional opportunities.

  • LinkedIn Learning

    LinkedIn Learning

    LinkedIn Learning offers more than 5,000 on-demand courses on business, creative and technology skills that is available to you at no additional cost.

  • MyIDP

    MyIDP

    myIDP is a free, career-planning tool that is designed to meet the needs of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars in the sciences. This tool helps you define and pursue your career goals with exercises to match your skills, interests and values with a variety of scientific professions.

  • National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community that supports and enriches you to be successful in the academe and beyond. We have an institutional membership: claim your account today!

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Suggested Research Roadmap

Early Stage
  • Familiarize yourself with the appropriate research conduct requirements in your department and field     
  • Explore research courses in your department
  • Explore research options in your areas of interest
  • Take WRI 501: Reading and Writing about Quantitative Research
  • Take WRI 504: Write to Publish in the Social Science and Humanities
  • Participate in Princeton Research Computing (PicSE) fall/winter break boot camps
  • Complete foreign language training for research
  • Become familiar with Princeton's Libraries
Mid Stage
  •  Identify dissertation topic and begin working on dissertation research
  • Travel for field work or archival research              
  • Participate in the Center for Digital Humanities collaborative research opportunities
  • Work with Office of Environmental Health and Safety to establish safe research protocols
  • Investigate fellowship and research funding opportunities in Pivot
  • Attend academic conferences to become aware of research trends in your field
Advanced Stage
  • Continue conducting research, analyzing data and writing
  • Utilize the Princeton Research Computing Visualization Laboratory
  • Attend conferences to network and find research collaborators

 

Student and Alumni Stories

Read how current students and alumni have applied their research and data analysis skills to various disciplines.

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