Inuit voices on teaching Inuit health
Have you ever thought about what healthcare is like for people in remote regions of this geographically immense country? AndContinue Reading
Tag: graduate education
Engaging Information Studies students with law and policy: Part 2
In a previous blog post, I discussed my first experience teaching independently, and the pedagogical techniques I tried to apply.Continue Reading
Engaging Information Studies students with law and policy: Part 1
Introduction The legal and ethical questions around information engage people far beyond the legal field. Online privacy, copyright, net neutrality,Continue Reading
Balancing the roles of supervisor, mentor, and friend
Mentor. The word itself was originally a name—the name of an advisor in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey who wasContinue Reading
Graduate supervision as teaching: Let’s talk
While many professors come to Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) to talk with us about undergraduate teaching, hardly anyone everContinue Reading
Sharing our research, 3 minutes at a time
What can you teach me in 3 minutes? The learning implications of discovering multitasking neurons in the prefrontal cortex? TheContinue Reading
Expectations (of graduate students and supervisors)
A very thoughtful post from Prof Chirs Buddle on the importance of setting expectations for graduate students and supervisors. InterestedContinue Reading
TIPS Journal for innovative, discipline-specific teaching strategies
The Teaching Innovation Projects (TIPS) Journal is an open-access publication from the Teaching Support Centre of Western University that focuses on publishing innovativeContinue Reading
Muddling with intention: On moving from the academy to the academy
As the end of my PhD was drawing near, I started to worry, like many grad students do, about whatContinue Reading
Is supervision about teaching or research?
In fact, it’s both! Studies in supervision practice have found a connection between a mentor-model of supervision and better researchContinue Reading
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