And so it is we’ve found ourselves again in the last week of classes for the Winter semester, which means that, although grad school is a year-round affair, the comparative lull called Summer is upon us. The current weather suggests…
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Updates & Announcements: 3MT Winners Gear up for Ontario University Championship and Gradifying Seeks a New Writer
We have some exciting news to bring you this week… Gradifying is looking for a new writer! Gradifying, the student blog of Queen’s School of Graduate Studies, seeks to fill the spot left vacant by the soon-to-be graduated Megan Bond…
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What my students taught me about theory
I just finished a half-term teaching fellowship in the Department of Philosophy. It was my first time instructing a course and I’m already looking forward to the next opportunity. I expected that it would be an intense learning curve –…
Tagged with: essay writing, humanities, philosophy, teaching, theory
Posted in General, New Students, Thesis
Posted in General, New Students, Thesis
The SGPS Student Advisors
This title puts me in mind of a caped task force. I don’t know if they wear the rad outfits, but they certainly fight injustice. This week, Victoria Millious, of the SGPS Student Advisor Program, brings us a guest spot…
Tagged with: anti-discrimination, grad life is fraught, QSpace, RA, SGPS, Student Advisors, student-supervisor relationship, TA, thesis
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THATCamp Update: Registration Deadline Extended till Feb 3!
Here’s an update that’ll make you a happy camper: The registration deadline for THATCamp QueensU 2013 has been extended to February 3rd. THATCamp stands for “The Humanities and Technology Camp.” This unconference, which will be held February 9th in Douglas Library, is open to…
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What’s THATCamp?
It’s a double header this week with another fantastic guest post about an opportunity you’re going to want to jump on fast. From the Organizers of THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camps) QueensU2013: The ‘Digital Humanities’ are receiving increasing attention…
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Curiosity Driven’s Roz Dakin asks: What will you have to take with you?
We’ve got a great guest post to bring you and it talks about a time-sensitive opportunity that’s so good, we’re posting off schedule. What will you have to take with you? By Roz Dakin As an about-to-finish PhD student, it’s…
New Year’s Resolution: Get Involved!
Gradifying’s first post back from the winter break is a timely one for any of you who are thinking of the new calendar year and the new semester as the time for fresh starts. Amanda Tracey, PhD Candidate in the…
Farewell 2012
Welcome, everyone, to our last post of the year! We’ll be back in 2013 bright eyed and bushy tailed, like so many scholarly squirrels…(?) By that time, our own Megan Bond, who is just about to submit her Master’s project,…
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The Pressure to Publish
It seems that the old ominous dictum “publish or perish” needs little updating to remain relevant to today’s emerging scholars. As many of us may have become keenly aware with the recent grant-writing season, there’s a lonely spot on our…
Tagged with: e-journals, journals, knowledge transfer, publish, research dissemination
Posted in New Students, Thesis
Posted in New Students, Thesis