Current graduate students

The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Dr. Kim TallBear, professor, author, and expert in historical and ongoing roles of science and technology in the colonization of Indigenous peoples.

The second in the three-part "Rock Your Thesis" series, this workshop will equip you with the skills you need to start writing a large academic writing project like a thesis, dissertation or dissertation proposal. 

Through structured activities, peer dialogue, and reflective writing, participants will build strategies to negotiate academic expectations while sustaining their own voices and identities as writers.

This 5-week workshop series integrates practical revision tools with antiracist and decolonial perspectives on writing. Drawing on Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Antiracist Writing Workshop, the program treats academic writing as a cultural practice shaped by power, rhetorical traditions, and linguistic diversity.

Grab a coffee and get writing. Join our network of graduate student, postdoc, and faculty writers at the Grad Writing Café! Meet other writers, stay on track, and make progress on your work. Writing doesn't have to be solitary!

The Black, Indigenous and Racialized Students' Writing Café is a social writing group. Unlike traditional peer feedback-based writing groups, we don’t read each other’s finished writing: instead, we write together to create a community of writers who can cheer each other on during what is often an isolating, difficult journey!

The third in the three-part “Rock Your Thesis” series, this workshop will equip you with the skills you need to revise your thesis or dissertation draft and plan to submit and defend it. Register on Portal today!

We’re excited to let you know that Ideathon is now open for Winter 2026, a fast-paced, creativity-first challenge designed for students who love brainstorming, problem-solving, and building ideas that matter. It’s an opportunity to work on a real urban challenge in Waterloo Region.

Come enjoy a free prepared, ready to go meal courtesy of The GSA. *While quantities last.

To promote well-being in a more casual and laid-back environment for graduate students to connect and socialize via mocktail making and a comedy show featuring a local standup comedian hosted at the Grad House.

Come enjoy a movie screening of a queer film, complete with snacks. Fostering community by creating a welcoming space for queer students to gather and make connections.