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Join a free, annual science festival for Southeastern Ontario families hosted by ³ÉÈË´óƬ Vice-Principal Research Portfolio.

Faculty members, staff and students, together with community partners, will provide our visitors with hands-on demonstrations, awe-inspiring exhibits and fun experiments to inspire the next generation. Don't miss the Chemistry Magic Show and other stage shows! If your family prefers to explore activities in a quieter environment, make sure to visit the Sensory Friendly Science Zone.

This year's theme will be WONDER, and we'll have booths featuring topics ranging from wildlife conservation to robotics and neuroscience. Join us on May 10, 2025, at the Slush Puppie Place and on The Tragically Hip Way.

Visit the Science Rendezvous Kingston page to learn more

Maximizing Article Reach and Citation Rate

Limited to 12 participants each, these intensive three-hour sessions will review and reinforce discipline-specific rhetorical techniques conducive to overall writing effectiveness and to optimal article impact and citation rates.

Schedule

• Tuesday, May 6, 9 am - 12 pm: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Impact
• Wednesday, May 7, 9 am - 12 pm: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Impact
• Wednesday, May 7, 1 - 4 pm: Law Research Impact
• Thursday, May 8, 9 am - 12 pm: Life and Health Sciences Research Impact
• Thursday, May 8, 1 pm - 4 pm: Business Research Impact

Participants are asked to provide a copy of an article in progress by April 12, including a bibliography or works cited page. Please submit your file when completing the registration form.

We have reached capacity for these sessions. Registration is now closed.

Remembering the Reader: Creating Higher Value in Academic Writing

Clarity in academic writing is good; concision is good; logical organization is good. But none of these matter if your writing is not seen by readers to be valuable to them. Commonly it’s thought that value is a matter not of writing but of content; make the writing clear and logical, and value will take care of itself. In fact, successful academic texts—including successful grant applications—rely on a host of writing techniques specific to value, and not just communicating value, but also creating it.

In this three-hour workshop (9 am to 12:15 pm) Larry McEnerney will lead participants through essential techniques for creating value. Following lunch, participants are invited to return to the workshop room from 1 pm to 4 pm for silent writing time.

Research Project Advisors will also be available for one-on-one or small-group consultations in twenty-minute blocks.

Registration for this session is now closed as all available spots have been filled. If you would like to be added to a waitlist, please email Heather Brain.

Finding suitable storage solutions for your research data

Strong research data management (RDM) practices are required by funding agencies worldwide. In Canada, following the   launch in 2021, researchers are increasingly being asked to develop data management plans as part of grant applications and to deposit data that directly supports research conclusions into a repository.   

A team from the Centre for Advanced Computing, IT Services, the Library, and the Vice-Principal Research worked together to develop a Research Data Storage Finder tool designed to help researchers identify and assess storage options and services based on their specific data needs.

This session will walk you through:

• Identifying available research data storage options for active, backup, and long-term storage
• Best practices in research data management-related to funder compliance requirements, as well as ethical, legal and commercial obligations
• Queen’s-based resources to support research data storage needs