Overview
Speakers: Mirjam Guesgen, Yvonne Hung
Date: February 4, 2026
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET
Language: English
Format: Online (via Zoom)
Audience: CanNRT Fellows and Trainee Members
In an age of digital communication, it’s more important than ever to have an online presence. In this workshop, we’ll discuss how to reach different audiences online, including industry, peers, and journalists. You will learn which professional platforms and tools are available to you as researchers, and the strengths and shortcomings of each. You will also have the opportunity to draft texts that could be suitable for several of these platforms.
Learning objectives
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
- Understand the importance of being present online and the kinds of audiences you can reach
- Be able to articulate the key features and utility of different online platforms and tools such as ORCID, ResearchGate, Google Scholar and LinkedIn
- Have analyzed examples of writing that may appear on several of these platforms
- Have drafted texts that could be suitable for several of these platforms
- Have a dossier of learning materials that will support them in their future use of these platforms.
Speakers
Mirjam Guesgen, PhD, is an award-winning journalist, writing for outlets in Canada, the US and abroad. She also writes scripts for popular YouTube channels like SciShow, where her videos reach an audience of more than 8 million. As part of the McGill Writing Centre, she teaches written communication skills through workshops like this and the WCOM314 Communicating Science class. Before becoming a journalist full-time, she completed her PhD in Zoology at Massey University in New Zealand and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta.
Yvonne Hung, PhD, is the Director of the McGill Writing Centre, McGil University’s central resource in written communication. In this capacity, she oversees its suite of undergraduate and graduate courses, the Graphos program focused on graduate students and postdocs, a Tutorial Service that offers individual writing consults to students, and various special projects, including a “Writing for Publication” collaboration with the Ingram School of Nursing. For the past three years, she was a member of the QART Advisory group, where she took great satisfaction in working with others to support QART’s training mandate. With the launch of the CanNRT platform, Dr Hung will continue to be involved in the Platform by developing curriculum as a Priority Area Lead in the area of scientific writing and communication.
Questions?
Contact: Ellie-Anna Minogianis
Training Program Manager, CanNRT
cannrt@mcgill.ca
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