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.
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Major recurring events
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.Ìý
Host: Centre for Career Development
Timing: Annually in October
Audience: PhD students and postdocs
Dissertation Boost Camp
Dissertation Boot CampÌýis designed to help you get a jump start on meeting your writing goals.ÌýThe 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.
Host:ÌýWriting and Communication Centre
Timing: Annually in the fall or winter term
Audience: PhD students
Rock Your Thesis: Get Ready to Write
This three-part program will guide you through the first phases of writing a thesis or dissertation.ÌýThe 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
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 comprehensiveÌýworkshop designed to help master's and PhD students develop their voices as independent scholars and give effective academic presentations with confidence.Ìý
Host: Writing and Communication Centre
Timing: Annually in the spring term
Audience: Master's and PhD students
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 togetherÌýprofessionals and faculty members to foster networking, share innovative practices, and promote the latest advancements in our fields.
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Timing: Annually in the fall term
Audience: Graduate students and postdocs
May 2025
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April 31-May 1 |
Online and Science Teaching Complex |
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May 6 |
Online |
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May 7 |
Professional Headshots | Tatham Centre | |
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May 7 |
OnlineÌý |
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May 8 |
Resume Tips: Thinking Like an Employer |
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May 8Ìý |
TBD |
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May 12 |
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May 12 |
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May 12 |
Organizational and Human Development |
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May 13 |
Accessibility Reading Group Part 1 | Centre for Teaching Excellence |
OnlineÌý |
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May 14 |
How to Make Cover Letters Less Painful | Centre for Career Development |
OnlineÌý |
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May 20 |
Preparing for Interviews |
OnlineÌý |
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May 22 |
Online |
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May 22 |
Design and Deliver Grad Studio Part 3: Defending and Answering Questions |
TBD |
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May 28 |
Emotional Intelligence at Work |
Online |
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May 29 |
Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs |
OnlineÌý |
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May 29 |
Digging into LinkedIn |
OnlineÌý |
June 2025
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June 10 |
Tatham | ||
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June 18 |
Professional Headshots | Tatham Centre | |
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June 19 |
Juggling Institutional Priorities: Strategies for Instructors |
Centre for Teaching Excellence |
Online |
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June 19 |
What is Predatory Publishing? How to Select a Journal and Avoid Bad Publishers |
OnlineÌý |
July 2025
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July 8 |
Discovering Your Purpose |
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August 2025
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August 28 |
Getting Started in LEARN | MC 2036 |
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: UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ log-in is required to access these workshops.
Career development workshops:
- Creating your Résumé
- Writing a Compelling Cover Letter
- How to Interview Effectively
- Personal Branding Part 1: Build Your Brand
- Personal Branding Part 2: Articulate Your Brand
- Networking to Job Search
- Networking at Conferences
Academic career development workshops:
Centre for Teaching Excellence workshops
Self-directed workshops:
- Supporting Student Mental Health
- Independent Blended Course Design
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Methods
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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 officialÌýcertificate of completionÌýfrom Mitacs for that course.Ìý
To access Mitacs onlineÌýcourses, you will need to create an account on EDGE, the MitacsÌýonline learning management system. To get started:Ìý
- Visit theÌý.
- Create a new account.ÌýPlease do not attempt to use your existing login credentials with previous Mitacs platforms, they will not work.
- Confirm your account by following the prompt in the verification email that isÌýsent to you. This will redirect you to back to the login page, where you can now sign in.Ìý
- SelectÌýyour Learner Affiliationusing the drop-down list. Select "General Learner."
- Fill out the personal information page to complete your registration.Ìý
Once you have created an EDGE account, you may enrolÌýin 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 toÌýintercultural learning modulesÌýpart of an Open Educational Resource (OER) calledÌýAdvancing 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.ÌýWCC workshopsÌýwill be available on the Writing and Communication Centre's LEARN site.ÌýWCC is offeringÌýbothÌýasynchronousÌýworkshops in LEARN and their newÌýone-to-one workshopsÌýfacilitated by a writing and communication advisor.Ìý
Self-register forÌýthe 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.
- Assertion-evidence presentations for research talksÌý(available as a one-to-one workshop only, not available in LEARN)
- From Big Picture to the Final Details: Revising and Editing Your Academic Paper
- Getting it done: Productive writing strategies for big projects
- Getting published for graduate studentsÌý(available as a one-to-one workshop only, not available in LEARN)
- Graduate literature reviews A: Organizing research
- Graduate literature reviews B: Writing it
- Research statements for academic job applicationsÌý(available as a one-to-one workshop only, not available in LEARN)
- Rock your Thesis: Get ready to write
- Say it in your own words: Paraphrase & summary for graduate students
- Tri-agency scholarships (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR)Ìý(available as a one-to-one workshop only, not available in LEARN)