Research Lifecycle: File Naming, Metadata, and Organization
Keeping track of your data along the way is essential. This session covers how to structure your folders, name your files, and create clear metadata and documentation so others (and future you!) can understand and reuse your work with ease.
Research Lifecycle: M365 Storage Options for Research Collaboration
Join the library in partnership with CCS for a practical overview of how Microsoft 365 storage tools can support your research projects. This session will help you choose the right platform for your needs, whether it's personal storage with OneDrive or setting up collaborative workspaces in SharePoint and Teams. Bring your unique data management, permission
Dial Down University Anxiety
Learn more about the most common anxiety escalators, along with practical, proven tips and strategies that you can begin using immediately to decrease stress and anxiety this semester. Begin drafting your personal Anxiety Action Plan, and gain some new on-campus, off-campus and online resources. This free, one hour workshop for university students meets online with
Break the Anxiety-Procrastination Cycle
Although many people think that procrastination is a time management issue, most often it is an emotional response. We'll tackle the "complicated failure of self-regulation" in the anxiety-procrastination cycle by learning tips, reviewing research insights, and practicing practical strategies to intervene when anxiety and procrastination are feeding each other. These approaches are from the trio
Skills for Research Impact Series: Planning for Research Impact
Knowledge mobilization 101! Become familiar with knowledge mobilization plans and conceptualize strategies adapted to your goals and audiences. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: Define "knowledge mobilization" Identify why knowledge mobilization is important Identify best practices for knowledge mobilization Summarize the steps involved in knowledge mobilization planning Compare and contrast
Open Education Community of Practice
The Open Education Community of Practice is a forum for folks across the University of Guelph, University of Guelph-Humber, and Ridgetown Campus to learn, share strategies, ideas, advice, and collaborate, while building community around the use, advocacy, and advancement of open education and pedagogy, open educational resources (OERs), and affordable course content on campus. Faculty,
Skills for Research Impact Series: Clear Language Writing
Hone your clear communications skills! Get tips on how to structure and write clear language summaries of your research for dissemination to lay audiences. At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: Define what clear language communication is Recall why clear language communication is important in Knowledge Mobilization Explain the importance of
Better Sleep Program
Learn proven, drug-free strategies to fall asleep (or back to sleep) more easily, and get more energy from sleep. This skills program provides information and instruction in the cognitive / behavioural techniques most effective for decreasing insomnia and promoting more restful sleep. It includes the sleep behaviours most highly recommended by sleep researchers, strategies for
Skills for Research Impact Series: Community Engagement
Actively engaging your audiences in your research process is one of the most effective ways to increase the uptake and impact of your research. But how does that work? By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: Identify a range of key audiences and potential goals for engagement Consider different levels and
Better Sleep workshop for Peri-Menopausal Women
The most common and severe symptom of peri-menopausal women is poor sleep! This evening workshop provides tips and drug-free strategies for decreasing insomnia, hot flashes, and other sleep disturbances experienced by peri-menopausal women. It tackles the frustration of awakening in the night, provides techniques for falling back to sleep more easily, and shares how to
Skills for Research Impact Series: KTT Strategies and Dissemination
How do you share your research with non-academic audiences? Learn about a number of potential mechanisms you can use for knowledge mobilization, discover how to choose a mechanism that’s appropriate for your audience, and take a deep dive into several popular mechanisms for dissemination, including social media, research summaries, infographics, and media. By the end
Anxiety Skills & Strategies
Learn powerful drug-free strategies, tips, and information on how to respond and calm down the uncomfortable sensations of anxiety. Sessions include practicing a variety of long and short self-calming strategies, along with helpful hints on cognitive and lifestyle behaviours that prevent escalation of anxiety. These techniques are especially helpful in the self-regulation of uncomfortable sensations
Skills for Research Impact Series: Infographic Development and Design
Participants can learn all about best practices for designing engaging and visually appealing infographics. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: Describe the principles of visual design Select appropriate resources to help make visual layouts Create a basic infographic using graphic design tools
Take the Stress Out of IBS
Learn strategies that decrease symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and a nervous stomach by tackling the two greatest triggers.... diet and stress. There is a strong relationship between our brain, our emotions, and how our gastrointestinal tract is functioning. This program teaches the most effective relaxation, diet, and lifestyle strategies to improve this relationship
Decreasing Headaches
More than one or two headaches a month are too many! Learn effective, practical, drug-free strategies to decrease stress-related tension and migraine headaches, and to decrease headache pain. Topics include : headache trigger combinations - and the ones to really watch for practical strategies to try as a headache is coming on the 4 stages
Skills for Research Impact Series: Evaluating KTT Activities
When all is said and done, how do you know it worked? Go beyond the anecdote and learn to use evaluation techniques to assess the impact of your knowledge mobilization efforts. After attending this workshop, participants will be able to: Summarize the steps involved in evaluating KTT Discuss common challenges and best practices in KTT
Stress Less for Tests
Learn practical skills and strategies to decrease test anxiety, and enhance energy and performance throughout the semester and during exam periods. Go at your own pace through the series of five to 15 minute lessons in this special online, on-demand program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic. You have lifetime
Skills for Research Impact Series: Principals for working with the Media
Prepare for the next time the media calls! Get familiar with practical information and tips to strengthen your ability to represent your work in interviews. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: Explain why working with the media matters Describe how the media works and what journalists need Identify what to
Stress Eating?
If going to the fridge is your # 1 stress management strategy, it may be time to learn more about how stress drives us to emotional eating, and ways to start addressing it.... This session includes the most effective strategies for changing stress eating habits, and the biofeedback and stress management techniques that decrease emotional
Stop Worrying!
Learn to curb unhelpful worry... and how to avoid the five key pitfalls that perpetuate and escalate worrying. This workshop also outlines the evolutionary advantage of constructive worry (and how to access it), along with strategies from the two approaches proven to decrease worrying, and tips for bedtime worriers. This two-hour skills workshop with Kathy