MIRA Trainee Network ‘Meet My Method’

Join the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA) for the MIRA Trainee Network’s Virtual “Meet My Method”. This free networking and knowledge translation event invites trainees, faculty, and the aging research community to come together and learn more about how our colleagues do research, and the opportunities to collaborate.
All are invited to register to attend this two-hour event with poster displays and short talks showcasing research methods from across disciplines.
Trainees are invited to register a virtual poster of their research methods in aging, with the goal of inspiring collaboration and interdisciplinary connections with faculty members and fellow trainees.

Deadline to register to present your method is February 26, 2021, 11:59 p.m.

Keynote speaker: Khaled Hassanein, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, DeGroote School of Business , McMaster University, and Director of the McMaster Digital Transformation Research Centre (MDTRC).
As an Associate dean in the School of Business, and director of MDTRC, an interdisciplinary research centre that employs diverse research methods to explore areas such as evidence-based decision making, digital user experience, digitization of healthcare, and technology adoption, Dr. Hassanein will discuss why researchers and trainees would want to consider doing interdisciplinary research – i.e. the benefits to research outcomes, funding opportunities, and career.

Research Plenary: Janie Wilson, Professor, Department of Surgery and School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University
Dr. Janie Wilson is overseeing interdisciplinary projects that explore the variability in healthy movement mechanics, specifically during walking and running, and how factors such as aging, sex and obesity can influence gait mechanics, integrating methods from orthopaedic and musculoskeletal biomechanics, gait analysis, and biomechanical and statistical modeling. Dr. Wilson will discuss how one successfully leads and executes interdisciplinary research projects like her own.

Attendees are invited to register by March 9, 2021 here:
https://forms.gle/tAm7UYPU5tbYmr2R9

For more information email MIRA_TN@mcmaster.ca.