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,…
Posted in Uncategorized
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
So you’re about to become a Teaching Assistant…
Last week we had a great guest post about the TA union PSAC 901, so this week I thought I’d keep the theme going with some thoughts about things to consider from the perspective of working as a TA. This…
Posted in Finances, New Students
Gradifying Updates, Midterms, and Expanding (Your) Horizons
Like mother superior, I may have jumped the gun – while you haven’t got the SGPS posts I baited you with, but you can look forward to some guest contributions soon. Atif will be bringing you a post that responds…
Posted in Events
“Welcome! You’re now a card-carrying member of Queen’s” and “The argument from analogy: Even if the funding boat has sailed, it’s never too late to get back on the financial horse”
We’ve had a bit of a hiccup with this week’s intended SGPS post about grad Orientation, but we’ll be bringing that to you within the week. Instead, I’m bringing you a few highlights, reminders, and a reader question that could…
Tagged with: awards, funding, orientation, resource fair, student ID
Posted in Events, Finances, New Students
Posted in Events, Finances, New Students
SGPS Cameos, Broken Bones, & A Fair!
We’ve got some exciting news here at Gradifying! Once a month we’re going to be bringing you a post from the SGPS about events, information, and opportunities going on for grad students. For those of you who are new or…
Posted in New Students
Thinking About Finances – The Bigger Picture Overview
A post about finances could go (even) long(er), so for now I’ll just attach a point or two to each of this hydra’s many heads and come back to some of them in the future when there’s more space to…
Posted in Finances