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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

Week 2

Week 3

Audience

• Graduate students
• Early-career researchers
• Anyone interested in learning more about research dissemination.

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!

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)

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 

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.

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.

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.

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.