Continued learning /
workshops materials
Explore workshop recordings, readings and complementary resources to support continued learning and engagement with each training theme.
Professional Development
This interactive workshop explores how to break down long-term ambitions into manageable milestones, track progress, and align research, skills development and professional activities with future career paths.
This webinar is the first in a series of Career Talks and focuses on career options for research students outside of academia. Listen as Nathan Curry from The Transition Accelerator shares the skills that have carried him throughout his career.
In this keynote, Kathy Davies—Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design Lab—introduces key ideas from Stanford’s Designing Your Life approach, showing how design thinking can help research trainees shape meaningful academic and career paths.
Goal Setting Workbook
Each sheet focuses on a different area—career direction, skill-building, or tracking what energizes you. You don’t need to complete everything at once; start with what feels most relevant and build over time. Workshops will complement the workbook, offering space to ask questions, share concerns, and discuss your progress.
Partnerships
KAIROS Blanket Exercise Participant Package References
Curated for participants of the Blanket Exercise, this collection includes resources to learn more about the history of Indigenous people and Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities. It features films and articles on Indigenous resistance, and provides an introduction to pathways and protocols for collaborating with Indigenous communities.
Provided by: SANTELE’S HEALING CIRCLES
Foundations of Science Communication
On February 5, 2026, Prativa Baral, PhD – Epidemiologist and global health expert, and Jasmine Mah, MD, PhD – Physician and researcher in geriatric medicine, delivered a workshop on tailoring complex research data into clear, relevant, and impactful messages. This handout includes a communication framework they developed to guide researchers.
This clip discusses the different audiences researchers may engage with and why understanding your audience is key to effective science communication.
This clip explores the power of storytelling in communicating research and introduces two storytelling models researchers can use with different audiences.
This clip challenges common misconceptions about science communication and highlights why strong communication skills matter for researchers.
These three clips feature Prativa Baral, MPH, PhD, epidemiologist and global health consultant, and Jasmine Mah, MSc, PhD, physician and researcher. They are part of a longer session held on February 5, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal.
Decolonial Toolbox
Concordia University’s Office of Community Engagement, in collaboration with Indigenous-led organization Mikana and the Montreal Indigenous Community NETWORK, developed this self-guided course to help learners explore the historical and contemporary realities of Indigenous Peoples, understand the impacts of colonization and challenge colonialism in their everyday lives.
