[ecrea] Scholars as Critics: A Professional Development Workshop for Academics (May 27, 2015) - Ryerson University, Canada

Scholars as Critics: A Professional Development Workshop for Academics

This workshop will offer: guidance on professional skills and career 
opportunities both inside and outside academia; insights and resources 
for scholars to become critics and experts in media; and basic media and 
public relations training with a focus on how to answer questions from 
reporters.



Key Speakers:



Jennifer Polk is an academic and career coach for graduate students and 
PhDs. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Toronto in 
2012 and is now a blog writer for academic magazine University Affairs, 
where her featured column From PhD to Life offers regular professional 
guidance to graduate students, PhDs, and academics. As a career coach, 
she has been a keynote lecturer, guest speaker and panelist at various 
universities in Canada and has been published in Vitae, Academic 
Matters, and The Globe and Mail. She has also been featured on SFU 
Graduate Studies & Postdoctoral Fellows blog, Maclean’s magazine, 
Upstart Business Journal, CUIT 89.5FM Toronto, and History News 
Network.  See more: www.fromphdtolife.com.



Carolyn Harris is a royal historian and lecturer based in Toronto, 
Canada. Carolyn completed her PhD in history at Queen’s University at 
Kingston, Canada in May, 2012 and teaches history at the University of 
Toronto, School of Continuing Studies. She also provides royal 
commentary on the CTV news channel and CBC radio. As an expert in the 
history of European monarchy, she has been interviewed by numerous media 
outlets including the CTV News Channel, CNN, BBC Radio 5, CBC syndicated 
radio, Radio Canada International, TVO’s “The Agenda,” The Toronto Star, 
the National Post and the Globe and Mail. Her writings concerning the 
historical context of issues facing the British and Canadian monarchies 
today has appeared in the BBC News Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 
Military History Monthly, Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Bloomberg 
News, Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig-Standard. Her forthcoming book 
“Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada” will be published in 2015 by 
Dundurn Press. See more: http://www.royalhistorian.com/.



Samita Nandy is the director of the Centre for Media and Celebrity 
Studies (CMCS) and writes as a cultural critic on fame. She earned her 
PhD in media and celebrity culture from the Department of Media and 
Information at Curtin University, Australia in 2012 and is a certified 
broadcast journalist. Her international media relations and work led her 
to be featured CBC News, CTV's Breaking News CP 24, The Globe and Mail, 
Daytime and First Local on Rogers Television, OMNI TV, Canadian 
Journalism Foundation, Urban Television, Eternity Watch magazine, ANOKHI 
Media, ATN Television Network, CINA 1650 AM; Starbuzz Weekly, and 
Mississauga News among many more. She has been published by Nova Science 
Publishers and Inter-Disciplinary Press. Her forthcoming book Fame in 
Hollywood North will be published in 2015 by WaterHill Publishers. See 
more: www.cmc-centre.com and www.samitanandy.com.



Shannon Skinner is the host and producer of television series, 
Extraordinary Women TV, now in its third season on television. With more 
than 20 years of experience in public relations, she is regular 
contributor to Huffington Post and has appeared in LIFE magazine, Good 
Morning America, Rogers TV Daytime, Global TV, Canadian Living, 
Notable.ca, Good News Toronto, Liquid Lunch, among others.  Shannon 
studied creative writing at the University of Oxford and film studies at 
Ryerson University, and received her B.A. at the University of 
Saskatchewan. She is an active member of Women in Film and TV (WIFT) and 
the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Toronto. She is also the recipient 
of the University of Saskatchewan, College of Arts & Science’s Alumni of 
Influence Award 2014. Her show airs on Rogers TV Toronto and syndicated 
world-wide online. See more: http://www.extraordinarywomentv.com/ and 
http://shannonskinner.com/meet-shannon/.



This workshop is part of international conference Bridging Gaps: Higher 
Education, Media and Society (May 27-28, 2015) at Ryerson University in 
Canada.

Details on conference and submission guidelines: 
www.cmc-centre.com/conference2015.

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