TheGraduate@Carleton

November 27, 2025 Edition

nighttime views between residence buildings

Graduate Student News

Thank Your Favourite Professor!
Nominations are open for our annual Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards! We'd love to hear about how a professor has impacted your experience at Carleton and how valuable mentors can be! Click here to review the FAQ section and get more information about the awards. Nominations are open until Jan. 8, 2026. Click here to submit a nomination.

Institutional Impartiality Policy Update
Carleton received useful feedback from the community at multiple campus venues and through an open online forum and greatly appreciates the community’s engagement with the process and the valuable input and insights that were provided. As a result of the consultations, the policy has undergone significant and important changes to clearly convey its original intent and to address what was heard. An amended policy draft can be found here and will be presented to the Board of Governors for consideration.

Student Winter Parking Permits Available Dec. 1
Student winter parking permits (January-April 2026) will be available for purchase starting Monday, Dec. 1 at 10 a.m. There are a limited number of permits available for specific circumstances, including students with U-Pass waivers, student athletes, student employees and others. A general waitlist will be established for those students not meeting the listed criteria and permits will be issued based on availability on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information on the process to obtain student parking permits, please visit the Parking Services website.

Indigenous Winter Market Today
The Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement invites you to the seventh annual Indigenous Winter Market on Nov. 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Nideyinàn Atrium. Celebrate community and culture by supporting Métis, Inuit and First Nations artists showcasing jewelry, beadwork and crafts.

Diploma Pickup for our Fall Graduates
Congratulations to our graduate students who have successfully completed their degrees this fall! Diplomas are available to pick up at our office at Graduate Studies which is on the fifth floor of the Tory Building (512) between the hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Diplomas will be held until Nov. 28. Formal presentation of degrees and certificates awarded in the Fall will be made in June 2026. Graduates will be notified by email to their Carleton email address of all the pertinent convocation ceremony details in mid-May.

Share Your Feedback on the Draft AI Framework
Carleton is seeking input on its draft AI Framework. The framework provides guidance on the use of AI at Carleton. All members of the Carleton community are encouraged to review the framework and provide feedback here.

If you have any questions, please email: thegraduate@carleton.ca.
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poster for National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

Upcoming Deadlines

For the complete list of dates and deadlines, please bookmark and refer to the Registrar's Office Academic Dates page.

Nov. 28
Last day for graduate students to submit their supervisor-approved thesis in examinable form to the department if defending their thesis this term and applying for Winter graduation.

Nov. 30
Deadline for students to apply for Winter (February) graduation. Apply for graduation in Carleton Central. (Carleton University cannot guarantee approval of Winter 2026 graduation applications submitted after the Nov. 30 deadline. A non-refundable fee of $60.00 will apply to all late applications.)

Dec. 5

Fall term ends.
Last day of full fall and late fall term classes.
Classes follow a Monday schedule.
Last day for take home examinations to be assigned.
Last day to pay any remaining fall tuition fees to avoid a hold on access to marks through Carleton Central and the release of transcripts and other official documents.

Dec. 6-7
No classes or examinations take place.

Dec. 8-20
Final examinations in full fall and late fall term courses and mid-term examinations in fall/winter courses will be held.

TA Pedagogical Training Hub:
Training Modules Close Nov. 28

A reminder that Teaching Assistants (TAs) have until the end of this month to complete your TA Pedagogical training if you wish to get paid for it. Please make sure to complete the training module (pass the post-workshop quiz) before Friday, Nov. 28 at noon. At that time, the modules will close for this term, and they will reopen on Jan. 7. If you need a refresher on how the pedagogical training is organized and when you get paid for it, please revisit module 1: TA Basics. Click here for more info on the TA Pedagogical Training Hub.

For questions, please email: TASupport@carleton.ca.

**Registration for Preparing to Teach Certificate is Open**

Registration for the Winter 2026 cohort of TLS’s Preparing to Teach (PTT) certificate is open to upper-year doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows with little or no experience designing and teaching a course of their own. The Winter 2026 cohort meets on Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., starting on Jan. 14 and ending on March 25.

Registration for the program closes Dec. 15.

Awards Information

Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Master's Program
Tri-Council Agency applications for master's students are due Dec. 1.

Graduate Students' Association

The Grants and Awards applications are open until the deadline on Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. EST. More information is on our website under the student services tab.

Immigration Advising at the GO-ISSO

International students! Do you know:

When you should apply to renew your study permit and what documents you should include?
How much work you can do in Canada, when and where?
That changes to your registration or academic status can affect your ability to stay in Canada to complete your studies and afterward?

And did you know that you can discuss these and other immigration questions with the licenced advisers at Carleton's Global Opportunities & International Student Services Office (GO-ISSO)? We have the knowledge and are authorized by Canadian law to provide immigration guidance to students.

Check out our website for information and our online learning resources (application guides, etc.). We are here to answer your questions at any time. Email us at isso@carleton.ca.

Call for Papers for the Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium

Join us Feb. 26 to 27, 2026 at Carleton for the 32nd Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, presented by Carleton’s Department of History. This year’s theme is, Reimagining Community | Doing History Together.

We welcome work that may not fit the conventional “paper presentation,” such as posters, roundtable discussions and workshops. Paper presentations should be about 15 minutes, and any other format up to 60 minutes. If you are unsure if your idea if suitable, please contact us at underhillcolloquium@cunet.carleton.ca.

Applications will be accepted using this Google Form link. Please prepare a short abstract between 250 to 300 words of your presentation, along with a biographical statement (max. 300 words). Although this conference will primarily be held in-person, we will consider a limited number of hybrid or virtual presentations. Deadline is midnight Dec. 19.

Call for Artist/Graphic Designer
The planning committee for the 2026 Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium is seeking a Carleton-based artist or graphic designer to create the visual identity for our upcoming conference, taking place in February. This includes designing the event logo, promotional materials, and merch. Email: underhillcolloquium@cunet.carleton.ca for details. Deadline to apply is Dec. 5.

Poster for upcoming music concert series

Research Poster Competition and Display

The 2026 Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention (OFVC) is extending a call for posters for the regular and student competition poster sessions.

To submit a poster in either session, please complete the online application form before Jan. 25, 2026 by 11:59 p.m.

When: Feb. 18 to 19, 2026
Where: Niagara Falls Convention Centre, Niagara Falls, ON

More Information Here

Mitacs Globalink Research Award Information Session

Carleton International invites grad students in any discipline to join an information session on the Mitacs Globalink Research Award - a funding program to complete a research project at an institution abroad.

Join us today Nov. 27, at 1 p.m. online using Zoom.

More information on the Mitacs award is available here, or contact Sylvie Jasen at mobility.programs@carleton.ca.

Carleton’s Joshua Steckley Receives SSHRC Impact Talent Award for Research on Worms, Cows and Capital

Carleton University researcher, Joshua Steckley, has been awarded the 2025 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact Talent Award, one of Canada’s highest honours for emerging scholars in the social sciences and humanities.

The award recognizes a current SSHRC doctoral or postdoctoral fellow who demonstrates exceptional research, knowledge mobilization and scholarly impact.

Steckley, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science, explores how humans use, manage and profit from living things, such as worms and livestock, and how those practices affect both society and the environment.

From Ontario’s bait worm industry to large-scale dairy farming, his research illuminates the often-overlooked relationships between business, biotechnology and agricultural livelihoods, and the contradictions and possibilities within these systems.

This recognition marks Carleton’s second SSHRC Impact Talent Award, highlighting the university’s reputation in attracting exceptional scholars and increasing research strength.

“Receiving this award is an incredible honour,” says Steckley. “It recognizes the work that I care about. It allows me to continue researching, writing and talking to people so that I can keep doing work that excites me.”

Read the Entire Article Here

Inaugural Kanta Marwah Lecture

On Dec. 5 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in 2220, Richcraft Hall, Prof. Margarida Duarte (University of Toronto) will present Aggregate Employment and the Rise of Services across Time and Countries. Duarte is a macroeconomist whose current research studies the process of structural transformation, the reallocation of resources across broad sectors of the economy, over time and across countries.

Click here to register.

Philosophy Colloquium: Phenomenology of Life and the Question of God

The Department of Philosophy’s next colloquium is taking place on Friday, Nov. 28 from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. in RB 3110. Prof. Karl Hefty will be presenting Phenomenology of Life and the Question of God: What Does One Mean for the Other?

Visit the Philosophy website to learn more.

Poster for Canada China Scholar Exchange Program