{"id":342,"date":"2016-01-06T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2018-01-29T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:11:18","slug":"how-to-contact-a-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/how-to-contact-a-supervisor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to contact a supervisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without a supervisor you are ineligible to apply to MELS. In order to obtain a supervisor\u00a0please\u00a0contact a Professor <strong>with similar research interests as yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Provide them with the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about your educational background \u2013\n<ol>\n<li>what was your degree (BSc? BA? 3yr or 4yr?);<\/li>\n<li>what was your major? (biology? chemistry? \u00a0environmental science? geography? geology? other?);<\/li>\n<li>what subjects did you study? (an unofficial transcript would answer this)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>What prior experience do you have in research? (e.g. undergraduate thesis, working as a research assistant, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Review the list of project topics on Research Opportunities webpage<\/strong>\u00a0or indicate\u00a0a\u00a0\u00a0research project of interest to you which compliments the supervisor&#8217;s research;<\/li>\n<li>What prior experience do you have in the research topic you selected from the\u00a0webpage, and indicate why this field of research is of interest to you?<\/li>\n<li>Are you prepared to undertake field work in remote locations in Canada? Such work may involve camping, and will certainly involve using hand tools.<\/li>\n<li>Do you have any prior experience working in a laboratory that is relevant to the research topic of interest to you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find contact information for the faculty member you wish to contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/mels-faculty-directory\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a supervisor you are ineligible to apply to MELS. In order to obtain a supervisor\u00a0please\u00a0contact a Professor with similar research interests as yourself. Provide them with the following information: Information about your educational background \u2013 what was your degree (BSc? BA? 3yr or 4yr?); what was your major? (biology? chemistry? \u00a0environmental science? geography? geology? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}