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  1. On the CCCV, under "participation activities" there's a section called event participation - what kinds of things should go here? Should I include conferences I attended even if I didn't present anything, or training workshops (e.g. qualitative analysis workshop, research management workshops, etc)?
  2. I've asked for about 10 at one point from some people and they were happy to do it, and I've also asked for about 5-6 from other people and they thought it was too much and weren't happy about it (although they did it reluctantly). I think if you have a few good people to use as refs that you can sub-in if one of your top refs doesn't have the time for all of them it's nice way to lessen the burden. Make sure to give them plenty of time (I now try to give a month at least) and do as much of the work for them as you can (in terms of breaking down the information and making it easy to fill things in).
  3. Is anyone a student/affiliate member of the CPA? Do you think this would help in applications in any way? I'd like to become a member but paying $75+ for membership that expires at the end of December seems like a waste of money for this year.
  4. I'm wondering the same thing! Any funding application advice generally would be helpful, or any websites/articles that anybody has found to help clarify things - I find the application portals/pages themselves really confusing, I never know if I'm looking at the right award or not, or if I'm eligible without being enrolled in the program already, etc. It seems excessively complicated!
  5. Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone has any advice or resources for applying for tri-council funding? I think the CIHR is most relevant for my research, but any advice for applying to funding would be appreciated. I haven't been accepted into a program yet, but all programs say that you have to apply to all external funding that you are eligible for including tri-council. I'm sure I can't be the only one to find this extraordinarily complicated, and I haven't found many resources online to help navigate it! Thanks in advance!
  6. This is exciting! Hopefully this trend continues with other schools. It would be a shame to have to write them because one or two schools you apply to require them and the rest don't.
  7. Hi, this is really good advice, thank you! I'm thinking if I reach out to PIs and they are interested/willing to have a discussion, they might be able to provide a little insight about the process as well? (This is assuming they like my introduction/CV enough to actually talk about the possibility - I know some people will just say "yes I'm accepting students, I'll consider you after you apply"). I guess if I can find out how the program determines the first round of cut offs as well it might help me narrow things down too. If they give more weight to the most recent grades or psychology prerequisites I might be okay, but if they'll only consider undergraduate grades cumulatively and not postgraduate or non-degree credits, then I may have more of an issue.
  8. Hi All, I'm glad there's already some other keeners here to chat with! I'm hoping to apply to 5-6 schools this year depending on who is taking students. I have some questions maybe someone who has been accepted/who has more experience in applying can help me with? Basically I'm worried about my cGPA dragging down my application, despite an otherwise competitive application... I have an MSc in another area of psychology, and a lot of research experience working as a research assistant and trial manager for 4 years. I have quite a few co-authorships and one first-author publication so far and some conference presentations. I will probably try to re-do the GRE before applying (I'm similar to some of the other people who posted, 48 quant and above 80 for the others). But I did my undergrad in neuroscience (finished in 2015) and did not do particularly well, and didn't do an honours project (although I'm hoping my MSc thesis will make up for that?). I'm currently taking some more psych courses from Athabasca (since I did neuro I didn't take developmental psych and social psych for example that most clinical programs require), so I'm making up for some missing psych credits, and I'm getting As in all of them so far, but I don't know how much that will help if people look at my actual degree and see me doing poorly? Obviously my CV shows I'm a competent researcher, but if my application gets thrown out based on my undergrad grades (5+ years ago...) then I don't know what to do about that? If people see I’m currently getting As in the required classes do you think that will make a big difference? What you do you guys think? Thanks!
  9. In my experience, Research Assistants have a master's degree (or maybe sometimes even bachelor's degree) and Research Associates have a PhD
  10. Thank you both for your advice @Jay's Brain and @chopper.wife !! It feels so frustrating knowing I have the experience and ability to do it, but am being held back because I didn't know what I doing when I started university 8 years ago! I've decided to take some classes online from Athabasca - that way they'll be from a Canadian university (with Canadian grading scheme and GPA to minimize confusion) and I can tailor the courses to the prerequisites I need instead of taking another course in statistics/research methods just because its part of the diploma curriculum. I can also work at my own pace and it's cheaper (always a bonus) It's hard to say no to doing a PhD here in the UK, but I've decided that I want to hold out and apply for clinical, even if it takes a little while longer. I might not be able to do research in exactly the area I am researching now, but I am okay with that and my wider interests are broad enough that I can pick out a few faculty that could align quite well with at most of the programs I'm interested in. If you have any other advice/considerations, I would love to hear it! Thanks again!
  11. Hi! I'm hoping to get in to an MA/PhD in clinical psychology in Canada, and I could use a little advice from anyone who's applied before or has gotten in! A little bit of background, I have a BSc in neuroscience and English (yes weird combo) that I finished in 2015 in Canada. My grades weren't amazing, particularly in my second year, I did quite well in my final year but my GPA when I graduated was still only 3.0. I got into a MSc Health Psychology degree in the UK and got a 2:1 (which is about a B+ final grade). I've been working in research in the UK since my MSc, I've been a research assistant for about three years, I've worked on two major RCTs and am also a trial manager for an international european study. I have three co-authorships (two more being submitting in the fall) and two first authorships in progress (one being peer reviewed now, one manuscript nearly ready to submit) and working on a 3rd first-author paper but that won't be submitted before December as we're still in the middle of the analysis. I’ve presented one poster at a national conference in the UK and I have some teaching experience in the uni I work in now. My GREs have been fine, I think I can do better and will rewrite them before applying again, my subject GREs were 89th percentile so I will probably leave those as is. I know that my undergrad grades are the biggest thing bringing my application down, but there’s nothing really I can do about that anymore. I’m considering doing a postgrad certificate or diploma in psychology so that I can 1) Improve my overall grades and 2) get courses that I’m missing in psychology that might help my application (even though there was a lot of overlap in my neuroscience degree with the psych courses, I didn’t take social psychology for example). Does that sound like it might help, or will it not matter because it’s not a BSc? My other option is doing a PhD in the UK on the project I’m currently workining on, but it’s not a clinical degree. I could theoretically do a clinical MA afterwards, but MA psychologists can’t be licensed in certain areas in Canada, and it seems silly to do a PhD in the UK and then another MA/PhD in Canada afterwards. On the other hand, it also seems silly to decline the opportunity to do a PhD in a project I like with no security that I’ll get into a program in Canada later. I really want to do clinical psychology because I love the patient aspect and with my background in health psych I would really like to work in a hospital setting or with people living with chronic illnesses. And from the research I'm doing now, I’ve realized that I'll need to be a clinician to do the research I want to do in the future, not just be supervised by one. As you can probably tell from this post I am very conflicted and would appreciate any advice or considerations! Thanks!
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