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MURRAY ELLIOTT SERVICE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

This award honours full-time and sessional faculty, staff and other persons associated with the Faculty of Education who have made an outstanding contribution to the Teacher Education Program at UBC. The recipient will receive a plaque along with a Pendleton blanket.  In addition, the recipient’s name will be displayed in the Faculty alongside other recipients of the award.

The nomination package should include 3 letters of nomination that address the following criteria:

·         The recipient will have shown exceptional dedication, leadership skills, and commitment to the ongoing improvement of the UBC Teacher Education Program over an extended period of time.

·         A detailed overview of the nominee’s accomplishments and/or contribution to the Teacher Ed Program.

Nomination in one year does not restrict the individual from being nominated in subsequent years; however, an individual may only receive the award once.

Nominations must be submitted by Monday September 23, 2013 to:

Dr. Rita L. Irwin, Associate Dean of Teacher Education

Chair, Awards Committee (Murray Elliott Service Award)

Teacher Education Office

2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4

Nominators are encouraged to submit nominations much earlier in September if at all possible.

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HELP NEEDED – A teacher in New Zeland wants your letters!

Help needed.

I have a number of children at kindergarten who have a developing interest in mail, post, and the wider world. Can I get people to post us a postcard from your place in the world. We will endeavour to reply with a kiwi postcard to as many as we can.

Springlands Kindergarten
24 Murphys Road
Blenheim 7201
New Zealand

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Speakers

TerreWEB Fall Seminar Schedule

Seminars will be held Thursdays from 2-3:30pm, most often in Room 154 in MacMillan (unless otherwise stated).  For clickable links (under speaker info) please visit the schedule on the website.

This email is also a reminder that we will start off the term with a small gathering, this coming Thursday, Sept 5th, at 2pm in MCML 350. Refreshments will be provided and we’ll have a round of introductions to welcome our new scholars. All TerreWEB scholars and faculty are welcome!

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Conferences

RC25 Language & Society – Call for abstracts

International Sociological Association

XVIII World Congress of Sociology. Yokohama, 2014 13-18 July (Japan)

Dear RC25 members and colleagues,
This a reminder of the call for abstracts by the RC25 Language and Society for the upcoming ISA XVIII World Congress of Sociology to be held in Yokohama.
Link for abstracts submission: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/cfp.cgi.
To submit an abstract for the ISA World Congress, you must select a Research Committee and a Session. You can see below the list of sessions organized by RC 25 and a link to detailed descriptions of each session.
Abstracts are limited to 300 words. While RC 25 supports a wide variety of scholarship, please keep in mind that papers must look at language in interaction and in systems of representation. Please identify the theoretical/methodological approach that you will use in your papers.If you have questions about any specific session, please feel free to contact the Session Organizers or Program Coordinators for more information.

Please, remember the deadline for abstracts submission:  September 30, 2013 (24 GMT).

Best regards,

Amado Alarcón (Rovira & Virgili University) and Celine-Marie Pascale (American University), RC25 Program Coordinators

RC25 Program Theme: The Language of Inequality.

List of RC25 Sessions & Session Organizers:

– Migrations and Conditions of Belonging. Organizer: Erzsébet Barát, University of Szeged,   zsazsa@lit.u-szeged.hu

– Online interaction: The changing meanings of social context. Organizer: Anders Persson, Lund University,  anders.persson@soc.lu.se

– Popular & Sociological Discourses on Inequality. Organizer: Frédéric Moulène. University of Strasbourg,  frederic.moulene@voila.fr.

– Identity and institutional categorization.  Organizer: Frida Petersson, University of Gothenburg, frida.petersson@socwork.gu.se

– Activism, Media and Justice. Co-organized by Roberta Villalon, St. John’s University, villalor@stjohns.edu  and Natalie Byfield, St. John’s University,  byfieldn@stjohns.edu

– Old and new conditions of language endangerment. Organizer: Olga Kazakevich, Lomonosov Moscow State University, kazakevich.olga@gmail.com

– Producing Counter-Hegemonic Knowledge. Organizer: Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova, Trakia University,  nadyageorgieva@abv.bg

– The Language of Borders: Exclusion and Resistance. Organizer: Trinidad Valle, Fordham University, valle@fordham.edu

– Privilege and Stigma. Organizer: Thomas Horejes, Gallaudet University, Thomas.Horejes@gallaudet.edu

– Markets, Power and Language. Organizer: Laura García Landa. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,  garlanster@gmail.com

– Current debates in Japanese Scholarship on Language & Society. Co-organized by: Amado Alacón , Rovira & Virgili University,  amado.alarcon@urv.cat, and Keiji Fujiyoshi, Koyasan University, fjosh524@hotmail.com

– Sociological Analyses of Language. Organizer: Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, USA, pascal@amercian.edu

– Language and Work: Representations of Psychosocial Health at Work Joint Session: RC 25 and RC 30 Sociology of Work. Co-Organizers: Stéphanie Cassilde, Centre d’Études en Habitat Durable,  stephanie.cassilde@cehd.be,  Adeline Gilson, Laboratoire d’Économie et de Sociologie du Travail, adeline.gilson@univ-amu.fr

– Naming Marriage as Gendered. Joint Round table session: RC32 Women in Society and RC25. Co-Organizers: Shobha Gurung,  Southern Utah University, gurung@suu.edu, and Melanie Heath, McMaster University, mheath@mcmaster.ca
Full description of the RC25 sessions: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/rc.php?n=RC25

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Courses

Free Statistical Consultation — UBC Department of Statistics

Dear UBC Graduate Students and Faculty:
 
I am writing to let you know that, as in past years, free statistical consultation will be available this fall term, from graduate students enrolled in our practicum course STAT 551 (Statistical Consulting).
 
Students in this course have already completed STAT 550 (Techniques of Statistical Consulting), and will be carrying out this academic activity under my overall supervision.

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STAT 551, FALL Term of 2013-2014
 
Projects from all UBC-affiliated units and all levels of researchers, particularly including graduate students, are welcome.  Research projects requiring primarily advice on appropriate designs and methods of statistical analysis are ideally suited for STAT 551.  To allow each
551 student to be exposed to several projects, the total time spent on each project has to be limited.  Thus, smaller projects are particularly suitable.  Students will provide at most 2 to 4 hours of "face-to-face"
consultation on a given project but will also provide a written report containing detailed advice and recommendations.
 
Due to this time limitation, STAT 551 projects typically do not involve carrying out data analyses.  Our Statistical Consulting and Research Laboratory (SCARL) has fee-for-service options in cases where further work is desired -- check the CONSULTING link at www.stat.ubc.ca for more information.
 
To take advantage of this unique opportunity to receive free statistical advice, please submit your project description to me by e-mail (as an attached WORD document, to john at stat dot ubc dot ca), with a subject line clearly indicating STAT 551.
 
Your project description should consist of a concise description of your research problem in non-specialist language, with a clear indication of specific statistical issues on which advice is desired.  A description of at most one page is preferred.  Please only attach supplementary material if it is absolutely essential.  (For example, sending a grant proposal, together with a cover note saying you want advice on its statistical aspects without any attempt to describe the research problem in terms that can be understood by a Statistics graduate student or to clarify what specific statistical issues are of concern, is not an appropriate submission.)  A sample project description can be viewed at:
http://www.stat.ubc.ca/SCARL/HowSCARLHelp/Detail/stat551.php
 
As soon as your project is approved for STAT 551, your description will be added to the list from which students will select projects.  Thus it is to your advantage to submit a clear description as soon as possible.
Students will begin selecting projects immediately at the start of the fall term.  The clearer your description, the more likely students are to select your project sooner rather than later and the more productive the initial consultation session is likely to be.
 
Once your project has been selected, the student will contact you to arrange an appointment for an initial consultation session.  If, at any time prior to being contacted, you no longer require advice on your project, please let me know so the students do not spend time preparing for "inactive" projects.
 
Please note that a graduate student seeking advice via STAT 551 needs the permission of his/her supervisor.  An e-mail from the supervisor at the time of project submission suffices.
 
If you know others who might be interested in this opportunity, please pass on this information.
 
Thanks in advance for submitting interesting and challenging projects for the students enrolled in STAT 551 this term.
 
John Petkau
Professor
2013-14 STAT 551 Instructor
Department of Statistics, UBC
 
E-mail: john at stat dot ubc dot ca
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Graduate Program Opportunities

Grow veggies with children @ UBC Farm! Be a volunteer Farm Friend!‏

ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT LAND, FOOD, AND COMMUNITY?

Do you want to share your passion with children?

The Intergenerational Landed Learning Project invites adults who care about land, food, and community to volunteer as “Farm Friends” and garden with school children at the UBC Farm. Farm Friend volunteers work in intergenerational teams of one elder, one younger, and 3-5 elementary students to sow, grow, harvest prepare, and eat food crops at the UBC Farm.

Farm Friends commit 12 mornings (Wednesday or Thursday, approximately every other week) from late September 2013-June 2014 to work and learn with their Farm Friend teams.  Seniors particularly sought!  On-call volunteers are also sought to fill in as needed.

“Farm Friends” may be asked to participate in an educational research study that is a part of this project.

Want to find out more?   

-Check out our website, http://m2.edcp.educ.ubc.ca/landedlearning/ for FAQs

-Contact Stacy at landed.learning@ubc.ca or 604-822-4842

-Come to an info session at the UBC Farm*:

  • Wednesday, September 4, 9:30-11am
  • Thursday, September 5, 9:30-11am
  • Wednesday, September 11. 9:30-11am
  • Thursday, September 12. 9:30-11am

*All info sessions will be held in the Children’s Learning Garden at the UBC Farm. RSVP landed.learning@ubc.ca or 604-822-4842.

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Announcements

UBC’s Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment policy

This notice is being sent to HEADS-UP on behalf of Hubert Lai, Q.C, University Counsel. Please distribute this notice to all faculty members, staff, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in your units.

UBC is required to have policies and systems that comply with all granting agencies. In addition to meeting this basic requirement, UBC’s policies are designed to provide a high level of protection for the integrity of the University and its faculty and staff. To this end, UBC has had a policy on conflict of interest and conflict of commitment since 1992. The policy was substantially revised in 2006 and, for faculty members, the paper-based declarations were replaced with a web-based disclosure system. For staff members, paper-based declarations were replaced with e-mails. These changes, particularly the introduction of a simplified web-based disclosure system, enabled major improvements in conflict tracking, approval, and management.

The policy and web-based system underwent further review and upgrades in 2012. In order to ensure that all faculty members and staff members are aware of UBC’s current conflict of interest and conflict of commitment systems and standards, the Office of the University Counsel has prepared a summary of the material changes to UBC’s Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment policy. To review this summary, please click here:

http://universitycounsel.ubc.ca/files/2013/07/Summary-of-Significant-Changes.pdf

In addition, the Office of the University Counsel is offering information sessions throughout 2013 for every Faculty. Sessions are being held at Point Grey, Okanagan, and hospital-based locations. For information about information sessions that have already been scheduled, please click here:

http://universitycounsel.ubc.ca/upcoming-training/

You are welcome to come to info sessions that are not in your home Faculty. Also, if you would like to arrange an information session for your unit or management team, or if you have any questions about conflict of interest and conflict of commitment at UBC, please contact Christine Hjorleifson:

Christine Hjorleifson

Conflict of Interest Administrator

Office of the University Counsel

Tel: 604-822-8623

Email: christine.hjorleifson@ubc.ca

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Pre-Arrival Info Sessions for Newly Admitted International Students

As an international student, there’s a lot to think about when moving to a new country. You are invited to attend a series of virtual information session on a range of topics that will help you prepare for your arrival to UBC. During these sessions, UBC’s extremely knowledgeable International Student Advisors will provide you with important information on the topics listed below, after which you will have the opportunity to ask general questions.

Check out the link for more information.

http://students.ubc.ca/international-info-sessions

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Funding and Awards

2013 Information for PDF Banting Fellowships‏

information for UBC’s internal selection process and full details for the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship are now available on the PDFO Website. NOTE:  internal selection process is only for candidates interested in holding their fellowship at UBC.

With its internationally competitive level of funding and as Canada’s most prestigious trainee competition, the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship is one of the most sought-after fellowship opportunities for PDFs. The objective of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is to attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally, to develop their leadership potential and to position them for success as research leaders of tomorrow. Hosting a Banting PDF within your Faculty or Department is highly beneficial toward a rich research environment, and having Banting PDFs at UBC raises the university’s profile and reputation as a top research institution.

A mandatory UBC internal selection process will identify the strongest applications and select a maximum of six per Tri-Council area (CIHR, NSERC & SSHRC) to receive the necessary institutional endorsement.  Only these 18 applicants will receive the necessary institutional endorsement.  Applicants must submit an internal application form with attachments (details are listed in the application form) to the Postdoctoral Fellows Office at postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.caby Tuesday September 3, 2012, 12:00 PM PST (noon), NO EXCEPTIONS.  For your convenience I have attached the link for the internal application form which can also be found on the PDFO Website.   Selected applicants will be contacted by Friday October 4, 2012 and will be provided with feedback from the relevant internal selection committee which will assist with developing a successful application.  The Postdoctoral Fellows Office will be able to provide all unsuccessful applicants feedback once the competition has closed in November.

Those selected through the internal selection process will be required to submit four Institutional Documents as part of their ResearchNet Application as listed below;

1.       Synergy Letter

2.       Professional Development

3.       Research Environment

4.       Supervisors Statement

Both Applicant and Supervisor will be responsible for contributing to the 4 institutional letters, however the Spark office will provide strategic support in developing and finalizing the Synergy Letter, and the Postdoctoral Fellows Office will provide strategic support in developing and finalizing the Professional Development Letter.  The Research Environment and Supervisors Statement will be the sole responsibility of both applicant and supervisor.

The Banting application deadline through ResearchNet is Friday November 1, 2013 5 PM PST, however this may change when Banting updates their website with the 2013 competition information.  *****  Please Note***** The Banting website will not be updated until Tuesday July 9, 2013.   Please refer to the webpages linked above for more information on the internal process.

NOTE: the application form and accompanying internal selection process is only for candidates interested in holding their fellowship at UBC.

Please forward any general Banting inquiries (including Common CV and ResearchNet support) directly to Banting http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/contact/index-eng.html.  Any internal process inquiries should be forwarded to the Postdoctoral Fellows Office  postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca

Please feel free to distribute and share this information with anyone who may be interested in applying for a Banting Fellowship at UBC.

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Announcements Funding and Awards

Aboriginal Community-Based Delivery Funding Call

UBC continues to develop close working relationships with Aboriginal communities and organizations, to expand its institutional awareness of development goals and the need to seek their advice and/or partnership on programs, program development, research priorities, and other matters.  Many of the current UBC Aboriginal initiatives and research areas can be viewed on the Aboriginal Portal (aboriginal.ubc.ca).

As we are all aware, off-campus funding sources are critical to many university programs and can play a vital role in Aboriginal initiatives.  The Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology (the Ministry) and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC), have launched  a new 2013-2014 Aboriginal Community-Based Delivery Partnerships Program (ACBDP Program).  Public post-secondary institutions, in partnership with Aboriginal communities, are invited to submit applications to deliver programs starting and completing in the 2013/2014 fiscal year.   A previous ACBDPP 2012-2013 partnership, for example, is the partnership between UBC and the Heiltsuk Nation:  with funding from this program, the UBC Native Indian Teacher Education Program (NITEP) provides courses to Heiltsuk Nation students that ladder into the final two years of a Bachelor of Education degree at UBC.  Participants will gain the skills and education necessary to enter teaching fields.

For further information about the 2013-2014 Aboriginal Community-Based Delivery Partnerships Program (ACBDP Program) funding, program and participant eligibility and the application process, please read the email below from Mariana Diacu, Executive Director, Post-Secondary Programs Branch, Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism, or go to the Ministry’s website at http://www.aved.gov.bc.ca/aboriginal/programs.htm and at http://www.fnsds.org/.

It is important to note that: “Proposals must be jointly submitted and signed off by an Aboriginal community authority (Chief and Council, Tribal Council Chair, or Executive Director of an off-reserve Aboriginal organization) and a BC public post-secondary institution president. If there is an Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association (IAHLA) Aboriginal post-secondary institute serving the community, the institute should also be a partner to the proposal. Inclusion of the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS) holder in the proposal is also encouraged.”

Please submit requests for UBC presidential signature to my attention at the First Nations House of Learning.  Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Regards,

Linc Kesler, Ph.D.

Director, First Nations House of Learning

Senior Advisor to the President on Aboriginal Affairs

 

University of British Columbia

First Nations Longhouse, rm 197

1985 West Mall

Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2

Phone: 604.822.3071

Fax:  604.822.8944

 

Email: linc.kesler@ubc.ca

http://www.longhouse.ubc.ca

______________________________________________________________ 

From: Kelly, Susan M AEIT:EX
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 5:28 PM
To: ‘BCAPSC@list.camosun.bc.ca‘; ‘Ilead@list.Camosun.bc.ca‘
Subject: Aboriginal Community-Based Delivery Partnerships Program 2013-14 Application Guide

 

Dear Indigenous Leadership and BC Aboriginal Post-Secondary Coordinators,

 

We are happy to be able to tell you that the Program is continuing and the following email has been sent to the Post-Secondary Presidents, Aboriginal Communities and the Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education Partners:

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology (the Ministry) and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada  (AANDC),  I am writing to inform you of the launch of the new 2013-2014 Aboriginal Community-Based Delivery Partnerships Program (ACBDP Program) Application Guide.  Public post-secondary institutions in partnership with Aboriginal communities are invited to submit applications to deliver programs starting and completing in the 2013/2014 fiscal year.

 

We are pleased to invite proposals for the 2013/14 ACBDP Program from organizations currently delivering ACBCPP programs and those that aspire to deliver these programs in their community.

 

ACBDP Program was first announced in June 2012 as part of the Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education and Training Policy Framework and Action Plan which committed to provide funding ($5M from the Canada/BC Labour Market Agreement and $2M from the Ministry) for partnerships between public post-secondary institutions and Aboriginal institutes and communities to deliver programs in Aboriginal communities that meet community needs and position Aboriginal communities to take advantage of economic opportunities.  In 2012/13, there were twenty-six partnerships funded to deliver programs for Aboriginal learners throughout B.C. in a diverse range of specializations, from skills training for employment in the oil and natural gas sectors to training that leads to certification as a teacher of indigenous languages.

 

2013/14 Updates to the Aboriginal Community-Based Delivery Partnerships Program

 

The ACBDP Program continues in 2013-2014.  Eligible Programs must:

·         Lead to jobs and employment opportunities and be directly related to community needs and priorities;

·         Meet provincial program and/or industry standards, where appropriate;

·         Provide industry certification and/or credit towards a post-secondary credential (note that Adult Basic Education and bridging programs are Eligible Programs);

·         Provide sufficient opportunities or pathways for participants to ladder into further post-secondary education or training;

·         Include cultural components incorporated into the curriculum/programming; and

·          Utilize leading practices in career planning, assessment and transition.

 

Application Details

 

The ACBDP Program Application Guide has been updated based on a formative review of the program and lessons learned from 2012-2013.  The Application Guide has been streamlined with additional templates and support materials.  Submissions are accepted on a continuous intake basis and closing dates for proposal submissions is based on funding availability.  Programs and final reports must be completed before the March 14, 2014.

 

AANDC is partnering with the Ministry in the ACBDP Program through its Active Measures program, to provide $2M in 2013-2014.  The Active Measures funding is designed for encourage First Nations communities to support the participation of individuals on Income Assistance as part of the ACBDP Program and to support the development of effective community-based case/data management systems for their social development programs in order to better track and transition their Income Assistance clients.  The Active Measures Application for 2013-2014 can be found as Appendix C in the ACBDPP Program Application Guide.

 

 

This information is also available on the Ministry’s website athttp://www.aved.gov.bc.ca/aboriginal/programs.htm and at http://www.fnsds.org/.

 

If you have any questions about the Aboriginal Community-Based Delivery Partnerships Program and the application process, please contact:

Jacqueline Dennis-Orr

Tel: (250) 356-8382

or by email Jacqueline.DennisOrr@gov.bc.ca  and copied to Liane Lubarski at Liane.X.Lubarski@gov.bc.ca,.

 

Questions specific to the Active Measures component of the program should be directed to:

First Nations Social Development Society at 1-604-926-4184 or email atpartnerships@fnsds.org

Thank you for your interest in the Aboriginal Community-Based Delivery Partnerships Program.

 

Mariana Diacu

Executive Director

Post-Secondary Programs Branch
Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology
and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism

Tel: 250 387 1446

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Graduate Program Opportunities

SoTL Journal Club, CTLT‏

CTLT’s Journal club is scheduled to have its next meeting on June 11. Members of the UBC teaching and learning community are welcome to register for our upcoming meeting as well as our future monthly meetings on the CTLT Events website:http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/index

Drop-ins are always welcome.
We pre-select an article to read prior to our monthly meeting dates, which we will then discuss in groups.
The selected article for our April discussion group is:
Weimer, M. (2008). Positioning scholarly work on teaching and learning. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(1).

You can access this article here.
For more information contact: Shaya Golparian, Ph.D., CTLT Resource Room Coordinator, at ctlt.resourceroom@exchange.ubc.ca

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Courses

June Grad Student Workshops‏

Citation Management Using RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley

Need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work? Citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work.

Sign up for a tool specific hands-on workshop about the coreconcepts of citation management and detailed instruction for use of either RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley.

Are you new to citation management tools entirely, or do you have advanced-user questions? Email research.commons@ubc.ca to set up a one-on-one appointment with one of our citation management experts

Citation Management Using Zotero:

Tuesday, June 18, 10am-12pm
Citation Management Using RefWorks:
Wednesday, June 26, 2-4pm http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4188
Citation Management Using Mendeley:
Friday, June 28, 10am-12pm http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4186

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Graduate Program Opportunities Office of Graduate Programs - FoE

May 30 (Research Day) – “Making Research Mutually Beneficial” – A keynote lecture by Shelley Hymel

Thursday, May 30, 2013 – Register now!

The day will open with a keynote lecture by
Dr. Shelley Hymel
Professor, Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education

Making Research Mutually Beneficial:
Community Collaborations that Make a Difference

at 1 pm in the Sty-Wet-Tan Hall, First Nations House of Learning

Research Day also includes

–          Methodology Minglers

–          Ignite Research… in 3 minutes or less!

–          Indigenous Alumni Panel – Research Careers that Matter

Please register… but do come even if you didn’t sign up first.

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

June 7 – Graduate Students’ Education Researcher Network (GSERN)

The first meeting is JUNE 7th from 12-1:30pm. 

Graduate Students’ Education Researcher Network (GSERN)

As a graduate student, it can be difficult to create a community around your research interests.  For those of us doing research at the intersections of disciplines, this is made even more complicated because we often do not know who is doing work in our area and what kind of research is being done across campus, tackling questions from multiple perspectives.  GSERN is a community of graduate students actively doing education research at UBC, hailing from many different disciplinary backgrounds across campus.  This group has three purposes:

1.     To provide a space to share the diversity of education research occurring on campus.

2.     To create a community and network of education researchers, who share methodologies, research questions and perspectives.

3.     To grapple with questions about education research which often reaches across disciplines, epistemological frameworks and methodologies.

Time: First Friday of each month, 12:00-1:30pm

Location: Graduate Research Commons Meeting Room, Koerner Library

RSVP: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4122

This project is intended to be collaborative.  Any feedback, opinions, or interest in getting involved in the planning of it are welcome!

Each meeting will have two parts – one, a central question that is integral to education research and that we believe is important to ask ourselves as education researchers, and two, a networking opportunity around a different theme.

We are also in the process of creating a UBC blog to provide more updates on the events and resources, and to potentially create a mailing list.  More information will be coming about this soon.

First Meeting – June 7th

Major questions:

1.     What is education research?

2.     Networking around research interest

 

Note: this meeting will be a little shorter on the discussion so we can deal with administrative tasks.

 

Second Meeting – July 5th

Major Questions:

1.     What methodologies are available in education research?

2.     Is education research interdisciplinary?

3.     Networking around (inter)disciplinary interests

 

Have ideas about themes for future meetings?  Email heather.fisher@alumni.ubc.ca

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Announcements

TEACHER EDUCATOR AWARD‏

I am very pleased to inform you that our colleague Dr. Linda Farr Darling is the winner of the TEACHER EDUCATOR award for outstanding service, presented by the Association of BC Deans of Education (ABCDE). Dr. Farr Darling is the Eleanor Rix Professor of Rural Education. The position builds on Linda’s work with a well-established Faculty of Education/UBC teacher education cohort located in the West Kootenays in the southeastern corner of British Columbia (WKTEP). She has provided exceptional mentoring of pre-service teachers whose aim is to teach in rural schools. She is also instrumental in bringing several exciting new changes to U.B.C.’s teacher education programs.

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