- Funding during graduate school: tips on how to find resourcesContributors: Kohle Merry, PhD Student Funding—a grad student’s best friend Personally, I did a previous master’s entirely funded by my supervisor. I was also fortunate enough to secure funding for my PhD prior to starting, so I’ve had experiences on both sides of the fence. Because funding is usually needed to facilitate… Read more: Funding during graduate school: tips on how to find resources
- A guide to course offerings outside the RHSC departmentContributors: Myrah Malik- MSc Student, Smruthi Ramachandran – MSc Student & Gordon Tao – PhD Student Throughout the graduate program, we have taken courses that helped review statistical methods, research designs/methods and provide context to our research proposal. We recommend discussing with your supervisor as they will have the best recommendation for courses! Here… Read more: A guide to course offerings outside the RHSC department
- Work-life balance during a pandemic: how current RSEC students are managing health, wellness and productivityContributors: Smruthi Ramachandran – MSc Student & Kohle Merry – PhD Student COVID-19 has been a challenge for everyone but trying to balance the demands of graduate school certainly creates its own unique difficulties. From students who have been in the rehabilitation sciences program for years, to those who have just recently started, it… Read more: Work-life balance during a pandemic: how current RSEC students are managing health, wellness and productivity
- Let’s talk mental health! – how we can better support ourselves and othersContributors: Kim Bennett – MSc Student & Cristina Rubino – PhD Student When it comes to mental health, grad school is time fraught with uncertainty and evaluations but also growth and triumphs. For a lot of us there will be profound life changes outside of school that are also related to shifts in emotions… Read more: Let’s talk mental health! – how we can better support ourselves and others
- Gender & Sexuality in Rehabilitation SciencesContributors: Holly Reid Introduction In recent years, health research has begun paying closer attention to the varied roles of sex and gender in shaping health conditions and determining quality of life. Historically, sex and gender were overlooked as important factors in understanding disease and health conditions as well as their treatment. Through the late… Read more: Gender & Sexuality in Rehabilitation Sciences