Events across campus

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Your one-stop shop for all events and workshops for graduate students across campus.

Our event listings are updated termly with additional events added as they are scheduled.

Major recurring events

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Academic Career Conference

This full-day conference will help you prepare for the academic work search, including document and interview preparation, and getting insights from current faculty members. 

Host: Centre for Career Development
Timing: Annually in October
Audience: PhD students and postdocs

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Dissertation Boost Camp

Dissertation Boot Camp is designed to help you get a jump start on meeting your writing goals. The program combines dedicated writing time, goal-setting and writing strategy sessions, and one-on-one meetings with our writing specialists. Online, intensive, and sustained (weekly) options are available.

HostWriting and Communication Centre
Timing: Annually in the fall or winter term
Audience: PhD students

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Rock Your Thesis: Get Ready to Write

This three-part program will guide you through the first phases of writing a thesis or dissertation. The series covers topics such as planning and project management, structuring your thesis or dissertation, writing a literature review, using strategies for finding and recording research sources, and revision. Each of the three Rock Your Thesis sessions balances talks from support staff across campus with hands-on activities to guide you through your own planning, drafting, and revising process.

Host: Writing and Communication Centre
Timing: Annually in the winter term
Audience: PhD students

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Design and Deliver Grad Studio

Whether you are giving a conference presentation, a job talk, or defending your dissertation, as a graduate student you need to be able to speak with authority and knowledge about your research area, respond to questions, and engage in scholarly debate. Design and Deliver Grad Studio is a self-directed comprehensive workshop designed to help master's and PhD students develop their voices as independent scholars and give effective academic presentations with confidence. 

Host: Writing and Communication Centre
Timing: Annually in the spring term
Audience: Master's and PhD students

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Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network (GPDN) Annual Conference

The Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network (GPDN) Annual Conference focuses on current topics related to professional and career development for graduate students and postdocs, and brings together professionals and faculty members to foster networking, share innovative practices, and promote the latest advancements in our fields.

Host: Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network
Timing: Annually in the fall term
Audience: Graduate students and postdocs

May 2025

Date 

Event title 

Event host 

Location

April 31-May 1

Teaching and Learning Conference

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online and Science Teaching Complex

May 6

How to Find a Job

Centre for Career Development

Online

May 7

Professional Headshots

Centre for Career Development 

Tatham Centre

May 7

Discovering Your Purpose

Organizational and Human Development

Online 

May 8

Resume Tips: Thinking Like an Employer

Centre for Career Development 

Online 

May 8 

Design and Deliver Grad Studio Part 2: Designing Slides

Human Resources 

TBD

May 12

LEARN for TAs

Centre for Teaching Excellence 

Online 

May 12

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Fundamentals

Organizational and Human Development

Online 

May 12

Foundations of Giving and Receiving Feedback

Organizational and Human Development

Online 

May 13

Accessibility Reading Group Part 1 Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online 

May 14

How to Make Cover Letters Less Painful Centre for Career Development

Online 

May 20 Collecting and Using Feedback on Your Teaching

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online

May 20

Preparing for Interviews

Centre for Career Development

Online 

May 20

Leading with Curiosity

Student Success Office

Online
May 21

Giving and Receiving Feedback

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

May 22

Understanding Conflict

Organizational and Human Development

Online

May 22

Design and Deliver Grad Studio Part 3: Defending and Answering Questions

Writing and Communication Centre

TBD

May 22

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Organizational and Human Development

Online
May 23

Teaching Dossiers and Philosophy Statements

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

May 28

Emotional Intelligence at Work

Organizational and Human Development

Online

May 28

Effective Question Strategies

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

May 29

Getting Survey and Statistical Consultation

Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

Online 

May 29

Digging into LinkedIn

Centre for Career Development

Online 

June 2025

Date 

Event title 

Event host 

Location 

June 4

Resume Tips: Thinking Like an Employer

Centre for Career Development

Online
June 4

Classroom Delivery Skills

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

June 10

Professional Headshots

Centre for Career Development

Tatham
June 10

How to Make Cover Letters Less Painful

Centre for Career Development

Online
June 10

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Organizational and Human Development

Online
June 12

Reflecting on Diversity in the Classroom

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036
June 12

An Intro to Career Planning for Grad Students and Postdocs

Centre for Career Development

Online
June 12

Collaborative Team Building

Student Success Office

Online
June 13

No Fear, Just AI: Learn & Lead with LinkedIn Learning

Organizational and Human Development

Online
June 16

Teaching Methods

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036
June 18

Enhancing Accessibility in Teaching and Learning Series #5: Navigating Waterloo's Accessible Teaching Resources

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online

June 18

Professional Headshots

Centre for Career Development

Tatham Centre
June 18

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Organizational and Human Development

Online
June 19

Preparing for Interview

Centre for Career Development

Online

June 19

Juggling Institutional Priorities: Strategies for Instructors

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online

June 19

What is Predatory Publishing? How to Select a Journal and Avoid Bad Publishers

Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

Online 

June 20

Teaching with Confidence

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online
June 24

Digging into LinkedIn

Centre for Career Development

Online
June 24

Med School 101

Centre for Career Development

Online
June 24

Leading with Curiosity

Student Success Office

Online
June 25

The Science of Strengths: A VIA Discovery Workshop

Organizational and Human Development

Online
June 26

Interactive Lectures

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036
June 27

Harm Reductive Communication and Conflict Resolution

Student Success Office

Online

Asynchronous events

Centre for Career Development workshops

Are you unable to attend one of Centre for Career Development's live workshops or missed a particular workshop you're interested in? The Centre for Career Development has alternative online workshops that you can take at any time at your own pace. In these workshops, you will find a short video, activities, and links to additional resources and information for next steps.

Note: UWaterloo log-in is required to access these workshops.

Career development workshops:

Academic career development workshops:

Centre for Teaching Excellence workshops

Self-directed workshops:

Recorded workshops: 

Mitacs workshops

Mitacs offers a series of courses on topics relevant to graduate students. Each course bundle involves a self-paced asynchronous component, and a synchronous virtual session (dates for which can be found in the calendar above). Completion of both components will earn you an official certificate of completion from Mitacs for that course. 

To access Mitacs online courses, you will need to create an account on EDGE, the Mitacs online learning management system. To get started: 

  1. Visit the Mitacs EDGE login page.
  2. Create a new account. Please do not attempt to use your existing login credentials with previous Mitacs platforms, they will not work.
  3. Confirm your account by following the prompt in the verification email that is sent to you. This will redirect you to back to the login page, where you can now sign in. 
  4. Select your Learner Affiliationusing the drop-down list. Select "General Learner."
  5. Fill out the personal information page to complete your registration. 

Once you have created an EDGE account, you may enrol in the following self-paced, asynchronous online courses:

Mitacs offers both synchronous and asynchronous courses through the EDGE platform. Asynchronous courses are listed as an "Online Course", while synchronous sessions are listed as an "Instructor-Led Course". As all synchronous sessions are currently being offered online, they are open to graduate students from across Canada.

Student Success Office workshops

The Student Success Office (SSO) offers access to intercultural learning modules part of an Open Educational Resource (OER) called Advancing Intercultural Competence for Global Learners. This can be accessed in both English and French.

Writing and Communication Centre workshops

The Writing and Communication Centre (WCC) offers several grad-specific workshops. WCC workshops will be available on the Writing and Communication Centre's LEARN siteWCC is offering both asynchronous workshops in LEARN and their new one-to-one workshops facilitated by a writing and communication advisor. 

Self-register for the LEARN course titled "WCC Workshops" to gain access to the asynchronous workshops, which can be found under the Content tab of that course. These can be completed at your own pace.