Professors Cilene and Rodrigo editing articles for CIP’s academic magazine, Communicare
Every year, more than a 100 students apply and go through a selection process to enter CIP (Interdisciplinary Research Center), one of Cásper Líbero places that offer, along with a 25% scholarship, the chance to spend time with graduate school professors and write your very own academic paper. For each year, 15 students are selected and get to join study group, have one on one meetings with their designate professors and get to study in depth a topic they picked, usually based on the professor line of research. One of the great things about CIP is that during the year you are doing your research, you can spend time studying or hanging in their room – super quite and full of computers – in 6th floor. Something that it is a blessing in Cásper. The CIP is administrated by professor Cilene Victor and has three monitors, Giovanna, Gabriela and Natália, who work during the morning, afternoon and night shift, respectively.
Besides being a very interesting and challenging opportunity, CIP also helps the students who participate in getting a better look on how the academic life looks like and if that is a path they could consider later.
See some of the comments students from this year and last year about their experience.
Guilherme Dogo, 3rd year Journalism
The experience in CIP was great, either for learning an specific subject besides regular classes, read different authors and have more contact with the academic life. In my case, I ended researching a topic I already enjoyed, which was the spectacularization of museums, especially in São Paulo.My advisor professor, Claudio, helped me a lot during the entire process of writing my article, even because I knew very little about scientific research and I had never written outside of class. Now, because of his help, I got the chance to publish my reasearch in a book along with people who are doing their PhD and Master, something that makes me very proud of the work accomplished.
Tainá Costa, 2nd year Journalism
The experience in CIP was a fresh air for me. It is usual as a student to see ourselfes in a system that might not be comfortable. Although I enjoy my classes, I still feel that something lacks and I found this extra experience in the scientific research. Eventhough you have to follow specific guideline, you can still find something you are passionate to research on. In my case, I have been studying the epistemology of Communications and I have recently realized it was not only what professors teach us in the classroom. This gave me a broader perspective on the journalistic professional and how I can work in it. I think students should explore new possibilities in the college, either in CIP, núcleo, radio or other places the college offers. It is super important to find a pathc besides what it is said in the classroom and interestingly, research has become mine.
Laura Uliana, 3rd year Journalism
When I started my first year, I started loving photojournalism, its theory and practice. When I finished a monography on it that a subject required, I decided that I wanted to go deeper. I started reading and researching, and, after one year, I came to CIP and it was a completely new journey for me: writing, presenting and living in this environment made me grow as a professional and a person; I got to work with several professors and fellow students and the knowledge exchange was amazing and probably my favorite part. It’s an experience that worth each hour of work it takes.
Larissa Rosa, 3rd year Journalism
The intense contact I have been having with academic production since June of last year, working in the Cásper’s postgraduate secretary, made my desire to continue in the college after graduating from the journalism course more latent. It was at the end of 2015, when some people were already commented on the CIP announcement for scientific initiation scholarship next year, that I decided that I would dedicate myself to research in 2016. And this decision took into account the possibility of not passing in the selective process, for example, because the idea was to research independently of this – albeit with the awareness of the importance of the institutional support provided by the CIP to the student researchers. The commitment, in this case, was right in the fact that I was already determined on my thematic axis – and, more than that, in love with it. I wanted (and still want to) investigate the role and social position of the woman. It’s too broad, I know. And it was entering the CIP that, with the help of my counselor, Profa. Simonetta Persichetti, I was determined that the research would be around the wives of presidents of the Republic, the first ladies. The cut makes me very happy, since it was almost a prediction of the pertinence (and persistence) of this theme in 2016, the year in which the former president Dilma would suffer impeachment and the figure of a first lady would emerge as a materialization and a restitution of the role of women in Brazil. The article dealing specifically with this is being finalized this week and investigates the mediatic construction of an implicit comparison between Dilma Rousseff and Marcela Temer. The first article, finalized in July, has a very different object of study: the analysis of the construction of the feminine identity from Claire Underwood, the first lady of House of Cards. Speaking of the experience with CIP, in a general way, I can say that it was very enriching and a first (and great) step towards building an academic career. The link as a scientific initiation researcher at the CIP allowed me, in addition to the meetings with Profa. Simonetta, participation in the research group Image and Social Insertion, where I got in touch with several studies of people from the undergraduate, master’s and doctorate. The institutional incentive also boosted the presentation of my own study at Intercom and later at the Casper Research Forum.