2024 BRN Welcome Social – Sept. 13, 2024

The Black Research Network is pleased to announce the return of the signature BRN Welcome Social. This year’s event will take place on Friday, September 13, 2024 at U of T Mississauga’s Collaborative Digital Research Space (MN3230) from 4 to 6 p.m. The BRN Welcome Social is a chance for our network to ring in […]

The Tanenbaum Institute for Science in Sport Conference – Sept. 14-15, 2024

The Tanenbaum Institute for Science in Sport Conference will bring together leading experts, scientists, and practitioners to share applications of cutting-edge research at the intersection of science, medicine, and analytics in sport. Now is an exciting and fast-moving era for the generation of new knowledge through research in the fields of high performance sport science […]

NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant: Strategies for Success – Sept. 17, 2024

The Centre for Research & Innovation Support, in collaboration with Research Services Office, is hosting a webinar on the upcoming 2024 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) Grant program for the University of Toronto community. This session will feature a faculty panel of recent members of the […]

Safeguarding Science Workshop | Module 1 – Sept. 17, 2024

Module 1: Safeguarding Science: Raising awareness of security risks and mitigation tools in the research ecosystem Canada is a leader in innovation, research and development, thanks to the research community’s commitment to open science and international collaboration. However, this strength also makes Canadian research an attractive target for malicious actors. The transfer of our cutting-edge […]

NSERC Discovery Grant Q&A Webinar (English) – Sept 17, 2024

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 […]

NSERC – CSE Research Communities Grants Webinar (French) – Sept 17, 2024

French session The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) are partnering to fund Research Communities to conduct unclassified research on cutting-edge technologies in areas of strategic importance to CSE and the Government of Canada. NSERC’s Alliance Communications Team will hold information sessions twice in September […]

Scientific Research & Experimental Development Webinar – Sept 18, 2024

This webinar is hosted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and will provide a general overview of the Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) program. The webinar will guide attendees through the entire process including program overview, eligibility criteria, qualifying expenditures, and the free tools and services offered by the CRA. The focus will be […]

Community Engagement Series: Working Together with Newcomer Families in Research – Sept. 18, 2024

In this session, from the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, participants will hear from families themselves about their experiences being included in research studies as co-designers. OBJECTIVES: Understand the importance of including newcomer families in research, and the barriers and facilitators to inclusion. Develop strategies to better include newcomer families in research studies, […]

NSERC – CSE Research Communities Grants Webinar (English) – Sept 18, 2024

English session The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) are partnering to fund Research Communities to conduct unclassified research on cutting-edge technologies in areas of strategic importance to CSE and the Government of Canada. NSERC’s Alliance Communications Team will hold information sessions twice in September […]

SSHRC webinar – partnerships with industry in SSH research (French) – Sept. 19, 2024

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 […]

Navigating GenAI: An Introduction for Researchers – Sept. 19, 2024

The Centre for Research & Innovation Support (CRIS) is hosting learning opportunities for University of Toronto researchers, staff and students curious about how Generative AI (GenAI) tools could be used for a range of research activities. These opportunities will support our scholarly research community to become critical users of these new tools.  As we explore […]

Launchpad: Campus Resources for U of T Startups – Sept. 19, 2024

This is an orientation to campus resources for those with startups or interested in startups, including accelerators, courses and programs, library resources, commercialization, funding opportunities, and community resources. You will leave with: knowledge of how the university supports student and faculty startups through space, training, and mentorship an understanding of campus accelerators, pitch competitions, and […]

Launchpad: Campus Resources for U of T Startups

This is an orientation to campus resources for those with startups or interested in startups, including accelerators, courses and programs, library resources, commercialization, funding opportunities, and community resources. You will leave with: knowledge of how the university supports student and faculty startups through space, training, and mentorship an understanding of campus accelerators, pitch competitions, and […]

SSHRC webinar – partnerships with industry in SSH research (English) – Sept. 19, 2024

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 Discovery Grant Q&A Webinar (French) – Sept 19, 2024

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 […]

Are We Doing Social Science Backwards? – Sept. 19, 2024

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 […]

Toronto Data Workshop (TDW) – Accessible Investigative Journalism: Navigating Canada’s Largest Corpus of Government Documents – Sept 20, 2024

“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) […]

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