{"id":21787,"date":"2013-04-09T08:40:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T13:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=21787"},"modified":"2013-04-09T08:40:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T13:40:25","slug":"brock-graduate-students-take-research-in-%e2%80%98amazing-directions%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/04\/brock-graduate-students-take-research-in-%e2%80%98amazing-directions%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock graduate students take research in \u2018amazing directions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2012-13mapping285c-for-web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21788\" title=\"2012-13mapping285c-for-web\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2012-13mapping285c-for-web.jpg\" alt=\"2012-13mapping285c-for-web\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A record number of Brock graduate students will be participating in the <a title=\"Mapping the New Knowledges\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/graduate-studies\/conferences-events\/2012-13-MNK\" target=\"_blank\">Mapping the New Knowledges research conference<\/a> on Wednesday, April 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Brock campus.<\/p>\n<p>The annual showcase of research under way in the University&#8217;s 42 master&#8217;s and doctoral programs will feature presentations by about 125 students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The title of the conference is so appropriate since our students will be presenting on topics that take research in amazing directions,&#8221; says Mike Plyley, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies. &#8220;The list of topics is a fascinating mix of disciplines &#8211; classics, geography, sociology, science, business, health sciences, pop culture, education, child and youth, history and the list goes on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conference will also feature the University&#8217;s first Three Minute Thesis (3MT) contest. Thesis master&#8217;s students and PhD candidates who enter the contest will have three minutes and not a second more to talk about their research and why it matters in a way that will inform and captivate a non-specialist audience.<\/p>\n<p>The contest has been growing in popularity internationally and nationally since the University of Queensland in Australia held the first 3MT challenge in 2008. The winner of Brock&#8217;s competition will advance to the provincial contest held at Queen&#8217;s University on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>All conference events will be centred at Plaza Building Levels 300 and 400 and Cairns Complex Level 3.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is open to the public and there is no charge to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Conference highlights include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 8:30 a.m. &#8211; Keynote address by Janet Conway, associate professor, Department of Sociology, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Social Justice<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 9:15 to 11 a.m. &#8211; Concurrent Oral Presentations Session 1<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 11 a.m. to 12 noon &#8211; Three Minute Thesis contest<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1 to 2 p.m. &#8211; Presentation of the Graduate Mentorship Awards to recognize excellence in graduate supervision and mentorship. All award nominees will be honoured<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 2 to 3:20 p.m. &#8211; Concurrent Oral Presentations Session 2<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 3:20 to 4 p.m. &#8211; Poster presentations. Brock graduate students will be available to discuss their research projects<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 4 to 5 p.m. &#8211; Concurrent Oral Presentations Session 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of Brock graduate students will be participating in the Mapping the New Knowledges research conference on Wednesday, April 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Brock campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":21788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[607,3330,947,3325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21789,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21787\/revisions\/21789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}