EDST Graduate Students

Hosted by Shayna Hornstein, B.Sc. Reg (P.T.) There is increasing attention in adult education to the benefits of embracing embodied and emotional learning (Freiler, 2008; Nguyen & Larson, 2015; Walker & Palacios, 2016). This workshop will offer simple embodied activities to explore the topic of difficult situations. If you are preparing for a conversation with your supervisor or any other challenging exchange, come and explore somatic techniques to support yourself in these situations. For more information about this workshop, please refer to the event poster. Workshop: Preparing for a difficult…read more

Community-based Appreciative Learning: The Early Stages of Research Rachel Goossen, M.A. Student, EDST Let’s learn together. This workshop is great for folks who are interested in any of the following: 1) community-based research; 2) schools as ‘communities of support’; 3) ethical ‘engaged research’ 4) participatory research through an appreciative/generative lens; or 5) working through the design of a Master’s thesis. Rachel Goossen, a 2nd year M.A. student in EDST, will present her own research proposal (in working form!), along with an overview of appreciative inquiry and how it can be…read more

We shall be having our second writing group this Tuesday, Oct 17, from 10:00am to 1:00pm! Following last week’s discussion, Mary Kostandy will be leading a mini-presentation on using Scrivener and Papers, 2 popular software suites that students could use to supplement or enhance their writing. The mini-presentation is scheduled from 12:15pm – 12:45pm. We hope to see you there! More information about Scrivener: click here. More information about Papers: click here.

Dr. Margaret Sallee (University at Buffalo (State University of New York) will be hosting a seminar entitled “Researching Work/Family Issues in Academia: Pushing the Boundaries”. You are all welcome to attend this event, which is part of the HERG seminar series. This will be followed by a casual conversation session with Dr. Sallee at 1:00pm. Please note that this is an event organised by the Higher Education Research Group (HERG) under Dr. Amy Metcalfe. For more information, please click here. HERG Seminar: “Researching Work/Family Issues in Academia: Pushing the Boundaries”…read more

Are you about to finish your fieldwork, and just getting started on your writing? Then this workshop is for you! Following Neila Miled and Kari Grain’s sharing of their fieldwork experiences in September, Dr. Taylor Webb (EDST) will be hosting a workshop on the process of moving from your fieldwork to your dissertation. Don’t miss it! Workshop: From Fieldwork to Dissertation Date: October 11, 2017 (Wednesday)Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pmLocation: PCOH 2012 (Multipurpose Room) This event has been cancelled/postponed due to the minimum number of participants (5) not reached. We shall…read more

Grad students have a lot to write: course assignments, papers, academic articles, chapters, theses etc. Do you want to start writing, but don’t have the time, motivation, or space to do so? Do you want to connect to peer-readers for your writing? Or do you want to get writing tips from other students? Let’s get together to write! Join our writing group every Tuesday from October 10, 2017 onwards between 10:00am to 1:00pm at PCOH 2012. Pop by to meet other students from EDST in this shared writing space. There…read more

Hosted by Dr. Ashley Pullman and Dr. Kapil Regmi (EDST Alumni) How to make your academic year a success? What goals to set and what steps to take? What type of dissertation to plan – a ‘traditional’ or manuscript-based? What, when and where to publish? Come to this workshop to meet two outstanding experts and EDST alumni: Drs. Ashley Pullman and Kapil Regmi. They will share their stories of accomplishing a Ph.D in four years and leaving grad school with a respectful number of articles in peer-review journals. Please click…read more

It is getting messy: The unexpected turn in doing fieldwork with teenagers Neila Miled, Ph.D Candidate, EDST To be broken open: The pain, joy, and privilege underlying international fieldwork Kari Grain, Ph.D Candidate, EDST Planning to incorporate fieldwork into your research , or just wondering what the process is like? Then join EDST Ph.D candidates Neila Miled and Kari Grain on September 20, 2017 (Wednesday) in our inaugural Student Research Sharing session this term to learn more about their rich and diverse experiences and reflections conducting fieldwork in their research….read more