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Workshops

While GCAC’s workshops are designed with graduate students in mind, all members of the University of Toronto community are welcome to attend as many workshops as they wish. We offer workshops in three formats: live online, in-person, and prerecorded (on-demand). Registration is required for all workshops. Live workshops are not recorded.

Please click the title of each workshop to reach the workshop description and registration link. Once you register, you will receive details on how to join each live or on-demand workshop you have chosen. If you are are not able to register online, please contact sgs.gcacreg@utoronto.ca to be registered manually.

GCAC’s weekly Listserv messages provide an easy way to keep track of what upcoming live workshops we are offering.

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Live Online Workshops (Summer 2025)

Registration for all workshops is required. Please click the title of each workshop for a description and registration link.

Register here: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/5276399
Presented by Dr. Jane Freeman.

This workshop has two parts. We’ll start by talking about Aristotle’s topics of invention (explicit critical thinking strategies that help in making diagramming more effective) and then connect those to a sequence of three diagramming techniques to use when clarifying your thinking. These techniques are designed to help you gain greater conceptual clarity as you decide what to include and exclude in your documents, and the various options for structuring your arguments.

Register here: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/5276407
Presented by Dr. Jane Freeman.

Graduate students write many proposals − federal grant proposals, travel grant proposals, thesis proposals − and every proposal has a potentially significant impact on a student’s ability to carry out specific research. The introductory workshop in this series provides an overview of proposal writing designed to get students thinking about the demands of, and the predictable variations in, this important genre of writing. We will examine the similarities and differences between thesis and grant proposals, consider the main questions that most proposals must answer, and see examples of answers to those questions in successful proposals. We will also consider common pitfalls in proposal writing, and strategies for getting started on writing a proposal.

Register here: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/5276113
Presented by Bradley Dunseith.

Note taking is a critical yet under-discussed aspect of qualitative research. Well-written and properly organized notes can help a researcher remember minor details within their research, help train their attention to important themes and questions during the research process, and make the subsequent process of writing one’s dissertation smoother.

This workshop will address ways of structuring field notes while offering practical tips for note taking. We will discuss different note taking strategies, how to expand one’s attention to the details of research, how note writing itself can help develop research concerns, and some of the ethical considerations around writing field notes.

Register here: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/5276401
Presented by Dr. Jane Freeman.

Join us for a workshop that demystifies generative AI (including ChatGPT and Copilot) and explores some of its potential uses in academic writing.

Register here: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/5276116
Presented by Bradley Dunseith.

Interviews are the foundation of a lot of qualitative research methodology. This workshop will discuss strategies on how to conduct interviews for one’s own research, consider when to use structured, semi-structured, and un-structured interviews, and reflect on ethical considerations that go beyond getting approval from the Research Ethics Board.

Specifically, we will be focusing on how to draft the actual questions a researcher asks a research participant. What kinds of interview questions prompt dialogue and reflection? How best to avoid questions that elicit one-word answers? This workshop will explore ways of writing interview questions which reflect one’s research questions – and that produce meaningful interviews for everyone involved.

Please note: This workshop is not about preparing students to give interviews as job applicants. It is a workshop about conducting interviews as the researcher (interviewer) and not about being interviewed.

On-Demand Workshops

Click plus (+) for workshop titles in each series, then click the title of each workshop for a description and registration link.

For students in Divisions 2, 3, and 4

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