The GRAND network actively pursues opportunities for students and postdocs to participate in policy-making initiatives, workshops, doctoral symposia and other events where they would both add value and receive benefit.
Often multi-disciplinary in nature, these interactive meetings provide a forum where GRAND students can explore, develop and enrich their research interests in an interdisciplinary environment, under the guidance of distinguished researchers.
These opportunities are promoted to the GRAND network as they come available.
Two examples of previous initiatives include:
The Summer Social Webshop (@Webshop2011) was a 4-day interdisciplinary workshop organized by leading researchers for graduate students studying social-networking tools, blogs and microblogs, user-generated content sites, discussion groups, problem reporting, recommendation systems, and other social media.
Read what GRAND participants had to say about their experience.
Four GRAND PhD students from across Canada were awarded the opportunity to participate in a Doctoral Symposium on Social-Computational Systems. The symposium, limited to 40 American and Canadian students, provided a forum where Ph.D. students met and discussed their work in social computing with each other and with a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners.
Click here to read blog-style reviews written by the GRAND delegates who attended the symposium.
