Hazards Research Leadership Program
Director: J. Carlee Purdum, Ph.D., Assistant Director of theHazard Reduction & Recovery Center
The Hazards Research Leadership Program is a professional development program for graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty who want to develop their leadership skills while increasing their research productivity. This program has a focus on research relating to hazards and disasters (planning, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery), which provides an additional mechanism to develop research collaborations, prepare broader impacts sections of NSF grants, and structure fellowship or training grants. Project Leaders meet once a month to identify and develop best practices that not only increase the competencies and motivation of their teams, but also increase research productivity.
Benefits
- Gain executive leadership experience for careers in research and practice
- Increase your research productivity
- Network with leaders in research who can provide professional references
- Earn certification as a Hazards Research Leader
To join the program, prospective Hazards Research Leaders must
- Be junior faculty, postdoctoral fellow, or doctoral student
- Submit the Hazards Research Leadership registration form and intake survey
- Indicate the number of undergraduates (2-6) to be recruited to form a research team.
- Interview and select team members from undergraduate applicants who contact you
- Postdocs and graduate students must obtain approval from their faculty mentor to create a team
To earn certification as a Hazard Research Leader
- Participate for at least two semesters
- Conduct weekly bi-meetings with an undergraduate research team
- Attend monthly meetings for team leaders
- Complete weekly program evaluations and exit survey
Questions about the program?
Visit FAQs or feel free to email us at aggieresearch@tamu.edu.