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Learn when to say no… and yes!
How to strike your own balance between ambition, institutional expectations, and personal limits.
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Navigating emotional labour in grad school
This work is often overlooked and can have negative impacts if students are not properly supported.
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10 tips to help foster critical thinking and original writing
Students need to be taught to embrace the messy yet rewarding process of writing, without relying on AI technologies.
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Demystifying the grant application process
Virginie Portes, the director of research support at IVADO, draws on her vast experience to help Canadian academics navigate this complex process.
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Meet Kevin McCormick, Founding President of the Canadian Institute for Human Rights and Global Health
Bringing capacity to global engagement.
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From business journalism to entrepreneurial support
A Moroccan BCDI 2030 Scholar committed to empowering women entrepreneurs.
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Interactive simulations transforming business education
Engaging students through immersive experiential learning while providing personalized support for instructors.
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The essentials of PhD supervision
A retired professor shares the ingredients of a successful thesis supervisor-PhD student relationship.
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Enhancing teaching and pedagogical development in graduate education
The TaPPS program encourages departmental collaboration and graduate student leadership.
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Establishing connections through the QES-Advanced Scholars program
One researcher shares the experience she gained conducting research with Indigenous groups in Canada and Ecuador.
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Investing in humanities, social sciences is key to post-pandemic recovery
Our society is at risk if we undervalue or underfund social science and humanities disciplines.
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Should you watch Netflix’s The Chair?
While the series highlights many of the problems currently facing university English departments, it offers very few solutions.
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Lock your Twitter account, the hiring committee is watching
How can universities make applicants feel safe enough to be themselves online?
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Teaching university students to be ‘age-conscious’ could help address our elder care crisis
What it’s like to get older? A course on the psychology of aging helped students gain empathy and curiosity.
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Editorship as mentoring, collaboration and peer support
Academic editing can provide kinship and learning, not just judgment followed by celebration or tears.
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Empowering the other 80%: changing graduate student career outlooks through mentorship programs
Universities need to offer more opportunities and resources to the 80 per cent of graduate students who will not end up as tenure track professors.
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Adding a ‘plus’ to medical school training
Medical students at Western now have an opportunity to experience interdisciplinary, experiential learning by doing an advanced degree or diploma while completing their MD.
