This workshop, the first in a series focused on enhancing leadership and personal effectiveness for researchers, explores the intersection of caregiving and academic research. Designed for researchers who are caregivers or work with staff, students, or trainees who identify as caregivers, the session will offer practical strategies for balancing caregiving responsibilities with professional demands. It […]
Hamilton Health Science s is kicking off their 2025 webinar series in partnership with N2 (Network of Networks) with a highly anticipated and informative event: Health Canada & Clinical Trial Compliance: Navigating Inspections, Regulations, and Best Practices This 2.5 hour interactive session is an exceptional opportunity to engage directly with Health Canada experts and deepen […]
The weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes SRI Research Lead Beth Coleman, associate professor of data and cities at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and Faculty of Information. Working in the disciplines of science and technology studies, generative aesthetics, and Black poesis, her research focuses on smart technology & machine learning, urban […]
What: This hands-on workshop will build on the concepts introduced in An Introduction to Programming for Absolute Beginners Using Python: Part 1 to introduce you to more basic concepts of one of the world's most popular programming languages, Python! This Part 2 introduction to Python includes concepts such as compound data types, flow control, error […]
Join U of T’s entrepreneurship community March 3-7, for a week of events to showcase, celebrate, and reward innovation and startup activity, including: True Blue Impact Day – a day of high-impact events showcasing U of T startups hosted at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus. Inspirational stories from women-identifying founders in celebration of International Women’s […]
What: In this workshop Learners will gain an understanding of common skills necessary to start developing Open Educational Resources. There will also be a showcase of number of tools and resources available to the UofT community. Why: Open Educational Resources (OER) are designed to make education more equitable by providing free, high-quality educational materials that […]
Join U of T’s entrepreneurship community March 3-7, for a week of events to showcase, celebrate, and reward innovation and startup activity, including: True Blue Impact Day – a day of high-impact events showcasing U of T startups hosted at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus. Inspirational stories from women-identifying founders in celebration of International Women’s […]
This session focuses on accessible content creation practices. Techniques for conceptualizing, creating and maintaining accessible documents will be discussed and how to build these into department wide processes. A heavy emphasis is placed on why those techniques are important, and the ramifications of formatting decisions.
Applicants and research administrators are encouraged to attend the Transformation webinars to learn more about the stream and the overall application process. Notice of Intent Stage Webinar Mar 11, 2025, 10.00am ET French session Learn more about the competition
The Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation is hosting a webinar on Horizon Europe (https://research.utoronto.ca/funding-opportunities/db/horizon-europe-pillar-ii) to promote this significant new funding program and provide specific information about its opportunities in Cluster 2 (Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society) (https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe/cluster-2-culture-creativity-and-inclusive-society_en) and Cluster 3 (Civil Security for Society) (https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe/cluster-3-civil-security-society_en) to U of T faculty interested in applying in 2025. […]
Applicants and research administrators are encouraged to attend the Transformation webinars to learn more about the stream and the overall application process. Notice of Intent Stage Webinar Mar 11, 2025, 1.00pm ET English session Learn more about the competition
The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) invites researchers in the humanities and social sciences working with collaborators and partners both inside and outside academia to an online workshop designed to help develop strategies to document project goals, procedures and governance structures to ensure project longevity, as well as to look ahead to storing and accessing their project websites, […]
This session will provide managers and supervisors with key strategies to create and maintain accessible and inclusive working environments. Together, we will identify the critical competencies people leaders need to make their teams feel welcome, a sense of belonging and comfortable to contribute fully. Through the exploration of concepts like universal design, emerging perspectives like […]
This workshop will provide participants with a framework for understanding foundational concepts related to sexual and gender diversity, including gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation. The session will examine how common messages and ideas about sexuality and gender operate in our daily lives and work environments, with impacts for all of us, and specifically […]
Are you working on a research project, but aren’t sure what to do with your data once it’s complete? Has a funder or journal asked you to deposit your research data in a repository? Do you want to publish your data and make it available for others to reuse? In this session participants will learn […]
What does it mean to be an ally to Indigenous peoples? Is it even possible to call yourself an ally, or is it more correct to say that one can only aspire to be an ally, as allyship is a continuous process of self-reflexivity, learning, and acting in a decolonial manner? These are some of […]
The weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Jeff Clune, a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, and a senior research advisor at DeepMind. Clune’s research focuses on deep learning, including deep reinforcement learning. In this talk, Clune will explore how foundation models are opening new frontiers […]
How can diversity be quantified in scientific data, and why does it matter for advancing research? Join the next AC Seminar – hosted by the Acceleration Consortium – featuring Adji Bousso Dieng from Princeton University as she discusses Vendi Scoring, an innovative method for understanding variation in complex datasets. The talk will also introduce the […]
Join us at the Faculty of Information in exploring and navigating non-traditional methods of publishing! The EDIU Unit is excited to launch a new workshop series called, “Beyond the Page: Innovative Publishing Paths for Diverse Voices in Research.” This workshop series is designed to empower students, particularly those from underrepresented and marginalized groups, but open […]
This session introduces a step-by-step approach that will enable you to see your own words through a series of lenses that bring a fresh perspective. You'll learn to use x-ray vision—that is, a way to look through the content of your own text, to see through to its structure. By editing at a structural level, […]
Please, check out other Fun Data Friday events. What: In this workshop we will discuss what aspects of a map make it interpretable. You will learn how to map geospatial data, map layers, and how to apply map layers in ArcGIS Online and analyze that data. Why: Maps are interpretations of the world we live […]
