1. Professional Networks & Developing & Maintaining Professional Collaborations

2. Developing Professional Networks
With what types of people do you need to develop professional relationships?
What types of things can you do to develop your professional networks?

3. Who Do You Need to Meet?
Fellow researchers with an interest in the same hot topic on your campus & across the world (use your literature)
Theorists – they don’t have to be in your field
Funding agency officers
Top names (scholars) in your field
People with a methodological expertise (statistics, instruments etc)
Editors of journals
Department chairs who might hire you
Leaders of professional associations
Policy makers
Gatekeepers of your population (e.g. principals of schools etc)
Ethics/IRB Committee/staff members

4. One conference = Many outcomes
American Education Research Conference (AERA, 2003) – Intro to PE Special Interest Group (SIG)
AIESEP 2008, Sapporo Japan, UT + UQ
OUTCOMES
Sabbatical: UL - Kathy Armour 2008
MEXT 2009
TSI
Taiwan International Sport Teaching Symposium 2012

5. What Can You Do to Develop & Maintain Professional Networks?
Active conference attendance
Make a plan for conference attendance – what do you want to learn, who do you want to meet, set up a strategy to achieve this
Use people you know to be introduced to others
Attend social events at conferences – work the room
Be brave – introduce yourself to leaders
Ask Qs at sessions – find people after sessions
Go to poster sessions & seek out fellow scholars
Go special interest group meetings
Attend events specifically put on for grad students
Attend keynotes

6. Conferences & International Collaboration
Conferences for our field
AIESEP
European College of Sport Science
Education Researcher
USA (AERA)
British (BERA)
Australia (AARE)
Professional Conferences

7. Young Investigators @ Conference ECSS #2017

8. Finding & Developing Professional Networks?
Join professional organizations – get involved
Join online scholar communities – discipline-based listservs, online blogging communities etc
Many journals run author sessions at conferences – attend & ask good Qs
Use google scholar to identify relevant people to meet
Use campus-wide search engines to find cross disciplinary partners
Ask faculty & other VIPs with whom you should connect
Write to authors
Use social media: Facebook & Twitter

9. Maintaining Professional Networks
Keep your professional memberships
Be active in online scholar communities – bounce your ideas off others electronically
Use skype for online face to face meetings
Appropriate use of
Arrange brownbag lunches to get together
Set a regular meeting time – e.g. 1st Friday in every month
Take a role in group projects & follow through on your responsibilities
Reading/theorist/methodology /writing groups
Organizing retreats
Go early – stay late from conferences

10. After TSI 2018: What can you do?
Stay connected to your fellow CoRP and TSI colleagues
Create a CoRP 2017 Facebook site
Send s to participating faculty
Conference: check who is going to attend
Re-introduce yourself
Invite faculty to your presentation
Send your publications through to your new colleagues
Others….