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Welcome to ICSE SMeW 2023!

May 16, 2023, Melbourne

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Our Student Participants

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Our Student Participants

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Our Student Participants

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Top 5 Reported Challenges

  1. Research method (e.g., don't know "how")
  2. Foreign country (e.g., language barrier, culture….)
  3. Burnout/high stress
  4. Mental health (e.g., anxiety, depression)
  5. Low self-confidence/imposter syndrome

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Mentors by Continent

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Mentors Expertise

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How can our mentors help?

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Mentoring

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Not All Mentoring is Created Equal

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Not All Mentoring is Created Equal

Good Mentoring

  1. Listen to *you* and answer *your* concerns
  2. Empathy, Caring
  3. Willing to spend time
  4. Open-minded, e.g., recommend other resources, perspectives, networks, etc
  5. Mutual benefits (2-way relationship)
  6. Clarify/demystify (“hidden rules”)
  7. Offer constructive feedback
  8. Increase confidence/accountability
  9. Fun and enjoyable :)
  10. ……

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Don’t Listen to All Advice

Professor Robin H Kravets,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

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Build a Mentoring Network

It takes a village!

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Build a Mentoring Network –it takes a village!

And more!

Your

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Actionable Items

  1. What do you need?
  2. Who can provide it? (or who can help you find someone to provide it?)
  3. Take steps to get it (diverse background/ discipline/seniority)
  4. Quality control
    1. Maintain it (if it works for you)
    2. End it (if it doesn’t work, can be sunk cost)

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Mingle Time!

talk to as many people �as you can! �reminder: every 5min

  • Where are you from and where you are now
  • Research interests (short term, long term)
  • Hobbies
  • Fun facts
  • What would your ideal ICSE be like? How to achieve it?
  • your networks, your tips
  • Anything fun! ;)

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Keynote Time!

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Mentoring Pods

Potential Topics:

  • Networking & Finding Cohort (Safe space to practice intro & “elevator pitch”)
  • Time Management & Work-life Balance
  • Mental Health
  • Research Career Path & Job Market
  • Communication & Presentation
  • Improving Visibility & Impact
  • Leading Projects & Team Work
  • Finding Research Topics
  • Finding Suitable Advisors/Labs/Collaborators & Forming Relationships
  • International Students in a Foreign Country
  • Underrepresented Group
  • Small University and/or Department

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More Resources

SMeW Keynotes & Tips for Students: https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2023/icse-2023-student-mentoring-workshop#Tips-for-Students

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SMeW ICSE 2024 Application:�https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2024/icse-2024-smew---student-mentoring-workshop