Western Libraries Research Skills Workshops for Graduate Students

Western Libraries is excited to offer a series of free Research Skills Workshops that can help you better understand your research impact, how to retain your copyright as an author, scholarly publishing, data, and more!

These offerings will be of particular interest to graduate students. However, faculty, staff, and undergraduate students are welcome to attend.

Register Today! 

If you have any other ideas for workshops that could be offered, email them to: Western Libraries, Research & Scholarly Communication Team, Email:rsclib@uwo.ca

Western Libraries – Upcoming Research Skills Workshops

The library is offering several workshops this winter that can help you to better understand the scholarly publishing process, measure your research impact, and teach you how to make the most of data and geographical information in your research.

Register Today!

Upcoming Workshops:

If you have any questions about the workshops please contact:
Courtney Waugh
Assistant Librarian, Research & Scholarly Communication
519.661.2111 x84816, cwaugh5@uwo.ca

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Western Libraries Research Skills Workshops This Fall

Western Libraries is offering several workshops this fall that can help you better understand the scholarly publishing process, how to build and promote your scholarly identity, conduct a comprehensive systematic review, and make the most of data and geographical information in your research.

Upcoming Workshops:

  • Tips & Tools for Building and Promoting your Scholarly Identity
  • Getting Started with ORCID
  • Preparing to Publish 
  • Continuum of Data Access
  • Who Pays for Open Access?
  • Open Monographs: Options for Authors
  • Before You Sign: Know Your Academic Publishing Rights
  • Putting Together Your Data Management Plan (DMP)
  • How to Make a Map in QGIS
  • Storytelling with Maps
  • GIS Day

Session dates, Registration and more information…

If you have questions or require further information please contact Courtney Waugh, cwaugh5@uwo.ca.

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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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