Trent University Resources
The following are some helpful links on the Trent University website that students may find helpful. They can help with some of the items listed below:
- Student Life and Services
- Student Life activities include orientation, events, leadership, intramurals, extramurals, etc.
- Student Services includes services such as Academic Advising, Academic Mentoring, Student Accessibility Services (SAS), Academic Skills, Career Services, International Support Links, etc.
- Financial Services
- Scholarships, Bursaries, Fees, tuition, OSAP
- IT
- resources for students, faculty and staff, email access, general IT help, etc.
- Careerspace
- Workshops, online resources, career help
- Campus Security
- room access, creating a safe and welcoming environment for all on campus, TrentU Campus Safety App
- Print and Post
- printing for staff, faculty, and students, mailing services
- Trent Durham Student Association
- Clubs, event planning, student advocacy, TrentU Durham clothing
Career & Job Resources
- Trent University Employment Opportunities
- LinkedIn Jobs
- Graduate Teaching Assistant CUPE 2 positions (other programs and departments)
- COMM CUPE 2 positions (roles for current students)
- Audio & Video Narrative Producer + Masters of Sustainability Studies Graduate Student at Trent University
- From Catastrophe to Community: A People’s History of Climate Change is a six-year project that documents the lived experiences of climate disaster survivors worldwide. These experiences of impact and loss—and, importantly, resiliency and hope—will be shared through documentaries, an anthology, and a travelling museum exhibition that will launch at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Museum of Vancouver. The project team will train post-secondary students and professional journalists to perform this documentation work using trauma-informed, human-rights-based practices.
- As an Audio & Visual Narrative Producer and a Masters of Sustainability Studies Graduate Student at Trent University, you will be responsible for ensuring the ‘narrative packages’ our students and journalists co-create with survivors are ready for broadcast, publication, presentation, and archiving. This work will involve planning, implementing, and evaluating pre-production, production, and post-production activities.
- While the primary responsibility of this position will be the production of visual narrative packages, a scholarly publication associated with your academic studies (see the program options here) is a desired outcome at the end of your two-year tenure.
- Under the supervision of Dr. Neil Ever Osborne, and reporting to the Managing Editor of the From Catastrophe to Community project, the position will be responsible for:
- editing the testimonies in our visual narrative packages to a broadcast/publication/presentation standard;
- preparing visual narrative packages for broadcast/publication/presentation/archiving by our news media and cultural
partners; - coordinate photojournalists and videographers in making images with trainees and survivors;
- as required, co-create testimonies with trainees and survivors and engage in other field work; and
- support the publication of our newsletter for climate disaster survivors.
- The successful candidate will have:
- experience in producing and editing student or professional visual storytelling (i.e., audio and visual software
experience is mandatory); - experience with oral history or testimony journalism practices;
- experience in teaching or mentoring youths and/or students;
- experience working with and/or supporting trauma-affected people; and
- demonstrated excellence in practicing trauma-informed journalism, and more specifically, visual storytelling.
- experience in producing and editing student or professional visual storytelling (i.e., audio and visual software
- Read more details about the position, including funding support, here.
- Interested candidates should send their short statement of interest to Dr. Neil Ever Osborne via email at neilosborne@trentu.ca. Please also include an updated resume/CV and highlight any visual storytelling and scholarly work you have performed and/or
published via a link.
