General documents

• Student handbook (U of R version, includes grade descriptors and reading list)
• Student handbook (U of S version, includes grade descriptors and reading list)
• International Student handbook (includes helpful tips and website links for newcomers to Canada)
• MHA Student handbook
• GENI Student handbook

Program-related documents

• New MPA JSGS 990 Record Sheet
• MPP and PhD JSGS 990 Student Report Template
• JSGS 990 list of seminars and events - 2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14, 2012-2013, 2011-2012
• MPA program requirements for student enrolled prior to Fall 2015
• Course and seminar participation
• Thesis proposal template
• Recommended reading for all students (media, policy journals, policy and information organizations and think tanks, blogs, etc)
• JSGS Referencing Quick Guide
• JSGS Powerpoint Template

Writing Workshop Documents

2017

• Environmental Scans and Logic Models
• Logic Model Colorblank 
• Writing About Data
• Writing About Data Activity

2016

• Avoiding Plagiarism Powerpoint Presentation
• Writing a Review Powerpoint Presentation
• Briefing Notes Powerpoint Presentation
• Briefing Note Models
• Writing Book and Article Reviews
• Doing Effective Research
• Writing a Well-Argued Paper, Word Doc
• Writing a Well-Argued Paper, Powerpoint
• Preparing Proposals, Powerpoint
• Writing Successful Paragraphs, Powerpoint
• Writing a Literature Review, Powerpoint
• Literature Review Activities
• Paragraph Activities
• Writing a Cabinet Decision Item, Powerpoint 
• Improving Flow to Your Writing, Word Doc
• Improving Flow to Your Writing, Powerpoint
• Cabinet Decision Item Workshop Activity, Word Doc 
• Writing a Briefing Note, Powerpoint 

In March 2020, JSGS support staff and instructors held this webinar for students providing them with advice on how to not only survive, but thrive, in an online environment. Topics covered included:

• Keeping motivated and dealing with isolation
• Tools to avoid online distractions
• Overcoming new challenges with group work
• Strategies and tools to create a student community
• An overview of the resources available to JSGS students through the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan

Are you conducting or planning to conduct qualitative research during COVID-19? If so, the following articles and resources have been identified as providing good insight into some of the challenges you may face:

• Doing fieldwork in a pandemic – crowdsourced document initiated by Deborah Lupton
• MethodSpace (SAGE publishing) article on qualitative research design during COVID-19
• NVivo webinar on conducting qualitative fieldwork during COVID-19
• Conducting qualitative research during a period of lockdown and social distancing
• Remote research methods and resources

Links

• UR Self-Service
• General information about the University of Regina
• Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research 
  • Graduate calendar
  • FGSR policies and procedures
  • Graduate and convocation deadlines
• Graduate Students' Association
• UR International

Documents

• FGSR forms (including admission forms, financial aid forms, these/project forms, etc.)
• JSGS student release of information

Links

• PAWS
• General information about the University of Saskatchewan
• Academic calendar
• Student conduct and appeals (including policies and procedures)
• Academic misconduct
• Graduate Students' Association
• International Student and Study Abroad Centre

Documents

• CGSR forms (including admission forms, class override forms, scholarship and award forms, etc.)
• JSGS student release of information