Events - 2020

Join us for a grad student coffee chat as part of this year's online GRADnavigate series. 

This event is cancelled, as per the university-wide COVID 19 update from March 12. 

This full day conference is designed to better prepare graduate students and postdocs for careers outside of academia by focusing on key skill areas sought after by employers. Not ready to think about your next step yet? Don’t worry. This conference emphasizes skills that will help you succeed now, while you’re doing research at Waterloo, and later, in your future career.

In today’s diverse workplaces, being able to navigate, build, and contribute to effective teams may be the single most important set of skills an employee can have.

In this workshop, you’ll learn about tools and techniques that will help you build your awareness of multicultural team performance, navigate workplace cultural and communication, and use effective conversations to deal with conflict in international and multicultural team settings.

Additional information: This is a free online workshop offered by Mitacs and can be accessed at anytime. 

Get the knowledge you need to build your network! Your time at graduate school/during your postdoctoral fellowship will be filled with opportunities to make connections in and outside of your field. This short online workshop will give you the information you’ll need to make the most of each opportunity.

Additional information: This is a free online workshop offered by Mitacs and can be accessed at anytime. 

Gain the confidence to communicate effectively and learn valuable ways to finesse your email etiquette.

In this workshop, you will learn how to: draft concise emails with clear information and direction, and use email appropriately within the work environment.

Additional information: This is a free online workshop offered by Mitacs and can be accessed at anytime. 

Join us for this workshop on Remaining in Canada: PGWP and PR Essentials as part of this year's online GRADnavigate series.

Join us for this workshop on project management and writing strategies for big projects as part of this year's online GRADnavigate series.

Join us for this workshop on TAing in an online environment as part of this year's online GRADnavigate series.

Dissertation Boot Camp is designed to help dissertation writers get a jump start on meeting their writing goals. It combines dedicated writing time, goal setting and writing strategy sessions, and one-one meetings with our writing specialists.

This online intensive Dissertation Boot Camp will take place over four intensive days from April 13 to 16. 

Application required: Applications to participate will open after January 10.

This event has been postponed indefinitely, as per the university-wide COVID 19 update from March 12. 

This event is cancelled, as per the university-wide COVID 19 update from March 12.