{"id":272,"date":"2016-08-18T17:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/?p=272"},"modified":"2020-10-01T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:25:15","slug":"research-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2016\/08\/18\/research-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Research 101"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Ever considered a career in research?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Have burning questions like &#8216;What exactly it is that you do as a researcher?&#8217;, &#8216;Where should I do postgrad studies?&#8217;, &#8216;How do I get funding for postgrad studies?&#8217;, &#8216;How do I excel as a researcher?&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We at Women In Computer Science Society had the same thoughts which is why we held a &#8216;Careers in Research&#8217; event. We had Dr. Melissa Densmore , a Faculty member share her inspiring life story from America to India to South Africa. We also had postgraduate ladies available to chat and answer questions, literally any question from Choosing a supervisor to Work life balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We concluded the 1 hour event over pizza. Overall it was an informative intimate event. We hope we inspired researchers in the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Optimized-IMG_20160817_134107-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Optimized-IMG_20160817_134107\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Optimized-IMG_20160817_135056-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Optimized-IMG_20160817_135056\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever considered a career in research? Have burning questions like &#8216;What exactly it is that you do as a researcher?&#8217;, &#8216;Where should I do postgrad studies?&#8217;, &#8216;How do I get funding for postgrad studies?&#8217;, &#8216;How do I excel as a researcher?&#8217; We at Women In Computer Science Society had the same thoughts which is why &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2016\/08\/18\/research-101\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research 101<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcs.cs.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}