Who do you want to speak at Spark’s Fall 2021 speaker series?

Spark's weekly research talks (Fridays at 10:30-11:20 am) are back in the fall with a new name - Spark Talks. Planning is already in the works for an academic year full of informative sessions by some of your favourite researchers. As always, we want to provide you with engaging content from people whose work or skills spark an interest!

Do you want to share your work?
      Great!  This is a supportive starting place for sharing your work across disciplines 

Maybe share your experience with a method, technology or research area?
      Yes, let's build our collective research toolkits and find others with the same interests

Expose others to someone whose work or career you admire?
      This is an easy initial engagement with Mac (and we pay stipends to external speakers)

Speakers can be anywhere in the world.  As our options for in-person meeting increase, we will make these hybrid online/off-line events. 

Imagining Canada’s Future Ideas Lab: Canada and the Circular Economy

In case you didn't see it, SSHRC is hosting a virtual, interactive and interdisciplinary research design workshop taking place over two weeks at the end of October 2021 for 30 researchers with work relevant to the circular economy.

This happens to be a research interest of our director, Allison Van.  If this "sparks" your interest too, please reach out.  We're happy to provide you with an update on what was discussed at the webinar, consider what a social science approach to building a circular economy might look like, and explore how we might collectively support that at Mac.

Connect with Spark at talk.to.spark@mcmaster.ca

Research guide - Qualitative Research at a Distance

With excitement for Spark Talks in the fall, we have been taking a (virtual) walk down memory lane to reflect on some of the great Spark Productivity During Pandemic presentations from this year.  This weekly social media campaign on Twitter happens every Friday @Spark_McMaster for the #SparkResearchReplay

In case you missed the first Spark Research Replay:

Research Conversations

Qualtrics Licences

Brighter Spark Applied Research

SHARCNET Summer School for Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

This annual education event is free for graduate/undergraduate students, postdocs and researchers engaged in compute-intensive research. They provide beginner- to- intermediate-level courses on a wide range of subjects, from traditional high-performance computing to data science, machine learning, popular language such as Python and Julia, as well as domain-specific courses.

Research Data Management - Online Summer Series

Strategies for Research Storage and Backup
Organized by: The Sherman Centre
Learn more and register here: https://libcal.mcmaster.ca/event/3604376
 

Big Data and Tech in Our Backyard Series

Big Tech, Monopolies and Imaging Alternatives with Matt Stroller and Ali Haberstroh Organized by: TPL and McMaster University’s Master of Public Policy in Digital Society Program
Learn more and save your spot for the session here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/tplstollerhaberstroh/register
 

The Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging (New Karl Kinanen Student Research Scholarship)