By Natalie Samson. Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council is spearheading a project to streamline the path to international research funding. The Trans-Atlantic Platform is a consortium of 17 funding agencies from 12 countries, backed by the European Commission and co-led by SSHRC and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Its mission is to facilitate international research collaboration by simplifying the way researchers secure funding both here and abroad. More...

By Marie Lambert-Chan. To address the affordable housing shortage, a private organization has undertaken to build a student housing cooperative. More...

By Léo Charbonneau. A group of professional tree-climbers dedicated to saving British Columbia’s biggest trees last year scaled Big Lonely Doug to measure its height. This coastal Douglas fir is so-named because it stands alone in a clear-cut near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. More...

By Martha Crago. The kind of skills that doctoral students will need for their careers is a topic that has been garnering considerable attention of late. With new data suggesting that only 20 percent of Canada’s PhD graduates will find tenure-track jobs in academia (forthcoming from the Conference Board of Canada), this issue is worthy of considerable attention by graduate students, professors and university administrators. More...

By Julie Cafley. “Turfed,” “let go abruptly,” “resigned” or “quit” – the language may change but the scenario itself is discouragingly frequent. In the past decade alone, at least 18 Canadian university presidents have had their first mandates cut short. This is costly and unfortunate for all concerned. And my research suggests it’s largely avoidable. More...

By Debby Waldman. When I was hired to edit theses and dissertations for graduate students at the University of Alberta in August 2011, I was given strict orders: fix grammar, punctuation and syntax, and teach my clients to do the same. My job was not to rewrite. More...

By David Kent. The summer months are often a time for reflection and it is important for us all to take stock every now and then. For many of us, this means deciding whether or not to begin a new line of work, move residence, or to spend more time with family. More...