After a successful Nation-Wide walkout on May 1st to advocate for increased grad student and post-doc funding across Canada, the Neuroscience Trainee Association is organizing a Town Hall and Trainee Panel on behalf of Support Our Science. We would love it if you could share the info with your department! All grad students, post-docs and faculty members are invited!
What is Support Our Science?
Support Our Science is a grassroots organization with a clear mandate: improve pay for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in Canada. This includes all researchers, from science and engineering to social sciences and humanities.
What is advocacy week and our goals?
- Increase awareness of Support Our Science and the mission for Members of Parliament at a crucial time
- Amplify our message to increase funding to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars through federal scholarship, fellowships and grants
- Put pressure on Canada’s Minister of Finance, Hon. Chrystia Freeland, to include our asks in the Fall Economic Update or Budget 2024
More info can be found: https://www.supportourscience.ca/advocacy-week
Register for the event here!
When? Tuesday, September 26 11-12PM
Where? DMCBH Rudy North Lecture Hall
Questions? Email siyer13@student.ubc.ca
Thank you and look forward to seeing you there!
Shalini and Ava
On Behalf of the Neuroscience Trainee Association
Shalini Iyer, MSc (she/her)
Neuroscience PhD Student | Cembrowski Lab
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
2350 Health Sciences Mall, Life Science Institute, Rm 3302 | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z3 Canada
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