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who we are
We are the PhD Caring & Sharing Collective, a group of OISE students who are passionate about improving student experiences at OISE. Join us!
what we do
RESOURCE SHARING
One of our goals is to circulate relevant resources for students.
"So You're Doing a PhD in CTL at OISE? A Peer-Generated Guide" (2021)
It took 2 years to develop this peer-generated guide, which was first shared with students in 2021. We hope to continue updating this resource as a way of sharing information with other students. It is a living document and will need to continuing evolving to be relevant.
This online resource was co-written by:
Lindsay Cavanaugh, C&P, CTL
Mama Nii Owoo, LLE, CTL
Ivan Lasan, LLE, CTL
Sunnya Khan, C&P, CTL
Maddy de Welles, SJE
We are grateful for the students who graciously shared their work and insights, including but not limited to ...
Maria Vamvalis, C&P, CTL
Ty Walkland, C&P, CTL
If you want to help update this guide, please reach out!
Monthly Care Collective Newsletter (Feb 2023 launch)
Another way we circulate information is through a monthly newsletter that was launched in Feb 2023.
This newsletter is co-written by:
Qiongli Zhu
Lindsay Cavanaugh
If you want to co-write our newsletter, please reach out!
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & PEER SUPPORT
In 2021, Claudio Jaramillo Yanquepe and Lindsay Cavanaugh worked with Maria Vamvalis, Shashank Kumar, Maddy de Welles, Sunnya Khan, Dr. Jessica Wright, and Dr. j wallace skelton on a speaker series for PhD students.
Currently, this care collective is working with the CTLSA and the current Student Experience Chair, Dr. Rob Simon, to create other events and resources.
In 2023, we plan to coordinate a professional development day in March, featuring panels about academic and non-academic careers for OISE students.
These professional development initiatives would not be possible without the past and present planning of:
Claudio Jaramillo Yanquepe
Lindsay Cavanaugh
Chun Chih Chen (CTLSA 22-23)
Aakriti Mahajan (CTLSA 22-23)
Zian (Kelly) Zhang (CTLSA 22-23)
Asia Majeed (CTLSA 22-23)
Amy (Sol Yi) Kim (CTLSA 22-23)
Kailey Knapp (CTLSA 22-23)
These initiatives would also not have been possible without the support of ...
Qiongli Zhu
Sarah Stapleton
If you want to plan or support professional development events, please reach out!
COMMUNITY BUILDING
In 2023, we also plan to ...
host monthly social gatherings every last Friday of the month with snacks.
These monthly gatherings would not be possible without the planning and faciliation of ...
Chun Chih Chen
Manpreet Chugh
Qiongli Zhu
Sarah Stapleton
Lindsay Cavanaugh
If you want to help facilitate community-building events, please reach out!
why we created this guide
We created this online resource as an act of community and self care. Many of us felt that we wished we had resources at different times and struggled to find what we needed. We often relied on the informal support of other students and so we thought we'd create this space to pool together resources that have helped us.
We also believe that sharing resources is one way to combat individualism and power hoarding in academia. Those two traits are rooted in white supremacy (Jones & Okun, 2001) and can amplify inequities and foster impostor syndrome. Instead of upholding competitiveness and urgency, we want to centre care, reciprocity, and mutual respect.
We connect this approach to our treaty responsibilities on Dish with One Spoon Wampum territory. In "Nokomis and the Law in the Gift", Aaron Mill writes that
There’s a powerful word in Anishinaabemowin that grounds this vision of [the Dish with One Spoon] treaty and this entire discussion: miinigowiziwin… As individuals, none of us has all the gifts necessary for a good life, minobimaadiziwin; each of us depends on the gifts of others.
This means that every person has their own unique gifts. We make connections between miinigowiziwin, an Ashinaabemowin understanding, and celhcelh, a Lil'wat principle of learning, that invites each person to not only be responsible for their learning but that of their communities (Sanford, Williams, Hopper, McGregor, 2012). Celhcelh is the idea that we are responsible for sharing our knowledge and gifts with each other. We highlight these Indigenous perspectives towards learning to challenge currents of white supremacist and colonial thinking that demands we achieve, perform, and compete with one another in academic spaces.
Whether you are a new PhD student, an upper-year candidate or someone considering a PhD in CTL at OISE, we hope this information is helpful and welcome your feedback.
volunteer with us
Are you an OISE student?
Do you want to get more involved with this care collective?
Do you want to connect with other students who are passionate about creating a caring, collaborative community at OISE?
GET INVOLVED!
We are looking for people who can help with the following roles.
Social Media Coordinator(s)
Responsibilities:
- establish a greater social media presence for the collective
- on instagram: create social media content
- (if interested, create Twitter account and post information about our collective)
Time Commitment:
- approximately 2-4 hours/month
- you decide your capacity, but ideally if we could have regular weekly posts, that would be great
Newsletter Writer(s)
Responsibilities:
- notice and keep track of different events that would be relevant for PhD students and other research-stream students at OISE in a shared google doc
- if desired: co-write monthly newsletter with other writers (i.e. take turns) and send out to relevant listservs
Time Commitment:
- approximately 1-4 hours a month (you decide your capacity)
- monthly newsletter will be sent out the first week of every month (preparation would be mainly the week before a new month starts)
Email Lindsay if interested: lindsay.cavanaugh@mail.utoronto.ca
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