Weekly Writing Community
Weekly Writing Community
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.
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Accessing Statistics Canada Data for your Research
Accessing Statistics Canada Data for your Research
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.
Free
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring Marjorie Mitchell, Copyright, Scholarly Communications, and Research Data Management Librarian
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring Marjorie Mitchell, Copyright, Scholarly Communications, and Research Data Management Librarian
Researchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
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Learning R: Fundamental Concepts with RStudio
Learning R: Fundamental Concepts with RStudio
Join us on an exciting journey into the world of data with our introductory workshops! This session will introduce participants to fundamental concepts in R that will help them excel at more advanced applications.
1 event,
English Language Conversation Circle
English Language Conversation Circle
Do you want to practice your English speaking skills? Join our English Conversation Circle on March 1.
Free
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Copyright and Your Thesis
Copyright and Your Thesis
Do you want to learn how to use copyrighted material in your research, and how to protect your own rights as an author? If so, this workshop is for you!
2 events,
Weekly Writing Community
Weekly Writing Community
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.
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring the Office of Research Services
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring the Office of Research Services
Researchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
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Learning R: Importing Data
Learning R: Importing Data
Join us on an exciting journey into the world of data with our introductory workshops! This session will address importing Excel and comma separated value files into R for analysis.
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2 events,
Weekly Writing Community
Weekly Writing Community
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.
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring Writing and Academic Communication support
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring Writing and Academic Communication support
Researchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
2 events,
Q&A Session: Writing the Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Application
Q&A Session: Writing the Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Application
This online Q&A session, facilitated by the College of Graduate Studies and the Centre for Scholarly Communication, provides an opportunity to ask questions about writing and submitting the application.
Finding, Using, and Creating Open Educational Resources
Finding, Using, and Creating Open Educational Resources
In this session we will walk you through some strategies for finding open content to adapt, or include within your learning resources, as well as best practices for attribution.
free
1 event,
Learning R: Exploring Data
Learning R: Exploring Data
Join us on an exciting journey into the world of data with our introductory workshops! This session will introduce participants to common tasks of initial data exploration.
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The Influence of AI on Academic Publishing
The Influence of AI on Academic Publishing
Join us for a discussion with Taylor & Francis VP External Affairs and Policy, Priya Madina, on AI and academic publishing.
Free
5 events,
Weekly Writing Community
Weekly Writing Community
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.
Writing the Literature Review
Writing the Literature Review
Unlock the secrets of crafting impactful literature reviews in this interactive online workshop for graduate students. Discover how to synthesize existing research succinctly while maintaining your own critical perspective and voice.
Free
Publishing a Book with Pressbooks – An Introduction
Publishing a Book with Pressbooks – An Introduction
Whether you are looking for training for yourself or your research assistants, this training will cover the basics of how to use Pressbooks to create and enhance content.
free
2 events,
OER and GenAI
OER and GenAI
In this session we will discuss the potential of AI in generating dynamic content, including interactive textbooks, and its potential in developing open educational resources and practices.
free
Thesis Formatting Q&A
Thesis Formatting Q&A
Join the Centre for Scholarly Communication for an online Q&A session to ask questions and learn more about how to properly format your thesis for submission.
Free
2 events,
“Stop Generating”: Generative AI in the Contexts of Indigenous Studies
“Stop Generating”: Generative AI in the Contexts of Indigenous Studies
In this presentation, David Gaertner Assoicate Professor Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies will draw from Indigenous theorists and authors to situate generative AI and large language models (LLMs) within a long colonial history of extraction.
free
Learning R: Subsetting and Filtering Data
Learning R: Subsetting and Filtering Data
Explore the variety of ways that data can be filtered and subset in R. Working with data frames and vectors, data frames, and lists, participants will learn the nuances of extracting portions of a larger data set for analysis.
2 events,
Copyright and Your Thesis
Copyright and Your Thesis
Do you want to learn how to use copyrighted material in your research, and how to protect your own rights as an author? If so, this workshop is for you!
Navigating the Path to Publication
Navigating the Path to Publication
In this seminar, our goal is to provide practical insights and valuable information for both new and experienced authors.
Free
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Thesis and Dissertation Structure
Thesis and Dissertation Structure
Embarking on the journey of writing your thesis or dissertation? This online workshop offers valuable tools and techniques to support your thesis writing process.
Free
3 events,
Weekly Writing Community
Weekly Writing Community
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.
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring the UBCO Research Data Hub
Researcher Drop-Ins with the CSC, featuring the UBCO Research Data Hub
Researchers, meet your Okanagan research support team! Come join us to connect with friendly faces who are always there to support solutions for your scholarly communication and digital or data-intensive research needs.
Beware the Copyleft Trolls – Questionable Use of Open Licenses
Beware the Copyleft Trolls – Questionable Use of Open Licenses
This session will provide participants with a more in-depth understanding of Creative Commons licenses and some of the potential pitfalls when using and assigning licenses to your work.
free
2 events,
Sharing & Discoverability – Making an Impact with your Open Education Resources
Sharing & Discoverability – Making an Impact with your Open Education Resources
This session will introduce you to workflows for making your resource discoverable, streamlining impact data collection, and marketing and promotion processes to showcase the reach of your open educational resource.
free
Researching Your Literature Review
Researching Your Literature Review
Join us to discover how to harness the latest tools and techniques, empowering you to excel in your literature review.
Free
1 event,
Learning R: Iterating Over Data
Learning R: Iterating Over Data
Join us on an exciting journey into the world of data with our introductory workshops! This session will revisit the vector underpinnings of R, introduce the apply() family of functions for iterating, or looping, over objects, and introduce for loops for those instances when no pre-existing solution exists.
1 event,
English Language Conversation Circle
English Language Conversation Circle
Do you want to practice your English speaking skills? Join our English Conversation Circle!
Free
