Month: January 2013

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Graduate Program Opportunities

March – Instructional Skills Workshop

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop early March 9, 10, 16, 2013.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop.

The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience.  Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.

This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the early March ISW, please go to:

http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/2233

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

February Grad Student Library Workshops‏

FIREtalks:
Care and Healing
Can we only heal individuals or is possible to heal entire cultures? Are scientific and holistic approaches to care and healing necessarily mutually exclusive? Is preventive always better than restorative care? As graduate students, many of us are involved in research concerning care and healing, and we can think about these terms in many different ways. Present your ideas, research or opinions at the first FIRE Talk of 2013!
Friday, February 8th, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Present: http://bit.ly/QRfl4t (Deadline: January 31st)
Attend: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3920

Applied Academia
Do academics have a responsibility to apply their research, take part in community outreach projects, or extend the impact of their work beyond ‘pure research’? Is it even possible to conduct pure research, or will all research eventually be applied? Are application, activism or knowledge translation essential parts of being an academic, or a hindrance to scholars’ ability to fully and fairly consider multiple perspectives?
Thursday, February 28th, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Present: http://bit.ly/QRfl4t (Deadline: February 14th)
Attend: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3932

Citation Management Using Zotero
Monday, February 4th, 1:00 – 3:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3866
Tuesday, February 26th, 3:00 – 5:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3734

Citation Management Using RefWorks
Wednesday, February 6th, 10:00am – 12:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3863

Citation Management Using Mendeley
Thursday, February 7th, 12:00 – 2:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3870

Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean a Lot!
Wednesday, February 6th, 4:30 – 6:30pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3701
Thursday, February 14th, 4:00 – 6:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3702
Monday, February 25th, 2:00 – 4:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3704

Stay Alert! Keeping Current with Research
Friday, February 1st, 1:00 – 3:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3913

Using Data and GIS in Research
Wednesday, February 6th, 10:00 – 11:30am: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3945

Web of Science / Journal Citation Reports
Wednesday, February 6th, 12:00 – 1:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3895

Introduction to PsycINFO
Tuesday, February 12th, 11:00am – 12:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3930

Advanced Medline Searching
Thursday, February 14th, 1:00 – 2:30pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3910

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Announcements

Academic English support for graduate students‏

UBC’s Academic English Support program currently has places open for graduate students. The program offers free, individualized help from English language teaching specialists including a needs analysis, language coaching, classroom and self-access based course and resources.

 

You may find this UBC Reports article on a recent graduate’s experience of the program helpful.

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FREE – University Affairs subscription

University Affairs (UA) is an award-winning magazine read by graduate students, faculty and administrators on campuses across Canada. You may not know that as a UBC graduate student you are eligible for a free subscription (10 issues/year).

University Affairs publishes news, commentary and in-depth articles on a wide range of Canadian higher education topics. The cover story of the upcoming issue, for example, is on the need to reform the PhD to prevent students from dropping out or taking too long.

UA is Canada’s largest source of university career advertising and its website regularly includes postings for postdocs and research associates. It also offers career advice, with a particular focus on graduate students and younger faculty.

If you unfamiliar with University Affairs magazine, you can view a sample digital edition online. Redeeming your free subscription is easy. Just visit universityaffairs.ca and sign up for the print edition, the digital edition or both today! Please note that UA can only deliver its free print edition to UBC campus addresses.

http://www.universityaffairs-digital.com/ua/201101#pg1

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Funding and Awards Publication Opportunities

Arts-based competition on water‏

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies is running a student competition for arts-based presentations of still images/works or performance/video pieces of 4 to 10 minutes on the topic of water (“the piece”).

In September 2013, the Peter Wall Institute will host a public panel discussion on the need for cross-disciplinary strategies to deal with the global, financial, ecological and societal issues relating to water. The panel will take place at UBC during a conference of University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study, bringing together more than 90 international scholars from around the world.  To help showcase these issues, the Institute is awarding up to four student prizes for an arts-based piece on some aspect of water.

Full information can be found in the attached application form, provided in a PDF and Word document format. Call for Proposals Water Student Prizes

Please help us to attract the most creative and timely applications by circulating this notice and accompanying application form to the students in your department or faculty.

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Graduate Program Opportunities

Study Abroad – information about Southwest University scholarship application

There are three levels of the scholarships – from the Chinese government, from the Chongqing government and from the President of our university. Please give this information to your students who are interested in studying in China, maybe this will be helpful to them.

Graduate students program of Southwest University

Mayor scholarship application

Southwest university president schloarship program

Southwest University President scholarship application

2013-2014 Chinese Government Scholarship

2013-2014 Mayor Scholarship

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CSSE Funding and Awards

CSSE ARTS GRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD

Open to Masters and PhD Applications:

The award is offered for a completed scholarly project, thesis, or dissertation in the area of arts research and teaching. The work must have been accepted within two years prior to the year of the conference.

Graduates of Canadian universities or Canadians who have studied abroad are eligible for the award.

Criteria
All modes of inquiry are invited as are all modes of reporting. The submission will be examined by three experienced and active members of the ARTS SIG for the following:

Significance

* Relevance for contemporary arts researching and teaching
* Contribution to innovative arts teaching and/or arts research practices

Substance

* Compelling and provocative questions
* Adequate summary of the supporting literature
* Methodology and research process clearly explained
* Quality of reporting and writing

Distinctiveness

* Artistic merit
* Offers important new perspectives or ways of thinking about arts research and teaching

Eligibility

The winner must be a member of CSSE, CACS, and ARTS.

Submission Requirements

1. Interested applicants should submit the following:

2. A PDF copy of the signed committee acceptance of the dissertation/thesis/project.

3. An abstract of 1000-1500 words outlining: the problem(s) / question(s) addressed in the study, a brief review of the major literature, the design methodology, the major conclusions, and a statement of significance.

4. A PDF or link to the full project, thesis, or dissertation.

Deadline: March 15, 2013.
Please send applications to: John J. Guiney Yallop: johnj.guineyyallop@acadiau.ca

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Conferences

Call for Proposals – Asia Pacific Policy Studies 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference

The MA Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) students are looking for presenters for their annual two-day conference to be held on April 5 and 6 on the UBC campus.

MAAPPS Call for Abstracts

This year’s theme is ‘People, Place and Policy’. Could you please forward the attached call for abstracts to your faculty and graduate students?  We apologize in advance for any cross-posting.

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Announcements

Changes to Student Visa Policies

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has proposed several changes to student visa policies (which were announced on December 29, 2012. This survey is intended to obtain your thoughts on the proposed changes. UBC and the AMS will be using the results from this survey to guide and form a submission to the Federal Government communicating their position and that of UBC students.

The changes are far-reaching and are currently open for public comment. Sent jointly by the Alma Mater Society, UBC’s International Student Development at International House and the International Students’ Association, this brief message is the first of several messages you will receive on this topic. Your feedback will help the AMS and UBC craft our formal submissions to CIC on these issues.

We invite you to take five minutes to send us your feedback through a short survey. The survey closes at midnight on Sunday, February 3. Your responses will be confidential and anonymous and will not affect your standing as a UBC student or a member of the AMS.  You can link to the survey at http://almamatersociety.wufoo.com/forms/proposed-student-visa-changes-survey/

If these changes are made law, the impacts for you could be:

– you could be allowed to hold a study permit only if you attend an institution designated by the province to host international students; UBC is expected to be on the list of designated institutions, so UBC students could still be eligible to apply for study permits

– you could be required to actively pursue studies after arrival in Canada in order to hold your study permit

– if you are in an academic program of at least six months, you could be eligible to work off-campus part-time without a work permit as soon as you begin studies

– if you are a new visitor, you could be eligible to apply for an initial study permit from within the country, if you fit the proposed list of programs

– other student work programs are not expected to change, including on-campus work, co-op work permit, spouse/partner work permit and post-graduation work permit

– the ability to study without a study permit in a program of less than six months as a new visitor or worker is not expected to change

For the full text of the proposed changes, see http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2012/2012-12-29/html/reg1-eng.html.

Thank you for taking time to tell us what you think about the proposed changes. Feel free to contact me with any questions about the survey or the proposed changes.

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Investigating Our Practices 2013 – Call for Proposals – REMINDER

Investigating Our Practices 2013

16th Annual Conference

Saturday, May 11, 2013, 8:30am – 1:30pm

Neville Scarfe Building, UBC

Please join us for IOP 2013, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Education and the BC Teachers’ Federation.  Practicing teachers, graduate students, undergraduate students, and university educators from different educational contexts will convene in the Scarfe Building to share their investigations, understandings and questions.

Call for Proposals

Proposals for presentations can be submitted online at http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/iop-cfp. Submission deadline:  February 26, 2013.  In recognition of the Faculty’s Year of Indigenous Education http://yie.educ.ubc.ca/, we welcome proposals related to this theme.  Questions about your proposal?  Contact Tony Clarke (anthony.clarke@ubc.ca) or Anne Phelan (anne.phelan@ubc.ca).

For more information about IOP or to register for the conference, visit http://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/iop2013 or contact Judy Paley (judy.paley@ubc.ca).  Registration fee:  $25 ($15 for students).  Breakfast, refreshments and lunch included. We hope to see you there!

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Conferences Publication Opportunities

Call for Proposals – Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS)

Centre for International Peace and Security Studies Present the

11th Annual Graduate Student Conference, May 6th 2013

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Expanding the Security Landscape: From New Threats to Novel Issues

  CIPSS is organizing its 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference entitled, Expanding the Security Landscape: From New Threats to Novel Issues.  This one-day event will entail four separate panel presentations and discussions organized around theoretical and practical sub-themes with an overarching goal of fostering interdisciplinary and inter-issue area discussion around the expanding Security Studies sub-field.

We are looking for theoretically and practically oriented contributions from various academic disciplines on the following topics:

~ Cyber Warfare

~ Emerging Technologies of Security (Drones and Social Media)

~ WMD Proliferation and Strategic Stability

~ Institutional Roles of IGOs, NGOs, and Regional Organizations (UN, NATO, ASEAN, EU, etc.)

~ Insurgency/Counter-Insurgency and Terrorism

~ Environmental Security and Resource Scarcity (Arctic, Water, Oil, etc.)

~ Immigration Policy

~ Human and Food Security

~ Societal and Identity Security

~ Gender Issues and Security

Papers can be presented either in English or in French.

Please send a 300-word abstract to: cipss.graduate.conference@gmail.com.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 15th 2013

Pending the availability of funds, limited travel and accommodation subsidies may be provided to presenters outside the immediate Montreal area.

For more information, please email: cipss.graduate.conference@gmail.com

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Conferences

Call for Abstracts – Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Vancouver BC‏

The UBC Graduate Student Council of Sociology (GSCS) seeks paper proposals for its sixth annual interdisciplinary graduate conference, “Agency, Power, and Structure: Navigating the Social World” taking place May 10-11, 2013 at the University of British Columbia. Please see the attached poster.

The conference is an avenue for graduate students from multiple departments and institutions to come together to share empirical research and theoretical insights on our changing social world. Papers, panels, posters or multi-media presentations are welcome. All topics and frameworks are encouraged, however we especially seek submissions that critically engage with themes of social change, social justice, collective action, new technology, and other issues that take into account recent local and international developments. Please feel free to submit an individual abstract or propose a panel along with other students.

Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to: UBC.GSCS@gmail.com with the subject heading “GSCS 2013 Conference Abstract.” The deadline for abstracts is: April 1st, 2013.

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Funding and Awards Office of Graduate Programs - FoE

Graduate Student Funding

The OGPR is pleased to announce the availability of the 2012-2013 Faculty of Education Graduate Student Research Grant funding initiative.  The grant is not designed to be a salary grant.  The principal goal of this initiative is to reimburse UBCV Faculty of Education graduate students for the financial costs of conducting research projects necessary for the completion of their degree and is designed to cover your research or project expenses only.  The award values are up to $1,000 to successful graduate students (Magistral and Doctoral).

Please note: Graduate students cannot receive this award more than once during a given degree program.

New criteria this year:
Please note that over the past 3 years there have been an average number of 35 applications to this initiative and an average of 11 were funded.  These awards were successful based on the following: a) a strong student statement regarding their Research Proposal and a fully justified Budget; b) the student C.V. and, c) a high grade point average.

Also, please note that although the signature of your Supervisor is not required on the application form, they are still required to read and check off that they fully support your application to this grant.

For more information, as well as the Application Form, the Terms of Reference & Instructions, Graduate Student CV, a Sample Graduate Student CV as well as the General UBC Policies on Reimbursement and Payment for Work and other related materials, please go to the following website: http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/funding/education.html.

Application Deadline to OGPR: 4:00pm, Monday, February 18, 2013.

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Funding and Awards

The Governor General’s Gold Medal

The OGPR would like to bring to your attention the following information on a graduate dissertation award competition.

Please note that the internal Faculty of Education deadline for submission of applications to the OGPR is 4:00pm, Tuesday, February 12, 2013.

The Governor General’s Gold Medal

At the May 2013 Congregation ceremony, a gold medal is awarded to the UBC graduate student whose record is the best in the graduating class for the Doctoral degree.  A second gold medal is awarded to the graduate student whose record is the best in the graduating class for the Master’s degree with thesis.  Specific nomination guidelines, criteria and a list of required documentation are available on the FoGS website at: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/governor-generals-gold-medal

Please note: SIS printouts, signed and stamped by the Department are acceptable as substitutes for official transcripts.

Eligibility note:  Students must have submitted the final copy of their theses to the Faculty of Graduate Studies between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2012.

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Announcements

Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence

DEAN’S AWARD FOR STAFF EXCELLENCE
FACULTY OF EDUCATION

Each year, the Dean extends the Faculty’s appreciation for the valuable contributions of our staff through an award for staff excellence.  This award recognizes excellence in staff service and support within the Faculty. The awardee will have their name entered on the Staff Excellence award plaque and which will receive $1,000.
All permanent full-time and part-time staff with appointments of two years or more in the Faculty of Education are eligible. Consideration will be given to those candidates who have contributed significantly to workplace productivity, quality of service and team morale through their general attitude, performance and activity.  They will have demonstrated enthusiasm, integrity and leadership and shown a dedication to improving the sense of community and team spirit within their workplace.
Nominations must be submitted by 3 individuals comprised of Faculty, staff and/or students who will each provide a one-page letter of support that clearly addresses the considerations described above, and provides specific examples.
Nominations will be submitted to the Unit Head/Director by Friday, March 15, 2013  and will be forwarded to Jacinta Harris-Marcadier, Executive Administrator with the Head’s or Director’s comments by Friday, March 29, 2013.

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