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Images of Research 2025

Images of Research 2025

Struggling to explain what you are doing in grad school? What if you could show people instead?

Visual representations of research done in the field, in labs, in clinics, and in archives offer a window into the work of university researchers. We use data visualization of all kinds to quickly convey the essence of complex ideas and we do it across disciplines in presentations, posters, professional websites, or even in pitches to donors. Images help us reach out and connect to those inside and outside the university community.

The School of Graduate Studies and the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons are launching the third annual Images of Research challenge

Students are invited to enter a single still image: perhaps a snapshot, a collage, or an art piece.  It could be an image in its original form or modified in creative ways. Add a clever title and a thoughtful 200-word description. Show us what graduate research at UNB looks like!

There will be six winners chosen.

The first-place winners will receive $500, 2nd place $300, and 3rd place $200.
There will also be two honourable mentions and an audience's choice award - each receiving $150.

Challenge opens February 3rd and closes February 28th.

Submit your entry

2025 Winter Graduate Booster 1

Winter 2025 Graduate Booster Series - Recording now available

Winter 2025 Graduate Booster I: Knowledge Mobilization opportunities for graduate students @ UNB this term.

Step up your research. Introductory research sessions featuring UNB professors, librarians, & library professionals.


Come learn about Images of Research, the 3 Minute Thesis Competition, and the Speakeasy challenge, all taking place in winter term.

  • Dr. Sasha Mullally (Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies)
  • Dr. Matt Rogers (Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies)
  • Marc Bragdon (Head, HIL Research Commons)
This event took place January 23rd 3-4pm in person in the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons Innovation Hub (316) and online.

Fall 2024 Graduate Booster III: Publishing Trends and Disseminating Your Research

Graduate Booster 3 - Recording available
UNB LIBRARIES PRESENTS

Fall 2024 Graduate Booster III: Publishing Trends and Disseminating Your Research

Step up your research. Introductory research sessions featuring UNB professors, librarians, & library professionals.

Join Dr. Barry Blight, Faculty of Chemistry and Mike Nason, Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian for a structured chat about Dr. Blight's outlook on managing a lab, publishing research, sharing potentially proprietary research data, open access, and other topics related to sharing research. Topics will include:

  • from grant to publication, considerations on the lifecycle of scholarly work;
  • putting your best foot forward with modern publishing trends and requirements;
  • practical sharing of research data in publishing;
  • and possibly any number of irreverent, potentially-professional observations 
Speakers
This event took place November 21st at the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons.

Graduate Booster II: Artificial Intelligence in Research

Graduate Booster II: Artificial Intelligence in Research
UNB LIBRARIES PRESENTS

Fall 2024 Graduate Booster II: Artificial Intelligence in Research

Step up your research. Introductory research sessions featuring UNB professors, librarians, & library professionals.

Recording now available below

From building a Fichero to makeshift AI tools for a writer, with Dr. Daniel Tubb, Dept of Anthropology (Faculty of Arts).

Copyright and Ethical AI for Graduate Research, with Josh Dickison, UNB Libraries.

In this Talk, Dr. Tubb describes a project to build new tools for old documents using machine learning workflows with an endangered Afro-Colombian archive, as a starting point to make makeshift tools for a writer.

Fall 2024 Graduate Booster 1: The 10 things every graduate student needs to know

Recording now available
UNB LIBRARIES PRESENTS

Fall 2024 Graduate Booster 1: The 10 things every graduate student needs to know

Put your research on proper footing with these helpful introductory research sessions featuring UNB professors, librarians, and library professionals.

Recording now available below

Featuring Dr. Matt McGuire, Faculty of Education: The Ten things every graduate student needs to know.

And Marc Bragdon, Head of the Research Commons, discussing knowledge mobilization opportunities.

Dr. Matt McGuire is a recent PhD graduate who is now the McKenna Fellow in Digital Education and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education. He will present a captivating Top 10 list of valuable lessons learned during his time as a doctoral student at UNB. Drawing from his own personal experiences and reflective insights, McGuire offers practical tips, tools, and strategies to help prospective and current graduate students navigate their own academic paths. He shares some of the peaks and valleys of his own journey from teacher practitioner to intellectual researcher, reflecting on the paradoxical duelling duet of dichotomy and marriage that defines the graduate student experience.

Marc Bragdon is Head of the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons with responsibilities for supporting digital and maker pedagogies.  His research interests include the intersection of intercultural communication theory and online learning support, maker pedagogies in undergraduate instruction, and the knowledge mobilization of graduate and faculty research.  

Can I get an
APC Discount?

APC discount look-up tool now available at UNB Libraries

APC discount look-up tool now available at UNB Libraries.

UNB Libraries have partnered with CRKN and SciFree to provide UNB authors with a one-stop directory listing all publications that are eligible for a discounted article processing charge (APC). Simply enter the journal title under "Can I get an APC Discount?" on this page to see if UNB Libraries is participating in a license that covers APCs with that journal, and to what amount.


APC discount look-up tool

You can also learn what licensing options are available to you as an author.

For more information, please contact Joanne Smyth jsmyth@unb.ca