We’ll explore strategies and provide sample abstracts and lay summaries from diverse fields and purposes, including theses, conferences, and funding applications.

Learn all about the publishing process, get some tips for selecting the right journal for you, and develop your skills for responding to peer reviewers at this online workshop.

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.

This workshop will introduce interaction terms in linear models along with random and fixed effects, including random and fixed intercepts and slopes, in the context of Hierarchical Linear Models (also known as Linear Mixed Models).

By the end of this session, participants should be able to fit (Hierarchical) Linear Models (HLMs) with interaction terms and interpret the output of the summary() function for Hierarchical Linear Models. Additionally, participants will be able to identify the limitations of (H)LMs.

Are you a graduate student who is working on your thesis or dissertation? 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!

This session will address the advantages of box plots over bar charts for displaying the spread and variability in data. Participants will learn how box plots can be used to compare multiple samples, the impact of sample size on data representation, and the efficient identification of outliers.

By the end of the session, participants should be able to create and interpret box plots, appreciate their usefulness in comparing multiple samples, understand the implications of sample size, and identify outliers and median confidence intervals through notches in box plots.