Academic Skills Formatting Workshop
Hosted by Academic Skills
Date: July 7
Time: 10:00-11:30am
Where: In-Person BL 411 & Zoom
Registration: https://ccr.trentu.ca/entity-redirect.htm?eventId=4826

Ready to make your thesis or manuscript look polished and professional? Join us for Find Joy in Formatting, a beginner’s guide to Microsoft Office (Word & Excel) essentials such as: auto-generating tables of contents, numberings pages (in roman numerals & numbers), inserting aesthetically appealing graphs and tables, and more!

Participants are encouraged to bring their own draft or follow along with an example we provide.

Research Project Management for Graduate Students and Postdocs
Hosted by The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS)
Date: September 29
Time: 1:00-2:30pm
Where: Microsoft Teams
Cost: $15.00 CAD (no tax)
Register here!

Back by popular demand, CAGS is pleased to offer a second running of the workshop for graduate students, postdocs, and early career researchers to develop their research project management skills and advance the progress of their thesis or dissertation.

This 90-minute webinar, developed by Dr. P. Alison Paprica, PhD, PMP, explains how to use three one-page project management tools to plan and manage research:

1. The work breakdown structure (WBS): a one-page tool to establish a common high-level understanding of research scope expressed in terms of deliverables.
2. The deliverable-based Gantt chart: a one-page tool to describe when and how the deliverables of the research will come together.
3. The deliverable-based tracking sheet: a one-page tool to identify emerging risks and drive progress at a more granular level during the implementation phase of the research.

Tickets will be sold for $15.00 CAD (no tax), and will include participation in the 90-minute training session, all associated materials, and an official certificate of completion. CAGS is a registered charity, and all ticket proceeds will go towards covering the costs of the workshop series.

Tickets are available to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other interested parties from CAGS member institutions, and will be sold until the capacity of the workshop has been reached.

Ontario Graduate Scholarships and Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology
Ontario Graduate Scholarship Application Overview Slide Deck
Ontario Graduate Scholarship - Outline of Proposed Research for Master's Students Slide Deck
Ontario Graduate Scholarship - Outline of Proposed Research for Doctoral Students Slide Deck
Ontario Graduate Scholarship - Letters of Reference & Special Circumstances Slide Deck

Both Doctoral & Master's
Overview of Graduate Scholarships Slide Deck
Tri-Council Selection Criteria - Detailed Explanation
Faculty Guide: Writing Letters of Recommendation for Scholarship Applications Slide Deck

Doctoral
Doctoral Graduate Program Presentations (Fall 2025) Slide Deck
Canada Graduate Research Scholarships - Doctoral Program Slide Deck
Outline of Proposed Research Slide Deck
Letters of Reference & Special Circumstances Slide Deck

Master's
Canada Graduate Research Scholarships - Master's Program Slide Deck
Canada Graduate Research Scholarships - Outline of Proposed Research Slide Deck

The Tri-Council agencies include the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). These are federal granting agencies that support research, research training and innovation in Canadian postsecondary institutions.

The following resources are useful when applying for scholarships from any of the Tri-Council agencies:

Selecting the Appropriate Federal Granting Agency
Guidelines on the Assessment of Contributions to Research, Training and Mentoring
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
Guide for Applicants: Considering Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Your Application
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (Multiple)
How to Integrate Sex and Gender into Research
Gendered Innovations
Guidelines for the Merit Review of Indigenous Research
Health Research Training at CIHR
Training Resources (“Career Hub”)

Careerspace offers assistance for creating CVs and resumes. 

Careerspace also offers valuable learning tools and opportunities to gain practical, hands-on experience to prepare students for life after Trent.

Academic Skills works closely with graduate students to help them develop as scholars and writers as well as teaching assistants. We hope that you will take advantage of the many services that we can offer you.