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This Graduate Student Development Day offers graduate students (and
faculty members) the opportunity to discuss the importance of policy-relevant
research, to learn how to shape a policy-relevant research question, as
well as to gain insight into the potential uses offered by way of various
government data sets related to issues of immigration and diversity.
Producing policy-relevant research as well as diffusing research findings
to government and community representatives is becoming an increasingly
important dimension of the research process, yet it is a task for which
graduate programs rarely adequately prepare future researchers. In Part
I, the Graduate Student Development Day will feature a discussion with
representatives from various ministries and agencies of the federal government
on how research is used in evidenced-based policy making and on what kind
of research output formats are most useful to policy makers. Concrete
examples will be provided of how research is integrated into the policy
making process.
Governments are also engaged in the production of research tools and data
sets that can be used by researchers across the country. In Part II, the
Graduate Student Development Day offers presentations from government
representatives describing some of the various tools and data sets available
related to issues of immigration and diversity and demonstrating how to
access and use these data sets.
Those registered to attend this event are also invited to attend a complimentary
reception hosted by Elisabeth Gidengil of the Centre for the Study of
Democratic Citizenship at 5 pm following the conclusion of the seminar.
There is no extra cost to attend this session.
(In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Democratic
Citizenship)
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