Hello,
My name is Josie Portz, I am a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona. When you have a moment, I invite you to participate in this IRB-approved survey study: Graduate Students & the Transnational Job Market. My research partner at Syracuse University, Joe Wilson, and I are interested in understanding resources provided to graduate students in rhetoric and composition in preparation for the academic job market, both in the contexts of their graduate education and abroad.
Who Should Participate in the Study:
• If you are a graduate student in rhetoric, composition student, or a related field who is preparing to go on the academic job market;
• If you were a graduate student who went on the academic job market in the past 3 years;
• If you are a graduate faculty member in your department, or if your job description involves supervising graduate students’ thesis or dissertations.
Information About Participants’ Involvement in the Study:
We ask that you please complete this survey, which should take approximately 10 minutes to finish. You will be asked preliminary demographic experiences, about your educational background, about your experiences on the academic job market, about your program’s professional development opportunities, and about international scholarly engagement. You can skip any questions if you feel uncomfortable answering those questions. All findings are anonymous and will be stored in a password-protected Google drive available only to the researchers. No identifying information will be requested of the survey, and any responses to open-ended questions will be reported using a pseudonym.
This and further information is available in the informed consent page at the start of the survey (see the link below).
To participate in the study, please access the survey via this link: https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6rHCdNt9bpMxxvU
Take care,
Josie Portz
Josie Portz (she/her)
PhD Candidate in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English
Minor in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Fulbright ETA Grantee to Sri Lanka ’19-’20
Russell J. & Dorothy S. Bilinksi Fellow ’23-’24
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