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#UWRW2023: Research Week 2023

Wed. Mar. 1 10:30 AM - Fri. Mar. 3 06:00 PM
Contact: r.keijzer@uwinnipeg.ca
Location: UW Main Campus


Objective: Make space for UW researchers to connect with each other, students, potential partners and funders.

Cost: This event is free and open to the whole UW community, members of the public, potential partners/funders

Wednesday, March 1

10:30-12:00

March 1

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall

Canada Research Chair Speaker Series: Students in Research

In this talk, Ryan Bullock and Nora Casson will reflect on their experiences, building blocks of a career in research, how to involve students in research, describing the opportunities and challenges they faced, and offer tips to students and faculty for building a meaningful and rewarding research career.

Nora Casson (Geography)

Dr. Casson is the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Influences on Water Quality and co-director of the Prairie Climate Centre. Her research focuses on the ways in which climate change impacts water quality of streams, lakes and wetlands.

Ryan Bullock (Environmental Studies and Sciences)

Dr. Ryan Bullock is the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Human-Environment Interactions, and Associate Professor in Environmental Studies and Sciences. He researches the human dimensions of environmental resources with a focus on how societies respond to social-ecological crises, conflicts, and change. This means understanding how different societal actors perceive, negotiate, and adapt to changes in order to devise collaborative solutions.

12:30-1:30

March 1

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3RC050

How to Meet Tri-Agency Data Requirements #2: Open Access and Winnspace

Presenter: Brianne Selman, Scholarly and Copyright Librarian

Description: This workshop is designed for researchers interested in learning more about and open access publication and Winnspace and will cover the following:

  • Open Access and Winnspace Guidelines
  • How to boost your citations
  • How to share your information in an equitable fashion

Host: Dylan Jones, Program Officer, UW Research Office

12:30-1:30

March 1

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall

Funder’s panel: How to be competitive in today’s funding environment

  • MITACS: Yvette Shang, senior advisor for Research and Innovation 
  • MMSF: Dr. Grant Pierce, Manitoba Medical Service Foundation Assistant Executive Director
  • NSERC: Frank Nolan, Senior Program Officer
  • SSHRC: Dina Guth: Manager, Research Grants Portfolio
  • Research Manitoba: Mikayla Hunter, Program Officer

Moderator: Lauren Bosc, Lead Program Officer, UW Research Office

1:30-2:30

March 1

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall

North Forge 101

Presenter: Joelle Foster, CEO, North Forge Technology Exchange, Co-Founder and General Partner, Women's Equity Lab (WEL) Manitoba

Description: North Forge is an incubator accelerator and a powerhouse entrepreneur community fueling Manitoba’s innovative science-based, technology-enabled, and advanced manufacturing startups. They curate resources to help entrepreneurs solve problems in real time and reduce the cost and risk of innovation. Joelle Foster, North Forge CEO, will walk participants through the innovation to market pipeline in Manitoba.

Host: Rachel Keijzer, Program Officer, UW Research Office

1:30-2:30

March 1

Escalators

Research Funders and Partners: Booths

Research Manitoba: Promotes, supports, and coordinates the funding of research excellence and innovation in health, natural and social sciences, engineering and the humanities in Manitoba.

UM Partnerships & Innovation: Works toward increasing the number of partnerships and moving inventions from research labs into practical applications that can be used around the world.

Manitoba Medical Service Foundation: Promotes and funds scientific, educational and other activities to improve the health and well-being of Manitobans, focusing on support of new researchers.

MITACS: Empowers Canadian innovation through effective partnerships that deliver solutions to our most pressing problems.

PrairiesCan: Diversifies the economy by supporting business, innovation and community economic development unique to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

SSHRC: The federal research funding agency that promotes and supports research and training in the humanities and social sciences.

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2:30-4:00

March 1

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall

Let's Talk About It: Podcasts as Knowledge Creation and Mobilization

Panelists:

Moderator:

Kent Davies, Adjunct Professor, Oral History Centre, podcast producer
UW Research Question Podcast

 

Thursday, March 2

10:00-11:15

March 2

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall

Freedom of Information Workshop

Presenter: Kevin Walby: Kevin Walby is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg. He is co-author of Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution (Routledge, 2022). He is co-editor of Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (BTL Press, 2022) and Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada (UBC Press, 2022). He is the Director of the Centre for Access to Information and Justice (CAIJ). He is co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.

Description: This workshop on investigative research techniques will explore how to use access to information (ATI) and freedom of information (FOI) requests in social science and humanities research. The workshop will address all aspects of how to create, submit, and interpret ATI and FOI requests and disclosures in Canada. The workshop will also address how to integrate use of ATI and FOI requests into broader social science research designs.

Host: Rachel Keijzer, Program Officer, UW Research Office

12:00-2:00

March 2

3C01

Engaging youth in STEM:

In this 2-hour interactive workshop from Let’s Talk Science, participants will explore the why, what & how of engaging youth in STEM topics.

  • Why is it important to talk to young people about STEM?
  • What are some of the best ways to engage youth (from elementary school-aged kids through to young adults) to make STEM appealing and accessible?
  • How should we approach misconceptions, misinformation, and complex topics in our discussions with youth?

Host: Theresa Mackey, Ethics Program Officer, UW Research Office, Let's Talk Science alumn

12:30-2:30

March 2

Main campus:

2nd floor  Centennial by the escalators

Departure at 12:30 and 1:30

Research Spaces and Places: A Tour

C-TAPE: Centre for Terrestrial and Planetary Exploration

GCS:German-Canadian Studies

MIRAMovement, Interaction, Resilience, Adaptation Lab

TerraByteMachine Learning in Agriculture

CRYTC:Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures

CRiCSCentre for Research in Cultural Studies

OHCOral History Centre

Physics

1:00-2:30

March 2

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall

Screening: What is EDI and How Can It Be Incorporated into Research Design?

Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Adams, Canada Research Chair in STEM and Creativity and Academic Director of EDI in Research and Black Futures Strategy, Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, University of Calgary

Description: This will be a screening of a presentation from Dr. Jennifer Adams which provides an overview of how equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, and decolonization (EDI/AR/D) are defined in the context of research design and practice. Then, Larissa Wodkte will facilitate a discussion of EDI in research.

Host: Larissa Wodtke, Program Officer, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Anti-Racism, and Decolonization and Research, UW Research Office

3:00-4:30

March 2

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall

Women in Science Panel 

Moderator: Tabitha Wood, Associate Dean of Science and Associate Professor, Chemistry

 

Friday, March 3

10:00-11:30

March 3

3C01

Mobility, Borders and Belonging: A Panel Discussion on Migration and Research

Panelists

  • Sarah Zell, Assistant Professor in Urban and Inner-City Studies, UW
  • Shauna Labman, Executive Director, Global College, Director of Human Rights Program (Acting), Associate Professor
  • Dennis Gupa, Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film, UW
Moderator: Ray Silvius, Associate Professor in Political Science, UW

11:30-1:00

March 3

3M61

The ABCs of Health Misinformation:

This 90-minute workshop will draw on the most current research and best practices of addressing health-based misinformation and developing health- and science-related media literacy skills. Based on MediaSmarts’ “Check First, Share After” campaign and related resources, this session will teach participants three key topics:

  • Avoiding data voids
  • Beyond fact-checking
  • Countering misinformation

Host: Drake Hechter: PhD student, exploring nutrition and its role in aging, longevity, and chronic disease. His work uses animal models to understand the mechanisms by which calorie restriction (CR) may alleviate the pathophysiology and behaviour associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

11:30-12:30

March 3

3M63

Panel Discussion: Experiences in Development Practice Practicums

Panelists:

  • Amber Balan, Masters in Development Practice Student

  • Sage Broomfield, Masters in Development Practice Student

  • Stacey Woods, Masters in Development Practice Student

Moderator: Ada Chukwudozie, Former Masters in Development Practice Student, Senior Advisor, Public Education and Outreach, Southern Chiefs' Organization

12:30-1:30

March 3

3M63

POST PONED

Not a File Type: Postdoctoral Fellowships at UW

Panelists:

  • Dr. Katherine Dearborn, Postdoctoral Fellow, UW Department of Environmental Studies & Sciences
  • Dr. Kirsten Van Houten, Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Rights at UW and Manitoba Association of Rights and Liberties

  •  Dr. Michael Beck, Former Postdoctoral Fellow, current faculty in Physics and Applied Computer Science at UW

Moderator: Dr. Doug Goltz, Dean of Science, Professor (Chemistry)

12:00-2:00

March 3

Escalators

The Next Generation of Researchers: Student Posters

University of Winnipeg- affiliated booths: UW programs, faculties, researchers, UW-affiliated centres

2:00-4:00

March 3

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall

3MT: 3-Minutes Thesis Competition

Host: Kent Suss, Budget, Programs, and Priorities Officer, Graduate Studies

4:00-5:30

March 3

1L13

Sport: Antiquity and Its Legacy
Presenter:
Peter J. Miller, Associate Professor and Chair of UW Classics

Sport saturates contemporary society and the global reach of sport and its intense popularity characterizes the modern world. But, at the same time, sport is one of the most ancient human pursuits. In the globalized sport of today, the type of athletic performance and the ideology of sport and its apparent origins are mostly derived from
the model of one pre-modern civilization: Greco-Roman antiquity. This talk examines one of the most important of the receptions of classical antiquity by examining how sports personalities, agencies, institutions and movements have consciously connected themselves to the Greco-Roman past, even as they continue to insist on their own
centrality in the modern world.

4:00-6:00

March 3

outside Eckhardt Gramatté Hall

Reception: all are welcome!

  • appetizers
  • cash bar