Workshops/Focus Groups

Professional Development Opportunities

The Faculty of Graduate Studies presents a series of Professional Development Workshops to help prepare graduate students for workplace entry and workplace success.

Brock’s Graduate Student Professional Development (GSPD) initiative brings together services from across the campus to support graduate students. GSPD is comprised primarily of Brock University faculty, graduate students and academic support units interested in promoting and developing a broad range of academic and professional skills in graduate education. The GSPD partners are here to enhance your teaching and research. As well, they offer many opportunities to prepare you for life and career after Brock.

Library Workshops

A number of concurrent workshops on topics such as RefWorks and InfoSkills Plus Certificate Program are being offered by the Library. To find out details and to register, click here.

Library Instruction Program - The purpose is to assist students to develop research skills and information seeking abilities appropriate to their needs. All instruction is free of charge and includes seminars and workshops to familiarize you with the library resources.

The Centre for Pedagogical Innovation (CPI)

The CPI offers 3 levels of graduate student programming and support in teaching. In addition to their annual TA Orientation; workshops on a variety of issues are offered on Saturdays from Sept to April. Basic and advanced certificates in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education are awarded for participation in the workshop program. Three-day Instructional Skills Workshops focusing on presentation and feedback skills are available to graduate students 3 times a year. The third level of professional development, the GTA Practicum, allows graduate students to document their developing skills in teaching through classroom observations and a teaching dossier.

Learning Skills Services

Learning Skills Services will design and tailor workshops for small and large groups to address specific needs of graduate students. This support is available in a variety of formats, including:

Group workshops led by professional Learning Skills Instructors

One-on-one consultations with a professional Learning Skills Instructor

Essay Zone, Online Academic Writing Workshop

Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE's)

Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) can help you turn your idea into income. You can access expert talent in Ontario’s research institutions to solve your innovation challenge. You can gain real-world skills and experience in research and development.

Orion Network

The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) is an advanced technology, "ultra-fast" fibre optic network, owned and operated by a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing research, learning and innovation. ORION connects all of Ontario's universities, most colleges, several teaching hospitals, other public research facilities and a growing number of school boards to one another and to the global grid of research and education (R&E) networks.

As Ontario's advanced R&E network, ORION is a critical tool that supports and facilitates research, education, collaboration and innovation benefitting Ontario's researchers, educators and learners. Stretching 5,800 kilometres, it is one of the largest R&E networks in the world.   

 The Graduate Junction

Graduate Junction is an online community dedicated to connecting postgraduates who have similar academic interests. If you are a doing a Masters or PhD, no matter what you study or where you are studying, then Graduate Junction is for you.

Graduate Junction aims to break down the interdisciplinary and institutional barriers that exist in academia and connect people based only on the work that they do and the interests that they have.

Graduate Junction was founded in 2008 by two postgraduates at Durham University because they felt isolated in their own fields. When the first version of the Graduate Junction platform was launched it received massive support from postgraduates and academics and has continued to grow with the community now containing almost 16,000 members.

As a team of postgraduates who know just how hard it can be to juggle all of the demands of postgraduate life they have created Postgraduate Toolbox to share an alternative, unique and funny perspective of those difficult times AND provide some great advice and tips to help you get more done.  You can sign up on their website to receive your own copy of their informative monthly newsletter.