Virtual Attendance RSVP extended to December 6, 2024

DECEMBER 12, 2024 9:30AM – 4:00PM 200 EDUCATION BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA Early Career Researcher Day, offered Research Manitoba, along with post-secondary partners brings emerging researchers together with experienced grant writers and funding experts to interactively explore the entire research lifecycle. Through info sessions, panels and practical workshops, participants will cover a wide range of topics that span the research lifecycle, including funder mandates and priorities knowledge mobilization, equity, diversity and inclusion, and data management planning. ECRs will share their research with others and jointly develop original research project ideas in order to engage with the entire research lifecycle. This event is a unique opportunity to:

• Learn first-hand about funder mandates and priorities from those who work with them or represent them directly.
• Create new partnerships between early career researchers in Manitoba.
• Learn tips to write a grant application that is not just a good idea, but also conveys feasibility and competence.
• Learn more about emerging issues in the research world

This event is aimed at Early Career Researchers, but anyone interested is welcome to attend. For those whose schedules don’t permit a full day, please feel free to RSVP to the morning or the afternoon session. For more information about this event, please email Freyja Arnason at freyja.arnason@researchmb.ca

Preliminary Agenda:

Morning Program

 9:30 – 10:00AM – Coffee and Networking

10:00 – 10:15 AM – Introduction & Welcome

10:15 – 10:45 AM (20min panel, 10 min Q&A) – Panel: Funders and Funding Opportunities 

10:45 – 11:25 AM – Interactive Workshop: Solving Big Problems Together

In this workshop, participants at each table will:

• Share research interests and identify where research might overlap.
• Identify a project that participants at the table could work on together and apply for money to fund.
• Identify partners and the resources their new team has available to them to complement the funding that is being requested.

11:25 – 11:40 AM – Health Break

Refreshments provided for in-person attendees.

11:40 – 12:10 PM (20min panel, 10 min Q&A) – Panel: Navigating Institutional Support for Early Career Researchers

12:10 – 12:40 PM  (20min panel, 10 min Q&A) – Panel: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Research

12:40 – 1:30 PM – Lunch Break

Afternoon Program

1:30 – 2:00 PM  (20min panel, 10 min Q&A) – Panel: Research Data Management, Open Science and Data Sharing

2:00 – 2:30 PM (20min panel, 10 min Q&A) – Break Out Session 1:

1. Science and research communication
2. Industry Partnerships 101

2:30-2:45 Health Break

2:45 – 3:15 PM  (20min Speakers , 10 min Q&A) – Break Out Session 2:

3. AI in Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations
4. Collaborating with Indigenous Peoples: Research in a Good Way

3:15 – 3:55 PM – Workshop – Solving Big Problems Together: Part 2

Participants will rejoin their tables from earlier in the day and will be asked to think about their project idea. Group facilitators will assist groups to think about KM/KT and EDI in their projects.

3:55 – 4:05 PM – Closing Remarks and door prize

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Note: This event will be delivered in a hybrid format. Links to the virtual platform will be shared with registered participants ahead of the event.