PSYC
Undergraduate
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PSYC UG Newsletter February 4/2022
Hello PSYC students -

Welcome to the first February edition of our newsletter this year!
It is filled with tonnes of information for you!
We have opportunities for awards applications, survey and research engagement, BioPsyc PSC and QPRA events, Queen's clubs and organizations looking for volunteers, Career Services workshops and SWEP and much more!
Enjoy reading and have a great weekend! As always, if you have questions or concerns, please reach out to us!

Important Dates: February/March 2022
  • Monday, February 21:
  • Family Day (no classes)
  • Tuesday, February 22 to Friday, February 25:
  • Reading Week
  • Monday, February 28:
  • Classes move to in-person delivery (except ASO courses)
  • Friday, March 4:
  • Last day to drop Winter 2022 classes without academic penalty

PSYC NSERC USRA APPLICATIONS OPEN - deadline Friday Feb 11
USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards) are meant to nurture your interest and fully develop your potential for a research career in the natural sciences and engineering. They are also meant to encourage you to undertake graduate studies in these fields. If you would like to gain research work experience that complements your studies in an academic setting, these awards can provide you with financial support through your host university. We encourage qualified Indigenous, women, visible minorities, BIPOC, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ persons to apply for this award.

Please review our website for details, including NSERC eligibility guidelines, the list of PSYC Faculty accepting NSERC applications in 2022 and the PSYC specific application process, including the PSYC departmental application form.
Another research award opportunity is the USSRF
BIOPSYC PSC Event - FEB 9
The Life Science DSC, Biochemistry DSC and BioPsychology PSC are collaborating for an amazing free yoga event on February 9th from 4:00-5:00 pm! You can sign up with this link https://forms.gle/e4j55Liob5yBH15e8

Don’t miss out, as there is a chance to win a 25 dollar Starbucks gift card and some awesome stickers! 
Queen's University Student Wellness Mental Health Services Survey

This is a survey produced by the ASUS Research & Recommendation Committee to be collected confidentially and complied into a report on the mental health needs of students in regard to the mental health services offered by Queen's University. This report will be used to provide informed recommendations to Queen’s University on how to improve Student Wellness Mental Health Services (SWMHS).
QCCP VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT 
We’d like to share a very meaningful volunteer opportunity with you: the Queen’s Community Connections Program (QCCP).  
 
QCCP fosters intergenerational connections (a unique strength of the Queen's community) and
helps reduce social isolation by connecting students and recent graduates with senior alumni through regular phone calls. As a volunteer caller, you’ll get to know interesting alumni, find out how they’re doing, and generally have friendly conversations.   
 
QCCP is currently seeking Queen’s students who have a genuine interest in connecting
with senior alumni to become involved in this meaningful volunteer opportunity. 
 
This is a wonderful program for students interested in becoming more immersed in the
Queen’s community. QCCP can also be a great resume-building and networking
opportunity: your contacts can give good insights, and participants may have
the opportunity to get LinkedIn recommendations from Queen’s staff. 
 
If you are interested in learning more about QCCP and joining as a caller, please check
out the online volunteer sign-up form
 
Thank you for considering the opportunity to join this incredibly rewarding program, and
don’t hesitate to reach out to the QCCP team at connectionsproject@queensu.ca with any
questions you may have! 
QUEEN'S WOMEN's HEALTH ADVOCACY is hiring
The Queen's Women's Health Advocacy (QWHA) is a new club on campus with the mission to raise awareness and break the stigma on health issues faced by individuals who identify as women domestically and globally. We are excited to announce that our 2022-2023 Co-Chair hiring is now LIVE! We are hiring an Internal Co-Chair and an External Co-Chair. 
Click on the image to check out the hiring package for further details. Applications close on February 13th at 11:59PM!
QUEEN'S PSYCHEDELIC RESEACH ASSOCIATION - SPEAKER
 We are thrilled to announce that Mark Haden will be giving a talk on Psychedelic Guiding with a Q&A session on Thursday, February 10th, at 6:00 PM EST.
 
Mark Haden, MSW, has spent his career working to advance the use of psychedelics in medicine. Mr. Haden spent over ten years as the Chairman and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in Canada and has dedicated over 25 years to working directly with patients through the Vancouver Coastal Health Addiction Services. Mr. Haden currently serves as Director of Clinical Research at Psygen Industries, a manufacturer of pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic drug products for clinical research and therapeutic applications, and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health. He has published on the issue of drug control policy and psychedelics, provided public education on drugs and drug policy for over 30 years, and worked with the Health Officers Council of British Columbia on the issue of a regulated market for all currently illegal drugs.
 
Our time with Mr. Haden will be enriched if you read his short and accessible book in advance, Manual for Psychedelic Guides. Search on Amazon for Mark Haden, or a quick google search, “Mark Haden Manual for Psychedelic Guides PDF,” should bring up a PDF version.
 
Please sign up for the talk via the QR code **. If you are already signed up to our email list, there is no need to sign up again.** We will send out a Zoom invitation on February 9th.
VOLUNTEER AT YOUTH DIVERSION
PARTICIPATE IN PSYC RESEARCH STUDY
The study can be found as "DREAM" on the participant pool, or people from outside the participant pool can use the following link:https://queensu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3ulRdSyraJRZuS

The study offers 0.5 credits to participants from the participant pool and all participants are entered in a draw for an iPad! Deadline is February 20. Thank you for participating in research!
QUEEN's CAREER SERVICES and SWEP program
Applications to the SWEP (Summer Work Experience) Program
are due February 10th!
Learn more on the SWEP website!

Career Workshops: Sign up the workshops and get the workshop links in MyCareer
 
 Monday Feb 7th
  • QUIP Resume and Cover Letter Workshop, 10:30am - 12:00pm
  • Outreach - Summer Job Search Workshop for Residence Life, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Tuesday Feb 8th
  • Teck Resources Campus Coffee Webinar, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Wednesday Feb 9th
  • QUIP Internship Search Strategy, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
  • LinkedIn - Building Your Profile, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
  • LinkedIn - Navigating Resources & Building Brand, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Thursday Feb 10th
  • Outreach - Resume, Cover Letters, and Interviews for Residence Life, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  • Majors Night, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
  • QUIP Technical Interview Workshop, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
 We are seeking chapter proposals for a forthcoming edited collection/anthology, tentatively titled, We Were Never Meant to Be Here: Student Voices, Activism, and Canadian Universities. The anthology aims to center the voices and experiences of marginalized students in Canadian universities by bringing forward the discontinuities, struggles, and desires of marginalized students.
Contributors to this anthology will explicate how areas such as diversity work, citational practices, student activism, ethical review and administrative policies are performed and/or stifled in university settings. The anthology operates as an intervention to boom-and-bust cycles of overwork, exhaustion, and collapse that govern so many academic spaces, and asks, "what would academia look like if our energies were directed toward leaving no one behind?" In combining personal narrative, artistic interpretation, and research, the collection will unearth the uneasy terrain of Canadian academic institutions and work towards emphasizing the tools and survival strategies used by students to navigate such terrain.
We are searching for contributors from across a variety of disciplines who are at or have recently graduated from a Canadian university. We welcome proposals from individuals at all levels of their education (i.e., Undergraduate, Master’s, Doctoral, Postdoc, etc.), including those who have graduated from a Canadian university in the past 5 years. We welcome a variety of written and visual materials, including, but not limited to, personal narrative, commentary, scholarly pieces, poetry, photography, and digital media. Due to the nature of the anthology priority will be given to folks who identify as 2SLGBTQIAA+, disabled, neurodivergent, mad/mentally ill and/or as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour).
Proposals should be 300-500 words in length. Collaborative/multi-authored proposals are welcomed. Depending on the type of written piece the finial completed piece will be roughly 500-8000 words. Poetry and visual/art submissions can vary greatly depending on the project or piece. Please submit proposals at the following https://bit.ly/31yFEHB by April 22nd, 2022.
Disclaimer – Should you wish to contribute to the anthology but wish to remain anonymous the editors will work with you to protect your anonymity.
Although this is not an exhaustive list, topics might include:
  • Institutional life; institutional culture; Canadian university culture
  • Sexual violence; sexual harassment; rape culture
  • Human rights and equity
  • Imposter syndrome and belonging
  • Cissexism; misogyny; transphobia
  • Classism; first generation academics; funding
  • Mental health and academia; madness and academia
  • Ableism; disability justice; access to knowledge
  • Decolonizing the academy; Indigeneity and Canadian universities
  • Anti-Black racism; racism in academia
  • COVID-19 impacts; online learning
  • University polices, governing structures, and regulations
  • Teaching assistant labour; research assistant labour
  • The neoliberal university; merit culture; corporatization of the university
  • Research methodologies; citational politics; ethics review
  • General education curriculum; pedagogy; clinical practicum
  • Diversity work; EDI (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion); committee work
  • Educator training and graduate student programs
The book is set to be published with Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press upon submission of a full proposal. 
ASUS TEACHING AWARDS - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
 
The WJ Barnes and TA Excellence Awards are awarded annually to members of the Queen’s Faculty of Arts and Science who demonstrate an excellence in teaching and make a notable contribution to the academic experience of students in the faculty. If you would like to nominate your professor or TA for these accolades, please follow the links below. This is an opportunity to highlight the invaluable contributions of the teaching teams that have gone above and beyond this semester. The Teaching Award Committee will review the nominations, and the 2021-2022 recipients will be chosen this spring.
 




WJ Barnes Teaching Award for a professor who goes above and beyond: https://bit.ly/WJBarnes
TA Excellence Award for a TA who goes above and beyond: https://bit.ly/taexcellenceASUS
REMINDER - APPLY FOR GRADUATION
 Ready to Graduate in Spring 2022?
APPLY IN SOLUS

The application for graduation is open
until April 30th.
POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SCOTLAND
Hello and greetings from Scotland!
We are extremely excited about psychology here at Edinburgh, and are always looking for ways of sharing that excitement more broadly. We would be delighted to invite you along to our online information session on Thursday, 10 March at 4.00pm (GMT) which will be tailored to students currently studying in North America who are interested in studying for a postgraduate program in psychology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The University of Edinburgh is a centuries-old center of learning in the heart of Scotland’s capital city, with a truly global outlook:
·        We’re consistently ranked one of the top 50 universities in the world
·        We offer a one-year postgraduate degree, excellent either as a pathway towards a PhD or as a terminal degree
·        You can study with a world-leading, 50-strong faculty across a wide range of topics including cognition, development, individual differences, neuroscience, and social psychology.
Faculty of Arts & Sciences Advising

Students can book through the online booking system (appointments become available on a rolling 48 hour basis) - click here!

Arts & Sciences also has drop in advising every Friday 1:30-3:00pm, students can access zoom here: https://queensu.zoom.us/j/91578440789?pwd=QzZTaG11OTd0WTJ6a3Zzc0t6R2tFdz09

Lots of great advising resources on FAS webpage - click here!
For questions on careers/grad school, please email ug.psyc@queensu.ca to set up a meeting with Dr Norris.