College of Graduate Studies

Tired of solo writing sessions? Craving a supportive environment to fuel your creativity? Look no further than our weekly Writing Community, tailored for the UBCO community.

Embarking on the journey of writing your thesis or dissertation? This online workshop offers valuable tools and techniques to support your thesis writing process.

This is a minimal-math introduction to interpreting math for social science researchers who want to feel more comfortable with the tools they use in every study.

Prepare for your thesis defense like a pro with our online workshop!

This workshop will focus on code-switching in academic settings, and the colonial, patriarchal, and exclusionary language barriers that graduate students often face. We will discuss how to navigate the university’s expectations around language while still asserting our own voices, and how we, as TAs and instructors, can support other students in navigating these questions themselves.

Are you in the process of applying for ethics approval for your research? This online workshop will discuss how to write an informed consent form for your ethics application with a focus on writing for a non-specialist member of the public to read and understand.

This workshop will focus on code-switching in academic settings, and the colonial, patriarchal, and exclusionary language barriers that graduate students often face. We will discuss how to navigate the university’s expectations around language while still asserting our own voices, and how we, as TAs and instructors, can support other students in navigating these questions themselves.

Looking for data for your graduate thesis or post-doctoral project? This workshop will introduce you to both publicly available and restricted access Statistics Canada data, and how to apply to use restricted access data through UBCO Research Data Centre.

If you are a graduate student involved in research that engages with the community, or if you have a strong interest in improving your community, you may find this tactical urbanism workshop appealing. The workshop aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of tactical urbanism by discussing its concept and presenting examples from international and Canadian contexts.

This series introduces early-career researchers to statistical models that extend beyond linear models (i.e., ANOVAs) so that they may learn how to *fit models to their data rather than fitting their data to models*.

This workshop will introduce linear models (i.e., one-way ANOVAs), their assumptions, and limitations, in a format tailored towards visual and spatial learners.

This session will introduce participants to the foundational concepts of statistical inference, including population distributions and the process of random sampling. Attendees will learn how sampling distributions evolve towards normality as sample sizes increase and will visually explore the Central Limit Theorem.

By the end of the session, participants should be able to visualize and understand population distributions, illustrate random sampling processes, recognize the normalizing effect of larger samples on sampling distributions, and demonstrate the Central Limit Theorem visually.

This series will use R and Python to help develop an intuition for fundamental statistical concepts using data visualization. These workshops are equally suitable to those hoping to enhance their ability to interpret common statistical tests and concepts as it is for those applying statistical modelling to their work.