University of Waterloo events
At Waterloo, we're proud to host a wide variety of events for the campus community and our larger community. Find out what's happening on campus, from free public lectures to workshops and information sessions.
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Events
WaterLeadership | Sharing Science: Effective Presentations
In this session, you will learn how to prepare an engaging and concise oral presentation that effectively describes your research. This workshop will equip you with the tools to identify the key elements of your research and craft messages that resonate with your target audience.
Academic Career Conference
The annual Academic Career Conference, hosted by the Centre for Career Development, provides workshops, lightning talks and discussion panels to help graduate students and Postdocs prepare for an academic career. This year, the Academic Career Conference will focus on the theme “Inclusion in academic contexts: showing up as you in academia”. Join us to discuss how gender, cultural, religious and disability identities are integrated (or not) in the academic environment to foster a more inclusive space where everyone can show up as themselves.
Equitable Assessment of Teaching at Waterloo
The research on student course evaluations loudly exclaims that overreliance on one perspective in teaching assessment – the student perspective – has a negative impact on both the wellbeing and career trajectory of faculty members who belong to systemically oppressed populations. Join Dr. Kim Buchanan (Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-racism) and Dr. Sonya Buffone (Teaching Assessment Processes Office) to learn about the concrete steps Waterloo is taking to establish a more equitable, holistic model of teaching assessment.
Fixing Water
As part of the Water Institute's Webinar Series: The Value of Water in Canada Derek Davy, CEO, Econse Water Technologies Inc. presents: Fixing Water.
Academic Career Conference
The annual Academic Career Conference, hosted by the Centre for Career Development, provides workshops, lightning talks and discussion panels to help graduate students and Postdocs prepare for an academic career. This year, the Academic Career Conference will focus on the theme “Inclusion in academic contexts: showing up as you in academia”. Join us to discuss how gender, cultural, religious and disability identities are integrated (or not) in the academic environment to foster a more inclusive space where everyone can show up as themselves.
Open Access Week: Predatory Publishing: How to Select a Journal and Avoid Bad Publishers
How do you choose a quality journal? What are predatory journals and how do you avoid them? This online workshop, a combination of presentation and question & answer period, will answer these questions and provide tangible tips and tricks to identify quality and predatory journals.
Open Access Week: Reproducibility and Replicability in Research
As the world deals with a replication crisis in academic literature, it is important to ensure your own research practices are transparent and credible, further contributing to research excellence. This workshop, a combination of presentation, discussion and question & answer period, will explore the essential concepts of reproducibility and replicability in research, two critical pillars of scientific integrity, and what it means to create reproducible and replicable research.
Open Access Week: Increasing Research Impact and Academic Prestige through Open Access Publishing
Are you a researcher with questions about the citation impact of Open Access (OA) publishing?
OA scholarly publishing enables subscription-free access to academic research with the goal of increasing the reach of a work. This in-person workshop, a combination of presentation and question & answer period, will discuss the perceived barriers as well as the benefits of OA publishing, with a particular focus on research impact.
Open Access Week: Publishing Open Access (for free!) as a Humanities Scholar
Navigating Open Access (OA) publishing can be challenging and is often very expensive. This online workshop, a combination of presentation and question & answer period, will help demystify OA and provide solutions on how to reduce or eliminate the cost of publishing OA as a humanities scholar.
Open Access Week: Claim your research identity with ORCID
Are you a graduate student looking to establish your research identity?
Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) is a persistent identifier that points to an individual researcher, helping to reduce the administrative burden associated with manually managing a scholarly profile.
This workshop, a combination of presentation and question & answer period, will introduce research IDs and how to create one using ORCID, as well as how to increase an ORCIDs credibility by affiliating the record to an institution, such as the University of Waterloo.