Speakers: Lisa Evans, Region of Waterloo Chief Procurement Officer, and Donna Serrati, Region of Waterloo Manager of Engineering and Programs
Host: George Lamont, Department of English Language and Literature, GENE 191/199 instructor
You’re about to finish your course work or comprehensive exams and have started to think about writing your thesis or dissertation. Where do you begin?
This full-day workshop, sponsored by GRADventure, will guide early stage graduate students through some of the first phases of planning and writing a thesis or dissertation.
Waterloo’s Writing and Communication Centre is currently accepting applications for Dissertation Boot Camp. This online program, which is designed to help dissertation and thesis writers to get a jump start on their writing goals, runs Monday, December 10th to Thursday, December 13th from 9am to 4pm each day.
Gradflix: The red carpet event where the finalists present their research videos will be January 10, 2019. If you are planning on attending this event, please register: https://uwaterloo.ca/graduate-studies-postdoctoral-affairs/current-students/gradflix
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT:
Come and enjoy cheese and pastries, relaxed conversation, and a discussion of crime in medieval England.
Waterloo’s Writing and Communication Centre is currently accepting applications for Dissertation Boot Camp. This sustained program, which is designed to help dissertation and thesis writers to get a jump start on their writing goals, runs every Monday from January 21st to March 4th, from 9:00am to 12:30pm.
In this workshop, we will collaborate to address the ableist attitudes, policies, and practices that are built into higher education. We will also interrogate the minimal and temporary means we have been given to address inequities, and the cost such an approach has for disabled students and faculty. Finally, we will explore how to design our own classrooms, in advance, in ways that anticipate and welcome different avenues for learning, means of expression, and modes of knowledge-creation.
The GSPA coordinates a professional development credentialing program for students. Within this program students create an IDP and can tailor their professional development to their path of interest. There is still room within the Foundations Introductory workshops being held Jan 29 and Feb 27: https://uwaterloo.ca/graduate-studies-postdoctoral-affairs/current-students/professional-skills-foundations
English Professor Andew McMurry joins Dean of Arts Douglas Peers and colleages from other departments to discuss the current state of the Bullet of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock and to understand the real threats and possible actions for turning back the clock.