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2025 Winter Graduate Booster 2

Posted on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 at 11:20am by Jonny Wood
2025 Winter Graduate Booster 2: Tips and tricks for conference poster design and accompanying data visualizations

2025 Winter Graduate Booster 2: Tips and tricks for conference poster design and accompanying data visualizations

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

From easthetics to software, come and learn our tips and tricks for conference and academic poster design and accompanying data visualizations.

  • Mario Tiozzo, Data Visualization Librarian
  • Jonny Wood, UNB Libraries Graphic Designer

Please note the original date for this event was February 13th, but due to inclement weather it will now take place on Wednesday February 19th, 3-4pm online and in person in the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons Innovation Hub (316).

Walk-ins are welcome.  Email mbragdon@unb.ca if you wish to register for the online Teams link.  Refreshments will be served.

Love Data Week 2025: Whose Data is it Anyway?

Posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at 10:14am by Jonny Wood
Love Data Week 2025: Whose Data is it Anyway?

UNB Libraries is celebrating Love Data Week 2025 with two events highlighting data-focused research and resources at UNB!

These sessions will be of particular interest to graduate students and early career researchers, but all are welcome, and registration is not required.

50 Ways to Love your Data

Tuesday Feb 11, 2025. 14:00 – 15:00
Innovation Hub, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library

Join Dr. Barry Blight (Chemistry), Dr. Donna Curtis Maillet (NB Institute for Research Data and Training) and Dr. Willis Monroe (Historical Studies), along with moderator Siobhan Hanratty (UNB Libraries) for a panel discussion of issues in research data management across disciplines. We'll consider data management planning, working with private or sensitive data, sharing data, using or re-using existing data, and more.

From Planning to Preservation: Good RDM Practice and Resources

Thursday Feb 13, 2025. 14:00 – 15:00
Event Space, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library

If you're beginning a new research project or planning your thesis or dissertation, the best time to start thinking about research data management (RDM) is now!

Siobhan Hanratty and James MacKenzie (UNB Libraries) will lead a brief introduction to good RDM practice, including resources and approaches to planning, organizing, describing, storing, and sharing your research data. These fundamentals will help you to make informed decisions on how to handle your research data during and after your research project.

Academic Publishing Workshop Series

Posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at 8:16am by Jonny Wood
Academic Publishing Workshop Series

UNB Libraries, in partnership with the School of Graduate Studies, is thrilled to introduce our Academic Publishing Workshop Series, a program running for the duration of February featuring panel conversations with UNB researchers and workshops from library experts covering a range of topics, including: metrics, academic integrity, open access, research data management, scholar profiles, knowledge mobilization, and a number of other topics.

We will answer questions such as:

  • How does publishing work?
  • How are academic journals run?
  • What is open access?
  • What’s peer review all about?
  • Why should I care about research data management?
  • What counts as research data?
  • Which metrics are useful?

Themes

Week 1: Research Data Management

Week 2: Academic Integrity

Week 3: Knowledge Mobilization, Publishing, and Research Dissemination

Where

  • UNB Libraries Research Commons
  • UNBSJ Hans W. Klohn Commons
  • Online

When

Week 1
Panel 1 - Research Data Management

Feb 11th, 2pm–3:30pm
Innovation Hub, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Session 1 - Research Data Management

Feb 13th, 2pm–3:30pm
Event Space, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Week 2
Panel 2 - Academic Integrity

Feb 18th, 1pm–2:30pm
Event Space, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Session 2 - Academic Integrity

Feb 20th, 2pm–3:30pm
Innovation Hub, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Week 3
Session 3 - Knowledge Mobilization and Diverse Methods of Research Dissemination

Feb 26th, 2pm–3pm
HWK 126, Hans W. Klohn Library, Saint John

Panel 3 - Knowledge Mobilization and Diverse Methods of Research Dissemination

Feb 27th, 2pm–3pm
Conference Room, Hans W. Klohn Library, Saint John

Session 4 - Academic Publishing

Feb 28th, 2pm–3pm
Active Learning Lab, Research Commons, Harriet Irving Library, Fredericton

Audience

  • Graduate students
  • Early-career researchers
  • Anyone interested in learning more about research dissemination.
Full program details available here

Images of Research 2025

Posted on Tuesday, February 04th, 2025 at 1:52pm by Jonny Wood
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

Posted on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 at 11:09am by Jonny Wood
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.
Useful links:
Images of Research
3 Minute Thesis (3MT)
Speakeasy Challenge
To register for Speakeasy and choose form dates

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

Posted on Monday, November 18th, 2024 at 1:49pm by Jonny Wood
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
Useful links:
The Blight Chemistry Research Group
Open Scholarship and Publishing Support
Research Data Management @ UNB Libraries
This event took place November 21st at the Harriet Irving Library Research Commons.