Interdisciplinary Research Seminars (IRS)

Interdisciplinary Research Seminars (IRS) support the sharing and exploration of all kinds of research among graduate students and faculty in the Faculty of Education. It is a safe, informal, collaborative space for graduate students and faculty across programs to share their work in progress or newly finished and receive feedback from peers and colleagues. If you are interested in sharing your research, please contact us via email with a brief description of your presentation focus. Each presenter will have approximately  20-25 minutes to share their work and then we will open up the session for questions and feedback. We plan to schedule sessions every 3 weeks this term via Zoom. Please consider yourself invited to join these informal research conversations. 

IRS Spring 2022 Schedule
Date: Friday, January 28 (upcoming)              Time: 1 - 2 pm             via Zoom
Date: Thursday, February 17                               Time: 7 - 8 pm             via Zoom
Subsequent times:  To Be Announced

Facilitators: Dr. Inna Stepaniuk (Faculty of Education) and Michael Maser (PhD Candidate)
Email contact: Dr. Inna Stepaniuk (istepani@sfu.ca); Michael Maser (mmaser@sfu.ca).

Click here to read the introduction to the upcoming presentation by Jacqueline Allan on Jan. 28.

Writing Retreats 

Come write with us! The Research Hub’s Signature Writing Retreats are a dedicated space for writing and learning for grads at different stages of their research journey. For this academic year, the focus of the retreats will be Making Research Visible, and we will offer two types of workshops at different sessions.

Targeted Writing Workshops offer a variety of writing strategies, an opportunity to work on your own writing and receive feedback from peers in a supportive space.

Faculty Writing Talks host invited current and retired faculty members to share their experience and insights about academic writing and publishing, followed by Q&A and space to work on individual projects alongside your peers.

To accommodate the different work/life schedules of our grad students, we offer three writing retreats every month: one Wednesday afternoon, one Wednesday evening, and one Saturday. 

Upcoming Virtual Writing Retreat
Date: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm, PT
Workshop: Introduction to the Office of the Ombudsperson (12:30-1:00) and Individual Consultation (1:00-2:00)
Presenter: Laura Reid
Retreat Facilitator: Tania Bakas

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm     Social Check-In
An opportunity to meet, mingle (virtually) and catch up with fellow graduate students and faculty.

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm   Presentation by the Office of the Ombudsperson
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm     Individual Consultations and Questions

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm    Goal Setting and Dedicated Writing
Participants have a chance to set a goal for the next few hours of writing time, and quiet time to focus on individual work – we all stay on zoom (muted) while working on our respective research projects and reconnect for a check-in at 2:30 pm.

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm    (Optional) Break Time (Breakout Room)
Need a stretch/coffee break, a few minutes to take a breather and connect with your workshop mates? We open a breakout room for folks to join and take a little break. But if you’re on a roll and want to keep working, that’s great too!

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm     Dedicated Writing Time
Back to the grind – individual writing time.

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm     Goal Check-in and Wrap Up
Good work! We all reconvene and do a quick check-in to see how everyone’s work went and wrap up the session until next time.

Virtual Space: ZOOM
Click on the zoom link here; it will allow you to join the meeting.

We hope to see you at upcoming writing retreats!

Reading/Thinking/Doing (RTD) Club

The Reading/Thinking/Doing (RTD) club is about discussion, dialogue and exchange of ideas on explorations in Education with posthumanist/new materialist scholarships.  We are two PhD students, Magali Forte and Jacky Barreiro, who are interested in tackling this idea with others.

Please subscribe to the RTD mail list (search for rtd-club) to receive the video conference link for this online discussion.

We are thrilled to invite you for a meeting on Wednesday, October 27th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm (Vancouver time) for our next online RTD club meeting. The topic will be "Immanence, Transcendence: What the heck?" As per usual, we will send a list of suggested readings, a Zoom invitation and a reminder closer to the date of the meeting.

Welcome to join us!

No Registration Required. Drop in.
To see the event's page on Facebook, click here.

• Go to maillist.sfu.ca
• In the "Go To" search bar, type: rtd-club
  
• Click subscribe.