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\"Networking\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have a friend doing his PhD, let\u2019s call him Ronald.<\/p>\n

Ronald is clever, bright and diligent. He\u2019s spent many, many hours in the lab building prototypes and producing copious amounts of data. He\u2019s clearly on the verge of a breakthrough that would change his field (but has yet to publish anything for fear of being scooped). In fact his work is so original and complex that most people don\u2019t understand it. Ronald\u2019s had the opportunity to go to a couple of overseas conferences, but he\u2019s refused each time. He\u2019s on a limited income and the funds on offer wouldn\u2019t quite cover all the expenses he\u2019d calculated.<\/p>\n

Ronald always attends and contributes to lab meetings. He knows it\u2019s important to talk about his work with colleagues, but only turns up to the social events occasionally. He has a wife and a large network of friends outside the university. He\u2019s sociable, he just has a lot to do. His focus on work is absolute. Going out for a coffee during a work day would be a waste of time and he really hates the \u2018paperwork\u2019 parts of academia. The number of emails the school sent him asking for stuff drives him crazy. Last summer he just declared email bankruptcy and deleted all of the old mails on the assumption that someone would chase him up again if it was really important. It\u2019s the work that attracted Ronald to the PhD in the first place and he wasn\u2019t going to let anything get in the way of his breakthrough.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Ronald\u2019s supervisor, a big name researcher in his field, doesn\u2019t seem to value Ronald\u2019s qualities. This supervisor is extremely busy and a little bit curt with people he thinks are \u2018time wasters\u2019. Ronald doesn\u2019t think he falls into this category, but he is constantly passed over in favour of Anna, a young woman who started a year after Ronald at the lab. Anna was offered the paid teaching and research work her supervisor didn\u2019t have time to do. In her second year, Anna was the tag-along to the \u2018big conference\u2019 in the field with the supervisor, and given the honour of presenting the poster describing the work of the whole lab. Anna didn\u2019t even have to fund this trip. She told Ronald she\u2019d got a bursary<\/a> for writing the most papers of all the PhD students this year (a bursary he\u2019d never even heard of). Anna seemed to be publishing all the time, often as first author \u2014 a privilege that wasn\u2019t accorded to other students, including Ronald.\u00a0At social events Anna was the one everyone wanted to talk to. Anna was acknowledged as the \u2018star student\u2019 by everyone. Even the Dean speculated about which famous lab would accept her for a post-doc.<\/p>\n

It was hardly surprising that Ronald was resentful of Anna\u2019s success, but he was a nice guy (and politically smart enough) not to be a jerk about it. Outwardly he smiled and made nice with Anna, but inwardly he seethed. So, it seemed, did many of the students in the lab. Over coffee one day he told me the prevailing theory for Anna\u2019s success was that she was sleeping with the big name supervisor. They do spend a lot of time together \u2014 she even house sits for him and walks his dog. At this point I felt compelled to point out this theory was blatantly sexist. Sleeping with students carries heavy penalties. Having a relationship with a student is the most certain way I know for academics to get the sack. Although relationships do develop between students and teachers, 99.999% of supervisors are way too smart to endanger their job. If they are going to carry on affairs and\/or be unfaithful to partners it\u2019s far more likely to happen with another colleague after too many drinks at the conference dinner, 3000 miles from home.<\/p>\n

Even though I\u2019d never met her, I suspected knew some stuff about Anna already. I asked Ronald how many of the statements below were true:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Anna\u2019s presentations are engaging, visual and interesting<\/li>\n
  2. Anna can talk about her research well, both on stage and one to one. In her spare time, Anna volunteers for a local community group or has an interest in theatre.<\/li>\n
  3. Anna helps publish the school newsletter, or runs the blog for the lab<\/li>\n
  4. Anna is prompt and efficient when answering email.<\/li>\n
  5. Anna regularly has coffee or lunch with a wide variety of people, even the receptionist.<\/li>\n
  6. Anna is on the student-staff consultative committee and\/or a participating member of the student union.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Ronald answered \u201cyes\u201d to all of these questions and looked startled. Sometimes people think I have super-natural powers of observation, but it\u2019s not magic I assure you. Our research suggests that PhD students who have better networks are more employable<\/a>. This behaviour must start during the PhD and you can see it in the \u2018star students\u2019. Anna isn\u2019t a star student by who she is, but what she does. Let\u2019s unpack these behaviours one by one:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Your presentations are one of the rare moments where all that invisible work in the lab becomes visible. If they shine, you shine. You still have to do great research work \u2014 but the right people have know about it or that work is largely wasted.<\/li>\n
    2. Being able to talk about your work is critical, but it\u2019s not all about being on stage, 3MT style. You must be able to engage in professional conversations as both a critical and creative contributor. This is a difficult skill to master. Don\u2019t under-estimate the amount of practice you will need, especially if you are the sort that has hobbies that are solitary, or conducted entirely online (like team based computer gaming). Even sport has more limited opportunities to practice because the interaction is largely structured by pre-set rules. Her work for community groups and theatre hobby means Anna has hours and hours more practice at talking to people about how to get (creative) things done than Ronald.<\/li>\n
    3. Anna gets a number of benefits from her participation in the \u2018non scholarly\u2019 publication that are perhaps too numerous to list here. The most important, in my opinion, is that her skills at writing to deadline and managing technical aspects of getting words on the web are showcased to those who matter in management and administration. Once you are known to be good at this, other opportunities to engage with the media follow. Many non-academic staff members to know more about what is going on than academics, who rarely open that email newsletter. By helping out, Anna got access to all the valuable intel first.<\/li>\n
    4. Email is one of those chores we all have to do. Being prompt and helpful sends an important professional message about your reliability in every single email. Reliability counts much more than you would think in academia. The person who gets chosen to go to the conference as a tag along has to be reliable as well as a good performer. Anna\u2019s behaviour on email and her ability to deliver a great presentation tells her supervisor she is the package \u2013 both creative and efficient. Of course he chooses her, not Ronald who he has yet to see produce anything. As a result of this trip, Anna spent more one on one time personal time with her supervisor than any other person in the lab. When the supervisor sprained his ankle in Helsinki, she helped him navigate the healthcare system and carted his luggage about. They developed a high level of trust \u2014 hence the house sitting. And the dog walking? Her supervisor lives alone and needed someone to walk the dog while he had his foot up on the couch, recovering. Anna exercises her dog everyday and lives close by. It\u2019s no bother to Anna to pick up Fido on her way past the door at 6am. So he gives her the key to the gate. This regular morning walk turned out to be a habit Fido enjoyed, so the arrangement stayed in place. Anna and her supervisor are now professionally friendly \u2014 not exactly friends, but close. It\u2019s hardly surprising that she\u2019s getting first author. Unlike the other students who are too scared of the supervisor to treat him like a normal human, she feels free to ask.<\/li>\n
    5. Anna isn\u2019t \u2018wasting time\u2019 having coffees and lunch. She\u2019s having important down time from her work, maintaining academic friendships and building new ones. Connections with a wide variety of people at work has been shown to have benefits for creativity<\/a>. By spreading herself around, Anna builds a stronger network of support, allies and potential collaborators. The reason everyone flocks to Anna at a party is they already know they can talk to her. Success breeds success. If a lot of people seem willing to talk to one person, it makes that person seem more approachable. By contrast, Ronald, despite being a lovely guy, didn\u2019t have much \u2018other stuff\u2019 to talk to people about at those gatherings, which made conversations awkward.<\/li>\n
    6. Involvement in the student consultative committee allows Anna to \u2018peek behind the curtain\u2019 and lear how the place really works. Sometimes people with fancy titles do not have much power and vice versa. Anna is more likely to meet people in high places through this work, never a bad thing. I suspect this is why the Dean thinks she is going places. But it\u2019s not all about kissing up. She\u2019s out to lunch with the receptionist remember? Turns out they met at the committee meeting and realised they had a very similar sense of humour and interests. Anna\u2019s no snob: she understands that friendships should be with people you like, no matter what they do. The side benefit of this friendship is Anna got the early heads-up on the introduction of that paper writing bursary before it even got to the newsletter. With six months longer to prepare than other students, no one had a hope of beating her. If I was Anna\u2019s mentor I would advise her to share that knowledge, not hoard it, but that\u2019s a post for another time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Ronald was operating under the basic assumption of fairness that is common to many people who have gone straight from undergraduate to PhD and never worked outside of academia. As an undergraduate you are consistently awarded for the quality of your work and achievements. It\u2019s easy to think the only thing that matters is the work, but it\u2019s not. When you get to the PhD stage you start to be rewarded for the way<\/em> you work, not just the work itself. <\/strong>To be clear, I don\u2019t think Anna was doing any of this \u2018networking\u2019 deliberately. The best networkers have an affinity with people and are well trained in the social arts of conversation. The rest of us have to learn the hard way.<\/p>\n

      I believe, with a few tweaks, Ronald could adjust his behaviour so it was more in line with what Anna was doing, while maintaining his comfort level with respect to social interaction. In my view he needs to do two things:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Work on making his presentations amazing and get over the fear of being \u2018scooped\u2019<\/li>\n
      2. Get more involved in the volunteer, community work that is available in the department. He could ask the receptionist for some suggestions, she seems nice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        But the biggest shift Ronald needs to make in his head. His lifetime as a \u2018good student\u2019 has conditioned him to think that anything but academic achievement is superfuous. I could see it in the way he denigrated others who did care for being \u201cshallow\u201d and worrying about \u201cstuff that isn\u2019t important\u201d. Paying attention to how others perceive you is not shallow, it\u2019s a critical part of the game. I would argue that being a helpful, engaged member of the community is more likely to lead to happiness too \u2013 and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that at all.<\/p>\n

        What do you think? What do you do \u201cextra\u201d community work in your department? Would you recommend it? Do you pay enough attention to what others think of you, or do you think the work is the most important thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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