We're back!

With the new academic year well underway, we here at the Health Sciences Writing Centre are excited to welcome new and familiar faces as our regular programming resumes and new possibilities—not to mention deadlines!—stretch over the horizon. Our appointment calendar is once again filling up; Inked, our graduate student writing group, is back in session; and soon we’ll be offering a host of new workshops to nourish your thinking and writing here at U of T and beyond.

Over the summer, Dr. Boba Samuels stepped back into her role as the centre’s Director after a well-earned sabbatical. We were fortunate to have Dr. Michael Cournoyea serve as Acting Director in Boba’s absence over the winter term, capping off a year where our centre solidified its reputation as a unique contributor to the field of writing pedagogy and research in the ever-shifting age of Generative AI.

That work follows us into the 2025-2026 academic year, where we’ll continue expanding our inquiries into students’ use of GenAI and its implications for writing centre instruction and teaching and learning more broadly. [Do we want to say more here?] We’re also welcoming two new instructors to our team, Monica Gagnon and Emily Maggiacomo, whose respective backgrounds in Social and Behavioural Health and Disability Studies further enrich the range of supports we offer to students across the health sciences.

Stay tuned: we have much more in store!