Storytelling takes many forms, from graphic novels to handmade books, and from graphs and charts to datasets. In this crosstalk we will discuss some of the connections between data science and literary studies. Speakers: Prof. Claire Battershill and Prof. Rohan Alexander

Create connections with fellow research administrators at this in-person STAR (STrengthening Administration of Research) networking event. Enjoy lightning talks, guided discussions, and small group activities to enhance your knowledge and skills in advancing your career in research administration. Continue to build relationships during the informal networking lunch. Register now as space is limited for this […]

This workshop is part of the Data Anonymization Workshop Series hosted by the McGill Digital Research Services Hub.  The McGill Digital Research Services Hub is delighted to invite all researchers and students to a series of online workshops on data anonymization, presented by national and international subject matter leading experts. This workshop series will provide […]

This event is hosted by CBR Canada. Are you new to community-based research and interested to get your feet wet? Join CBRCanada for a community-based research orientation this Fall to learn basic concepts in community-based research and more about CBRCanada programs to help you and your team continue on your learning journey.

Are you interested in sharing your data with other researchers? Has a journal or funder asked you to share your data? Would you like to house your research team’s data in one place? In this session, participants will learn how to organize and publish research data in the University of Toronto Dataverse, U of T’s […]

This workshop is part of the Data Anonymization Workshop Series hosted by the McGill Digital Research Services Hub. The McGill Digital Research Services Hub is delighted to invite all researchers and students to a series of online workshops on data anonymization, presented by national and international subject matter leading experts. This workshop series will provide […]

What does it mean to be an ally to Indigenous peoples? And is it even possible to call yourself an ally or is more correct to say that one can only aspire to be an ally as allyship is a continuous process of self-reflexivity and learning and acting in a decolonial manner. These are some […]

This foundational course will provide participants with a framework for understanding core concepts and terminologies about sexual and gender diversity, including 2SLGBTQ+ identities. The session will examine homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of oppression with an intersectional lens to understand how these concepts operate in our daily lives and work environments. Participants will be offered […]

In collaboration with Pfizer, Research Connect is delighted to offer and facilitate a series of 8 modules of the Investigator Training Program (ITP). The Investigator Training Program (ITP) is a great opportunity for those clinical trial investigators and research staff that may be newer to clinical trials, or could benefit from a refresher course. The […]

This session will provide all staff with key resources, tips and techniques to support the embedding of universal design principles in all aspects of their work. Participants will be introduced to the concepts and principles of universal design, provided with guidance on what spaces, built and not, universal design has been applied, and given advice […]

This event is hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. This event is part of their Cybersecurity Awareness Month Series.  This week’s theme is Security Awareness & Cybersecurity for Researchers. This webinar will feature Jarno van der Kolk, Senior Scientific Computing Specialist at the University of Ottawa. Learn what you can do to protect […]

CDHI is pleased to welcome our first Visiting Speaker of 2023–2024: Dr. Jacqueline Wernimont! This will be an IN PERSON event on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. Professor Wernimont’s talk is titled “When is Death Official? Sociotechnical Entanglements with Human Mortality” As in life, death in the modern world is everywhere […]

This event is hosted by the Data Sciences Institute. Join the Data Sciences Institute for "Reproducibility – An example from the LK-99 scandal", an enlightening half-day workshop on reproducibility, as seen through the rise and fall of LK-99. This workshop holds lessons for those in materials science and for all researchers who are trying to […]

Please note there is a Part 1 and 2, and it is recommended you attend part 2 to get more of a wholesome context to this session. Culture is expressed in the worldviews of peoples from different backgrounds, lived experiences and histories. It is fostered through ones’ unique identification with ones’ values, beliefs, languages, and […]

In collaboration with Pfizer, Research Connect is delighted to offer and facilitate a series of 8 modules of the Investigator Training Program (ITP). The Investigator Training Program (ITP) is a great opportunity for those clinical trial investigators and research staff that may be newer to clinical trials, or could benefit from a refresher course. The […]

This event is hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. This event is part of their Cybersecurity Awareness Month Series.  

In about 90 minutes, learn how to use the SciNet systems Niagara and Mist, from securely logging in to running computations on the supercomputer. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers. This event is hosted by SciNet.

Interested in learning R? Need to learn R for your research or for job prospects? R is a popular open-source statistical programming language that is popular in academia and industry. This workshop provides an easy entry into the data science field. Get started with learning R with this gentle hands-on workshop. You will learn how […]

This event is hosted by CBR Canada.  Campus-community partnerships are well positioned to play a role in advancing social and environmental justice in the context of our rapidly changing and increasingly inequitable world. Across the Global North, post-secondary institutions in partnership with civil society organizations and communities are engaging in efforts to establish living labs […]

Calling all researchers within the University of Toronto and those who support their research! This event is designed for members of the U of T community who are interested in discussing safeguarding research data and intellectual property (IP). At this event, Karl Zabjek, will describe the intersection of data security and ethics and some of […]

Bayesian statistical methods are becoming increasingly popular in a wide variety of modern applications. This workshop provides resources and support for statistics educators to incorporate aspects of Bayesian statistics in their teaching. Through a series of detailed classroom-ready examples and hands-on activities, including exercises in R, participants will learn how to introduce Bayesian ideas into […]

This event is hosted by CBR Canada. October Topic: "Unruly Researchers" with guest speaker Sophia Ilnyiak, York University. Community of Practice meetings actively bring together CBRCanada members from across Canada and beyond to engage in meaningful discussions, network with others, learn from each other, and exchange best practices. All involved in community-based research are welcome, […]

Join CANSSI Ontario for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with Ron Do, Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences. Dr. Ron Do is the Charles Bronfman Professor in Personalized Medicine and Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He leads […]

Presenters:Professor Molly ShoichetPRiME Scientific DirectorUniversity Professor and Michael E. Charles Chair in Chemical EngineeringDr. Ilya Yakavets2023 PRiME Clinical Catalyst FellowCo-supervised by Profs. Eugenia Kumacheva and David Cescon

Container computing is gradually changing the way researchers are developing, sharing, and running software applications. Apptainer (formerly called Singularity) is gaining popularity in HPC for its performance, ease of use, portability, and security. In this course, we will explore: what is a container, why use a container, and how to use and create one. This […]

This workshop is part of the Data Anonymization Workshop Series hosted by the McGill Digital Research Services Hub. The McGill Digital Research Services Hub is delighted to invite all researchers and students to a series of online workshops on data anonymization, presented by national and international subject matter leading experts. This workshop series will provide […]

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. This event is hosted by Accessibility For Ontarians With Disabilities […]

This event is hosted by the Information Technology Services. Dive into the world of Information Security at the Bahen Centre Atrium! Educational games, informed fun and prizes Pop by the Information Security booth in the Atrium at Bahen Centre for some intellectual fun and participate in educational games to test your knowledge of information security. […]

Are you looking for a more formalized way to connect and collaborate with your interdisciplinary colleagues? Are you hoping to get momentum on a research project? Would you like to engage the broader public with events and exhibits? Are you generally curious about how the Jackman Humanities Institute funding opportunities can connect you with other […]

Are you looking for a more formalized way to connect and collaborate with your interdisciplinary colleagues? Are you hoping to get momentum on a research project? Would you like to engage the broader public with events and exhibits? Are you generally curious about how the Jackman Humanities Institute funding opportunities can connect you with other […]

This event is hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. This event is part of their Cybersecurity Awareness Month Series.

This introductory workshop is intended for employees who want to learn about core concepts about gender, including gender identity, gender expression, and trans and nonbinary identities. The session will also address relevant and current gender-inclusive policies and best practices for students and employees at the university. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about pronouns, […]

2SLGBTQ+ Health Hub Lecture | Gender & Sex in Methods and Measurement: guidance on precise, accurate and inclusive research design The Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity’s Gender and Sex in Methods and Measurement Research Equity Toolkit addresses two pervasive issues in health research: the misuse of gender and sex-related concepts, and the erasure […]

This session aims to give a foundation or refresher for website content editors on web accessibility fundamentals. Participants will learn about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) and how they apply to the AODA, what this means for their role at the University and provide a foundation for discussion of web accessibility with different types […]

This workshop is part of the Data Anonymization Workshop Series hosted by the McGill Digital Research Services Hub. The McGill Digital Research Services Hub is delighted to invite all researchers and students to a series of online workshops on data anonymization, presented by national and international subject matter leading experts. This workshop series will provide […]

Please note this is Part 2 of a 2 part course, and it is recommended you attend Part 1 first to get wholesome context to this session. Culture is expressed in the worldviews of peoples from different backgrounds, lived experiences and histories. It is fostered through ones’ unique identification with ones’ values, beliefs, languages, and […]

Interested in learning Stata? Need to use Stata for your research or for job prospects? Stata is a data science software that is commonly used in academia and in research organizations. Get started learning Stata with this gentle hands-on workshop. You will learn how to import, explore and manipulate data using Stata. No coding experience […]

In collaboration with Pfizer, Research Connect is delighted to offer and facilitate a series of 8 modules of the Investigator Training Program (ITP). The Investigator Training Program (ITP) is a great opportunity for those clinical trial investigators and research staff that may be newer to clinical trials, or could benefit from a refresher course. The […]

Project management needs to be tailored in order to work for research. Since 2013, Prof. Alison Paprica has developed tailored versions of globally-accepted tools and process and provided training focused on research project management to over 1,000 participants from around the world. This 6-hour workshop, delivered in two 3-hour sessions, presents a complete set of […]

This session aims to give a foundation or refresher for website content editors on web accessibility fundamentals. Participants will learn about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) and how they apply to the AODA, what this means for their role at the University and provide a foundation for discussion of web accessibility with different types […]

This CanPath event is hosted by the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health.  Did you know that Canadian women face a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer in their lifetime and that it is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death? Join Dr. Jennifer Brooks, […]

On October 20th, CARTE Industry Speaker Seminar Series welcomes Dr. Ali Vahit Esensoy, Vice President, Data Science at Klick Consulting. Real-world evidence (RWE) is increasingly important for finding innovation opportunities and bringing novel healthcare solutions to market. Insights sourced from novel data streams like social media and patient discussions can be critical to build and […]

On October 20th, CARTE Industry Speaker Seminar Series welcomes Dr. Ali Vahit Esensoy, Vice President, Data Science at Klick Consulting. Real-world evidence (RWE) is increasingly important for finding innovation opportunities and bringing novel healthcare solutions to market. Insights sourced from novel data streams like social media and patient discussions can be critical to build and […]

Join us for a new CRIS monthly series: Get it Started, Get it Finished, Keep it Going (https://cris.utoronto.ca/rdfcohorts/get-it-started/). These monthly sessions are geared to addressing the competing priorities faculty face during the semester from research, teaching, to service commitments. In these semi-structured (Two 45-minute timed work sessions), researchers will set goals that are specific, measurable, […]

The Faculty of Information has launched the ‘Crosstalk’ series, a collection of conversations on topics spanning multiple research areas and that may have been approached from different theoretical, conceptual, and methodological lenses. The goal is to tune our senses to seeing possible and ‘hidden’ connections between works and to engender disciplinary, multi/interdisciplinary, and/or cross-sectoral collaboration. […]

Interested in learning R? Need to learn R for your research or for job prospects? R is a popular open-source statistical programming language that is popular in academia and industry. This workshop provides an easy entry into the data science field. Get started with learning R with this gentle hands-on workshop. You will learn how […]

Join CANSSI Ontario at the Statistical Sciences Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with Robert Gould, Academic Administrator, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles. For decades now, statistics educators have worked to achieve wide-spread statistical literacy. And now, well before the task is accomplished, along comes Data Science Education. I’ll explain why, from […]

Learning Objectives: Increase understanding of the experiences and impact of racial microaggressions – identify forms of racial microaggressive behavior and comments. Discuss and develop strategies for prevention and resolution of subtle discrimination within the work and learning environments. Increase understanding of the role of management in effectively addressing and responding to occurrences of microaggressions/subtle discrimination? […]

This session will provide participants with a foundation to interpreting the accessible procurement rules under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Participants will discover the specific legislative requirements around accessibility design criteria and features, and how these apply to the procurement of goods, services and facilities. Participants will use tools and strategies supporting […]

Artificial intelligence has entered the scene. It has transformed how many things are done and is set to continue changing the status quo in many fields. Already, researchers, leveraging the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), have changed the game in health and science, accelerating discovery and launching breakthroughs. Hear from AI researcher and entrepreneur Dr. […]

The WBIIH & ON NEIHR along with the the Ontario IMN will be co-hosting Indigenizing Health Symposium 2023: Nations Gathering on the Land, aims to share knowledges, and foster dialogue and collaboration about Indigenous health and land based healing. This year’s symposium will be the first Ontario Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) land-based […]

Join the Gairdner Science Week Symposium. Inspired by the work of 2023 Canada Gairdner International Award laureates Drs. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, this symposium will bring together top authorities in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to discuss the impact it has had and will continue to have on science and health equity, and possible issues it […]

In partnership with IDRC, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Gairdner brings together emerging and established leaders in the perinatal and child health fields to discuss how communities can be engaged and involved in the research process. Speakers will present their own work, compare experiences in a roundtable, and network […]

This introductory workshop is intended for employees who want to learn about core concepts about gender, including gender identity, gender expression, and trans and nonbinary identities. The session will also address relevant and current gender-inclusive policies and best practices for students and employees at the university. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about pronouns, […]

Many Canadian Institutions including the University of Toronto do land acknowledgements before meetings, before convocations and at seminars and conferences, but why do we do them; what is their purpose and are they an effective tool of reconciliation and decolonization. The fear is that land acknowledgements have become largely performative and rote stripping them of […]

In collaboration with Pfizer, Research Connect is delighted to offer and facilitate a series of 8 modules of the Investigator Training Program (ITP). The Investigator Training Program (ITP) is a great opportunity for those clinical trial investigators and research staff that may be newer to clinical trials, or could benefit from a refresher course. The […]

This highly anticipated event features lectures from the 2023 Canada Gairdner Award Laureates about their prize-winning research. The lecture will also include Early Career Investigators from across Canada who have won our contest and will present their related research alongside the laureates. This event is part of the Gairdner Science Week.

This event is hosted by the Information Technology Services (ITS). Join ITS for an insightful virtual panel event where security practitioners from across the University will talk about how they are addressing security risks and challenges within their areas. Learn about current and upcoming initiatives aligned with U of T’s information security strategic objectives. The […]

This session will provide participants with a foundational knowledge on how communication and language can create barriers to accessibility, and how to address these barriers. Participants will be (re-) introduced to AODA guidelines for accessible communication, language and terms that may be problematic, invited to consider how language changes over time, and to discuss how […]

This event is hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. This event is part of their Cybersecurity Awareness Month Series. 

Join members of the Pathways to Belonging project team for a one-hour webinar sharing project findings and creative materials. The Pathways to Belonging project is a multi-year project which aims to understand how young adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) find their own pathways to belonging and meaning in their daily lives. This research […]

The Faculty of Information has launched the ‘Crosstalk’ series, a collection of conversations on topics spanning multiple research areas and that may have been approached from different theoretical, conceptual, and methodological lenses. The goal is to tune our senses to seeing possible and ‘hidden’ connections between works and to engender disciplinary, multi/interdisciplinary, and/or cross-sectoral collaboration. […]

This event is hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. This event is part of their Cybersecurity Awareness Month Series. 

Join CANSSI Ontario at the Statistical Sciences Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with Martha White, Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta. In this talk I will discuss how we used reinforcement-learning based prediction approaches for a real drinking-water treatment plant. I will first describe this dataset, and highlight challenges with seasonality, […]

The Centre for Research & Innovation Support is hosting a webinar on the upcoming 2023 NFRF-Exploration competition for the University of Toronto community. The objective of the Exploration stream is to support high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. It seeks to inspire projects that bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches by research […]

Do you want to develop your R skills to advance your data science skills? R is a popular open-source statistical programming language that is popular in academia and industry. This workshop gently introduces users to intermediate level tools in R including the dplyr package for data manipulation, if statements, for loops and functions. It is […]

This event is hosted by the Information Technology Services. More info coming soon.

It is well established across a range of disciplines that more diverse research teams produce more impactful and higher-quality outputs. However, how to achieve inclusive excellence in research is not always obvious or easy, at either the individual group leader level or more broadly, within an organization. In the 4th lecture of the HEaRT series, […]

Join the ORCID US Community and ORCID-CA for a community discussion on how the FAIR Principles and the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance relate to Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) such as ORCID iDs and DOIs. The session will feature speakers Mike Nason (Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian, University of New Brunswick Libraries) and Dr. Riley […]

This event is hosted by the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI). This talk explores the persistent concern about sustainable digital projects in the context of Black DH theory and praxis. Dr. Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the […]