Current graduate students

Friday, June 30, 2023 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, July 28, 2023 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Rock Your Thesis

Rock your Thesis is a three-part program that guides graduate students through the first phases of planning and writing a thesis or dissertation.

Mental illness is the leading cause of disability in Canada, but under-researched. This presentation will describe a series of studies on predictors and consequences of poor mental health (primarily depression and suicidality), and whether there are modifiable factors that may reduce the burden of mental illness.

Friday, May 5, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, May 9, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, May 12, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, May 16, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, May 19, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, May 23, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, May 26, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, May 30, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, June 2, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, June 6, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, June 9, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, June 16, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, June 20, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, June 23, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, June 27, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, June 30, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, July 4, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, July 7, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, July 11, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, July 14, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, July 18, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, July 21, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, July 25, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, July 28, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, August 1, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, August 4, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, August 8, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, August 11, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, August 15, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, August 18, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, August 22, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, August 25, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Tuesday, August 29, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Friday, September 1, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Virtual writing cafés

Virtual Writing Cafés are open to any graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, and faculty member at the University of Waterloo and take place on Teams every Tuesday and Friday morning from 9 a.m. EST until noon.

Thursday, April 13, 2023 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy

The Indo-Pacific region will play a critical role in shaping Canada’s future over the next half-century. Encompassing 40 economies, over four billion people and $47.19 trillion in economic activity, it is the world’s fastest growing-region and home to six of Canada’s top 13 trading partners.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Just Relationships for Research Panel

This interdisciplinary panel will outline roles and responsibilities as well as best practices for graduate student supervision to frame a discussion of how to foster and maintain just relationships among researchers, with a focus on the principles and practices animating non-extractive student-supervisor relationships.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The Changing Same: Blackness, Representation, and Video Games

A discussion of the promise and peril of POC video game character voice acting, focusing primarily on the connections of Black male anger and Black fatherhood in God of War through the voice work of TC Carson and Christopher Judge, contextualized against the audio Brownface of two voice POC women characters in Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves.