[phd.students.socioeco] Fwd: FW: "pitching research" talk, Monday 3rd October, 4pm

[Ann Hartell]

FYI!





*From:* Unilehrer.innen [mailto:unilehrer.innen-bounces at wu.ac.at] *On
Behalf Of *Eberhartinger, Eva
*Sent:* Donnerstag, 08. September 2016 11:48
*To:* unilehrer.innen at wu.ac.at
*Cc:* Haiszan, Ingrid; Rettig, Sabine
*Subject:* [Unilehrer.innen] "pitching research" talk, Monday 3rd October,
4pm



Dear colleagues,

you are cordially invited to participate in the seminar by

*Prof. Robert Faff* (https://www.business.uq.edu.au/staff/robert-faff and
https://pitchmyresearch.wordpress.com/about/)

*Pitching Research* (paper available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2462059)

On * Monday,* *3** October 2016, 16.00 – 17.30*, Room D.3.274

Please let Ms. Rettig (sabine.rettig at wu.ac.at) know if you intend to
participate.

Prof. Faff presents and discusses a research tool, which allows to
efficiently structure an early stage research proposal.  The talk addresses
in particular junior researchers, and anyone interested in finding a way to
systematically present a coherent research idea, with a particular (but not
exclusive) focus on accounting and interdisciplinary projects.

*About the Seminar: "Pitching Research"*

The Pitching Research workshop will give an overview of Professor Faff’s
"Pitching Research" framework [Faff (2015, 2016)]. Specifically, he has
developed a simple and methodical template tool to clarify thinking and
sharpen up the drafting of initial proposals for research projects, well
before any major effort has taken place to execute the research. This
“pitching research” template is of particular relevance to beginning PhD
students and to early career researchers facing the common challenge of
starting a new piece of research, that they can be confident is worthwhile.
But, even for researchers beyond the initial proposal stage of their
project, there is likely to be considerable merit in rethinking the project
at regular intervals to keep it on track. The notion of “pitching” the
project anew can benefit the project in many ways, not least of which is
retention of focus, trimming tangential matter, recalibrating the scope and
refining the method to match the type and amount of data that turns out to
be available.

*Bio*

Robert Faff is Professor of Finance and Director of Research at the UQ
Business School. He has an international reputation in empirical finance
research: securing 13 Australian Research Council grants (funding exceeding
$AUD4 million);  >300 refereed journal publications; career citations
>8,700 (Google Scholar); and a h-index of 49 (Google Scholar). His
particular passion is nurturing and developing the career trajectories of
early career researchers. Robert has supervised more than 30 PhD students
to successful completion and examined 50 PhD dissertations. Building on a
35-year academic career, his latest passion is “Pitching Research”, now
gaining great traction domestically and worldwide as exemplified by: (a)
>7,500 SSRN downloads; (b) >130 pitching talks/events; (c) at 33 Australian
universities; and (d) spanning 24 different countries.
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