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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 (Fall 2025)

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

Click here to register: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/6276917

The statement of teaching philosophy is a fundamental element of the teaching portfolio, which is required for applying to academic jobs. This workshop allows graduate students who have already had opportunities to instruct or assist with instruction to reflect on their teaching practice and market their unique outlook to potential employers. We will explore techniques to interrogate, identify and describe your approach to instruction and assessment. Beyond this, we will discuss how to support a teaching philosophy with evidence, even if your teaching experience is limited.

Click here to register: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/6242972

Academic readers generally want to be able to move efficiently through the things that they read. To facilitate that movement, writers must grasp the connections among their ideas and then illustrate those connections for readers. In this workshop, we will look at strategies for organizing sentences and paragraphs in ways that move the reader forward. We will also discuss the hazards of relying too heavily on transition words to do that work.

Part of the Improving Your Graduate Writing Series.

Click here to register: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/6303684

Like research papers and theses, thesis and grant proposals require graduate students to situate their work within the context of other research in their field(s). A well constructed literature review will help you to clarify key points for your reader such as why your work needs to be done, how it is original, and why your proposed method is appropriate. In this workshop we will examine characteristics of both short and long literature reviews, common mistakes students make when reviewing research in their field, and strategies for increasing the effectiveness of literature reviews. The material covered will be relevant to the literature-review segments of proposals, research papers, and theses.

Note: this is a repeat of the Sep 23 workshop.

Click here to register: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/6317404

Why should you attend an academic conference? This workshop is aimed at students considering applying to present their research at a conference. We will discuss finding a conference that’s right for you, getting the most of your conference experience, and preparing an application.

Click here to register: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/6242973

So much of academic writing revolves around revision; most writers require multiple iterations of their work to clarify their ideas and refine their prose. Writers often struggle, however, to manage the complex array of tasks that go into revision. In this workshop, the final in this series, we will consider what it means to build a revision process. We will focus on six stages of revision: clarifying intent; tackling structure; tackling sentences; tackling movement; tackling technicalities; and letting go. These stages will show us what it might mean to transform an early draft into a final draft.

Part of the Improving Your Graduate Writing Series.

Click here to register: https://folio.utoronto.ca/students/events/detail/6317387

Do you get nervous before giving a speech? Want to feel more confident while presenting? Or want to make your conference presentations more interesting, rather than reading verbatim from slides?

In this workshop, Dr. Jay Olson will cover the communication skills necessary to give an effective conference presentation. Topics include handling nervousness, enhancing clarity, improving body language, holding the audience’s attention. We will also cover differences in in-person versus online presentations. These tools will help presenters engage and persuade their academic audiences.

By the end of the workshop, you will:

  • Know how to avoid common mistakes when presenting.
  • Know practical methods to deal with nervousness.
  • Know how to engage audiences from the beginning of your speech

On-Demand Workshops

Click plus (+) for workshop titles in each series, then click the title of each workshop for a description and registration link. Workshop runtime is listed after the presenter’s name.

For students in Divisions 2, 3, and 4

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