Graduate Accountability Group
ONLINE Ontario, CanadaThe Graduate Student Accountability Group provides a welcoming, safe and productive online space for graduate students to do their work. The group is facilitated by a learning specialist and is designed to help you identify small goals and accomplish them during short work periods. Comments from previous participants: "The group is a great way to
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
Graduate Accountability Group
ONLINE Ontario, CanadaThe Graduate Student Accountability Group provides a welcoming, safe and productive online space for graduate students to do their work. The group is facilitated by a learning specialist and is designed to help you identify small goals and accomplish them during short work periods. Comments from previous participants: "The group is a great way to
The Caring North: Fostering Care and Wellbeing in Northern Communities
What does a caring community look like? What are the unique care and wellbeing preferences and needs of northern, Inuit, and First Nations women and girls? And what are northern,
Literature Reviews – Thesis Writing Workshop Series
Don’t get lost in the literature! Stay organized and read with intention using the strategies outlined in this workshop. Participants will be sent a Zoom link via email approximately one day before the workshop.
Research Questions – Thesis Writing Workshop Series
Set yourself up for success by scoping your research project with succinct and realistic research questions. Participants will be sent a Zoom link approximately one day before the workshop.
Relaxation & Stress Management Skills
Learn how to relax tight muscles, calm anxiety, settle a busy a brain, and have more energy. Strengthen your ability to restore yourself during these challenging times. A smorgasbord of practical techniques for thriving under pressure are practiced in and out of class to begin developing lifetime skills. The continuity of this 12-session program can
Graduate Accountability Group
ONLINE Ontario, CanadaThe Graduate Student Accountability Group provides a welcoming, safe and productive online space for graduate students to do their work. The group is facilitated by a learning specialist and is designed to help you identify small goals and accomplish them during short work periods. Comments from previous participants: "The group is a great way to
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
Open Scholarship Brown Bag Series: Creating and Using ORCID iDs
In this first brown bag, you will learn what ORCID iDs are and how to use your ORCID iD to improve your research workflow. You’ll also have time to set one up in the session (it takes under 5 minutes!). Specifically, this brown bag will cover: Setting up an ORCID iD Benefits of ORCID and
Better Sleep Program
Learn how to fall asleep (or back to sleep) more easily, decrease insomnia, and get more energy from sleep by using the proven, drug-free strategies recommended by sleep specialists. Go at your own pace through each lesson in this special online, on-demand, 5-session sleep skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High
Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture: Rosalea Monacella – Harvard University
The Landscape Architecture program in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development presents a guest lecture entitled "Matters of Ground," by Dr. Rosalea Monacella, a Design Critic in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. Rosalea is also a registered Landscape Architect and has undertaken research on a number of cities around the
Graduate Accountability Group
The Graduate Student Accountability Group provides a welcoming, safe and productive online space for graduate students to do their work. The group is facilitated by a learning specialist and is designed to help you identify small goals and accomplish them during short work periods. Comments from previous participants: "The group is a great way to
Wellness Friday: A journey to wellness one step at a time
Many of us use the beginning of a new year to renew our commitment to living a healthier lifestyle, but how often are these resolutions kept? This session will examine what wellness means and provides simple steps to help participants set their own health goals and keep them on track for achieving their personal definitions
Stress Eating Workshop
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 2 hour evening online workshop with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic includes tips on decreasing emotional eating,
Dial Down University Stress & Anxiety
Feeling anxious and it's hard to unwind? Learn the most highly recommended tips & strategies from the realms of physical self-calming, self-talk, and self-care that you can begin using immediately to decrease stress and anxiety this semester. If you're looking for practical, proven techniques for de-escalating anxiety, including things you can do in the heat
Writing in the Sciences: Scientific Writing Style [ONLINE]
We will focus on specific strategies and techniques that writers can use to strengthen cohesion, concision, and clarity. We recommend that participants bring an example of their own scientific writing to the workshop (e.g., draft of a research article, lab report, critical review of a scientific research article). However, instructors can provide an example text
Writing in the Sciences: Research Articles [ONLINE]
This session offers strategies for planning, outlining, drafting, and revising research articles in the sciences. We will explore the key components of the Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections. We will also provide a mapping tool that writers can use to organize their own scientific research articles. NOTE: Registered participants will receive a Zoom link
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. After attending this
Open Scholarship Brown Bag Series: Depositing Your Research Data in a Repository
Sharing your data improves your visibility as a researcher, increases citations for your publications, gives you recognition for your work, attracts new collaborations, and most importantly allows for reproducibility and verification of results. This brown bag will cover: Benefits around depositing your research data into a repository. Impact of the Tri-Agency Policy influences how data