Month: November 2013

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Funding and Awards

Upcoming External Award Competitions

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme

The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD studies in Hong Kong’s institutions.

Deadline: December 2, 2013

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/hong-kong-phd-fellowship-scheme

 

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship

The Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship (SNSF) Program, made possible by a generous grant from the Stanton Foundation, offers younger scholars studying nuclear security issues the opportunity to spend a period of twelve months at the Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) offices in New York or Washington, DC, conducting policy-relevant research.

Deadline: December 16, 2013

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/stanton-nuclear-security-fellowship

 

Science Policy Fellowships

The Science Policy Fellowships program gives health researchers and trainees the opportunity to gain real world experience in health policy making. Researchers from all areas of health can apply to spend six to twelve months in a policy setting where they will work as part of a policy team.

Deadline: December 16, 2013

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/science-policy-fellowships

 

Graduate Student International Research Mobility Award

These awards support UBC graduate students who wish to participate in research abroad at a leading institution outside of North America, and UBC faculty who wish to host an international graduate student at UBC from a non-North American institution.

Deadline: January 10, 2014 – for travel May 1st or later

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/graduate-student-international-research-mobility-award

 

UBC Biodiversity Research Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship

As a part of the NSERC CREATE training program in biodiversity research, the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre is seeking applicants for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship.

Deadline: January 13, 2014

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/ubc-biodiversity-research-centre-postdoctoral-fellowship

 

Karl C. Ivarson Scholarship for Students in Soil Science and Related Studies

Dr. Karl C. Ivarson Scholarship provides financial support to students entering second or subsequent year of graduate studies in soil science (in areas of agriculture, environment, geology, agro-ecology or other related disciplines). Candidates must hold Canadian Citizenship or Permanent Residence status in Canada and be enrolled in their graduate program for at least one semester beyond the application deadline.

Deadline: January 17, 2014

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/karl-c-ivarson-scholarship-students-soil-science-related-studies

 

London Goodenough Association of Canada Scholarship

Scholarships are offered towards the cost of accommodation at Goodenough College, the pre-eminent residential college for international graduate students in London.

Deadline: January 27, 2014

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/london-goodenough-association-canada-scholarship

 

Canadian Northern Studies Trust Awards

The Canadian Northern Studies Awards support students undertaking research that includes northern or circumpolar fieldwork.

Deadline: January 31, 2014

More info: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canadian-northern-studies-trust-awards

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Announcements

NewsFlash #649, November 29, 2013‏

UBC Faculty of Education NewsFlash for Graduate Students #649

November 29, 2013

The Office of Graduate Programs and Research | Faculty of Education | UBC Vancouver

For more information on any of the items or copies of previous NewsFlashes, please e-mail: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca, or call: 604-822-5512, Fax: 604-822-8971.  Please visit http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/newsflash for all new and current NewsFlash items. For UBC-wide events, please visit Live @ UBC: http://www.liveat.ubc.ca.

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Announcements Department Events

Dec 7 – EDCP Winter Party 2013!‏

You’re invited to the End of Term Winter Solstice Party!!

Please RSVP to Kalie Fong at kalie.fong@ubc.ca by November 29,2013.

 

Regards,

EDCP, Faculty of Education, UBC

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

GSS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Graduate Students,

You ought to help us fill the GSS Food Bin! The GSS has organized a food donation bin at the Graduate Student Centre (#225-6371 Crescent Rd) to support families in need get through the winter holidays. Do your bit to help by dropping off either canned or non-perishable food.

UBC Updates:
The GSS would like to congratulate Dr. Susan Porter on her appointment as the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies! Dr. Porter has been serving as Dean pro tem since 2011, and we at the GSS are excited to continue working with her!

– Read the November Senate Update! The meeting impacted several disciplines/Areas of study including: UBC Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health, Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Law, Master of International Forestry Program, and UBC policy on Open Access.

GSS Advocacy & Lobbying:
– Last week was the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) advocacy week. UBC Advocacy team lobbied specifically around graduate student funding, representation on tri-councils and mental health.

– The first meeting of the Alliance of British Columbia Students (ABCS) will happen this weekend. Got some good ideas? Get involved with the GSS Academic and External Committee!

– And: GSS Needs You to come to our Advocacy event in January. We especially mean to use it to lobby for better graduate student funding at UBC. Details forthcoming!

GSS Social & Recreational Events:
– Free GSS Bellydancing Fitness Workshop – Comes ahead of our planned class  starting next semester and check it out! (One Class Only: Monday, Dec 9)

– Coffee’ll Fix it! VP Finance Lili Meng will talk about the funds available at GSS for graduate student organizations/associations and GSS plans for future expenditure. Don’t miss it!

Outstanding Graduate Students Fêted:
– The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Awards Announced! Congratulations to Sam Bailey, Shona Robinson and Christian Brady!!

– Emily Morris, a UBC Master’s of Sciences in Genetic Counseling student, wins the Canada MITACS Master’s Award for Outstanding Innovation for her work on genetics and mental health. Congratulations!

Opportunities: 
– GSS sponsors the Third Student-Based Biomaterials Symposium! Send in your abstract by the end of this week!

Peace,

Ngwatilo

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Publication Opportunities

Call for Papers: The Media and the NeoLiberal Priatization of Education

Call for Papers / Proposals

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1. Special Series
Call for Manuscripts
Critical Education

The Media and the Neoliberal Privatization of Education
Series editors: Derek R. Ford (Syracuse University), Brad Porfilio
(Lewis University), Rebecca A.Goldstein (Montclair State University)

Abstracts due: Dec. 31, 2013
Manuscripts due: May 1, 2014

As the neoliberal agenda for public education in North America intensifies, educational literature has increasingly turned its attention toward understanding the logics and processes of neoliberal privatization. Additionally, attention has been paid as to how educators resist these processes and practices, both in the classroom and beyond. This special issue seeks to deepen our understanding of the neoliberal privatization of education by extending critical examinations to an underrepresented field of cultural production: that
of mainstream media reporting on education and the neoliberal privatization of education, which many believe represents a new round of primitive accumulation. By examining and analyzing the mainstream media’s relationship to the processes in which neoliberal education ideologies are constructed, reflected, and reified, articles in this issue will explicate the various ways in which the mainstream media has helped facilitate and legitimate neoliberalism as a universal logic in reforming education, both locally and globally. Articles will also speak to how critical educations have guided students in K-20 schools to understand the mainstream media’s relationship to supporting the neoliberal takeover of schools.

We welcome conceptual, empirical, theoretical, pedagogical and narrative articles that approach this topic from a variety of perspectives and frameworks. Articles included in the special issue may ask and examine questions such as, but not limited to: How has media coverage of teachers’ unions and teachers’ strikes reinforced and/or advanced privatization? What shift has taken place in terms of who is positioned in the media as educational “experts”? What are the differences between the way that various major news networks, newspapers, and news magazines talk about educational privatization? How are Teach For America and Teach For All being propelled by media coverage? What are the variations in media coverage of the neoliberal agenda for education? What are the alternatives and prospects for challenges to the mainstream media? How has ALEC impacted school reform policies and practices on the state level and to what extent has the media covered it? How have critical educators positioned their students to understand the  mainstream media’s role in supporting the corporate agenda for schooling?

Critical Education is an international peer-reviewed journal, which seeks manuscripts that critically examine contemporary education contexts and practices. Critical Education is interested in theoretical and empirical research as well as articles that advance educational practices that challenge the existing state of affairs in society, schools, and informal education.

An early expression of interest and a 250-500 word abstract is preferred by December 31, 2013. Please address correspondence to drford@syr.edu, and include “Critical Education” in the subject line.

For details on manuscript submission see: http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/information/authors

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Conferences

International Educational Technology Conference 2014‏

TASET ORGANIZES IETC 2014 CONFERENCE

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
IETC 2014
CHICAGO – USA

3-5 September 2014

www.iet-c.net

Call for papers

IETC 2014 seeks a diverse and comprehensive program covering all areas of educational technology. The program includes a wide range of activities designed to facilitate the exchange of expertise, experience, and resources with colleagues. These include keynote and invited talks, full and brief paper presentations, panels and round table discussion sessions.

We would like to invite you to share your experience and your papers with academicians, teachers and professionals. 

Conference Language

The official languages of the conference are English and Turkish. Proposals can be sent and be presented in either language. But all submission proccess will be done in English. Please, submit your proposal according to the following presentation category descriptions in paper guidelines.

Conference Venue

IETC 2014 will be held at American Islamic College, AIC Campus 640 W. Irving Park Rd. Chicago, IL, USA.

Deadlines

Abstract Deadline : Until July 5, 2014

Full Article Deadline : Until July 20, 2014

Registration Fee Deadline : Until August 5, 2014

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Announcements News from the Outside World

New Dean and Vice-Provost, UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Announced‏

To: All members of the UBC Vancouver community, faculty, postdoctoral fellows, students, and staff

From: David H. Farrar, Provost and Vice-President Academic

Re: Selection of a Dean, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; and Vice-Provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

It is my pleasure to announce that the Board of Governors has accepted the President’s recommendation to appoint Dr. Susan Porter as Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, and Vice-Provost, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, for a three-year term commencing December 1, 2013.  She has been serving in the role as Dean pro tem since April, 2011.

Dr. Porter holds a clinical professorial position in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine.   She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Brunswick in 1980 and her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of British Columbia in 1988.  She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia from 1989 – 1991, and joined UBC as a faculty member in 1991.  After an initial focus on basic research in molecular genetics, she moved to molecular-based diagnostics development and oversight, serving as Scientist for the Division of Medical Microbiology & Infection Control at Vancouver General Hospital for 15 years.

Dr. Porter’s administrative service at UBC includes:  Graduate Advisor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Assistant Dean, Graduate & Postdoctoral Education in the Faculty of Medicine; Associate Dean, Professional Development, in the Faculty of Graduate Studies; and most recently, Dean pro tem in the Faculty of Graduate Studies since 2011, following the early resignation of Dean Barbara Evans.

I am grateful to Dr. Porter for accepting the role and appreciate her strong leadership.  Susan cares deeply about the graduate and postdoctoral experience, and has been a tireless advocate for strategies to attract and retain the best graduate students from around the world.  She has championed improved support for graduate students and has overseen fundamental changes to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.  She brings a strong commitment to academic formation and professional development of graduate and postdoctoral fellows.  Her efforts to promote career-related development and the preparation of research-based learners not only to create new knowledge and ways of understanding, but to use that knowledge and skill with “integrity, responsibility, and generosity”, are helping to prepare graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who will make a positive difference in the world.

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Announcements

Tomorrow (Nov 27) – End of Term Social

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Publication Opportunities

Call for papers: TOJDEL

Dear colleagues,

We would like to bring your attention to our open access journal, The Online Journal of Distance Education and e-Learning. TOJDEL is an online international electronic journal that covers valuable research articles from international research agenda. The content of TOJDEL relates to distance education and e-learning studies.

Colleagues interested in submitting a paper for review can email to tojdel.editor@gmail.com . Potential articles are reviewed by members of our editorial review committee.

For any questions you have please do not hesitate to contact us at tojdel.editor@gmail.com .

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Employment

Postdoc job posting – Teaching Learning Fellow in Nursing Ed‏

From: Han, Andrea
Sent: November-25-13 3:36 PM
To: Zurek, Basia; Abah, Sandra
Subject: FW: Postdoc job posting – Teaching Learning Fellow in Nursing Ed

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Teaching and Learning Fellow – School of Nursing Flexible Learning Initiative – 2014-2015

The School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia Vancouver invites applications for a one year term full time position of Teaching and Learning Fellow (STLF) for the Flexible Learning Initiative.

The School of Nursing is an outstanding academic unit, has an international reputation for research and scholarship, and has a vision characterized by social relevance and excellence. We offer a full range of innovative programs, including an intensive upper-division BSN, MN-NP, MSN and PhD program.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. in education or curriculum studies, and a background in education of health disciplines is strongly preferred.

Expected start date for this position is January 2014. Applications, including curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching interests, and philosophy must be submitted online at http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers-postings/faculty.php. The full advertisement is available on the UBC Careers faculty posting page http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers-postings/faculty.php. Further information regarding the University of British Columbia, School of Nursing is available at www.nursing.ubc.ca and information on the employment environment in the Faculty of Applied Science is available at http://www.apsc.ubc.ca/careers.

The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply, however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. All positions are subject to final budgetary approval.
Applications are accepted anytime up to December 12, 2013.

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Employment

GAA Posting – Tri-Nations Conference

Tri-Nations 2014 – GAA Posting

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Announcements Speakers

Dec 13th – EDCP Lecture Series: Peter Grimmett

Date:            Friday, Dec 13th 2013

Venue:         Scarfe Room 1107

Time:            12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Title:             The Meaning of Curriculum is a Complicated Conversation: The Purpose of Curriculum is to render a Complicated Worldview

Speaker:       Peter Grimmett, Professor and Head, EDCP

Abstract:

When we are caught off-guard or in our dark moments, we exhibit the secret thoughts that mark our ethical dealings with alterity. A complicated worldview implies we must possess an understanding of our dealings with the “Other” that runs deep in our “Being”, what Heidegger referred to as “das Dasein”.

I use the symbolism of water to represent such a worldview. Penelope (in Homer’s Odyssey) had to become as water when she enacted her scheme to ravel and unravel a shroud for her ailing father-in-law. Like water in a stream with a logjam, when problems seem intractable and insurmountable, a complicated worldview is a source of life that finds a way.

To illustrate my argument, I examine the lives of persons with a complicated worldview. David Rakoff, a self-described gay Jewish Canadian transplant to New York City, knew the world is tragic and full of injustices, against which we have to fight; but our weapons are to be love, kindness, and beauty. Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, two South African resistance fighters, and Greg Boyle, a Los Angeles Catholic priest, also exhibit complicated worldviews that enable them, in their inured fight against ravaging injustice, to maintain a human kinship with the “Other”.

 

Bio:

Peter P. Grimmett is Professor and Head of the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). A former Associate Dean at Simon Fraser University (SFU), he also served as Director of the Institute for Studies in Teacher Education at SFU, was appointed by the BC Cabinet as the BC Deans of Education appointment to the Council of the BC College of Teachers (the professional body that governed teaching and teacher education in the province) between 2007-2010. He has recently been involved in a five-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) -funded $2.5 million Canada-wide study of the impact of public policy decisions on conditions of teaching and learning, completed a review of teacher education program accreditation for the province of Ontario, chaired the Academy of Finland’s expert panel adjudicating the Finnish social science research grants competition, and given keynote addresses at international conferences in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto (Canada), Kansas City, Honolulu, and Seattle (USA), Oslo (Norway), Stockholm (Sweden), Lahti, Tampere, and Helsinki (Finland), Tel Aviv (Israel), Llubjana (Slovenia), Queensland (Australia), and, most recently, Seoul (South Korea).

In total, he has published 48 refereed journal articles, written 11 books and 39 chapters in books, and in May 2000, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tampere, Finland, in recognition of his outstanding merits as a researcher and educator in the areas of professional development and teacher education. His most recent (2012) book (written with Jon Young), Teacher certification and the Professional Status of Teaching in North America: The New Battleground for Public Education (Information Age Publishing) locates recent developments in teacher certification in North America within a broader, international policy context characterized as hegemonic neo-liberalism wherein economic rationalism has begun to trump professional judgment.

Light lunch served at noon in Scarfe 1223.  The Lecture commences at 12:30 pm in Scarfe 1107. 

There is no need to RSVP.

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Announcements Speakers

Nov 28 – Education Research and Teacher Practice: Inspiring Educators Series

This is a gentle reminder that the Office of Graduate Programs and Research will be presenting the first session of the “Education Research and Teacher Practice: Inspiring Educators Series” this week. Throughout this cycle of round tables and discussion panels, current incumbents of our Faculty Chairs and Professorships will share how their research is informing current teacher education practices in British Columbia and beyond.

Featuring the following panelists:

 

·         Dr. Linda Farr Darling / Eleanor Rix Professorship in Rural Teacher Education

·         Dr. Shelley Hymel / Edith Lando Professorship in Social and Emotional Learning

·         Dr. Linda Siegel / Dorothy Lam Chair in Special Education

·         Dr. Monica Pamer / Superintendent of Schools, School District No. 38 (Richmond)

Join the conversation and become inspired by the amazing research that is taking place in our Faculty of Education.

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities Speakers

GPS workshops: space available in Networking (@VGH) + Resume Clinic (@MCLD) + 3MT news‏

There are still spaces available in this week’s workshops:

GPS/Mitacs Step: Networking (@VGH site)

Wednesday, Nov 27th, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/9909-gpsmitacs-step-event-networking

To register, see: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2da2

 

GPS/CSI&C: Resume Clinic (@MCLD)

Thursday, Nov 28th, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10597-gpscsic-event-resume-clinic

To register, see:  https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2da3

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Funding and Awards

IGSPP Academic Planning job posting‏

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