social justice studies research and creative project presentations

event date: 
wednesday, may 8, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm edt
event location: 
regional centre (rc) 1001 and via zoom
event contact name: 
kevin brooks
event contact e-mail: 

please join four social justice studies ma 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 in celebrating the completion of their research and creative projects. each student will make a 15-minute presentation, followed by a question and answer period. you can join in person or via zoom.

in-person: regional centre (rc) 1001

zoom: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/99091419053

  1. alanna morgan, “cancer healing narratives in anishinaabe traditional healing.”
  2. laija beaulieu, “the lived experiences of caregivers of children with congenital cytomegalovirus receiving healthcare in a remote and rural area of northern canada.”
  3. sam cousin, “end of radio: an experiment of cultural reproduction about the inherent powers of technology, autonomy, and creativity.”
  4. emily faubert, “you are not alone: art, alienation, and the accessible future.”

to read the presentation abstracts, please visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ob7zivgbnmub1i2o0t_goa-urswc75meqz5iayt5m24/edit?usp=sharing.

palliative care echo: supporting vulnerable patients who could benefit from an equity-informed palliative approach to care

event date: 
wednesday, may 15, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm edt
event location: 
zoom
event contact name: 
may remenda
event contact e-mail: 

imagine trying to access home care without a home... in this session, members of the palliative advocacy care team (pact) and palliative carelink will discuss how health and social care workers can adopt approaches to care that recognize and adapt to the social and structural determinants of health. the goal of this session is to challenge providers to re-think traditional models of care, and pursue practices that meet unmet needs of structurally vulnerable populations.

learning objectives:

  • explore what it means to take an equity-informed approach to care
  • review the concepts of harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and cultural safety
  • identify barriers to care and resources for vulnerably housed clients who could benefit from a palliative approach to care

register at www.cerah.lakeheadu.ca/event/pactecho/.

may 23 epid talks with dr. mojgan zarghamifard

event date: 
thursday, may 23, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm edt
event location: 
cases building room fb 2023 / zoom
event contact name: 
kelsey raynard
event contact e-mail: 

epid@work is excited to announce that registration for our upcoming epid talks on thursday, may 23 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. is now open! the session will include a presentation by dr. mojgan zarghamifard, a visiting professor at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 and assistant professor of organizational behavior at the university of hormozgan, iran, entitled “ascending the leadership ladder: unpacking women’s strengths, traits, and obstacles.”

please find registration info on the attached poster or by clicking the link here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1faipqlscdbdznm_f3fwk3-4p_vfesbg5btj1zepysl2f3-gkt4kdrng/viewform?usp=sf_link

join us in-person at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 (cases building room fb 2023) or online via zoom. after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting virtually and in-person.

please share with your network and with anyone who may be interested in attending; we look forward to seeing you there!

palliative care echo: supporting vulnerable patients who could benefit from an equity-informed palliative approach to care

event date: 
wednesday, may 15, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm edt
event location: 
zoom
event contact name: 
may remenda
event contact e-mail: 

imagine trying to access home care without a home…

in this session, members of the palliative advocacy care team (pact) & palliative carelink will discuss how health and social care workers can adopt approaches to care that recognize and adapt to the social and structural determinants of health. the goal of this session is to challenge providers to re-think traditional models of care, and pursue practices that meet unmet needs of structurally vulnerable populations.

learning objectives:

- explore what it means to take an equity-informed approach to care
- review the concepts of harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and cultural safety
- identify barriers to care and resources for vulnerably housed clients who could benefit from a palliative approach to care

register at: www.cerah.lakeheadu.ca/event/pactecho/

citation management using zotero: research made easy

event date: 
tuesday, may 14, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm edt
event location: 
zoom
event contact name: 
chris tomasini
event contact e-mail: 

zotero is a free and convenient tool that can be used to help you manage information for your research, insert citations into your writing and easily create bibliographies. this session will provide an overview of how zotero can support your work throughout the research process, with hands-on opportunities to practice using the tool.

after attending this workshop, you will have learned how to use zotero to:

  • save time with the research process
  • create better citations and bibliographies
  • organize all the books / articles you find during the research process
  • use advanced features in zotero

this session will be held online via zoom. a confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.

register at https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3797844.

introduction to library research services & collections

event date: 
monday, may 13, 2024 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm edt
event location: 
zoom
event contact name: 
chris tomasini
event contact e-mail: 

this workshop will introduce you to lakehead's omni search system, and other resource tools which will help fulfill your research needs at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 .

after attending this workshop, you will be able to:

  • find books on your topic, and request books from other ontario universities
  • find peer reviewed scholarly articles
  • seek further assistance from the library

this session will be held online via zoom. a confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.

register at https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3797842.

citation management using zotero: research made easy

event date: 
wednesday, may 8, 2024 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm edt
event location: 
zoom
event contact name: 
chris tomasini
event contact e-mail: 

zotero is a free and convenient tool that can be used to help you manage information for your research, insert citations into your writing and easily create bibliographies. this session will provide an overview of how zotero can support your work throughout the research process, with hands-on opportunities to practice using the tool.

after attending this workshop, you will have learned how to use zotero to:

  • save time with the research process
  • create better citations and bibliographies
  • organize all the books / articles you find during the research process
  • use advanced features in zotero

this session will be held online via zoom. a confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.

register at https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3797843.

introduction to library research services & collections

event date: 
tuesday, may 7, 2024 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm edt
event location: 
zoom
event contact name: 
chris tomasini
event contact e-mail: 

this workshop will introduce you to lakehead's omni search system, and other resource tools which will help fulfill your research needs at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 . after attending this workshop, you will be able to:

  • find books on your topic, and request books from other ontario universities
  • find peer reviewed scholarly articles
  • seek further assistance from the library

this session will be held online via zoom. a confirmation with a link to the session will be emailed to you after registration.

register at https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3797841.

academic integri-tea gathering

event date: 
friday, april 26, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm edt
event location: 
zoom
event contact name: 
joel symonds
event contact e-mail: 

academic integri-tea is community of practice that provides a safe and collaborative space for faculty to talk about the common academic integrity issues they are experiencing in the classroom and share helpful tips with their peers. attendees are invited to make themselves a cup of tea (or coffee) and join with other instructors as we strive to positively influence the academic integrity culture at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 .

mohammad khosravani - computer science department thesis defense

event date: 
wednesday, april 17, 2024 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm edt
event location: 
zoom
event contact name: 
rachael wang
event contact e-mail: 

please join the computer science department for the upcoming thesis defense:

presenter: mohammad khosravani

thesis title: argument summarization: enhancing summary generation and evaluation metrics

abstract: in the current era of mass digital information, the need for effective argument summarization has become paramount. this thesis explores the domain of argument summarization, focusing on the development of techniques and evaluation metrics to improve the quality of summarization models. the study first investigates the task of key point analysis, and the challenges associated with previous approaches to it, emphasizing the significance of coverage of the summary. to address these challenges, we propose a novel clustering-based framework that leverages the inherent semantics of arguments to identify and group similar arguments. the proposed approach is evaluated on the benchmark dataset and compared with previous state-of-the-art methods, demonstrating its effectiveness. in addition to the proposed framework, this thesis also presents an analysis of the previous evaluation metric for argument summarization. commonly used metric, rouge is evaluated, revealing its limitation in capturing the nuanced aspects of argument quality. to this end, we introduce new evaluation metrics and methods that consider the coverage and redundancy of the generated summaries, providing more accurate and informative assessments of summarization models. we further show that our evaluation metric has a better correlation with actual summary quality, whereas previous metrics fail to capture this correlation. the implementation is available online.


committee members:
dr. amine trabelsi (supervisor, committee chair), dr. xing tan, dr. vijay mago (york university)


please contact grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca for the zoom link. everyone is welcome.

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