From January to April 2022, the City Institute will hold virtual professional training meetings for graduate and 4000-level undergraduate students who have great interest in urban studies. Once a fortnight CITY will hold writing sessions which will be monitored by a City Institute post-doctoral fellow who will provide writing tips and feedback. Every other fortnight a faculty member will give a talk on an aspect of professional training such as: writing a CV; writing abstracts & papers for publication; writing research proposals & grant applications; knowledge dissemination & engaging with social media; developing course proposals; applying for academic jobs; work paths outside academia; and job interviews.

Date	Topic	Speaker / Host
21 Jan	3-4:30 pm - Sit down and write!  (participants should bring their written work)	Dr. Nasya Razavi, CITY Post-Doc Fellow
28 Jan	3:00 pm - Writing a cover letters and CVs   4:00 pm - Developing a course proposal     5:00 pm - Writing papers & abstracts for publication	Prof. Amanda de Lisio, Health Prof. Syed Harris Ali, Sociology, LA&PS Prof. Shubhra Gururani, Anthropology, LA&PS
11 Feb	3-4:30: pm - Sit down and write!	Dr. Araby  Smyth, CITY Post-Doc Fellow
4 Mar	3:00听pm - Writing grant applications听听 4:00 pm -听Writing research proposals听听 5:00 pm听- Using KMb听and social media听in research dissemination听 听	Prof. Ranu Basu, EUC Prof. Stefan Kipfer, EUC Prof. Natasha Tusikov, Social Science, LA&PS
18 Mar	3-4:30 pm - Sit down and write!	Dr. Araby  Smyth, CITY Post-Doc Fellow
1 Apr	3:00 pm - Publishing in urban journals   4:00 pm - Applying for academic jobs   5:00 pm - Work paths outside academia	Prof. Linda Peake, EUC; CITY Director Prof. Luisa Sotomayor, EUC Prof. Zachary Spicer, SPPA

• Participants can attend to more than one 'Sit-Down and Write!' session. They are requested to bring their written work.
• Non-91亚色 students are welcome with limited slots.
• Registration is free and is on-going until March 31, 2022.

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For inquiries, please email city@yorku.ca.

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The event began with a morning session discussing the various external grants available to scholars who address the urban in research such as: foundation-based grants (Antipode Foundation, George Cedric Metcalf Foundation, McConnell Foundation, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, and the Urban Studies Foundation); journal-based grants (Geoforum, Antipode, Urban Studies, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research); government based grants (Global Challenges Research Fund Networking Grants, MITACS, Government of Canada: EcoAction Community Funding, Government of Canada: Low Carbon Economy Challenge, and SSHRC); and other bodies (Funders鈥� Network Partners for Places and the Atmospheric Fund). The following session featured an in-depth discussion about SSHRC Connections grants conducted by Professor Linda Peake (Director of the City Institute and Professor in the Department of Social Science, LA&PS). The closing session, which was chaired by Kim McIntyre (Post Doctoral Services Coordinator, Office of the Dean, FGS, 91亚色), featured a conversation about post-doctoral fellowship opportunities. Among the grants discussed were the SSHRC and Banting post-doctoral grants.

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February 8, 2019听|听1-3pm听|749 Kaneff Tower

Please join us for听The City Institute鈥檚 Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group听in the Winter 2019 Term

Our reading group will be hosted by听Assistant Professor Sylvia Bawa听& Dr. Elsa Koleth听

Discussions will cover:

The politics of conducting feminist research

Conceptual challenges for feminist research

Approaches to decolonizing research

The practice of feminist urban research in the global south

To access the readings, please RSVP to听city@yorku.ca

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