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

January 2026

Date

Event title

Event host

Location

Jan 8

Help! How do I Co-op?

Centre for Career Development

Online

Jan 13

What is GIS?

Libraries

Online

Jan 13

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Student Success Office

Online

Jan 13

Resume Tips: Thinking Like an Employer

Centre for Career Development

Online

Jan 14

How to Make Cover Letters Less Painful

Centre for Career Development

Online

Jan 14

Cracking the Code: Tips for Technical Interview Success

Centre for Career Development

TC 2218

Jan 15

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Student Success Office

Online

Jan 15

Multilingual Writers’ Studio: Revision Strategies

Writing and Communication Centre

SLC 3216

Jan 15

GRADnavigate: Design Your Degree

Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

Online

Jan 16

Collecting and Using Feedback on Your Teaching

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online

Jan 19

Foundations of Giving and Receiving Feedback

Organizational and Human Development

Online

Jan 20

From Idea to Impact: Finding Gaps in Your Problem Space

Libraries

Online

Jan 20

Giving and Receiving Feedback

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

Jan 21

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Student Success Office

Online

Jan 22

Effective Lesson Plans

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online

Jan 22

Preparing for Interviews

Centre for Career Development

Online

Jan 22

Discovering Your Purpose

Organizational and Human Development

Online

Jan 22

Rock Your Thesis 2: Start to Write

Writing and Communication Centre

SLC 3216

Jan 22

Classroom Delivery Skills

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

Jan 27

GIS Speed Run Sessions: GIS Data Types and Open Data

Libraries

Online

Jan 27

From Idea to Impact: Understanding Markets and Consumers

Libraries

Online

Jan 27

Preparing for P4E

Centre for Career Development

Online

Jan 27

Integrating GenAI in Assessments

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

Jan 27

Supporting Student Academic Skills

Centre for Teaching Excellence

LIB 323

Jan 28

Shift Happens: Adapting Your Academic Strategy

Student Success Office

Online

Jan 28

Preparing for P4E

Centre for Career Development

Online

Jan 29

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Student Success Office

Online

Jan 29

Career Planning for Grads and Postdocs: Reflecting on Skills and Talents

Centre for Career Development

Online

Jan 30          

LinkedIn Learning Lunch and Learn

Organizational and Human Development

Online

February 2026

Date Event title Event host Location

Feb 2

Teaching Methods

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

Feb 3

From Idea to Impact: Investigating Industries and Companies

Libraries

Online

Feb 3

Digging into LinkedIn

Centre for Career Development

Online

Feb 4

P4E Job Fair

P4E

RIM Park

Feb 5

GRADnavigate: How to Postdoc

Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

SLC 3216

Feb 5

Academic CVs

Centre for Career Development

Online

Feb 6

GenAI and the Lit Review

Writing and Communication Centre

Online

Feb 10

GIS Speed Run Sessions: Every Map is Wrong!

Libraries

Online

Feb 10

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Student Success Office

Online

Feb 12

How to Find a Job

Centre for Career Development

Online

Feb 12

Indigenous Perspectives on AI

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online

Feb 12

Multilingual Writers’ Studio: Revision Strategies

Writing and Communication Centre

SLC 3216

Feb 13

Effective Question Strategies

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

Feb 13

Leading with Curiosity

Student Success Office

Online

Feb 17-20

Dissertation Boost Camp

Writing and Communication Centre

SLC 3216

Feb 18

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Student Success Office

Online

Feb 24

GIS Speed Run Sessions: Essential Analysis Tools

Libraries

Online

Feb 24

Building Rapport with Students

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online

Feb 24

Leading with Curiosity

Student Success Office

Online

Feb 24

How to Make Cover Letters Less Painful

Centre for Career Development

Online

Feb 24

Accessibility and GenAI

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Online

Feb 25

Resume Tips: Thinking Like an Employer

Centre for Career Development

Online

Feb 26

Preparing for Interviews

Centre for Career Development

Online

Feb 27

Collaborative Team Building

Student Success Office

Online

March 2026

Date Event title Event host Location

March 3

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Student Success Office

Online

March 3

Digging into LinkedIn

Centre for Career Development

Online

March 6

Foundations of Collaborative Leadership

Student Success Office

Online

March 10

GIS Speed Run Sessions: Creating Map Layouts

Libraries

Online

March 10

How to Find a Job

Centre for Career Development

Online

March 11

How to Make Cover Letters Less Painful

Centre for Career Development

Online

March 11

Harm Reductive Communication and Conflict Resolution

Student Success Office

Online

March 12

Leading with Curiosity

Student Success Office

Online

March 12

Resume Tips: Thinking Like an Employer

Centre for Career Development

Online

March 17

Academic Interviews

Centre for Career Development

Online

March 17

Collaborative Team Building

Student Success Office

Online

March 18

GRADnavigate: Unlocking Opportunities Beyond the Classroom

Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

Online

March 19

Harm Reductive Communication and Conflict Resolution

Student Success Office

Online

March 24

Preparing for Interviews

Centre for Career Development

Online

March 24

Using GenAI to Enhance Student Learning

Centre for Teaching Excellence

MC 2036

March 25

Collaborative Team Building

Student Success Office

Online

March 25

Digging into LinkedIn

Centre for Career Development

Online

March 26

Trauma Informed Course Design

Centre for Teaching Excellence

LIB 329

March 27

Leading with Curiosity

Student Success Office

Online

March 31

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.