dissertations and get jobs. I’m proud of them. But some walk away – and of that group I’m just as proud” (Graduate School Mess, p. 121). I feel the same way about my own clients, whatever path they choose to take.
A while back Christine Slocum reflected on her career journey in ...
dissertations with nothing more than a laptop (our society’s substitute for a pencil and a library), while others require such sophisticated equipment that there could be no thought of bringing in students without ensuring that research funding was firmly in place first, and where costs of additio...
La littérature comparée est un domaine souvent mal compris, même par les disciplines connexes des facultés des arts, ce qui explique en partie la situation critique dans laquelle elle se trouve
dissertation primée de M. MacRae mettait le Livre de la Genèse en relation avec des œuvres d’auteurs du Brésil, de la Colombie, de la Martinique, des États-Unis et du Canada.
Malgré son nom, la littérature comparée se soucie peu de comparer. Elle s’intéresse plutôt au fait que la li...
The life of an independent scholar, without the safety net of a university, brings with it trepidation, financial challenges and, for some, exhilarating freedom. Meet four who’ve taken the ride
dissertation had been sealed, to keep the findings out of the public domain as long as possible.
The research will soon be published in a manner and place that both she and the aboriginal community sanction, with written agreement that the community retains all relevant rights to the information....
Why universities need to prepare doctoral students for careers outside academe
dissertation at one university and working as a sessional instructor at another, he hopes eventually to qualify for a tenure-track position. But he’s beginning to have doubts.
“I want to be a professor but I have to make money and I don’t want to live with my parents forever.” He has a co...
Why some scholars are adopting an educational philosophy that eschews formal lessons and any form of structure – and why others think it could be dangerous.
dissertation. He rejects the strict, proscribed approach to reading, writing and other skills – the so-called “building blocks” of education that many educators embrace.
“I think that there’s a fair bit that we do in literacy because it’s more efficient for teaching,” he says. “I ...
A university teacher argues for “contemplative practices” in university teaching to help students become more reflective and engaged as citizens.
dissertation defences, but found that stifling my heart’s questions dulled my creativity and sent me down rabbit holes of ideas I didn’t care enough to pursue. When I did let my heart speak, I found my insights to be more fully rounded and my lines of critical inquiry to be animated by personal ...
Everything you wanted to know about digital humanities.
dissertation on 19th-century Canadian magazines.
Training: the intermediary frontier
In most fields, a passion for your subject is all you need to get started. Digital humanities also requires a passion for coding. And tagging. And project management.
Fortunately, as the field has...
Stimulating, friendly and comes with work-life balance – what a surprise!
dissertation about media representations of gangs in Canada, I found myself reading so narrowly that I could hardly talk about anything else. Sure, I’d read every book, study, figure, and chart about my particular area. But ask me anything outside it and I’d have to get back to you. At the colle...
Les universités doivent veiller à la supervision des stages non rémunérés lorsqu’ils font partie de l’expérience d’apprentissage d’un étudiant.
dissertation finale à ce sujet. À l’école de journalisme de l’Université Ryerson, les stages sont fortement encouragés et très populaires auprès des étudiants, mais demeurent optionnels.
« L’idéal, ce sont les stages rémunérés », souligne Ann Rauhala, professeure agrégée à ...
dissertation, later published as Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science, traces the history of the relationship between avant-garde poetry and science. On the day of his oral defence, Dr. Bök brought along his parents, sister and good friend (and York colleague) Darren Wershler t...
International students help Sweden broaden the relatively narrow scope of its academic research as well as bringing in revenue.
The leafy campus of Sweden’s Lund University, with its ivy-covered buildings, Doric columns of polished granite and gilded chandeliers, harks back to another era. But like many Swedish – and, in...
Switching disciplines in academia is not an easy choice, but those who’ve done it say the move can broaden your outlook and enrich your life.
dissertation was on the emergence of critical thought in adolescence. But as she interviewed teens, she found herself overwhelmed by how deeply some of them confided in her. She wondered how to deal with such personal information and realized that she was facing an ethical problem.
Halfway throug...
As a young historian, she treated obstacles as things to understand rather than to skirt. The attitude persisted during her entire, stellar career.
dissertation and had just returned from six months in Lyon, France, researching in the archives there, and needed to return after her comprehensive exams the following spring. “I did not need this,” she recalls.
The incident left her with an arrhythmia that winter. She recovered, and son Aaro...
Ingenuity’s the key when you’re one of Canada’s smaller university presses.
dissertation, almost didn’t see the light of day. Dr. Daschuk, a historian and an associate professor at the University of Regina, spent nearly a decade shaping his research into a manuscript for U of R’s Canadian Plains Research Center Press. Then, as he neared completion in 2012, news came dow...
Graduate students are trying out Three Minute Thesis-type competitions for the soft skills, public connection – and just a tiny bit of fame.
dissertation in time to take up a postdoctoral position (he was scheduled to defend his thesis in October). He says it was the challenge that finally convinced him – along with his cheerleading supervisor, associate professor Vivian Choh, who encouraged him to participate and attended all his even...
Many universities lack adequate policies on how to deal with cyberbullying, leading to real-life consequences for some targeted academics.
dissertation, she examined the accessibility of games, gamer identity and games culture – a topic that put her at the centre of Gamergate, a large-scale harassment campaign targeting women in the video game industry. For years, Dr. Vossen has been subjected to waves of cyber-harassment, with spike...
De petits changements peuvent avoir une grande incidence sur la participation des étudiants au processus d’évaluation.
dissertation finale ou examen à choix multiples à la fin du trimestre est probablement le plus important changement auquel il ait assisté ces 20 dernières années. Il conseille d’ailleurs à ses étudiants en enseignement d’opter pour une « formule d’apprentissage progressif axée sur les...
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