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It's time to start planning your thesis or dissertation: now what? You’re about to finish your coursework or comprehensive exams and have started to think about writing your thesis or dissertation. Where do you begin?

Rock your Thesis is a three-part program that guides graduate students through the first phases of planning and 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.

Part 3: Revise and Submit

The third in the three-part “Rock Your Thesis” series, this workshop will equip you with the skills you need to revise your thesis or dissertation draft and plan to submit and defend it. This hands-on, interactive program has three objectives:

• Review the submission and defence process and timelines
• Introduce a range of revision strategies and both the structural and sentence levels.
• Give participants an opportunity to try out revision and peer-review activities with their own work

This workshop is best suited for Master’s and PhD students who have written at least part of their thesis or dissertation draft. Please bring a laptop, digital copy of your work-in-progress, and a printed copy of at least 10 pages of your thesis or dissertation.

The literature review can be a challenging and time-consuming component of a research project. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can’t write your literature review for you, but this workshop will explore and introduce GenAI tools you may use as supports in the literature review process. We will identify ethical, legal, and intellectual property pitfalls associated with GenAI use, and offer guidelines and strategies for productive, ethical, and appropriate use of specific GenAI tools for specific purposes at each stage of the research and writing process.

This interactive workshop is a collaboration between the Library and the Writing and Communication Centre and is designed for graduate students who are working on a literature review as part of a project proposal, thesis or dissertation, or a standalone journal article.

This is an online workshop. Participants will join via MS Teams.

Cornerstone helps students from any faculty who are enthusiastic to explore their potential ideas, and that want to join a like-minded community over two weeks to take action.

The Cornerstone program is focused on getting outside the university to speak to potential customers and simplifies the process of taking the next step, building confidence, and opening doors to build your idea for real.

No pitch deck. No pressure. No technical skills required
Cornerstone is Velocity’s challenge where over two weeks you’ll test your idea, potentially meet your first users, and build confidence in your idea. You’ll join a supportive community of students who are all taking their first steps into entrepreneurship — with coaching, mentorship, and the chance to win prizes.

The literature review can be a challenging and time-consuming component of a research project. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can’t write your literature review for you, but this workshop will explore and introduce GenAI tools you may use as supports in the literature review process. We will identify ethical, legal, and intellectual property pitfalls associated with GenAI use, and offer guidelines and strategies for productive, ethical, and appropriate use of specific GenAI tools for specific purposes at each stage of the research and writing process.

This virtual session will discuss and answer questions about the importance of talking to young children (age 0-6) about consent, setting boundaries, and using the proper names for body parts to help build safe, caring and respectful communities.

Most of us want to help other members of our campus community but sometimes we aren’t sure how to do this. The Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO) is offering Active Bystander Intervention Training for Staff and Faculty to help you address microaggressions and harassment, intervene in harmful, or potentially harmful, situations, and respond with compassion and care to a disclosure of sexual violence or other harms. 

Interested in learning about climate and disaster risk, and how to apply these topics to your research and teaching?
Join Dr. Rodrigo Costa from Systems Design Engineering at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ and Dr. Jose Di Bella from ��ݮ��Ƶ’s Climate Institute for a Climate and Disaster Risk Boot Camp.

Celebrate International Poetry Month in community, engaged in a relaxed practice of storying. Join Shelly Grace, Toronto-based spoken word poet, for a session on practices of free story-writing, story-telling, and story-listening. Participants will practice free-writing and listening-to-listen, not respond. Giana Tomas, a PhD Candidate in Recreation and Leisure Studies, will open our session with a description of the Filipin* talk-story method of Kuwentuhan to welcome and invite different cultural textures to our discussion of storying practices.

Need a breather?

Join us for collaging a postcard keepsake focused on grounding, rest and community care. All comrades welcome. All materials will be provided. Light refreshments will be available.

Join us for the Velocity Pitch Competition, where elite emerging founders from the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ ecosystem showcase their transformative ventures. New for 2025, this special event brings together exceptional current and past ��ݮ��Ƶ founders for an exhilarating showcase of innovation and entrepreneurial talent.