The Black Hole
So you want to be a "____" when you grow up series and we have received some really good feedback on it - one final one to come from Beth later this week. We'll definitely consider a similar series for the slow web months of Summer 2011, but between now and then we'll be publishing more comme...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/so-you-want-to-be-what-my-parents-wanted-when-you-grow-up/
From PhD to Life
Last week the US National Endowment for the Humanities Continue reading a major new funding initiative for career preparation programming for graduate students. In response, p...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/do-phds-really-want-tenure-track-jobs/
Careers Café
My recent post on Continue reading left me with a niggling irritation; it didn’t do enough to distinguish pattern identification from giving canned answers that “they” want to hear. So I’ll take this opportunity to say it more clearly: focusing on “what they want to...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/the-interview-what-they-want-to-hear/
Features
Tips and advice on choosing the right teaching with technology conference this year – and how to get the most out of it
Ron Sheese hasn’t always been so web-savvy in his classes – but that’s mainly because he started teaching long before the words “online” and “Internet” had entered the day-to-day vernacular of faculty members. About 10 years ago, when it became clear to him that the web presented a num...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/i-want-to-do-more-with-teaching-technology-in-my-classroom/
The Black Hole
QUICK HITS:
1. If you were interested in previous posts of mine about how well science information is distributed and received in the UK, then you might also want to have a gander at a recent post that I made on the Stem Cell Network Blog entitled
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/so-you-want-to-be-a-researcher-in-industry/
The Black Hole
So you want to be a ____" series will be the final one - do Continue reading if this has been a useful series and we'll try to do something similar in the future as the site continues to evolve....
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/so-you-want-to-be-a-public-servant-when-you-grow-up/
Career Advice
“We’re looking for people who have had distinctions and who hopefully bring relevant policy experience,” says Patrick Borbey.
On April 3, Patrick Borbey was announced as the new president of the
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/message-grad-students-head-public-service-want/
Margin Notes
Animated short poking fun at student’s dream goes viral, spawns copycats.
A while ago I saw a hilarious little vignette skewering the naïve hopes of graduate students in the humanities everywhere. I have read many sober analyses about the plight of PhD students, but this 4½-minute animated short sums up the situation more clearly and pointedly than any such report, and ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/margin-notes/so-you-want-to-do-a-phd-in-the-humanities/
Career Advice
Bring science from the bench to the bedside in a career that draws on your strengths in research and working with people
So you want to be a science professor?" href="/?p=3644">click here to consider another science career path.
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/so-you-want-to-be-a-clinical-microbiologist/
A day in the life of a clinical microbiologist
A clinical microbiologist has two major duties: managing a team of medical technologists and consulting with physicians ordering t...
News
A Q&A with the former federal health minister on her return to academia as dean of health sciences at Queen’s University.
A disappointing loss in the 2019 federal election has turned into an exciting new academic opportunity for Jane Philpott. Dr. Philpott, who served as the minister of health in Justin Trudeau’s previous government, will become the next dean of the faculty of health sciences, and director of the sch...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/jane-philpott-wants-to-make-a-difference-in-health-care-education/
In my opinion
Why does the scholarship of teaching and learning remain a hard sell to faculty?
I sometimes imagine the scholarship of teaching and learning, or SoTL, as a party. And if it were a party, it’d be a good one: a little bit quirky and on the fringes (yes, still), held in a warehouse somewhere down by the docks. Most need an invitation and good directions to get there, but once th...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/sotl-the-party-that-no-one-really-wants-to-go-to/
The Black Hole
So you want to be a blank when you grow up”, the first of which is below…
So, you want to be a Science Writer when you grow up…
Throughout the course of my own training, I have encountered a number of fellow trainees that ha...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/so-you-want-to-be-a-science-writer-when-you-grow-up/
The Black Hole
The status quo is not good enough, a new paper concludes.
Earlier this month, I was pleased to see a Continue reading written by a large group of international researchers in the early stages of their careers about how we can improve research...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/ecrs-need-to-be-the-change-they-want-to-see/
Career Advice
An indispensable checklist to help you answer: “Is a science career in academia right for me?”
So you want to be a clinical microbiologist?" href="/?p=3652">click here.
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/so-you-want-to-be-a-science-professor/
A day in the life of a career science academic
There are three parts to a career in academic science: research, teaching and administration. Running a research lab means managing personnel and training and mento...
Career Advice
A postdoc takes a look at what you need to know before embarking upon a career in medical illustration
So you want to be a clinical microbiologist?" href="/?p=3652">here and Beyond the Bench" href="/?p=3647">here.
Dr. Nicole Arbour is a recent graduate from the biochemistry graduate program at the University of Ottawa and currently works as a research scientist with Spartan B...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/so-you-want-to-be-a-medical-illustrator/
Careers Café
To get to where you are now, you had to be very good at figuring out what was expected of you and delivering it.
As you moved into a graduate program, especially at the doctoral level, this particular skill started to become less and less useful.
It probably wasn't obvious at first. The course...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/stop-worry-what-they-want/
Features
The scholar’s latest book is not only the culmination of a career spent examining the ethics of biotechnology, it’s a call to action for the rest of us get in on the conversation.
When Françoise Baylis got her start in academia, genome editing was still in the future. Today, Dr. Baylis is a leading scholar in the ethics of the biotech revolution. After nearly three decades of working with academics, medical professionals and policy-makers, the philosopher has turned her atte...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/francoise-baylis-wants-to-help-you-understand-genome-editing/
News
New student movement is growing at campuses across Canada.
When individuals or large organizations, such as universities, invest money in oil, gas or coal companies, they’re supporting our society’s reliance on fossil fuels and keeping green energy options on the sidelines. Or so goes the theory that is driving the relatively new, but fast-moving, stude...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/activists-want-universities-to-stop-investing-in-fossil-fuels/
News
A Q&A with sociologist Amy Hanser, who’s gone undercover on public transit to discover how long is too long to stare at a fellow bus rider.
When riding a public bus, most of us deliberately avoid paying attention to our fellow passengers. Amy Hanser, a sociologist at the University of British Columbia, is ignoring this convention for her new SSHRC-funded study, “The Public Bus as Urban Space.” As part of the project, Dr. Hanser is t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/what-are-the-unwritten-rules-for-riding-the-bus-this-ubc-prof-wants-to-find-out/
News
Collaboration and improved program offerings are at the heart of this proposed initiative, which draws inspiration from the Université du Québec network.
This past spring, a report was delivered to elected Ontario and federal officials touting the benefits of an official network for the province’s francophone universities. The founding institutions of the proposed Réseau des universités francophones de l’Ontario (RUFO) would include the fledgli...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/ontarios-french-language-universities-want-a-network-of-their-own/
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