{"id":2022,"date":"2025-12-01T20:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:38:16","slug":"12-4-25-faculty-panel-making-rejection-work-for-you-a-panel-discussion-on-how-to-deal-with-rejection-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/2025\/12\/01\/12-4-25-faculty-panel-making-rejection-work-for-you-a-panel-discussion-on-how-to-deal-with-rejection-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/4\/25 Faculty Panel: Making Rejection Work for You &#8211; a panel discussion on how to deal with rejection in academia."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>CCN brown bag<\/h4>\n<p>Isabel Gauthier, PhD, Andre Bastos, PhD, Ashley Watts, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Professors- Psychology Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday, December 4, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> 12:10- 1:00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> 316 Wilson Hall<\/p>\n<h6><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Making Rejection Work for You &#8211; a panel discussion on how to deal with rejection in academia.<\/span><\/h6>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">On an average day in our department, many of us face rejection &#8211; nitpicky reviewers, stern editors, grant review panels, dismissive mentors. How should we respond to repeated rejection? Does it get easier with experience? Why does it feel like everyone else is succeeding while we struggle?<\/p>\n<p>A panel of faculty (Isabel Gauthier, Andre Bastos, Ashley Watts) from different area groups and career stages will discuss their specific experiences with rejection, practical strategies for responding and moving forward and how to maintain perspective in a competitive field.\u00a0Open discussion will follow &#8211; bring your questions, frustrations and advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCN brown bag Isabel Gauthier, PhD, Andre Bastos, PhD, Ashley Watts, PhD Professors- Psychology Department Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Making Rejection Work for You &#8211; a panel discussion on how to deal with rejection in academia. On an average day in our department, many of us face&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}