Faculty Bag Lunch Presentations & Materials
Below is a list of topics, presentations and materials as part of the Academic Affairs Faculty Bag Lunch Series from the last three years. For a list of presentation materials older than three years please see our archive of workshops and presentations.
2024-25
Preparing Your Dossier - May 20, 2025
This faculty bag lunch, featuring CAP Chair and Professor Angela Gelli and Vice Provost and Distinguished Professor Phil Kass, overviewed dossier preparation and the advancement review process for early-career faculty.
Faculty Global Engagement - May 14, 2025
Featuring colleagues from Global Affairs, this workshop explored funding possibilities for globally-oriented research internally and externally, opportunities to integrate global learning opportunities into courses, finding global collaborators to create projects that have a global footprint and ways to tell your global story, and discuss how you may address global impact of your work by using the new, optional Statement of Contributions to Public and Global Impact in your academic advancement dossier.
Additional Resources Shared in the Session:
- Global Affairs Faculty Opportunities and Resources List
- Global Affairs Strategic Plan
- Faculty Resources through the Global Learning Hub
- Articulating the impact of your work in Advancement:
Achieving Tenure Faculty Panel - April 8, 2025
- This faculty bag lunch, featuring a panel of Associate Professors from diverse academic disciplines who recently achieved tenure, provided insights and perspectives into going up for tenure. The faculty panel shared their successes and challenges in pursuing tenure and answered questions about the process of achieving tenure.
Additional Resources Shared in the Session:
- Center for Educational Effectiveness - Workshops, consultations and assessment to support faculty teaching.
- The Wheel - Faculty events and forums hosted by Academic Technology Services to enhance learning and teaching including instructional design and delivery.
- Academic Work Life Program - Campus program to support academics in navigating professional and family care responsibilities; includes language for departments chairs to use when soliciting external letters.
Promoting to Full Professor Faculty Panel - April 3, 2025
This highly informative and interactive session featured a robust panel of faculty from diverse academic disciplines who recently promoted to Full Professor. Our faculty panel shared their experiences, successes, and challenges in achieving this next career step, proffering their best advice/tips and answering questions about the process of promoting to Full Professor.
Additional Resources:
Academic Work Life: Caring for Your Family, Your Career, and Yourself - February 19, 2025
This session featured a panel of speakers representing several key resources that are available to faculty. Panelists included Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez, Faculty Work Life Advisor and Associate Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Behavior, Diane Wolf, Convener of the Faculty Parent Support Group and Professor Emerita of Sociology, and Carol Kirshnit, Director of the Academic and Staff Assistance Program (ASAP). Speakers shared their work life experiences and provided attendees an opportunity to ask questions about balancing the needs of caring for family, career, and oneself.
Additional Resources:
Conflict Competence for Faculty: Practical Skills for Complex Situations - January 22, 2025
Led by Lauren Bloom, Director, and Lindsey Ensor, Senior Associate Ombuds, from the Ombuds Office, this workshop reviewed frameworks and practical skills to identify the key issues involved in many conflicts and constructively address challenging situations that faculty often face. We explored different approaches to conflict management by discussing scenarios that bring to life common conflict dynamics. We also shared information about the Ombuds Office, a confidential and off-the-record resource for navigating difficult situations, from interpersonal to departmental and interdepartmental dynamics.
Research Support for Faculty, Part 1 - November 20, 2024
Colleagues from the Office of Research led this highly informative session providing an overview of the broad range of support available to launch and further research. Topics included finding funding opportunities, project development, proposal writing and submission, accessing core labs, and strategic partnerships.
Presentations
- Research Development
- Proposal Development Services
- Research Core Facilities Program
Additional Resources
- Research Development Funding Opportunities
- Internal Funding Opportunities
- Core Directory
- Proposal Development
- Grant Writing Tips and Updates via LinkedIn
- School of Medicine Grants Facilitation Unit
Using Social Media and Engaging the Press - October 31, 2024
Our colleagues from the campus’ Strategic Communications office, Karla Fung, Director of Social Media, and James Nash, Director of News and Media Relations, led this highly informative and engaging session. They provided an overview of how to use social media to highlight your scholarly work and how to effectively engage with the press.
Key Media Resources:
- UC Davis faculty and staff communication training
- Working with UC Davis News & Media Relations
- Forbes Business Council article with interview tips
- Message mapping how-to from Medium
- UC Davis social media approach
- Social media accessibility
- Managing trolls and harassment
Additional Resources
2023-24
Promoting to Full Professor Faculty Panel - May 23, 2024
This highly informative and interactive session featured a robust panel of faculty from diverse academic disciplines who recently promoted to Full Professor. Our faculty panel shared their experiences, successes, and challenges in achieving this next career step, proffering their best advice/tips and answering questions about the process of promoting to Full Professor.
Achieving Tenure Faculty Panel - May 21, 2024
This faculty bag lunch, featuring a panel of Associate Professors from diverse academic disciplines who recently achieved tenure, provided insights and perspectives into going up for tenure. The faculty panel shared their successes and challenges in pursuing tenure and answered questions about the process of achieving tenure.
Preparing Your Dossier - March 6, 2024
This faculty bag lunch, featuring Professor and CAP Chair Edward Dickinson and Vice Provost Phil Kass, overviewed dossier preparation and the advancement review process for pre-tenure/pre-security of employment faculty.
Vice Provost Kass Presentation
Using Social Media and Engaging the Press - February 20, 2024
Our colleagues from the campus’ Strategic Communications office, Karla Fung, Director of Social Media, and James Nash, Director of News and Media Relations, led this highly informative and engaging session. They provided an overview of how to use social media to highlight your scholarly work and how to effectively engage with the press.
Key Media Resources:
- UC Davis faculty and staff communication training
- Working with UC Davis News & Media Relations
- Forbes Business Council article with interview tips
- Message mapping how-to from Medium
- UC Davis social media approach
- Social media accessibility
- Managing trolls and harassment
Research Support for Faculty - November 30, 2023
Colleagues from the Office of Research led this highly informative session providing an overview of the broad range of support available to launch and further research. Topics included finding funding opportunities, project development, proposal writing and submission, accessing core labs, technology commercialization, compliance, animal care resources, human subject protections and strategic partnerships.
Faculty Global Engagement - November 1, 2023
Featuring colleagues from Global Affairs, this workshop explored funding possibilities for globally-oriented research internally and externally, opportunities to integrate global learning opportunities into courses, finding global collaborators to create projects that have a global footprint and ways to tell your global story, and discuss how you may address global impact of your work by using the new, optional Statement of Contributions to Public and Global Impact in your academic advancement dossier.
2022-23
Preparing Your Dossier - May 24, 2023
This faculty bag lunch, featuring Professor and CAP Chair Patricia Oteiza and Vice Provost Phil Kass, overviewed dossier preparation and the advancement review process for pre-tenure/pre-security of employment faculty.
Vice Provost Kass Presentation
Promoting from Associate to Full Professor - May 17, 2023
This highly informative and interactive session featured a robust panel of faculty from diverse academic disciplines who have recently promoted to Full Professor. Our faculty panel shared their experience, successes and challenges in achieving this next career step, proffering their best advice/tips and answering questions about the process of promoting to Full Professor.
Global Engagement - March 8, 2023
Featuring colleagues from Global Affairs, this workshop explores funding possibilities for globally-oriented research, opportunities to integrate global challenges (such as those included in the UN Sustainable Development Goals) into courses, finding global collaborators, and creating projects that have a global footprint.
Global Affairs Opportunities for Faculty
Managing Workplace Violence and Students of Concern - January 26, 2023
This highly informative workshop featured colleagues from the Academic and Staff Assistance Program, Office of Student Support and Judicial Affairs, Police Department, Office of Campus Counsel, and Academic Affairs who shared how to identify potential problem behaviors, how to respond to disruptive and threatening behavior, and immediate strategies to promote safety.
Mentoring Your Team - November 15, 2022
This highly informative and engaging session featured 1) a panel of faculty from diverse academic disciplines who have been successful in mentoring students, as well as 2) an overview of resources to enhance mentorship practice. Our faculty panel shared their experiences guiding students and how they have developed effective academicians.
Research Support for Faculty - October 25, 2022
Colleagues from the Office of Research led this highly informative session providing an overview of the broad range of support available to faculty for launching and furthering their research. Topics included finding funding opportunities, project development, proposal writing and submission, accessing core labs, technology commercialization, compliance, animal care resources, human subject protections and strategic partnerships.
2021-22
Promoting to Full Professor (for Associate Professors)- June 2, 2022
This highly informative and interactive session featured a robust panel of faculty from diverse academic disciplines who have recently promoted to Professor. Our faculty panel shared their successes and challenges in achieving this next career step and answered questions about the process of promoting to Full Professor.
Preparing Your Dossier - May 18, 2022
This faculty bag lunch, featuring Professor and CAP Chair Jeannie Darby and Vice Provost Phil Kass, overviewed dossier preparation and the advancement review process for pre-tenure/pre-security of employment faculty.
Achieving Tenure (for Assistant Professors) - March 9, 2022
This faculty bag lunch, featuring a panel of Associate Professors from diverse academic disciplines who recently achieved tenure, provided insights and perspectives into going up for tenure. The faculty panel shared their successes and challenges in pursuing tenure and answered questions about the process of achieving tenure.
Using Social Media and Engaging the Press - November 17, 2021
Our colleagues from the campus’ Strategic Communications office, Sallie Poggi, Director of Social Media, and Melissa Blouin, Director of News and Media Relations, led this highly informative session providing an overview of how to use social media to highlight and publicize your work and how to effectively engage with the press.
2020-21
Dossier Preparation for Pre-Tenure/Security of Employment Faculty - June 22, 2021
Navigating Family and Career in a Pandemic - January 13, 2021
Advising and Mentoring Graduate Students and Scholars Remotely - October 29, 2020
Being Globally Engaged in a post-COVID-19 World: Global Affairs Grants, Opportunities, and Resources for Faculty - October 22, 2020