IDSR Seminar Series 2023-24: How do you do interdisciplinary research?
Past seminar topics included: Grant-writing and scholarship applications + how to ask for a reference letter; Interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches to food and environmental justice; Feminism and Scholarship: Personal, Political, Professional; Engaged Scholarship on Work, Migration and Racialization; Blackness, Humour and Resistance in Canada; How to publish as a PhD student; Photovoice as Knowledge Mobilization; Islamophobia as an affective field: death and elimination
Wednesday, September 27, 2023: Marriage Migration in Contemporary India: Articulation of a New Form of Gendered Violence
Reena Kukreja, Associate Professor, Queen's University, Department of Global Development Studies
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 Sexuality, Social Theory and Modernity
Professor Stevi Jackson in Conversation with Professor Momin Rahman
Thursday, June 2, 2022 MAXQDA 2022 for Windows and Mac - The Essentials for Research Success. This hands-on workshop provided an opportunity for participants to develop skills for computer assisted qualitative and mixed-methods data analysis using the software application MAXQDA. Workshop leader, Neville Li, is a MAXQDA certified trainer based in British Columbia.
Friday, June 3, 2022 Mitacs Information Session, presented by Mitacs and Trent’s Office of Research and Innovation. This information session focused on Mitacs funding opportunities, especially the Accelerate research internship program, and how IDSR PhD students may choose to integrate an internship into their qualifying exam process. Mitacs Business Strategy Internships and Elevate Post-Doctoral fellowship programs were also reviewed.
Keynote Speaker - Dr Cathy Bruce, Vice President of Research and Innovation, Trent University. Dr Bruce, Trent's recently appointed VPRI presented, "The ups and downs of collaborative research" drawing on her many years of experience conducting research in collaboration with other researchers and professionals.
Panel Discussion: Going Rogue: Social Justice work in the non-profit sector. A presentation and panel discussion with social justice experts about motivations, challenges, applications, and solutions within the context of the non-profit sector. Moderated by IDSR PhD candidate Lisa Ditschun
Dr Benjamin Shear Gives Keynote Address at Inaugural IDSR PhD Seminar Series
Scales of Educational Opportunity: Using Administrative Test Score Data to Study Educational Opportunity in the US
On Friday, May 28, 2021, Dr Shear (University of Colorado, Boulder) discussed the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), a publicly available dataset containing information about student achievement for nearly all US public school districts. The data are available to researchers and the public at their website. The talk briefly described the origin and features of the data, and then summarized recent research studies drawing on the data. The discussion considered some key features of the test score data reported in SEDA, including the differences between accountability and monitoring uses of test scores, interpretations of scores as measures of opportunity, and the importance of including measures of change over time. Finally, the discussion considered how the psychometric concepts of reliability and validity have guided different aspects of the SEDA construction process, and can be used when developing or evaluating public indicator systems in other contexts.