Advice

Strategies and resources for grad students and postdocs to increase the relevance of word-of-mouth referrals and internet-based research.

It’s time for us to band together as a sector and demand data privacy protections from our digital classroom tools.

Four strategies to help graduate students get their needs to the top of a professor’s to-do list.

Clarify your concepts by structuring your work around nominal peaks and concrete valleys.

Don’t be afraid to ask an employer for a list of potential questions that might be asked of you.

Making programs visible, accessible and student-centred can improve participation.

To thrive in conflict situations: embrace learning and diversity, and grow trust.

Four options for approaching a delicate quandary.

International student Rani Saggere describes her experience pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of New Brunswick.

Like personal goals, professional benchmarks can guide self-evaluation and setting targets for improvement.

Reimagining existing relationships and practices can go a long way to enhancing education excellence.

The status quo is not good enough, a new paper concludes.

Guiding questions to facilitate your quest for a collaborative student-supervisor relationship.

Partnership was key to University of Toronto’s pre-arrival orientation to working as a teaching assistant.

There’s no simple formula but research offers some strong options.

Community and mentorship are critical for supporting the success of graduate students with disabilities.

Whether you are certain you want to pursue non-academic employment, or are perhaps on the fence, there are great benefits to thinking about your academic CV as a record of all you do.

Many practices in academia show and reinforce fixed mindsets in ourselves, our workplaces, and in our students.

‘We learned that we have the strategies and knowledge to solve problems.’

My goal is to empower you to feel competent at making your own decisions about what is best for your work.