Day: January 30, 2013

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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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Announcements

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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