(6th Edition, April 02, 2013)
What’s New in this Edition…
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Urgent Items
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BSW General Assembly (Apr.3, 2013)
News from the School
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Reminder: Job Talk Series: Dr. Novotná & Dr. Kahn (Apr. 15 & 17, 2013)
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Your Evaluation Matters …Evaluate your Courses (Mar. 25 – Apr. 30, 2013)
News from the University
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Message from McGill Principal: Measures to Address Budget Challenges
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Message from Dean Manfredi: People, Processes, & Partnerships
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Interview with Katie Larson: SSMU President Elect
News from Student Societies & Groups
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Getting Students’ Voices Heard in the Hiring Process
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Petition to Aid NDG Food Depot's Search
Notices of Awards &Funding
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Creative Writing Prizes & Awards for Arts Students (Apr. 16, 2013)
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Reminder: Call for Applications - Wolfe Graduate Fellowships (Apr. 30, 2013)
Notices of Events
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Reminder: Arts Graduate Student Travel Award Information Session (Apr. 10, 2013)
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CRIPCAS: Public Lecture and Workshop (May 2-3, 2013)
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Council on Palliative Care: Upcoming Workshops & Public Lecture
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MAGentix.ca: Conference Series in Ottawa
Job/Volunteering Opportunities
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Students/jobs & Volunteering
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Urgent Items
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BSW General Assembly
On Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 at 2:30 pm in Wendy Patrick room, there will be a BSW
General Assembly. On the agenda is to approve the SWSA constitution. If you wish to add an
item to the agenda, please email communication.swsa@gmail.com. Otherwise, it is very
important to have student presence as decisions cannot be made without quorum being met.
News from the School
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Reminder: Job Talk Series: Dr. Novotná & Dr. Kahn
Please hold the following dates for Job Talks, which are expected to begin at 14h00 in Wendy
Patrick Room (#118). For the most up-to-date information about the Job Talk Series, please
visit the School’s website.
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Series #5: April 15th, 2013 – Dr. Novotná
In her talk entitled The Role of Lived Experience of Addiction and/or Recovery of
Professionals Working in their Practice-related Decision Making, Dr. Gabriela Novotná
will present the findings of her research on how the role of personal lived experience of
addiction and recovery affects the decision making of administrators working in
addiction agencies that serve women in Canada. Dr. Novotná received her PhD in Social
Work at the Wilfrid Laurier University in 2010 and is currently an Assistant Professor of
Addiction Counselling (non-tenure-stream) at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the
University of Lethbridge. Dr. Novotná’s research interests converge at the intersection of
practice in the field of addictions, translation of knowledge for evidence-informed
practice and institutional theory. For further details, please click on the flyer below.
Gabriela Novotna
Job Talk - April 15 2013.pdf
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Series #6: April 17th, 2013 – Dr. Kahn
In her talk entitled “Not this, not that”: The Experience of Muslims Seeking Asylum in
the United States on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender, Dr. Sarilee Kahn will
present results of a qualitative study focusing on the experience of 14 persons from
Islamic societies in Africa and the Middle East who gained asylum in the U.S. on the
basis of sexual orientation or gender. Dr. Kahn completed her PhD in 2012 at New York
University, following many years in clinical practice working with refugees and asylum
seekers. Dr. Kahn’s research interests cover such areas as refugees and asylees, crosscultural trauma and recovery, secondary trauma in humanitarian aid workers, and
international social work practice and program development, etc. For more information,
please click on the flyer below.
Sarilee Kahn Job Talk
- April 17 2013.pdf
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Your Evaluation Matters …Evaluate your Courses
Mercury online course evaluations are now available to students from March 25 to April 30,
2013 (Note: our School follows the extended evaluation period). As you may know, end-course
evaluations serve two main functions:
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They help instructors improve future offerings of courses;
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They inform students about courses and instructors.
You can complete your course evaluations at:
https://horizon.mcgill.ca/pban1/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin?ret_code=f.
Or alternatively, you can log into MINERVA where a pop-up window will appear prompting you
to fill out your evaluations. If no pop-up window appears, you can access the course
evaluations by:
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Selecting Student Menu
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Clicking on Mercury Online Course Evaluation Menu
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Then on Submit your course evaluations
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Problems with Minerva/Mercury? Contact: itsupport@mcgill.ca or call 514-398-3398
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News from the University
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Message from McGill Principal: Measures to Address Budget Challenges
Please click on the below icon for a message from McGill Principal on March 26, 2013 on
measures to address budget challenges. More information can also be obtained from the
frequently asked questions section at McGill page on Government Budget Cuts.
Measures to address
budget challenges.pdf
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Message from Dean Manfredi: People, Processes, & Partnerships
Please click on the below icon for a message from Dr. Manfredi, Dean of Faculty of Arts, on
Mar. 27, 2013 regarding the Project entitled People, Processes, and Partnerships, which enables
us to rethink both the organization and process of delivering administrative support services in
the Faculty of Arts since the potential Leacock space scenarios were posted for public reaction
in late February. A new series of FAQs, in response to the issues and concerns raised at the
Town Hall and via the web form, have been posted on the People, Processes, and Partnerships
website. You are encouraged to take a moment to read them and your comments and feedback
are most welcome.
Message from Dean
Manfredi.pdf
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Interview with Katie Larson: SSMU President Elect
Katie Larson was the big winner of the recent Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU)
elections, prevailing over Chris Bangs in the race for SSMU President. In all, voters selected six
new members of the SSMU executive for 2013-14. For more on the election results, read the
McGill Reporter: bit.ly/105Dt3g.
For more news about the McGill community, please check the McGill Reporter online.
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News from Student Societies & Groups
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Getting Students’ Voices Heard in the Hiring Process
The Academic/Student Affairs Committee of SWAGS is continuing its participation in the Staff
Selection Promotion Tenure Committee (SSPTC) in search of candidates for full-time tenuretrack teaching positions at the School of Social Work. In order to ensure that students’ voices
are considered in the hiring process, BSW, MSW, Q-Year, PhD, and Postdoctoral students are
invited to:
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Attend scheduled job-talks (please refer to the News from the School section
above), and complete a feedback form (to be distributed at the job-talk);
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Meet and greet with potential candidates following the job-talk and interview.
Petition to Aid NDG Food Depot's Search
The NDG Food Depot (NDG FD) was recently notified from the building owner that their lease
would no longer be renewed. With less than a few months remaining to find another location,
the NDG FD is asking the NDG counsellors and the mayor of Montreal to help out this important
service to the community. This could include providing them with a municipal building, helping
them secure a permanent building, or simply further aiding them in the process of finding a
new building. For more information, please click on the flyer below or go sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/city-of-montreal-act-now-the-ndg-food-depot-needs-anew-building
Petition.pdf
Notices of Awards &Funding
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Creative Writing Prizes & Awards for Arts Students
There are various creative writing prizes and awards open to both undergraduate and graduate
students in the Faculty of Arts. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, April 16, 2013. For
further information, please click on the flyer below.
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2013CreativeWriting
AAG.pdf
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Reminder: Call for Applications - Wolfe Graduate Fellowships
The Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy is pleased to announce a competition
for a limited number of Wolfe Graduate Fellowships (valued at 8,000 dollars) for McGill graduate
students in the Faculty of Arts whose thesis work reflects the themes of the chair. The Wolfe
Chair is seeking outstanding graduate students who will be writing their thesis or dissertation
during the 2013-2014 academic year (preference will be given to PhD students during their final
year of the program). The application deadline is April 30, 2013. For details, please click on
the flyer below.
Wolfe Graduate
Fellowships Call for Applications 2013-14.pdf
Notices of Events
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Reminder: Arts Graduate Student Travel Award Information Session
The Arts Graduate Student Travel Awards (Arts GST) are competitive awards designed to support
M.A. and PhD student travel to conduct research (archival research or field work) and to
disseminate research (conferences and talks). You can learn how to get travel funding at the Arts
GST Information Session on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 11:30am in ARTS 160. It is open to
all Arts graduate students. The next application deadline for the Arts GST is May 15, 2013. For
more details, please click on the flyer below or visit http://www.mcgill.ca/arts/awards.
Poster_GST info
session_2013.pdf
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CRIPCAS: Public Lecture and Workshop
CRIPCAS (Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et les agressions
sexuelles) at the University of Montreal presents a public lecture entitled Chronic illness and
sexuality: some light in the darkness, on Thursday, May 2, 2013 and a workshop entitled
Sexuality in clinical practice : silence is silver, speaking is gold on Friday, May 3, 2013. Due
to the interactive nature of the workshop, the total number of the participants will be limited to
50. You are requested to register online at http://doodle.com/8h5nx8yt6thc7qtx by Friday,
April 26, 2013. For further information, please click on the flyer below.
CRIPCAS public
lecture and workshop.pdf
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Council on Palliative Care: Upcoming Workshops and Public Lecture
The Council on Palliative Care (CPC) presents three free workshops on consecutive Tuesdays in
the month of April 2013 and a free public lecture in its series entitled “Lessons in Living from
the Dying” on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 5:30 pm in Leacock Bldg., Room 132. For more
information, please click on the flyer below, visit CPC’s website or follow CPC on Facebook at
on.fb.me/16eYjB0.
Council on Palliative
Care.pdf
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MAGentix.ca: Conference Series in Ottawa
MAGentix.ca presents its upcoming conference series in Ottawa as below:
o April 25 & 26, 2013, Unstuck: Effectively Dealing With Your Most Challenging
Clients and Keeping Your Soul Alive as a Therapist by Bill O’Hanlon;
o May 13 & 14, 2013, Understanding High Conflict Personalities in Divorce and
Family Violence by Bill Eddy;
o June 6 & 7, 2013, Sex Offenders and Victims: Current Trends by Dr. Anna Salter.
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For further information, please click on the flyer below.
MAGentix.ca
conference series.pdf
Job/Volunteering Opportunities
Job/volunteering opportunities can be found on the School’s website under Students/Jobs &
Volunteering section.
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