This session will be an interactive Q&A based on Dr Agarwal's 2022 SXSW EDU keynote
Please watch the video before attending the session and bring your questions for Dr Agarwal.
Dr. Arlette Herry wears several hats at St. George’s University - she serves as the Vice President for Multicultural Affairs, Chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and History of Medicine; and Director of the Masters in Clinical Community Psychology. These roles may seem many and varied but they have a common thread – they allow for ways to channel her passion for serving groups who are marginalized by inequitable systems – health, education, or otherwise – by creating inclusive environments.
Dr. Herry is a health psychologist whose areas of research and expertise include health equity, sense of belonging, aging and older adults, stress management across the lifespan, and minority stress, with an emphasis on how structural, cultural, and contextual factors shape mental health and health outcomes in underserved populations. Her peer-reviewed research includes publications on vaccine hesitancy, with particular attention to psychosocial determinants of health behavior.
In addition to her scholarly work, Dr. Herry provides leadership in student and faculty development, including training on implicit bias, creating inclusive and psychologically safe classrooms, and effectively engaging with underserved and marginalized populations.
Graduate students often have a uniquely challenging relationship with writing. Given those challenges, a new way of thinking about graduate writing can be powerful. In order to shift their perspective on academic writing, graduate students need consistent and concrete support with their writing. In this talk, Rachael Cayley will discuss how to help graduate students to build a new mindset before presenting some key writing principles and strategies.
Rachael is the Director of the Centre for Graduate Professional Development at the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication. Before joining the University of Toronto, she worked as an editor at Oxford University Press in Toronto. She has a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and a BA in political science from the University of British Columbia. Rachael has a blog, Explorations of Style, which discusses a wide range of topics associated with graduate writing. Her book, Thriving as a Graduate Writer (University of Michigan Press, 2023), offers principles, strategies, and habits for effective academic writing. Her new project, Writing Together (University of Michigan Press, 2025), is an co-edited collection about the way writing groups use sociality to support graduate writers.