Day: April 22, 2013

Office of Graduate Programs - FoE Publication Opportunities

New upcoming GPS sessions, 3MT videos‏

Post author By Andrea
Post date April 22, 2013
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Did you miss the Three Minute Thesis finals? Videos are now available for viewing at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JAfS6VQqkxCwy0FAPB5JO820KU50hCl . Please note that the semi-finalist videos will be posted here in the next two weeks. A congratulations to all the graduate students who presented this year for their outstanding presentations!

The Mitacs Step program is running a Foundations of Project Management workshop in Vancouver on May 16^th and 17^th. Registration for this session will open this coming Wednesday, April 24^th at 12:00 PM PST. Information may be found at: https://step.mitacs.ca/calendar/2013-05-16

I’ve recently added several GPS workshops to the May and June calendar. Upcoming workshops include:

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 – Doctoral Exam Preparation and Thesis Submission (WEBINAR)

Monday, May 13, 2013 – Getting Back on Track with your Thesis

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 – Management Essentials for Leadership

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 – Interviews with Impact (with Centre for Student Involvement & Careers)

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 – Resume and Cover Letter Clinic (with Centre for Student Involvement & Careers)

Thursday, June 6, 2013 – 1:30pm – Scholar, Blogger, Tweeter, Author: Building Your Academic Profile (with the Library)

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 – Discovering the Entrepreneur Within (with Mitacs Step)

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 -Job Search Strategies (with Centre for Student Involvement & Careers)

Thursday, June 13, 2013 – Breaking Patterns of Procrastination (with the UBC Life & Career Centre)

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 – Writing with Integrity

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 – Basics of Intellectual Property (with Mitacs Step)

In scheduling progress: Copyright for your Thesis, Scholarships & Awards

Please note that registration for each workshop opens on Monday, one week prior to the workshop.

Announcements Department Events

May 6 – Introducing Prof Lynn Mario de Souza‏

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Post date April 22, 2013
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This is just a brief note to introduce Prof Lynn Mario de Souza from the University of Sao Paulo (USP), who will visit UBC from 3 to 7 May. I have had the pleasure of working in collaboration with Prof de Souza for the past 12 years, researching, teaching, learning, and publishing together internationally. One of his doctoral students has just applied to spend a period at UBC and we hope a formal partnership with UBC will be formalized soon, so that doctoral students here can also choose to spend some time at USP. As a mentor, Lynn has thought me about the joys and importance of nurturing vibrant and challenging intellectual communities, and to always look at things ‘differently’, which, I think has something to do with his own very intriguing background. I will not attempt to describe his area of research here – I am sending you a sample of his work instead.

You are all warmly invited to join us on May 6 at 12:30 pm at the Ponderosa G lounge. Lynn will also be available to meet students from 3 to 4:30 pm on the same day.

Publication Opportunities

Special issue of McGill Journal of Education‏

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Post date April 22, 2013
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Call for papers / Appel de textes

Special Issue Focus: Multimedia in/as scholarship

Anila Asghar and Teresa Strong-Wilson (McGill University) invite submissions for a special issue of the McGill Journal of Education on Multimedia in/as Scholarship. This issue invites scholars from a wide variety of disciplines in education to explore the use of multimedia in/as research. It comes in the wake of the increasing proliferation of multimedia tools within scholarship generally yet the relative paucity of multimedia within scholarly articles, even those that claim to push boundaries. We believe that this is because, despite the move to e-books and e-journals, the imprint of paper (i.e., the static, print-bound PDF) remains dominant, profoundly influencing the ways in which scholarship is presented, shared and becomes re-legitimized. This special issue invites scholars using multimedia in their research to submit pieces that creatively engage with multimedia, or with the embedding of multimedia, within their scholarship (e.g., artful visual and/or audio artifacts or productions, blogging, digital storytelling, imovies, podcasts, photoessays, photographs, social media, wikis, etc.). We invite those working in various disciplines within education (e.g., arts, curriculum, digital media, literacy, science & math, scholarship of practice, social justice education & peace studies, social studies, teacher education, etc.) and drawing on various methodologies (e.g., arts-based, ethnographic, memory work, participatory forms of research, self-study, etc.) to consider submitting to this issue. We also encourage submissions from new scholars and doctoral students.

Submissions may be for blind peer-reviewed articles or non-peer-reviewed Notes from the Field (see descriptions under Author Guidelines here: http://mje.mcgill.ca/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions). We also welcome 1-page proposals for a MJE Discussion Forum that would take up issues arising from the use of multimedia in/as scholarship; possible issues could be: how to better connect cutting-edge teaching with research; ethical issues in multimedia scholarship; the implications of multimedia for doctoral formation, academic careers, and tenure; the impact of multimedia on disciplines, research methodologies and/or research methods courses.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: September 30th, 2013

• Please submit papers online following the procedures found here: http://mje.mcgill.ca/about/submissions

• Please indicate that the submission is for the special issue on “Multimedia in/as Scholarship”