Category: Knowledge Mobilization

Registration for Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Open

Registration is now open for Western’s 3MT 2018 competition. Students from FIMS, Law and Music will compete with students from Arts & Humanities, Education, and Ivey,  on Friday, March 2.

The final day to register will be Friday, February 23.

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.

Full details are available on the 3MT website.

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SSHRC Storytellers Challenge

SSHRC has recently launched its annual Storytellers contest, challenging postsecondary students to creatively show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research has an impact on our lives and on our communities.

The contest is open to all students—graduate and undergraduate—enrolled at Canadian postsecondary institutions. Their task is to tell the story, in 3 minutes or 300 words, of a SSHRC-funded research project—their own or a professor’s—taking place at their institution. SSHRC will select 25 finalists to receive a $3000 cash prize and specialized training in research communications. For details on this year’s Storytellers contest, please follow SSHRC on Twitter, watch the #SSHRCStorytellers hashtag, and visit the SSHRC website.

Don’t hesitate to contact SSHRC should you have any questions. Participant questions should be addressed to Storytellers@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

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SSHRC Storytellers

SSHRC challenges postsecondary students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future prosperity. Enter the SSHRC Storytellers contest for a chance to win $3,000 and a spot in an exclusive research communications master class at the 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Regina.

Submission period: Contestants can submit entries as of January 8, 2018, at 10 a.m. (eastern), until the contest closes on January 31, 2018, at 5 p.m. (eastern).

Eligibility: At the time of entry, you must be a Canadian resident, 19 years of age or older, enrolled at a Canadian postsecondary institution, and in compliance with the contest rules and regulations.

Submission requirements: Your submission must be an original work—video, audio, text or infographic—featuring SSHRC-funded research carried out at the institution at which you are enrolled at the time of submission. Your submission must not exceed three minutes in length for video or audio, or 300 words for text or infographic (and 99 megabytes for all files).

More information…

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The Conversation Canada

“The Conversation Canada … brings academics and experienced journalists together to share timely analysis and commentary drawing from research, evidence and insights generated by Canadian universities.” (Source – the Conversation Canada)

“The Conversation provides readers with a free high-grade and trusted information service. [They] are quite different to anything else in the media” for these reasons.

Become an author… “Can you write for The Conversation? – Are you currently employed as a researcher or academic with a university or research institution? Or, if you’re a student, are you a PhD candidate?”

Pitch an idea…

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Knowledge Mobilization – Webinar

The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and Arthritis Research Canada have partnered to co-develop and host a series of monthly expert-led, beginner-level Knowledge Translation (KT) training webinars with the goal of developing a sustainable resource for research producers to learn knowledge and skills that will enable them to develop KT practice in their work. The next Webinar is:

Arts-based approaches to KT in health policy development

by

Susan M. Cox, Ph.D Associate Professor
Acting Director, The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
School of Population and Public Health
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Fri, 7 July 2017
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT (note Pacific Daylight Time)

In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the range of literary, performative and visual methods used in arts-based approaches to KT. Specific challenges and opportunities related to using these innovative KT approaches in the field of health policy development will be considered through closer examination of a series of examples drawn from my own as well as colleagues’ work. The webinar will conclude with reflections on ethical and methodological issues arising and tips on where to turn for resources and support.

More information on the webinar and how to sign up….

Archives of past webinars are also available.

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Call for Papers – Populism and the Rule of Law

The Emory Law SJD Society invites submissions for its 1st Annual Graduate Student Conference titled ‘Populism and the Rule of Law’, to be held from October 12-13, 2017 at Emory University School of Law, Atlanta GA.

Deadline: July 15, 2017

For more information: Emory Call for Papers_Oct2017 EmoryLaw_CFP_Oct2017

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McGill – CREOR Graduate Student Conference – Call for Abstracts

Conference topic: Problematizing Religious Diversity in a Secular Age
Dates: September 14-16, 2017
Location: McGill University, Montreal
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2017
Contact :creor2017@gmail.com
Website: https://creor2017.wordpress.com/

Participants are encouraged to submit papers that reflect on the following questions and themes: How does the problematization of religious diversity affect particular religious communities? How are secular discourses shaped by their context, cultures, histories, and/or language? How have religious communities responded to and adapted to the political management of religion, from ancient times to the present? How is religious diversity approached in non-secular contexts? Is secularization Westernization? How can academics contribute to the political/public discourses on secularism? Who is left out of these discourses and why? What is the role of the media in this debate and how is it involved in the construction of categories of “good” and “bad” religion? How does the representation of “secularism” as “the solution” affect visible/non-visible religious persons/communities? How are society’s values represented, constructed and shaped by the debates over religion and secularism? Is the focus on secularism/laïcité making us blind to other possibilities?

More information…

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Scholarship@Western & Copyright Permissions – Tutorial

Before you upload your material to the Scholarship@Western Institutional Repository it is important to identify publisher copyright permissions and self-archiving policies. Some publishers permit authors to archive the final ‘version of record,’ while others permit only pre-prints or post-prints. On rare occasions, publishers do not permit self-archiving of any version of the work. In the past, identifying author permissions was a laborious process; today, it only takes a few minutes.

This tutorial, created by Cal Murgu, Western MLIS student, walks you through the entire process, from identifying permissions to uploading your article or chapter to Western’s Institutional Repository. The entire process will only take a few minutes of your time.

If you have any questions or need assistance with uploading to Scholarship@Western please contact your subject librarian or email scholarship@uwo.ca. FIMS researchers may contact Cal Murgu.

More information about your rights as an author

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Keep Your Research Out of Questionable Journals

“Predatory publishers present themselves as legitimate journals, claiming to provide peer review and editorial services. In truth, they will publish nearly anything that is sent to them (and paid for) with little to no quality control, as evidenced by the numerous examples of deliberately false papers submitted—and successfully published—by journalists and academics hoping to prove a point.” Read this blog post by Erin Zimmerman at Canadian Science Publishing for more information on identifying fake journals.

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