Student Opportunities
Please find relevant calls for papers, student roles, conferences/events, and more below.
- Call for Applications: Stories in Storage
- Open to all Indigenous students
- An Indigenous media-making workshop taking place during Fall Reading Week (October 27 – 30, 2026)
- The deadline to apply is September 21, 2026
- For more information, visit: https://carleton.ca/filmstudies/2026/stories-in-stories-call-for-applications/.
- Alternative Assessment Practices for the Real World
- Alternative assessment practices have existed as long as higher education has been around. This event offers a high-level discussion of orientations and issues that come up when including alternative assessments in our classes, discussion groups for specific issues and interests that the Specifications Grading Community of Practice and the Alternative Assessment Community of Practice has surfaced over the last several years, and an introduction to a hands-on workbook for including low- or no-assessment writing exercises in classrooms.
- Open to graduate students (may be useful for those in TA or CI positions)
- Tuesday, September 29, 2026 1:00 – 4:00 PM
- Dunton Tower 2017 Carleton University Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
- Register here: https://tlscarleton.apprendo.io/marketplace/courses/9818#/
- Apply for 2026-2027 I-CUREUS and Students as Partners Programs
- Help provide Carleton students with the opportunity to participate in undergraduate research or to partner on course design. Applications for Teaching and Learning Services’ I-CUREUS and Students as Partners Program (SaPP) are now open for the 2026-2027 year.
- I-CUREUS: Provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to conduct paid research and gain hands-on experience in their discipline or an area of interest.
- SaPP: Offers instructors and learning support staff the opportunity to involve undergraduate students in teaching innovation and curriculum design through paid work experience.
- The deadline to apply for either program is September 30, 2026. If you have any questions, please reach out to tls@carleton.ca.
- The Unified Support Centre is holding an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) course on the weekends of October 17th & 18th, 2026 and November 21st & 22nd, 2026. Registration for both dates are now open! Courses are being offered at a reduced rate of $160 (tax included). Please complete the form on our website to sign up. Note, that participants are not considered registered until payment is received.
- We’re happy to announce that submissions are open for the 2027 UT Austin Graduate Philosophy Conference (February 19-20, 2027)! We welcome submissions on any philosophical topic. The submission deadline is November 16, 2026, at 5 PM CST. Our keynote speakers are Ralph Wedgwood (University of Southern California) and Catharine Saint-Croix (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities). You can find all the relevant information on the PhilEvents page: https://philevents.org/event/show/153125.