Events

The Learning Centre hosts an exciting program of events including academic lectures and seminars, symposiums and conferences, workshops, presentations and much more.

Latest Events Events Calendar

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  Nov

  18

  Introduction to Research Data Management

  Online, 10:00 am

  Join us for a research data management planning workshop designed to help you incorporate best practices for data management into your work. Registration is required.

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  Nov

  18

  Lay Summaries: Making Research Visible and Accessible (Part 2)

  Dodson Room (302) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 10:00 am

  In Part 2 of the lay summary workshop series, facilitators introduce the Making Research Accessible initiative’s (MRAi) Downtown Eastside Research Access portal as a case-study, and invite participants to make a contribution to this community-centred, open-access project by writing a lay summary of scholarly research that could possibly be published on the portal. Registration is required.

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  Nov

  17

  Writing Personal Statements: Crafting Your Professional Identity

  Dodson Room (302) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 10:00 am

  This workshop draws on research to introduce participants to some of the typical stylistic features of the personal statement, such as personal narrative, identity construction, and self-promotion, and includes dedicated time for participants to revise a statement and receive feedback from the facilitators. Registration is required.

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  Nov

  16

  Writing in STEM: Evaluating Ideas Explicitly and Implicitly

  Online, 10:00 am

  This workshop will present a linguistic framework for understanding the various ways we use language to position something as positive or negative, and how we grade that evaluation to more strongly or weakly emphasize it. Registration is required.

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  Nov

  15

  Academic Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Strategies and Considerations for Graduate Students

  Online, 1:00 pm

  This workshop will provide graduate students with an introduction to academic publishing, offering guidance on how to navigate the publishing process from start to finish. Registration is required.

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  Nov

  10

  Working with Wikipedia and Wikidata

  Online, 1:00 pm

  This workshop will introduce best practices in working with Wikipedia and Wikidata and showcase ways to make use of these tools in both research projects and pedagogy.

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  Nov

  4

  Preparing and Preserving Your Research Outputs: Basics and Beyond

  Online, 11:00 am

  In this session, cIRcle Staff reviews the basics of what you need to know to deposit in cIRcle and how to apply these principles to other platforms such as a project website or YouTube. Registration is required.

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  Nov

  4

  Lay Summaries: Going Public With Your Research (Part 1)

  Dodson Room (302) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 10:00 am

  In Part 1 of this workshop series, facilitators introduce participants to some of the ways in which lay summaries differ from abstracts, the multiple purposes of lay summaries, and how lay summaries enhance communication with diverse publics. Registration is required.

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