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Staff, 2015 Fall
Workshop – Amazon Mechanical Turk
The Faculty of Social Science has organized a workshop on
By
Taylor Kohut, Post-Doc (Psychology)
Monday, February 11th
10-11 am
SSC 5220
“Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. This could include anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more. MTurk enables companies to harness the collective intelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforce to streamline business processes, augment data collection and analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.”
This workshop is open to faculty members, post-docs, graduate students as well as technical and research staff.
RSVP required. There are a limited number of spots available.
Please see the attached poster for further details.
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Call for Proposals: McGill Graduate Law Conference
Law: Reactive or Proactive?
McGill Graduate Law Students Association
ANNUAL GRADUATE LAW CONFERENCE
8-9 May 2019, Montréal, Canada
The Graduate Law Students Association (GLSA) of McGill University’s Faculty of Law welcome submissions in English and French from current masters and doctoral students, recent graduates and early-career academics specializing in law and related disciplines. The conference is intended to build community among graduate students from different institutions, to provide participants with a stimulating environment to discuss their work, and an opportunity to learn and develop skills necessary to communicate and animate their research.
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3 Minute Thesis Competition
3MT (Three Minute Thesis) is a research communication competition where graduate students have 3 minutes or less to present their research and its impact to a panel of non-specialist judges and peers. The exercise develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of research students’ capacity to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience. Non-stem Faculties are often underrepresented in this competition, so consider signing up.
Date: Friday, March 1, 2019
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location: International and Graduate Affairs Building (IGAB), Room #1N05
Last Day to Register: Friday, February 22, 2019
For more info, view the 3MT website.
Call for Presentations – FIMULAW Graduate Research Day
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
3rd Annual
FIMS/MUSIC/LAW (FIMULAW) Interdisciplinary Research Day
Friday, March 22, 2019
Law Building
The Faculties of Music, Information and Media Studies, and Law invite graduate students and faculty to submit a poster, panel presentation, lightning talk, and/or performance presentation to our 2019 FIMULAW Interdisciplinary Research Day. The FIMULAW Interdisciplinary Research Day provides faculty and graduate students an opportunity to present their work and to engage with an interdisciplinary audience on matters of importance to researchers across disciplines. Graduate students and faculty are welcome to reuse posters and presentations from previous conferences.
FIMULAW Interdisciplinary Research Day is made possible through the generous support of Research Western and the Faculties of Information and Media Studies, Music, and Law.
SUBMISSIONS FROM GRADUATE STUDENTS AND FACULTY FOR ALL PRESENTATION TYPES ARE WELCOME. DUE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS, HOWEVER, YOUR DESIRED PRESENTATION FORMAT CANNOT BE GUARANTEED. YOU MAY SUBMIT MORE THAN ONE ABSTRACT FOR CONSIDERATION.
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
· Panelists should speak to this year’s topic of “interdisciplinary connections”.
· Submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, including a brief description of the ways in which your research connects to FIMS, Law, and/or Music.
· Panelists will be given 10 minutes to speak on their topic. A question and answer period will follow roundtable discussions and is not included in the time limit.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
· Posters on any and all topics relating to FIMS, Music, or Law research will be considered.
· An emphasis on interdisciplinarity is preferred.
· Submit a brief description (50-100 words) and poster title for consideration.
· Posters will be presented in electronic format only.
· Recommended poster dimensions: 1920 x 1080 pixels – if using Power Point: Design tab, Page Setup, select On-screen Show [16:9]. Save as PNG.
· Posters from previous presentations are welcome.
A Research Poster Workshop will be offered by members of the FIMULAW organizing committee for those students who may be unfamiliar with the process of creating a research poster. You can sign up for this workshop when submitting your abstract, or email Laura Curtis for more information at laura.curtis@uwo.ca.
LIGHTNING TALK PRESENTATIONS
· Lightning talks on any and all topics relating to FIMS, Music, or Law research will be considered.
· Lightning talk participants will be given exactly 3 minutes to present. Visual aids are welcome, but not required.
· An emphasis on interdisciplinarity is preferred
· Submit a brief description (50-100 words) and presentation title for consideration.
PERFORMANCE PRESENTATIONS
· Solo or Chamber Music presentations on creative process exploring any repertoire or context are welcomed.
· Presentations should include performance and discussion of creative process.
· Performance Presentations are limited to 15 minutes, including set-up
· Submit a brief description (50-100 words) and suggested work(s) for consideration.
Please follow the link to the FIMULAW Application Form and submit your response by January 31, 2019.
Successful submissions will be notified by Thursday, February 14, 2019.
Questions?
Please contact Laura Curtis (PhD Student, Faculty of Music) – laura.curtis@uwo.ca
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FIMULAW: Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Day
The Faculties of Music, Information and Media Studies, and Law invite graduate students and faculty to save the date for the 3rd annual FIMULAW Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Day, to be held the morning of Friday, 22 March 2019 – this year hosted at the Faculty of Law.
This half-day event will include poster presentations, discussion panels, lightning talks, and musical performances.
The call for presentations will go out shortly.
More information available at the website.
Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) – Jobs
Experienced Researcher (health-related projects)
SRDC is currently seeking an experienced researcher to be part of a team of professional researchers and evaluators in the Ottawa office, and play a key role in health-related projects. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated interest and experience in population and public health intervention research and/or health policy and systems research, and program evaluation. Specific knowledge of health promotion and/or chronic disease management, supported employment, aging, housing and homelessness, food security, and/or mental health and well being would be an asset, as would familiarity with cultural safety principles. Jobposting
Experienced Researchers (skills, learning and employment)
SRDC is currently seeking experienced researchers to contribute to studies evaluating innovative labour market program, immigrant integration and education initiatives in the Vancouver office. The successful candidates will have strong,demonstrated interest and experience in labour market programming and policies,especially in the following areas: workforce development, adult learning,provision of employment supports and services, youth employment programs,career development and labour market integration programs for new immigrants,Indigenous people, and persons with disabilities. Jobposting
2019 Concordia Library Research Forum: Call for Proposals
Proposals are now being accepted for Concordia University Library’s 17th Annual Research Forum. This year’s Research Forum will be held on Friday, April 26th, 2019,at the Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre in the beautiful city of Montreal.
The Research Forum provides an opportunity for librarians, archivists, graduate students, teaching faculty, and information professionals to describe and promote their completed or in-progress research, practical case studies or projects. The Forum also provides a venue for researchers to seek suggestions for enhancing their research interests, to identify potential new partners for projects, to test the effectiveness of their undertakings, and to promote research in academic libraries.
This year’s keynote speaker is Camille Callison. Camille Callison, Tsesk iye (Crow) Clan of the Tahltan Nation, is the Learning & Organizational Development Librarian and a PhD student (Anthropology) at the University of Manitoba. Camille is Past Chair of the Indigenous Matters Committee and a Copyright Committee member of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA-FCAB). She chaired the CFLA-FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee and is an Indigenous Partner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Task force. Camille is a member of IFLA Indigenous Matters Section Standing Committee and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO Memory of the World Committee and Sector Commission on Culture, Communications& Information.
Call for Proposals
Proposals are invited for presentations or posters on research or a case study in any area of Library and Information Science including but not limited to accessibility integration;assessment and impact; digital library technologies; literacy instruction;library space and design; publishing and scholarly communication; research data management; social media; new library technologies; and library history.
Presentations and posters may be in English or French.
At least one of the presenters of the poster or presentation should be the primary researcher involved with the original project.
Presentations should be 20 minutes, followed by a question period.
Posters may also be submitted. These will be on view for the entire day. Poster presenters will have an opportunity to describe their posters during the day.
Submission deadline: Thursday, January 31, 2019, 11 a.m.
For more information, please visit: http://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum
To submit a proposal, please click here.
For more information about the Concordia University Library’s 17th Annual Research Forum, please contact Michelle Lake, Chair of the Librarians’ Research Forum Committee at michelle.lake@concordia.ca
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Post-Doc Fellowship – Migration and Humanities – Cambridge, MA
The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard invites applications for one-year (2019-2020) postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities.
More information and the online application are available on the website.
Applications are due by January 2, 2019.
Contribute to Science Policy in Canada
The Canadian Science Policy Fellowship is now accepting applications from prospective fellows interested in undertaking a 12-month policy position within a Canadian government host office.
Eligible applicants must be:
- Faculty members at Canadian universities or PhD graduates
- Canadian citizens or permanent residents (Citizenship requirements may differ for individual host offices; this will be accommodated in the fellow and host matching process)
- Able to negotiate a leave of absence from their university or employer, as applicable
The 2019 cohort of fellowships will begin in September 2019. Approved fellows receive remuneration from their host offices and professional development training and networking events facilitated by Mitacs.
Applications will be accepted until February 3, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. PT. For more information, please visit the Canadian Science Policy Fellowship or contact policyfellowship@mitacs.ca.
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