Professional Development Guest Speakers

Our institute Director, Janice Bially Mattern and Associate Director, Emily Carson frequently serve as guest speakers in various PhD professional development courses on campus. Please feel free to contact us at virs@villanova.edu if you would like to discuss ways we can lead a workshop for your PhD students in one of the following areas:

Research Planning
How to Write an Effective Grant Proposal
Project Management for Researchers
Technical Writing
Communicating Your Research to Non-Academics
How to Write an Op-Ed
How to Pitch your Book to Publishers
Writing Science
Getting Writing Done
Revision Strategies
Balancing Style with Expertise in Academic Writing