{"id":904,"date":"2015-09-11T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T10:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=904"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:01","slug":"graduate-student-informationbrainstorming-pizza-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2015\/graduate-student-informationbrainstorming-pizza-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate student information\/brainstorming pizza lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Graduate student information\/brainstorming pizza lunch\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Migration and Diaspora Studies initiative at Carleton organized a graduate student information\/brainstorming lunch on Thursday 17 September 2015. Members of the MDS steering committee joined the open conversation. Following is a summary of ideas\/future projects that were discussed (in no particular order):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a <b>WordPress blog<\/b>, where graduate students could perhaps rotate posting thoughts on research and current affairs connecting that student&#8217;s work and MDS. It could facilitate intellectual community building by offering something for the broader MDS community to engage with in comments on the blog, and sharing\/disseminating through various social media.<\/li>\n<li><b>Informal gatherings <\/b>aimed at introducing MDS to broader graduate student research community. Could take the form of monthly meet ups at Mike&#8217;s for a pint, or perhaps done as a fundraiser for a worthy MDS-related cause in the community.<\/li>\n<li><b>MDS-themed Human Library project<\/b>. Could take the form of plugging into the Carleton Human Library project, or we could start our own. The basic premise being that a person is &#8220;checked out&#8221; like a library book for a short conversation, as a way of spreading the word.<\/li>\n<li>Formal establishment of an <b>MDS Student Society<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Peer Mentorship connections,<\/b> between junior grad students and senior grad students, as well as grad students and undergraduate students.<\/li>\n<li>Possibility of students going into <b>High Schools<\/b> to talk about the MDS stream of BGInS<\/li>\n<li>Possible connections with other relevant organizations on the Carleton and UOttawa campuses, notable <b>World University Services Canada (WUSC), Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL), Ontario Public Interest Research Group?<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Technical Professional Development Workshops<\/b> &#8211; these could take the form of\n<ul>\n<li>clear, jargon free interdisciplinary grant writing aimed at SSHRC, OGS.<\/li>\n<li>writing for journalism, with a view to publishing Op Eds and magazine articles<\/li>\n<li>featuring Carleton alumni working &#8220;in the field&#8221; that might want to find ways of staying connected to the research community and providing valuable professional insights and networking opportunities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The meeting also encouraged students to stay in touch via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Mds-Carleton\/100008398576779\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MDSCarleton\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> , subscribe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/mds-list-subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\">MDS listserv<\/a> , and build their <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/people1\/graduate-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">MDS student profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Migration and Diaspora Studies initiative at Carleton organized a graduate student information\/brainstorming lunch on Thursday 17 September 2015. Members of the MDS steering committee joined the open conversation. Following is a summary of ideas\/future projects that were discussed (in no particular order): Creating a WordPress blog, where graduate students could perhaps rotate posting thoughts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}