U of T Black Research Network
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U of T's Black Research Network is an Institutional Strategic Initiative promoting Black research excellence and innovation. #UofT
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Jan. 8 🗓 Join the BRN & VPRI for an information session on navigating internal grants at #UofT!
We’ll cover key resources + tools to match your research goals and provide an overview of Connaught grants, including the Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers.
🔗 Register: buff.ly/VUhpJHC
We’ll cover key resources + tools to match your research goals and provide an overview of Connaught grants, including the Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers.
🔗 Register: buff.ly/VUhpJHC
Happy holidays from the Black Research Network! ✨❄️
Wishing the @utoronto.ca community a wonderful and restful winter break. #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Wishing the @utoronto.ca community a wonderful and restful winter break. #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
December 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy holidays from the Black Research Network! ✨❄️
Wishing the @utoronto.ca community a wonderful and restful winter break. #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Wishing the @utoronto.ca community a wonderful and restful winter break. #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the BRN Inspires Social!
From our mentorship workshop to the networking event, it was wonderful to connect with our community as the semester draws to a close. We appreciate your energy, engagement and support 💙
#UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
From our mentorship workshop to the networking event, it was wonderful to connect with our community as the semester draws to a close. We appreciate your energy, engagement and support 💙
#UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
December 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the BRN Inspires Social!
From our mentorship workshop to the networking event, it was wonderful to connect with our community as the semester draws to a close. We appreciate your energy, engagement and support 💙
#UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
From our mentorship workshop to the networking event, it was wonderful to connect with our community as the semester draws to a close. We appreciate your energy, engagement and support 💙
#UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Jan. 8 🗓 Join the BRN & VPRI for an information session on navigating internal grants at #UofT!
We’ll cover key resources + tools to match your research goals and provide an overview of Connaught grants, including the Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers.
🔗 Register: buff.ly/VUhpJHC
We’ll cover key resources + tools to match your research goals and provide an overview of Connaught grants, including the Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers.
🔗 Register: buff.ly/VUhpJHC
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Jan. 8 🗓 Join the BRN & VPRI for an information session on navigating internal grants at #UofT!
We’ll cover key resources + tools to match your research goals and provide an overview of Connaught grants, including the Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers.
🔗 Register: buff.ly/VUhpJHC
We’ll cover key resources + tools to match your research goals and provide an overview of Connaught grants, including the Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers.
🔗 Register: buff.ly/VUhpJHC
Save the date! The BRN Research Symposium is set for March 27, 2026 📚
The event brings together multidisciplinary @utoronto.ca researchers to highlight the transformative impact of Black research excellence on the future.
Registration opens in January. Visit: brn.utoronto.ca #BlackResearchNetwork
The event brings together multidisciplinary @utoronto.ca researchers to highlight the transformative impact of Black research excellence on the future.
Registration opens in January. Visit: brn.utoronto.ca #BlackResearchNetwork
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Save the date! The BRN Research Symposium is set for March 27, 2026 📚
The event brings together multidisciplinary @utoronto.ca researchers to highlight the transformative impact of Black research excellence on the future.
Registration opens in January. Visit: brn.utoronto.ca #BlackResearchNetwork
The event brings together multidisciplinary @utoronto.ca researchers to highlight the transformative impact of Black research excellence on the future.
Registration opens in January. Visit: brn.utoronto.ca #BlackResearchNetwork
Reposted by U of T Black Research Network
🎙️ In case you missed any episodes of Humanities at Large, we're featuring them all week. Here's episode 3
🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast
🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast
December 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🎙️ In case you missed any episodes of Humanities at Large, we're featuring them all week. Here's episode 3
🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast
🎧 uoft.me/jhi-podcast
"The advances I make in my research are all, in some way, a result of the time spent in the classroom."
Lauren Cramer of @artsci.utoronto.ca is one of six #UofT faculty recognized with a Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award 🎉 buff.ly/Jw4n7Cw #BlackResearchNetwork
Lauren Cramer of @artsci.utoronto.ca is one of six #UofT faculty recognized with a Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award 🎉 buff.ly/Jw4n7Cw #BlackResearchNetwork
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"The advances I make in my research are all, in some way, a result of the time spent in the classroom."
Lauren Cramer of @artsci.utoronto.ca is one of six #UofT faculty recognized with a Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award 🎉 buff.ly/Jw4n7Cw #BlackResearchNetwork
Lauren Cramer of @artsci.utoronto.ca is one of six #UofT faculty recognized with a Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award 🎉 buff.ly/Jw4n7Cw #BlackResearchNetwork
Kamari Maxine Clarke receives SSHRC's 2025 Insight Award 🏆 buff.ly/9NWdIYK #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Kamari Maxine Clarke receives SSHRC's 2025 Insight Award 🏆 buff.ly/9NWdIYK #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
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From making chemistry greener to examining the aesthetics of Blackness in popular culture, #UofT professors are constantly developing new ways to advance learning & engage students in the classroom & beyond. 💡 uoft.me/c0X
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
From making chemistry greener to examining the aesthetics of Blackness in popular culture, #UofT professors are constantly developing new ways to advance learning & engage students in the classroom & beyond. 💡 uoft.me/c0X
BRN IGNITE Grant helps researcher develop AI tool for community-based disease surveillance in Ethiopia 📲 buff.ly/tT6LAuz #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
BRN IGNITE Grant helps researcher develop AI tool for community-based disease surveillance in Ethiopia 📲 buff.ly/tT6LAuz #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
The Connaught Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers provides up to $250K to new, Black-led research initiatives at @utoronto.ca driving innovative solutions to major research challenges.
🤝🏽 Coordinated by the Connaught Fund & BRN. The NOI deadline is Feb. 9, 2026: buff.ly/8mDhBH9 #UofT
🤝🏽 Coordinated by the Connaught Fund & BRN. The NOI deadline is Feb. 9, 2026: buff.ly/8mDhBH9 #UofT
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Connaught Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers provides up to $250K to new, Black-led research initiatives at @utoronto.ca driving innovative solutions to major research challenges.
🤝🏽 Coordinated by the Connaught Fund & BRN. The NOI deadline is Feb. 9, 2026: buff.ly/8mDhBH9 #UofT
🤝🏽 Coordinated by the Connaught Fund & BRN. The NOI deadline is Feb. 9, 2026: buff.ly/8mDhBH9 #UofT
Black Research Network members receive Canada Research Chairs 🍁 buff.ly/nOEj7Xr #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Black Research Network members receive Canada Research Chairs 🍁 buff.ly/nOEj7Xr #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
The BRN Inspires Social takes place on Dec. 5!
BRN faculty & postdocs can join us for a Mentor Roundtable Mixer from 4-5 PM, right before the social.
Connect with @utoronto.ca faculty, share experiences & get strategies to navigate your academic journey: buff.ly/44uUO1I 🤝🏽
BRN faculty & postdocs can join us for a Mentor Roundtable Mixer from 4-5 PM, right before the social.
Connect with @utoronto.ca faculty, share experiences & get strategies to navigate your academic journey: buff.ly/44uUO1I 🤝🏽
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The BRN Inspires Social takes place on Dec. 5!
BRN faculty & postdocs can join us for a Mentor Roundtable Mixer from 4-5 PM, right before the social.
Connect with @utoronto.ca faculty, share experiences & get strategies to navigate your academic journey: buff.ly/44uUO1I 🤝🏽
BRN faculty & postdocs can join us for a Mentor Roundtable Mixer from 4-5 PM, right before the social.
Connect with @utoronto.ca faculty, share experiences & get strategies to navigate your academic journey: buff.ly/44uUO1I 🤝🏽
Nov. 24 🗓 Join the Black Research Network and its collaborators for the webinar, "Being A Scholar Activist: Challenges, Contradictions and Possibilities."
Register to attend 🔗
Register to attend 🔗
Black Research Network: Being A Scholar Activist: Challenges, Contradictions and Possibilities
On Nov. 24, join the Black Research Network (BRN) and its collaborators for an important webinar, “Being A Scholar Activist:...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Nov. 24 🗓 Join the Black Research Network and its collaborators for the webinar, "Being A Scholar Activist: Challenges, Contradictions and Possibilities."
Register to attend 🔗
Register to attend 🔗
IBET Momentum Fellow Paige McFarlane aims to use microfluidics to design faster, more accurate medical tests 🧪 #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork | @engineering.utoronto.ca
Black Research Network: IBET Momentum Fellow Paige McFarlane aims to use microfluidics to design faster, more accurate medical tests
For Paige McFarlane (EngSci 2T5, BME PhD student) biomedical engineering was the perfect middle ground between two paths. “Where I come from, there’s this...
brn.utoronto.ca
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
IBET Momentum Fellow Paige McFarlane aims to use microfluidics to design faster, more accurate medical tests 🧪 #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork | @engineering.utoronto.ca
🫀 Interested in heart failure research? Join @transformhf.bsky.social for its 2025 Fall Network Event on Nov. 28!
Learn about research from the TRANSFORM HF community – covering everything from smart garments to cardiac care solutions co-designed with equity at the forefront.
Learn about research from the TRANSFORM HF community – covering everything from smart garments to cardiac care solutions co-designed with equity at the forefront.
Black Research Network: TRANSFORM HF 2025 Fall Network Event
TRANSFORM HF is thrilled to bring together its diverse network of clinicians, scientists, trainees, people with lived experience, industry reps,...
brn.utoronto.ca
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🫀 Interested in heart failure research? Join @transformhf.bsky.social for its 2025 Fall Network Event on Nov. 28!
Learn about research from the TRANSFORM HF community – covering everything from smart garments to cardiac care solutions co-designed with equity at the forefront.
Learn about research from the TRANSFORM HF community – covering everything from smart garments to cardiac care solutions co-designed with equity at the forefront.
🧐 How should you approach planning your first tri-agency grant application as a lead PI?
Do you need tips on effectively managing your budget or choosing the right agency for your interdisciplinary research?
Join our Nov. 14 Academic Practice Lab: buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Do you need tips on effectively managing your budget or choosing the right agency for your interdisciplinary research?
Join our Nov. 14 Academic Practice Lab: buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
The BRN's Academic Practice Lab is back on Nov. 14!
Join us for a session focused on NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC grants – designed to support your success in securing research funding 📚 buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Join us for a session focused on NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC grants – designed to support your success in securing research funding 📚 buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🧐 How should you approach planning your first tri-agency grant application as a lead PI?
Do you need tips on effectively managing your budget or choosing the right agency for your interdisciplinary research?
Join our Nov. 14 Academic Practice Lab: buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Do you need tips on effectively managing your budget or choosing the right agency for your interdisciplinary research?
Join our Nov. 14 Academic Practice Lab: buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Reposted by U of T Black Research Network
Nov 19: Mercedes Sobers presents her research on racial disparities in mental health experiences & services and explores how the Black Joy Art Initiative balanced the work strain by highlighting everyday practices sustaining wellness in Black communities https://ow.ly/WBX750Xl85y
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Nov 19: Mercedes Sobers presents her research on racial disparities in mental health experiences & services and explores how the Black Joy Art Initiative balanced the work strain by highlighting everyday practices sustaining wellness in Black communities https://ow.ly/WBX750Xl85y
Reposted by U of T Black Research Network
Nov. 19 | Black Table Talk
Join in celebrating Black students, staff, faculty and librarians for an empowering and insightful exploration of Blackness at the #UTM.
⏰ 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
📍 MN3230
Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Xc6Y82
Join in celebrating Black students, staff, faculty and librarians for an empowering and insightful exploration of Blackness at the #UTM.
⏰ 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
📍 MN3230
Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Xc6Y82
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Nov. 19 | Black Table Talk
Join in celebrating Black students, staff, faculty and librarians for an empowering and insightful exploration of Blackness at the #UTM.
⏰ 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
📍 MN3230
Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Xc6Y82
Join in celebrating Black students, staff, faculty and librarians for an empowering and insightful exploration of Blackness at the #UTM.
⏰ 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
📍 MN3230
Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Xc6Y82
Applications are open for the BRN IGNITE Grant 5.0!
The grant provides $5K - $15K to support interdisciplinary research through professional development, research dissemination and other research-related expenses.
Deadline: Jan. 12, 2026 💡 buff.ly/Q4qhPiv #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
The grant provides $5K - $15K to support interdisciplinary research through professional development, research dissemination and other research-related expenses.
Deadline: Jan. 12, 2026 💡 buff.ly/Q4qhPiv #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Applications are open for the BRN IGNITE Grant 5.0!
The grant provides $5K - $15K to support interdisciplinary research through professional development, research dissemination and other research-related expenses.
Deadline: Jan. 12, 2026 💡 buff.ly/Q4qhPiv #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
The grant provides $5K - $15K to support interdisciplinary research through professional development, research dissemination and other research-related expenses.
Deadline: Jan. 12, 2026 💡 buff.ly/Q4qhPiv #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
‘More than just fantasy’: How this @utsc.utoronto.ca undergrad found her calling in outer space policy 🌌 #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Black Research Network: ‘More than just fantasy’: How this UTSC undergrad found her calling in outer space policy
Long before studying outer space policy, Leah Wolfe was captivated by the characters and worlds of science fiction novels like...
brn.utoronto.ca
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
‘More than just fantasy’: How this @utsc.utoronto.ca undergrad found her calling in outer space policy 🌌 #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
The BRN's Academic Practice Lab is back on Nov. 14!
Join us for a session focused on NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC grants – designed to support your success in securing research funding 📚 buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Join us for a session focused on NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC grants – designed to support your success in securing research funding 📚 buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The BRN's Academic Practice Lab is back on Nov. 14!
Join us for a session focused on NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC grants – designed to support your success in securing research funding 📚 buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Join us for a session focused on NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC grants – designed to support your success in securing research funding 📚 buff.ly/wgwkFWg #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
#UTSC's Karina Vernon is featured on the Humanities at Large podcast by @jhievents.bsky.social!
She traces the songs of Black cowboys across Canada's prairies, Texas and West Africa – uncovering an archive that reshapes how we think about belonging and survival on the frontier 🎧 buff.ly/K0Q8AsV
She traces the songs of Black cowboys across Canada's prairies, Texas and West Africa – uncovering an archive that reshapes how we think about belonging and survival on the frontier 🎧 buff.ly/K0Q8AsV
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#UTSC's Karina Vernon is featured on the Humanities at Large podcast by @jhievents.bsky.social!
She traces the songs of Black cowboys across Canada's prairies, Texas and West Africa – uncovering an archive that reshapes how we think about belonging and survival on the frontier 🎧 buff.ly/K0Q8AsV
She traces the songs of Black cowboys across Canada's prairies, Texas and West Africa – uncovering an archive that reshapes how we think about belonging and survival on the frontier 🎧 buff.ly/K0Q8AsV
BRN talk centres Black, Indigenous histories in the classroom 📚 buff.ly/et9Uil9 #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
BRN talk centres Black, Indigenous histories in the classroom 📚 buff.ly/et9Uil9 #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
University of Toronto Scarborough researcher looks at how racial stereotypes follow Black girls into the classroom ✍🏽 #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Black Research Network: U of T Scarborough researcher looks at how racial stereotypes follow Black girls into the classroom
When Olivia Bernard arrived in Canada from Jamaica at age 19, she encountered racism that left a lasting impression. On...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
University of Toronto Scarborough researcher looks at how racial stereotypes follow Black girls into the classroom ✍🏽 #UofT #BlackResearchNetwork
Attend the Possibilities & Refusals in Black Canadian Studies Symposium at @utsc.utoronto.ca!
Hosted by the Black Canadian Studies Association,
celebrate the JCS Special Issue, "Nah! On the Possibilities of Ongoing Refusals in Black Canadian Studies," attend an author panel + network 📕
Hosted by the Black Canadian Studies Association,
celebrate the JCS Special Issue, "Nah! On the Possibilities of Ongoing Refusals in Black Canadian Studies," attend an author panel + network 📕
Black Research Network: Possibilities & Refusals in Black Canadian Studies Symposium
Join colleagues and community members at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) campus as the Black Canadian Studies Association launch...
brn.utoronto.ca
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Attend the Possibilities & Refusals in Black Canadian Studies Symposium at @utsc.utoronto.ca!
Hosted by the Black Canadian Studies Association,
celebrate the JCS Special Issue, "Nah! On the Possibilities of Ongoing Refusals in Black Canadian Studies," attend an author panel + network 📕
Hosted by the Black Canadian Studies Association,
celebrate the JCS Special Issue, "Nah! On the Possibilities of Ongoing Refusals in Black Canadian Studies," attend an author panel + network 📕