The Graduate Student Online Workshops Project is a collaborative virtual event series focused on developing and sharing graduate student skills during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moving to an online model for content delivery has certain challenges over in-person seminars, but provides many opportunities including dramatically increased accessibility for cross-disciplinary knowledge sharing and networking among our fellow graduate students and between our universities.
Our technical workshops will be hosted by professors and fellow graduate students, and delivered intentionally for an interdisciplinary audience. Our Mental Health workshops will be facilitated by professional counsellors.
All workshops will be hosted via Zoom webinar. Materials for each event will be posted on this website.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Friday, August 21, 2020 | 2-3:30PM This workshop empowers graduate scholars to identify and overcome writing challenges. After critically reflecting on their own writing habits, participants are introduced to a wide range of strategies and resources that can help them to develop and maintain more effective writing practices. Maša Torbica is a PhD Candidate in English Langauge and Literature at the University of Waterloo, working as a Graduate Fellow at the UW Writing and Communication Centre. Her dissertation research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and she is a 2020 recipient of the Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student. Twitter: @m_torbica Join us for another Graduate Student Online Workshop on Monday, August 24th from 10am to 11am with Ladan Mowlid. Ladan is Western University’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Education Coordinator. She is also a PhD student! Ladan will be discussing strategies to use within your virtual or in-person classroom space to best foster an inclusive learning experience for students across all backgrounds and identities. We hope to see you there! August 11, 2020 from 3-4:30PM This workshop will introduce you to the fundamentals of the LaTeX platform to get you comfortable with formulating documents and articles. You will learn how to initiate a document, how to import images and resize them, how to create chapters and sections, and some basic mathematical writing. Additionally, we will explore how LaTeX handles labelling and figure/table referencing. The workshop will involve a screenshared approach to demonstrate the use of Overleaf in real-time. July 10, 2020 from 3-4PM In this workshop, Dr. Natalia Lapshina will cover the research findings from her doctoral student-supervisor study, discuss some real examples of student-supervisor relationships, as well as strategies for improving these relationships. past workshops
Writing Through Challenges: Strategies and Resources for Graduate Scholars
Facilitator: Maša Torbica
Strategies for Providing an Inclusive Learning Experience
LaTeX Writing Basics
Student-Supervisor Relationship Foundations
challenging the status quo: navigating racial and cultural considerations in grad school
Harnessing Potential: Professional Development Opportunities & Beyond