Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries' Collaboratory

This special edition of the popular ‘Grant Writing for Grad Students’ workshop is dedicated to SSHRC funding for MA students (Canada Graduate Research Scholarship-Master's: CGRS-M).

Just in time for the December 1 submission deadline, this workshop is created by two SSHRC-funded MA Candidates. The workshop will focus on how to best tailor a research proposal to SSHRC’s quirks, and how to consider the application as a whole. The workshop also reviews tips and tricks to effectively and efficiently navigate the SSHRC process, from start to finish.

First-time and repeat applicants at any stage of their application are invited to join.

Learn more and register here: https://calendar.library.torontomu.ca/event/3925943

Struggling to efficiently review extensive research literature? Join this hands-on walkthrough workshop to learn how topic modeling and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) can streamline your literature review process with the help of the open-source tool, Orange 3.

In this peer-to-peer learning workshop, you will learn how guest instructor Zahra, a TMU Professional Communication graduate student, is actively using topic modelling in her own research.

Participants will learn how text analysis capabilities of Orange 3 can speed up and automate literature reviews by analyzing papers without getting bogged down in manual reviews.

Using a case study of “binge-watching," participants will be shown how to use this tool to efficiently uncover the core themes and topics within large volumes of text and research data.

Learn more and register here: https://calendar.library.torontomu.ca/event/3930155

Interviews. Don’t we already know how to do interviews? What’s so special about talking to people? What’s the difference between talking to someone and conducting an interview?

Humans are chatty creatures and we exchange information and ideas all the time in conversation. But in research, qualitative interviews – no matter your discipline or research area – require more care, an art unto itself.

Join two experienced scholars and practitioners who have years of experience working “in the field,” formally and informally interviewing people with different lived experiences, in a variety of settings, for a range of applications (including print publications, podcasts, radio features, documentary films and more). They offer tips, tools, and anecdotes from working in the field.

Learn about how to prepare for your own qualitative interviews, hear about recording interviews for your scholarly research and also future proofing those recordings for other forms of dissemination like podcasts and radio features. Find out about the ins and outs of interviewing folks for your research, from finding interviewees, designing questions, developing rapport, the complexities of ethics, data management, and transcriptions - and everything in between.

Learn more and register here: https://calendar.library.torontomu.ca/event/3930168