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Removing the Invisibility Cloak: The Impact of Professional Schools of Education and Social Work on the Lives of Aboriginal Children and Youth Through Their Instructional and Curricular Choices With Drs. Maggie Kovach, Jeannine Carrier, and Harpell Montgomery Monday January 27th Noon to 2 p.m. Sty-Wet-tan Hall, First Nations House of Learning Lunch Provided If you have not already, please remember to rsvp for catering purposes (jan.hare@ubc.ca<mailto:jan.hare@ubc.ca>)
Just wanted to let you know about this amazing event which will take place March 8. Early bird registration ends January 31, 2014!
Serendipity 2014: Children’s Literature in a Digital Age
Saturday, March 8 2014
UBC Education Building: 2125 Main Mall
8am-4pm (lunch is included)
From practical advice on using literature-based apps with children to learning how authors and illustrators are using social media and electronic publishing, Serendipity 2014 is a must-attend event for educators, librarians, researchers and literature lovers looking to the future of books for young people.
We have invited presenters that are not only at the forefront of the rapidly-evolving world of technology and children’s books, but are also dynamic, engaging and will leave you inspired and full of ideas:
- Paul Zelinsky (@paulozelinsky): Caldecott-winning illustrator of over two dozen books
- Arthur Slade (@arthurslade): Governor-general’s award-winning author
- John an style=’font-size:12.0pt;font-family:”Garamond”,”serif”;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA’> (@MrSchuReads): Library Journal Mover and Shaker, elementary school teacher-librarian, blogger, 2014 Newbery Committee member
- Travis Jonker (@100scopenotes): School Library Journal blogger, elementary school teacher-librarian, 2014 Caldecott Committee member
- Tim Federle (@TimFederle): Author of Better Nate Than Ever and the forthcoming sequel Five, Six, Seven, Nate! (January 2014)
- Hadley Dyer (@hedyer): Winner of the Information Book Award for Potatoes on Rooftops: Farming in the City
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION until January 31, 2014: Members $150, Non-Members $165, Students $75
REGULAR REGISTRATION starts February 1, 2014: Members $200, Non-Members $215, Students $100
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 at 12:30PM - 2:00PM This interactive workshop is designed to help you understand the ethical issues present in your research while at the same time giving you hands on assistance navigating the UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board (BREB) online application process. You may start your BREB application in t= he workshop or continue to work on one that you have already started. Those who are not ready to start their own application will be directed to create a practice application in the session. The workshop will be facilitated by a member of the BREB administration and the UBC RISe team (computer interface). The session will be approximately 1.5 hours. Facilitators: Snezana Milosevic and Jean Ruiz Registration: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4592
Dear Graduate Students,
Are you looking for
a) a break from your academic life
b) an excuse to escape the glare from your computer screen
c) a cheap dinner option
d) a reason to put on your old dancing shoes
e) good music and fun times
f) all of the above?
You’re in luck! The Graduate Student Society is hosting a New Term Party this Friday, January 24th in the GSS Ballroom. Tickets are $10 for grad students and $15 for non-grads… Unlike cover at a club downtown this cost not only includes a professional DJ and a floor to dance on… it also provides you with free food! (We also promise not to charge you for coat-check 
). Tickets can be purchased online or in person at the GSS Office.
GSS Workshops & Classes:
– You can still sign up to learn French or “Fall in love” in our January GSS Art Class. Swahili is on offer via the UBC Linguistics Department.
– Get active again in 2014, take better care of your body, burn some calories, make a friend, schedule an energizing study break for the semester, inject more fun in your life: Sign up for a GSS Fitness Class! Classes started this week and Zumba is full up. But you can still sign up for Pilates, Yoga, and Bellydance Fitness. Do it.
GSS Elections:
– GSS Elections Candidates Videos Are Now Out! In an effort to introduce you to the candidates running for office in this year’s GSS Elections, we’ve made some videos to share with you! Check them out!
GSS Social & Recreational:
– Sign up for the GSS’s Feb 8th Ski trip to Cypress! The Registration deadline is Feb 1. Commit fast, There are limited spots.
– Would you like to learn how to Ice Skate? The GSS is offering lessons starting January 24th. Register Now!
– The GSS & The Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) warmheartedly invites you to our Spring Festival Gala to Celebrate the arrival of Chinese New Year – the year of the horse!
– The GSS would like to run regular social events for current graduate students and needs your feedback about the types of activities you are interested in. Thank you to everyone who’s responded to this already. Please add your thoughts! Would you be interested in Weekly coffee socials at the GSS? Monthly socials at Koerner’s Pub? Off-campus events such as trivia night, the film festival or live music venues? Please complete the (very short) survey so that we can begin organizing something that works for you! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NYPLXMX
Did you see this Grad Student Resolutions? It’s not that bad, right? We Can do it all! Or not.
Catch some sun. Vitamin D helps everything.
Ngwatilo
Wednesday January 29, 2014, 12-1pm Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (www.grsj.arts.ubc.ca) Jack Bell Building, 2080 West Mall, Room 028, UBC Directions to Office 038, Jack Bell Building: http://bit.ly/R5WyjE Lunch Provided on RSVP (wynn.archibald@ubc.ca) Dr. Joy Johnson Professor, School of Nursing, UBC and Director, CIHR Institute of Gender and Health Integrating Gender Considerations in Health Research: Shaping Science for a Healthier World Failure to consider sex and gender in research can be harmful and costly. Yet, many scientists persist in the belief that either these differences do not matter, or that they can be controlled through experimental or statistical procedures. At the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health we are working toward changing the way science is conducted by influencing the structures, processes and outcomes of research. In this talk I discuss achievements, barriers, and future challenges in achieving this agenda. With an extensive background researching the role that gender plays in medical treatment, Dr. Joy Johnson is considered one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of health behaviour. She's won several awards, including a Killam research prize from UBC, which recognizes outstanding and scholarly contributions of international significance. Dr. Johnson is the Scientific Director at the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health, co-founder of the Women's Health Research Network, and a professor at UBC.
Wednesday January 22 1-2pm LIU Institute, Multipurpose Room 6476 North West Marine Drive
Dr. Alison Alkon, Assistant Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of the Pacific Black, White and Green: Food Justice, Farmers Markets and the Green Economy This talk will begin by describing the emergent concept of food justice, which is found at the nexus of inequalities and food and agricultural systems. It will lay out some of the guiding questions and theoretical antecedents that have helped to define the field. Next, Alkon will offer an example from her own ethnographic work in the San Francisco Bay Area. There, Alkon compared predominantly black and white farmers markets to better understand the ways that race and class shape the visions and goals that communities assign to sustainable agriculture. From this research she argues that both communities sought to create more just and sustainable food systems, and that efforts to do so were simultaneously inventive and limited by each market's social location. However, she also describes how economic inequalities pervade both farmers markets in ways that cannot be resolved without broader structural changes. Alkon will draw from this knowledge to comment on the field of food justice research, and to highlight potential directions for new work. Dr. Alison Alkon is Assistant Professor and Chair, Sociology at the University of the Pacific where she teaches and does research on food, the environment and inequalities of race, class and gender. Alkon's books include Black, White and Green: Race, Farmers Markets and the Green Economy and Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability (co-edited with Julian Agyeman). These works have helped to establish the growing field of Food Justice Studies which explores how inequalities affect food and agricultural systems and how communities and policy makers are responding to these inequalities. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and the Ecologies of Social Difference: Social Justice @UBC research network
Ted T. Aoki Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Curriculum Studies
All Faculty of Education PhD supervisors are invited to nominate one of their Winter 2013 PhD graduates whose work resides in the field of curriculum for the Ted T. Aoki Prize. A prize worth approximately $325 has been endowed in honour of the contributions of Professor Ted T. Aoki to recognize an excellent dissertation in the area of curriculum inquiry written by a doctoral student in the Faculty of education.
Eligibility note: Graduates must have been registered in Winter 2013 to be eligible (Terms 1 or 2). The award is made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Education.
Supervisors interested in nominating a PhD graduate should send the following documentation to the OGPR by 4:00pm, Tuesday, February 11, 2014:
– An excerpt from and/or description of the thesis research, in simple language (not exceeding 20 pages, excluding references)
– A Table of Contents of Thesis
– Nominee cover letter explaining how their dissertation/work fits the Aoki award criteria
– A letter of support from the nominator
– A letter of support from the thesis supervisor
– Copy of External Examiner’s report
– Copy of the Chair’s report
These guidelines for the Ted T. Aoki Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Curriculum Studies can also be found on the OGPR website at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/grad/funding/opportunities/
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Call for Papers – CILS SYMPOSIUM 2014
Centre for Intercultural Language Studies (CILS)
10th Annual Symposium
“Intercultural Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward.”
Friday, May 9, 2014
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
The University of British Columbia (SWINGS Bldg Venue TBA)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We are accepting submissions for presentations (20 minutes) followed by discussion (10 minutes) on topics related to intercultural issues. The theme for this year, “Intercultural Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward” is intentionally broadly-stated so as to provide a forum where multiple perspectives from across a spectrum of issues can be shared and discussed.
Reports on small/large-scale research projects, research proposals, preliminary results of ongoing work, or teaching workshops on intercultural topics are all welcome. While the working language of the Symposium is English, we encourage proposals that are written in French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. Summaries of presentations and selected peer reviewed full papers will be published in the online 2014 CILS Symposium proceedings after the symposium.
Your submission should include:
Your name(s)
Your affiliation(s) (e.g. UBC, Department of Asian Studies)
Format of presentation (paper or workshop)
A title (max. 10 words)
Abstract of your proposed presentation (max. 250 words)
Short description (max. 100 words) for inclusion in the program
Keywords (up to five)
A/V needs (all presenters will be asked to supply their own laptops). All rooms are equipped with digital projectors.
Proposals will be reviewed as they are received and authors notified as soon as possible.
This Call for Papers closes on February 28, 2013. Submit your proposal by February 28 at: cils.ubc@ubc.ca
If you have any questions, please email Natalia Balyasnikova at сils.ubc@ubc.ca
The Library and Research Commons Graduate Student Workshops series has many upcoming workshops on How to Complete your Ethics Application in RISE, Thesis Formatting, SPSS Data Mgmt, Citation Mgmt and more. See the upcoming sessions here http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/series/7 .
There is still space available for this week’s:
Friday, January 24, 9:00 – 10:30 AM Intro to Interacting with the Media:
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2f10
Registration is now open for:
Professional and Business Effectiveness
Tuesday, January 28, 9:00am to 12:30pm
For a complete session description, visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10759-gps-event-professional-business-effectiveness
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fa3
Time Management
Wednesday, January 29, 10:00am – 12:00pm
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10963-gps-workshop-time-management
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fa4
Doctoral Exam Preparation and Submitting your Thesis (Webinar):
Wednesday, January 29, 1:30pm – 4:00pm
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11017-doctoral-exam-preparation-submitting-your-thesis-webinar
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fa6
Doctoral Exam Preparation and Submitting your Thesis (In person session):
Thursday, January 30, 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Doctoral Exams and 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Thesis
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11011-doctoral-exam-preparation-submitting-your-thesis
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fc8
Copyright for your Thesis: how to use images and other material
Thursday, January 30, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11013-gpslibrary-workshop-copyright-your-thesis-how-use-images-other-material
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2fac
The symposium is a wonderful opportunity to present our research ideas to a supportive and community-oriented audience, where we can give and receive constructive feedback, engage in mentorship, and network amongst other emerging scholars. Please consider submitting your abstract – the deadline has been extended to February 7th, 2014.
Submissions are currently being accepted at: http://gradsage.com/igss-submission-form/. Also, please consider sending an email to grad.sage@ubc.ca to volunteer with either the planning committee or on the day of the event.
Best,
IGSS 2014 Planning Committee
I am pleased to announce an upcoming research symposium at SFU, which may be of interest to you and to members of your university community, titled:
Cyberbullying at Canadian Universities
Awareness around the issue of cyberbullying has grown in the last year, as has research on this problem affecting universities as well as other workplaces and educational institutions. This one-day event will:
· Bring together policy, practice, and scholarly research in order to enhance awareness and understanding of cyberbullying among various stakeholder groups;
· Develop on-going dialogue around research, applications, and policy responses to cyberbullying in Canadian universities;
· Provide an opportunity to forge strategic partnerships within our university as well as with other universities interested in creating on-going research and working groups.
This is a free, invitation-only event sponsored by four SFU groups:
· Vice-President, Academic
· Safety & Risk Services
· Faculty of Education
· Centre for Education, Law & Society
The event will take place on Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver, BC. We hope you can save this date to your calendar to join us for this exciting event.
We also hope that you can assist us in identifying key stakeholders at your university who would be interested in joining this dialogue. We will reserve a minimum number of seats for your institution and hope you can invite members of your university community to join you in attending this event. We hope to have a balanced representation in the audience of policymakers/administrators, teaching and research personnel, students, and staff. More information about the symposium and registration will soon be available on the website.
Best regards,
Chantal Faucher, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow
Centre for Education, Law and Society
Simon Fraser University
Were you a Graduate TA in the Faculty of Education in 2013-2014 or 2012-2013? Do you have positive SCETs? Has your teaching been excellent and contributed to the Faculty of Education?
Nominate yourself or ask your supervisor to nominate you for the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Teaching Awards
Three awards of a certificate and $1,000 are available this year.
Nomination packages should be submitted to the Office of Graduate Programs and Research (OGPR) by 4:00pm March 13th, 2014.
You will find full details at the following web page: http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/2014/01/17/killam-ta-award or contact the OGPR Phone: 604-822-5512 E-mail: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca
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CIHR Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement – Third round of competition
In order to allocate their full funding for the 2013/2014 fiscal year, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is holding an additional competition for the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement. Applicants will be adjudicated directly by CIHR on a first come, first served basis and are thus encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible in advance of the 30 January deadline. We will send them to Ottawa as the arrive and are checked for completeness.
Submit hard copies of application to G+PS by 4:00 p.m. 30 January, 2014
Please consult the Graduate Awards and the CIHR websites for more detail:
The contact at G+PS for this competition is Allan Lee allanlee@mail.ubc.ca.
Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship
The Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowships are available to Canadian citizens engaged in or about to start doctoral studies in Chemistry, Physics, or Electronics (including Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at UBC.
Annual Value: $6,000
Deadline: Friday, February 7, 2014
Please see the Graduate Awards website for more detailed information and application procedures: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/walter-c-sumner-memorial-fellowship
Our contact at the Faculty of Graduate Studies for this competition is Allan Lee, who can be reached at: allanlee@mail.ubc.ca
Governor General’s Gold Medal
Please be aware of the deadline for the following competition, which is open to nominations from all graduate programs at UBC via their Faculty Dean’s Office: At the May 2014 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 2013.
Please note that the internal Faculty of Education deadline for submission of applications to the OGPR is 4:00pm, Tuesday, February 11, 2014.
The contact at the Faculty of Graduate Studies for this competition is Joanne Tsui: joanne.tsui@ubc.ca
Graduate Global Leadership Fellowship
The Graduate Global Leadership Fellowships enable promising leaders from developing countries to pursue doctoral studies at UBC. The fellowships are to support international students showing outstanding leadership in humanitarian and development work in their home country. Two fellowships will be offered; each fellowship provides an $18,000 stipend plus tuition each year for four years.
Applicants must:
– Hold a student visa at the beginning of the fellowship funding period
– Be a citizen of a developing country (see list of eligible countries on website link below)
– Be starting a PhD or DMA program at the UBC Vancouver campus in May 2013, Sep 2013, or Jan 2014
EDCP deadline for the Graduate Global Leadership Fellowship will be March 5, 2014
Please see the Graduate Awards website for more information: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/graduate-global-leadership-fellowship
The contact at the Faculty of Graduate Studies for this award is Anne Brozensky, anne.brozensky@ubc.ca