Category: Knowledge Mobilization

Open Media Scholarship

“Open Media Scholarship [OMS] is a nonprofit website … dedicated to promoting open access (OA) in media, communication, and film scholarship and teaching. The site features OA journals, books, and resources, along with searches for OA articles and datasets. The rationale for Open Media Scholarship is that media scholars … should be at the forefront of the OA movement …. All OMS data is free to download and reuse, under a CC by-nc 4.0 open access license. Download (as csv files) the most up-to-date journal, book, publisher, and resource data.” (source)

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Western Journal Day

Are you interested in establishing an open access journal, but aren’t sure where to start?

Western Libraries invites you to attend:

Western Journal Day

Friday, March 31,
11:30-2:30
Teaching Support Centre
1st Floor, Weldon Library.

This event will be an opportunity for new, experienced, and prospective editors of Western journals to come together to share experiences and learn more about the benefits of hosting journals on Western’s institutional repository, Scholarship@Western.

The platform is currently home to 30 open access journals, and all content is indexed through Google as well as Google Scholar, making it easy to find. Additionally, the platform helps to streamline the editorial process and provides editors with monthly download reports, which demonstrate the global impact of open access publications.

The registration form is available at: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/journalday/register.html. Although the event is free to attend, please note that space is limited.

Western Journal Day will begin with a keynote address by Dr. Jerry White, Professor of Sociology and Editor-in-Chief of The International Indigenous Policy Journal. A panel discussion on open access publishing will follow, featuring Dr. Ken Meadows (Managing Editor of The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning), Sean Lewis (Editor-in-Chief of The Western Journal of Legal Studies), and Kelly Hatch (Research & Instructional Services Librarian, Allyn & Betty Taylor Library).

The full schedule is available on Scholarship@Western. Please note that lunch will not be provided; however, attendees are encouraged to bring their lunch and connect with each other during the break.

Western Journal Day is open to all members of the Western community.

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Congratulations on Successful Graduate Student Research Day!

Congratulations to the organizing committee of the #FIMULAW Graduate Student Research Day which was held on Friday, March 3, 2017. The day was a huge success.

If you were unable to attend you can see some of the events on twitter using the hashtag #FIMULAW.

Committee Members: Shamiram Zendo, Kelly Bylica, Melanie McPhail, Darinka Tomic, Christina Catenacci, Jeff Lupker, Kaitlyn Clifford, Vicki O’Meara, Kirstyn Seanor, Matt Shelvock

Music – Call for Poster Presentations

The Ontario Music Educators’ Association (OMEA) and the Canadian Music Industry Education Committee (CMIEC), invite music educators, music education researchers and graduate students in music and arts education to submit a proposal to present a Research Poster Presentation as part of “Research Perspectives” at the OMEA/CMIEC interlude 2017 conference to be held November 2 – 4, 2017 at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, ON, Canada.

Individuals, whose papers will be chosen through peer review for presentation, will be required to prepare a poster describing their research and to be available during the presentation session to informally discuss their work with interested conference attendees and then, at an appointed time, provide a brief ten-minute overview of their research. Authors will be asked to bring 50 copies of a two-page summary (one page double-sided) for distribution.

Authors are invited to submit a proposal that includes:

  • a page that includes author’s name, institutional affiliation, address, phone number, e-mail address;
  • a one-page abstract of approximately 250 words in length of the work to be presented.

Proposals are to be submitted electronically by e-mail (saved as .rtf  documents) by June 1, 2017 to:
Dr. Jane Saunders   ljsaund@shaw.ca
Editor, The Recorder
OMEA Board Member
Research Sessions Coordinator, interlude 2017 Conference Committee

For more information, please correspond via e-mail: ljsaund@shaw.ca

A qualified panel of peers will review all submissions; the results will be communicated by July 15, 2017. Selected papers presented may be submitted for consideration of peer review and for subsequent publication in The Recorder, the journal of the Ontario Music Educators’ Association.

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Three-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.

Apply before March 10, 2017 to the 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) competition. The first heat of presentations for Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Law, and Music graduate students is March 17th (see below for details).

Eligibility:

  • Presentations must be based on research that is directly related to the student’s graduate program thesis, major research paper, or dissertation.
  • PhD and Masters students who have defended but have not yet graduated are eligible to participate.
  • Presenters must be available to present, in person,on the day of their heat and must also be available to present, in person, at the 3MT final on April 5, 2017 at 10am.

The first heat of competition for FIMS, Music and Law students will be held on Friday, March 17, 2016 at  9:30 am to 11:30 am in Arts and Humanities Building, Room #1B06

To enroll, please pick  your Faculty here: http://grad.uwo.ca/current_students/3mt/index.html

The 20 finalists will compete on Wednesday, April 5th, 2017 in the Davenport Theatre (Talbot College) from 10 am to 1pm.

Prizes:

  • 1st place: $1,000
  • 2nd place: $500
  • 3rd place: $250

For more information please view this link: http://grad.uwo.ca/current_students/3mt/index.html

The top student from Western’s final will represent our university at 3MT Ontario 2017 held this year at the University of Waterloo on Wednesday, April 12, 2017.

If you have any questions, please contact the faculty coordinators Gabbi Whitlock gwhitloc@uwo.ca and Julia Beltra jbeltra3@uwo.ca.