Call for applications.
SSSR Skills Development Workshop

As a response to requests from members, SSSR is holding its first skills development workshop. This workshop will be held the day prior to the annual general meeting, on June 24 in Boston, MA. This year, we will have targeted workshops on article writing skills and grantsmanship. These will be led by senior researchers in the reading field. We invite all early career reading researchers to apply. Information on the application process is included below. Please feel free to contact the Skills Development Workshop co-ordinator for more information (Héléne Deacon; sdeacon@dal.ca)
Application deadline: March 1, 2009

Priorities for accepting applications.
We have placed a priority on participation from senior graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and junior-level faculty (first two years), as well as early career researchers from the international community. Further, if we have too many applications, we will accept only two applicants from each research group. We place these priorities in order to gain breadth in the audience, but we encourage all interested individuals to apply.

Application information requested.
Current position. ______________ (e.g., graduate student, post-doc, faculty member)
Year in this position: _______________ (e.g., first year in five year graduate program, or second year in faculty position)
Supervisor’s name: _______________ (new faculty members should list their PhD supervisor).
Do you have a paper (spoken or interactive) accepted at SSSR 2009? ____ If yes, include authors and title.

On a separate page, please tell us why are you interested in attending the pre-conference skills symposium (maximum 100 words).

On that page, please also indicate the skills that you think would be especially important to gain as an early career reading researcher. (This is for information purposes only and will not be used to evaluate applications).

Please include an up to date CV.