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SGPS Scholars to Leaders Guest Speaker – Robert Collins

Transferring Your Skills from Academia to the Workplace: Trends, Tips and Traps

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Robert Collins, Director
Workforce Development
London Economic Development Corporation

Wednesday, November 28, 2018
12:30pm
IGAB Atrium
International and Graduate Affairs Building (IGAB).

Robert Collinsbrings significant experience from senior roles in provincial and municipal governments in South Western Ontario. Robert is active in a number of initiatives designed to address the anticipated labour market shortages and close the gaps between supply and demand – an identified cornerstone of community economic resilience and sustainability. Through this experience, Robert can share some useful insights to help accelerate your career success. Robert has made full use of London’s fine educational opportunities graduating from the University of Western Ontario, Teacher’s College and Fanshawe College after originally coming from London, England. Robert continues to be an active volunteer at Western having been a past President of our Alumni Association and is currently a member of Senate.

Pizza will be available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis for those attending the event. No registration is required.

Visit http://www.grad.uwo.ca/finances/external_funding/index.html for the full roster of speakers this year.

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SSHRC Storytellers Contest

SSHRC has launched its seventh annual Storytellers contest.

Eligibility: The contest is open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, enrolled at Canadian postsecondary institutions.

Your task is to tell the story, in three minutes or 300 words, of a SSHRC-funded research project—your own or a professor’s and show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research affects our lives, our world and our future prosperity.

Amount: Each year, a jury selects 25 finalists to receive a $3,000 cash prize and specialized training in research communications. At the 2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a second jury will select the final five winners, who will receive an expense-paid trip for their presentations to be featured at the prestigious SSHRC Impact Awards.

Deadline: January 31, 2019, at 5 p.m. (Eastern)

For more information on this year’s Storytellers contest, please follow on Twitter, watch the #SSHRCStorytellers and visit the website.

Questions –  please contact  Storytellers@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.

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Mitacs Elevate (Postdoctoral)

Mitacs Elevate provides two years of postdoc funding valued at $60,000/year plus extensive customized professional development training ($7,500/year non-cash value).

Postdocs:

  • Manage a long-term collaborative research project with a company or not-for-profit
  • Develop business-ready skills in leadership, financial literacy, management and negotiation, project management, problem solving and much more
  • Key deadline: January 23, 2019 – Intent to Apply and Conflict of Interest declaration deadline

For questions or more information, please contact Mitacs at elevate@mitacs.ca.

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Parliamentary Internship Program

The Parliamentary Internship Programme (PIP) is a unique training opportunity for young professionals and recent university graduates. It increases knowledge of Parliament, and provides MPs with skilled assistants.

During their ten-month tenure, interns shadow MPs to learn firsthand about the work that goes on in the House. They write speeches, briefing notes, research reports, and questions for question period. They visit their MPs’ ridings, author innovative research papers on Parliament and the work of MPs, and take part in legislative study tours within Canada and abroad. These internships are full-time, paid positions.

Deadline: January 31, 2019

Eligibility: PIP is open to all candidates who, at the start date of the internship (September 5, 2019)hold Canadian citizenship or permanent residence status; hold at least one university or college degree; and are available to work full-time from September 2019 to July 2020.

More information and applications…

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Centre for Teaching and Learning – Workshops

Western’s Centre for Teaching and Learning is offering workshops this November. If you would like to register for the below session (and explore additional sessions), please click on this link.  Log in using your Western ID and password in order to register.

Getting It Done: Strategies for Finding Focus and Overcoming Procrastination in Graduate School
Friday, November 23
University Community Centre (UCC) 147
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Come to this workshop to discuss strategies for finding focus and making progress on your degree at times when you feel that you are stuck.

Teaching Workshops are also available at this link…

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CBC’s Call for PhD Research

CBC would like to turn your PhD research into a 54-minute Ideas episode as part of their regular feature on the program called “Ideas from the Trenches.”

If you are interested in participating, in a page or less, tell them a bit about yourself and what inspired your interest in your area of study. Describe the focus of your PhD and why it would appeal to a national audience, and outline a few of the key theorists, authors and concepts your PhD explores and challenges. Email your submission to nicola.luksic@cbc.ca.

Deadline: November 16, 2018.

Successful candidates will be expected to participate in a background interview to explain more about your thesis, and then participate in three recording sessions for the documentary itself. Please note that you can be at any stage of the PhD process.

Sample of episodes that have been done so far: Ideas from the Trenches archive.

More info: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/ideas-from-the-trenches-call-out-to-phd-students-1.4879862

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Western’s Scholars to Leaders Series from SGPS

You are invited to attend the October SGPS Scholars to Leaders Guest Speaker Series event.

Professor Mary Crossan is a Distinguished University Professor of General Management at the Ivey School of Business and one of the most highly cited faculty members at Ivey, earning the Academy of Management Review Paper of the Decade Award (1998-2008). Come and listen to her talk about “What I Know Now That I wish I Knew Then”: Activating and Developing Character for Sustained Excellence.

The event takes place this Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 12:30pm in the IGAB Atrium of the International and Graduate Affairs Building (IGAB).

Pizza will be available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis for those attending the event. No registration is required.

Visit http://www.grad.uwo.ca/finances/external_funding/index.html for the full roster of speakers this year.

Looking for a Non-Academic Career – Resume Advice

From Academica Group’s Today’s Top Ten in Higher Ed, October 19, 2018:

“Improving your résumé for an alt-ac position

Rather than converting an academic CV into a résumé, Jennifer Polk and L Maren Wood advise PhDs embarking on the nonfaculty job search to write their résumé from scratch to appeal to hiring managers. Polk and Wood explain the different functions, strengths, and failures of CVs and résumés; noting that the details that a CV obscures must be made explicit in a résumé. “Do consider the work you did in academe relevant experience,” they suggest, “but don’t use the language of higher education to talk about what you did as an academic.” Polk and Wood go on to provide a number of tips for improving one’s résumé for alt-academic careers.

[More at] Inside Higher Ed”

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Northern Scientific Training Program: Funding for Students Conducting Northern Research

The Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP) provides funding for senior undergraduates and graduate students conducting research in the North.

This is a supplementary grants program which was put in place to help defray the high costs of conducting fieldwork in the North and to encourage students to develop a commitment to northern research. The program funds projects on northern topics from all disciplines and in multi-disciplinary fields.

Online application forms are available at: https://nstp-pfsn.fluidreview.com/

The Western deadline for applications is November 11, 2018.

Further information on the program is available at: http://www.canada.ca/en/polar-knowledge/fundingforresearchers/index.html#h2-2

Answers to frequently asked questions are here: http://www.canada.ca/en/polar-knowledge/fundingforresearchers/faq/index.html.

Guidelines for submitting a successful NSTP application (pdf)

CRITERIA and ELIGIBILITY

The Program supports field research in any discipline – life, physical, human and health sciences – as long as the research has an essential orientation and impact on the North.

Funding is available for ALL complete and eligible applications that are submitted from Western.  Typical awards are between $2000 and $3000, with a recommended maximum request of $4500.  Awards are intended to provide travel expenses for students already receiving research funding from another source (for example, a supervisor’s research grant).

The student must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident and enrolled in a graduate or senior undergraduate (currently in 3rd or 4th year) program at a Canadian university.  Part time students are eligible for NSTP funding.

A student who is employed or remunerated for their research in the field cannot receive NSTP.

Field schools are not eligible.

Geographic eligibility:  The research activity and travel must be north of the sporadic discontinuous permafrost line (approximately 50 deg N), ANYWHERE in the Northern Hemisphere.

SIMPLE APPLICATION PROCESS

IT IS EASY!  The application and statement of research require significantly less content and effort than NSERC, SSHRC or OGS!

Students must go online, create a profile and complete the online application form.  New supervisors will have to create a profile as well.  The forms for students and supervisors are available at: https://nstp-pfsn.fluidreview.com/

Following the field season for which funding was provided, a brief report is required from the student through the online system.

Please follow the instructions in the student manual (http://www.canada.ca/en/polar-knowledge/fundingforresearchers/). Incomplete or incorrectly formatted applications will be returned to the applicant for revision.  Applications received at the deadline that are incomplete or requiring changes may not be accepted.

DEADLINES AND CONTACT INFORMATION

The deadline for completing the online application is 11:59 pm, November 11, 2018.
Please direct any questions to: Northern Studies Committee at northern@uwo.ca

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American Musicological Society Dissertation Fellowship

The American Musicological Society makes available up to three funded dissertation-year fellowships each year.

Amount: Fellows receive a twelve-month stipend, currently set at $22,000.

Deadline: December 17, 2018

Eligibility: Any student registered in good standing for a doctorate at a North American university who has completed all formal degree requirements except the dissertation at the time of full application is eligible to apply. Any submission for a doctoral degree in which the emphasis is on musical scholarship will be eligible.

More information and applications (applications available Nov 15)

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