The Black Hole
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The Black Hole
Over the last months, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) have conducted an extensive review of their grant programs and have released a document to describe these changes. In a demonstration of top tier accountability, they have opened a multi-stage and...
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Happy 2013 to our readers!
We’ll start this year with a summary of our autumnal posts capturing the third quarter of activity at our new University Affairs home. Both Jonathan and I have enjoyed the transition and are looking forward to a year packed with good discussion and constructi...
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Two weeks ago I attended the Flow Cytometry UK Meeting and their keynote speaker was Continue reading, the current chief executive of the
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Last week was the culmination of an incredible amount of volunteer labour through the CAPS-ACSP group who produced their Continue reading. Done in collaboration with Continue reading, a not-for-profit gr...
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Starting early and being ruthless about time management are just a few pieces of advice I wish I had been given at the start of this process.
As many of our readers know already, I have made the decision to move our research lab from Continue reading. With the move so close now, the excitement (and the fear) is palpable a...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/moving-labs-so-many-variables-so-little-time/
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Use this time to think about your career trajectory and what aspects of your work are important to you.
Just about everything we are reading these days is related to COVID-19 and working from home. My own blogging efforts have been no different with a plea last month for us to consider how we
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/career-considerations-during-lockdown/
Speculative Diction
A frank discussion about open access publishing, Dr. Eve’s own Open Library for the Humanities, and what future he sees for the academic publishing industry.
The current state of academic publishing is something we should all be thinking about, given that it’s a means of disseminating the knowledge generated by academic research — much of which is publicly funded yet inaccessible to the public. Publishing is also significant because ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/open-access-academic-publishing-interview-dr-martin-paul-eve/
Career Advice
Understanding your cultural differences with international students is the key to fostering a productive and rewarding supervisory relationship
The supervision of graduate students is a challenging exercise in effective interpersonal communication even when the faculty member and student share the same cultural background. Differing expectations about workload, progress and a considerable power gap often create the perfect conditions for mi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/navigating-supervision-across-cultures/
Career Advice
University of Windsor’s Janice Drakich breaks down the faculty recruitment process in Canada and offers advice to academics job searching in a recession
What is faculty recruitment all about?
At the end of the 1990s, research predicted a significant increase in the number of faculty to be hired over the next decade or two. This prediction alerted universities to prepare for the increased recruitment of faculty and their entry into the univ...
Career Advice
Deciding if a master’s or PhD is the right next step for you can be a difficult one. We asked for some advice.
Making the decision to go to graduate school, or continue further in graduate school, is a commitment in time, money and effort. How do you know if it is the best decision for you? We asked a selection of university career advisers from across Canada for some advice to help you decide:
"What ...
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Career Advice
Il peut être difficile de déterminer si la maîtrise ou le doctorat est la bonne voie à suivre. Voici quelques conseils.
La décision de poursuivre ses études à la maîtrise ou au doctorat représente un investissement en temps, en argent et en énergie. Comment savoir si cette voie nous convient? Pour vous aider à prendre la bonne décision, nous avons posé la question suivante à des conseillers d’orientation ...
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Career Advice
Récemment sorties de l’école, nous savons que des études en bibliothéconomie et en sciences de l’information (BSI) – ou l’équivalent – passent le temps de le dire. Étudier les perspectives de carrière diverses au possible, choisir des cours qui appuient cette myriade de possibilité...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/conseils-carriere-article/conseils-pour-devenir-bibliothecaire-universitaire/
Career Advice
On m’interroge parfois sur le fait d’abandonner, et plus précisément sur l’abandon d’un doctorat. C’est justement arrivé à plusieurs reprises récemment, alors que je me trouvais à Vancouver.
Contrairement à ce que vous entendez ou à ce que vous dit votre petite voix intérieure,...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/conseils-carriere-article/vous-avez-le-droit-de-ne-pas-terminer-votre-doctorat/
Career Advice
A study of tenure and tenure-track faculty in history and English departments.
For the past several years, I’ve worked as a researcher and educator helping to prepare PhDs for non-faculty careers. In this capacity, I'm often invited to university campuses to speak about my research. This past summer, I presented at the Future Humanities conference held at Carleton University...
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Career Advice
A York University professor has coined the term “redirection” to reflect the new, emerging stage of one’s career that occurs after traditional retirement.
It’s possible for academics to continue to work past the traditional retirement age of 65, but they’re going to want to quit at some point, and it’s never too soon to start planning for an active and productive post-retirement life, says Suzanne Cook, a York University professor.
“People ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/not-retiring-type-not-redirect-instead/
Career Advice
Comment passer du milieu universitaire, où la réussite est souvent le fruit d’un effort individuel, au monde du travail moderne axé sur la collaboration.
Vous venez de franchir un grand pas en acceptant un poste au bas de l’échelle dans une entreprise à l’avenir prometteur. Prochaine étape : faire vos classes, vous familiariser avec la culture d’entreprise et démontrer que vous avez ce qu’il faut pour faire carrière dans l’organisatio...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/conseils-carriere-article/le-travail-dequipe-cle-de-lavancement-professionnel/
Career Advice
A group of migration scholars share how the pandemic is impacting both their personal and work lives.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, what does it mean to study migration, to be an immigrant professor or an international student separated from family, to see so much we care about, work on, and live in our lives come to a screeching halt? We pause. We ask important questions.
Alison...
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Career Advice
With a little lead time and institutional support, professors can make great online courses.
Currently, I am suffering from analysis paralysis about teaching online. I’m thinking about it; I have good ideas, but I am a little reluctant to act. Having just gone through a rough transition in another course last semester due to the pandemic, I know that my students were fairly forgiving of t...
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Career Advice
By participating in the Team Case Study program at U of T, life science graduates gain a competitive edge in the non-academic job market.
Since 2016, approximately 180 trainees have participated in the Industry Team Case Study (ITCS) program at the University of Toronto in which teams of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows lead job simulation projects mentored by industry professionals. Trainees investigate a business or policy...
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