Lately, I have been thinking a lot about mentors and mentoring. Several unrelated events have conspired to keep the subject relatively prominent in my thinking stack for some time, and I started drafting this just around Thanksgiving time but I did not make it on time. But it has simmered enough, and I have now [...]
This past week I had a very interesting discussion with a couple of colleagues on Facebook, of all places! Seeing you shrug in my mind’s eye, thinking “interesting discussion on Facebook… pleaease…“, let me just state for the record that 3055 words were exchanged among the 3-4 of us over the course of two days! [...]
I have recently had to revise/update my CCV (Canadian Common CV) for a proposal, where I had to identify the most important contributions of my research. I was also invited to participate to a workshop, for which I decided to pull together the work in four related projects into a common story. Finally I was [...]
Yesterday I had the pleasure to attend a round-table discussion with and a public lecture by Preston Manning, who is now President of the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. The general subject of the discussion was interdisciplinary research and science communication with politicians and the public. The title of his presentation to the round-table think-tank [...]
