SSHRC will be holding a webinar for research administrators, particularly those in innovation and/or partnership roles, and social science and humanities researchers interested in partnering with industry. The objective of the webinar is to create awareness of SSHRC’s research partnership funding opportunities and the potential benefits they offer to industry partners and the researchers working […]
NSERC is hosting live Q&A sessions which are meant to assist the research community on how to complete a Discovery Grant (DG) application. Attendees are welcome to submit questions in advance up to 2 business days prior to the session. Questions submitted in advance will be prioritized and answered at the beginning of the sessions […]
An Integrative Approach to An Integrative Approach to Experimental Research | CUF Lecture Series The dominant paradigm of experimental social and behavioral science views an experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the experiment’s specific conditions. But in reality, the process of reconciling findings from many different […]
“Open By Default” (OBD) is a dataset from the Investigative Journalism Foundation which is Canada’s largest collection of government documents, comprising over 4.5 million pages of Access To Information and Privacy (ATIP) requests and corresponding government documentation. This project enhanced data capture using optical character recognition (OCR), improved search performance through Large Language Model (LLM) […]
NSERC is hosting live Q&A sessions which are meant to assist the research community on how to apply for the Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grants Program. Attendees are welcome to submit questions in advance up to 2 business days prior to the session. Questions submitted in advance will be prioritized and answered at the […]
This workshop is intended to provide a basic overview of Data Management Plans (DMPs), a tool often used to lay a foundation for good research data management practices through the life of a research project and beyond. This workshop will cover a basic overview of the components of a typical data management plan and share […]
Managing research data is a key component of any research project, and - when done right - can save you time and effort. In this session, participants will learn about current requirements and best practices for managing research data at all stages of a research project. Topics covered include: Journal and funder requirements Data management […]
NSERC is hosting live Q&A sessions which are meant to assist the research community on how to apply for the Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grants Program. Attendees are welcome to submit questions in advance up to 2 business days prior to the session. Questions submitted in advance will be prioritized and answered at the […]
Join us at this online training/demo of the VPRI Dashboards, including ART (Tableau)! Dashboards access is required and is limited to staff in research roles at U of T.
Annie Collins is a Data Scientist at GivingTuesday, a US-based nonprofit focused on researching generosity and charitable giving behaviours. Beyond GivingTuesday, Annie has spent several years in data management and research roles within the Canadian nonprofit sector. She holds a Bachelors of Science in applied mathematics and statistics from the University of Toronto, and uses […]
Researchers from the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing (TIMC) at the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) will present a virtual scientific session devoted to Exploratory Analysis for Unstructured Data. In this session, TIMC will present their view considering the latest NSERC-CSE Research Communities Call for Proposals on exploratory analysis of unstructured data. The session […]
