Event

MAUT Forum: Implementing the Recommendations of the Naylor Report

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 08:30to12:00
Faculty Club 3450 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0E5, CA

An event hosted by the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT)

As you know, the Naylor Report comes out strongly in favour of funding basic research through the tri-councils, SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR. However, a concerted effort is needed to see its recommendations implemented. Toward that end, we have organized a panel discussion broadly centered on three aims:

1)      How do researchers engage federal politicians and ministries to see this report implemented?

2)      How do we better engage the public to see the value of basic research?

3)      What skillsets are needed for us to see aims 1 and 2 accomplished?

Attendance is limited and must be confirmed by June 15th by registration only at: maut [at] mcgill [dot] ca.

 

8:30 AM: Arrival, Registration and Coffee

9:00 AM: Opening remarks (David Thomas and Terry Hébert)

9:10 AM: Panel Commentaries- by Dr. Jim Woodgett, Dr. Rob Annan, Dr. Thomas Duchaine and Dr. Michael Hendricks

10:15 AM Break

10:30 AM: Open Discussion between Panel members and attendees.

 

Panelists

Dr. Jim Woodgett, Scientific Director, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Dr. Rob Annan, Fellow of the Public Policy Forum of Canada, Ottawa

Dr. Thomas Duchaine, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University

Dr. Michael Hendricks, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, McGill University

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