Study Recruitment Posters with Students

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Hello School of Land and Food,

My name is Claire Song, and I am currently conducting a PhD research study at the University of British Columbia, exploring cultural variations in depressive symptom expression and the efficacy of screening tools among young East Asian adults and their White Canadian peers (Ethics #: H24-00368). I am reaching out to request your assistance in sharing our recruitment materials with your network.

Our study seeks participants within this demographic, and we are committed to ensuring cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in mental health research. If possible, could you help by sharing our recruitment posters (attached for your convenience, with two versions for ease of choice) with students in relevant programs? Alternatively, sharing through faculty/student newsletters or other communications would be greatly appreciated.

If there is a specific person or department within the organization who would be best suited for this, I would be grateful if you could direct me accordingly. Also I would appreciate it if you could guide me on how to post physical posters on Land and Food building/bulletin boards.

Thank you very much for considering this request. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or if I can provide further information.

Warm regards,

Claire Song

Doctoral Candidate, Teaching Assistant
School of Nursing
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
2211 Wesbrook Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 2B5 Canada
Phone 077 822 7779
claire.song@ubc.ca

Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop 2025

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The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) will be offering a Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) on January 18, 25 & 26, 2025

The Grad ISW is a 24-hour, fully participatory, and peer-based professional development workshop for graduate students that is beneficial to both new and experienced instructors.

Please note: You must attend all sessions and complete all independent work for the complete duration of the workshop, (i.e. the entire 24-hour workshop).

Click the link to apply for the WAITLISThttps://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/graduate-instructional-skills-workshop-january-18-25-26-2025/

Application opens on November 12 at 9 am and closes on January 8, 2025 at 4:30 pm. By clicking this link, you are applying for the WAITLIST only and this DOES NOT register you for the workshop. Graduate ISWs at UBC are in high demand. To create an equitable registration process all graduate students who apply for an ISW will first be enrolled on a waitlist, from which participants are randomly selected. If a participant has applied for more than one ISW waitlist, their name will appear more frequently when generating the participant list, giving them a higher chance of being selected for an ISW. If you are accepted into the workshop, you will be contacted by our office to confirm your registration. For more information and a list of all upcoming sessions visit: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/gradisw

The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) will be offering an ONLINE Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) on January 14, 18, 25 & February 1, 2025.

The Grad ISW is a 24-hour, fully participatory, and peer-based professional development workshop for graduate students that is beneficial to both new and experienced instructors.

The workshop will take place online on Zoom as follows:

  • Pre-Meeting : January 14, 5 – 7 pm
  • Meeting 1: January 18, 9 am – 3 pm
  • Meting 2: January 25, 9 am – 5 pm
  • Meeting 3: February 1, 9 am – 5 pm

Please note: You must attend all sessions and complete all independent work for the complete duration of the workshop, (i.e. the entire 24-hour workshop).

Click the link to apply: https://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/online-graduate-instructional-skills-workshop-january-14-18-25-february-1-2025/

 Application opens on November 12 at 9 am and closes on January 8, 2025 at 4:30 pm. By clicking this link, you are applying for the WAITLIST only and this DOES NOT register you for the workshop. Graduate ISWs at UBC are in high demand. To create an equitable registration process all graduate students who apply for an ISW will first be enrolled on a waitlist, from which participants are randomly selected. If a participant has applied for more than one ISW waitlist, their name will appear more frequently when generating the participant list, giving them a higher chance of being selected for an ISW. If you are accepted into the workshop, you will be contacted by our office to confirm your registration. For more information and a list of all upcoming sessions visit: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/gradisw

Workshop Eligibility:

Please read the application process and workshop eligibility prior to applying.

A participant who wishes to take the Grad ISW is eligible if they are:

  • a full-time or part-time registered graduate student at UBC during the academic term when the ISW is offered
  • a graduate student at UBC who has completed degree requirements but has not yet convocated
  • a joint degree graduate student who is enrolled at UBC and another institution
  • a graduate student at UBC pursuing non-degree studies
  • a visiting graduate student that is eligible to take courses

A participant who wishes to take the Grad ISW is not eligible if they are:

  • not a graduate student at UBC
  • a graduate student at UBC who has on-leave status
  • a visiting graduate student that is not eligible to take courses

Elisa Herman
Event Coordinator
Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
The University of British Columbia

http://www.ctlt.ubc.ca

Climate Conversation Series

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From: Climate Collective <climate.collective@ubc.ca>
Sent: November 12, 2024 4:43 PM
To: Climate Collective <climate.collective@ubc.ca>
Subject: Join us for our next Climate Conversation – Understanding Youth-led Climate Litigation in Canada: The Mathur Appeal

Join the next Climate Conversation Series by the Climate Solutions Research Collective.

Co-hosted by the Centre for Law & the Environment and the Centre for Climate Justice at UBC

Understanding Youth-led Climate Litigation in Canada: The Mathur Appeal

Monday November 25, 12:00 – 1:30 pm

Geography Room 229

In Mathur et al. v. His Majesty in Right of Ontario, seven youth have filed a lawsuit claiming that Ontario violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by failing to fulfill its duty to take action on climate change.

Join us at this informal Climate Conversation, hosted by Professor Stepan Wood and the Climate Solutions Research Collective, where we will begin with a primer on youth-led climate litigation and an overview of the Mathur Appeal.  Following this will be an open discussion on the broader implications of the case.

In preparation for this particular event, we recommend that you review Professor Stepan Wood’s recent primer in The Conversation entitled Recent Ontario appeal court ruling on youth-led climate case could be a constitutional ‘game-changer’.

Bring your lunch and your questions!

The Climate Conversation series is designed to bring together the UBC climate community to discuss current events in an informal setting.  Learn from your research colleagues about the implications of their climate-oriented work, and how it relates to events as they unfold. 

While registration for this event is not mandatory, it does help us plan for space and send you updates should it be required.  You can register at our website here.

The Climate Solutions Research Collective Team
UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective
climate.collective@ubc.ca

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
Room 431 AERL | 2202 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada

The Climate Solutions Research Collective is a new UBC pan-university initiative designed to build connections across UBC climate researchers, groups and initiatives, and to encourage new collaborative research on climate change solutions. It aims to foster engagement across departments and faculties, and to support graduate students and faculty in applying their research and expertise to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and/or education.

 

Urgent reminder_forms/requests to be sent to my attention

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This is a friendly/urgent reminder to NOT submit any forms/requests directly to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies but to my attention.

If in doubt, please contact me first.

Thanks and don’t hesitate to contact me if you have questions!

Kind regards,

Lia Maria

Vacation alert:
Nov 7 to 15
Nov 28 & 29
Dec 5 & 6
Dec 12 & 13

Lia Maria DRAGAN

Admissions & Administrative Coordinator
Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

University of British Columbia / Vancouver Campus
#291 – 2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
Tel.: (604) 822-8373
lia.maria@ubc.ca /landfood.ubc.ca/graduate/ 

On-campus schedule: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Tuesday and Thursday

I respectfully acknowledge that I work and live on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Wauthuth Nations.

 

GradUpdate – Overcoming Perfectionism, Leveraging your Strengths, Survey: GenAI in Grad Education, Industry After Academia (with lululemon), Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace, CGS-M Proposal writing, and more.

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GradUpdate

In this issue, Overcoming Perfectionism, Leveraging your Strengths, Survey: GenAI in Grad Education, Industry After Academia (with lululemon), Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace, CGS-M Proposal writing, and more.

Survey: GenAI in Graduate Education

Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies is collecting information from students about their views on, and use of, Generative AI in academic work. This is an anonymous survey, and answers will not be identifiable to any individual without their expressed permission. This input will help UBC provide more clear guidelines and resources for the use of GenAI for graduate students.
Survey will be open until Nov 21.

Registration Open

Overcoming Perfectionism
Online | A Thrive UBC event | Friday, Nov 22 | 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Register

Leveraging your Strengths to Strategize for Success
Online | A Thrive UBC event | Tuesday, Nov 26 | 11 am – 12:30 pm
Includes a free CliftonStrengths Top 5 assessment ($35 value)

Register

Seats available

National Career Symposium for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
Online | Tuesday – Thursday, Nov 19 – 21 | 10 am – 1 pm PST
5th annual Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network event
Free, through UBC’s Sponsorship| Sessions include:

  • The Psychology of Focusing on What Matters, by Professor Joe Kim, PhD, McMaster University (Keynote)
  • Career Decision Making: The Role of Values
  • Research Your Career: How You Can Act on What We Know About PhD Job Outcomes
  • Effective Strategies for Tackling Networking Conversations
  • L’élaboration du dossier de candidature professionnel – Points de repères
  • Determining Psychological Safety in Your Future Workplace
  • The Future of (Your) Scholarship
  • Panel: Exploring Careers in the Public Sector
  • Panel: What I Learned from Serving on a Faculty Search Committee

Full agenda; Register

Joining the Scholarly Conversation: An On-Campus Writing Retreat
In-person, for Master’s students | A Thrive UBC event | Wednesday, Nov 13 | 10 am – 3 pm Register

Events and Opportunities

A selection of upcoming events are highlighted below. 
Visit  community.grad.ubc.ca and grad.ubc.ca/current-students/professional-development for our full events calendar.

ACADEMIC

Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund Info Session
Online | Thursday, Nov 14 | 2 – 3 pm Register

Using Zotero for Citation Management
Online | Monday, Nov 18 | 4 – 5:30 pm Register

Translating Database Searches and Finding Grey Literature
Systematic, Scoping & Related Reviews Workshop Series
Online | Wednesday, Nov 20 | 11 am – 12:30 pm Register

CAREER

Building your project network map
Online Mitacs training | Wednesday, Nov 20 | 9 am – 12 pm | Mandatory online pre-requisite “Advance your reach”. Make your LinkedIn profile work and network with positive results.
Learn more and register for this or upcoming sessions through Mitacs Edge.

Industry After Academia: Getting Comfortable with Uncomfortable
Alumni Office Hours with a Research Scientist @ lululemon
Online | Wednesday, Nov 20 | 3:30 – 4:30 pm Register

Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace
A Disability-Specific Career Development Program Guest Speaker Event
Online |Wednesday, Nov 20 | 4 – 5 pm
Find event descriptions and event access on Canvas

Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP) Workshop
Get up-to-date information about the recently announced changes to the Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP) Program, eligibility criteria, application process, work eligibility during the transition to a PGWP, and important considerations when travelling after completing your studies. With Q&A.
Online | Thursday, Nov 21 | 10:30 – 11:30 am Register

Innovation Onboard Pitch Competition
Dreaming of launching a venture but not sure where to start? This program is designed to help students bring ideas to life through mentorship, resources, and hands-on experience. Compete for up to $5k
Learn more and apply before Dec 25.

LEADERSHIP

Incorporating reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion into your project
Online Mitacs training | Tuesday, Nov 19 | 6:30 – 9 am | Mandatory online pre-requisite “Fostering a culture of reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion”.
Learn more and register for this or upcoming sessions through Mitacs Edge.

RESEARCH

Quantum Optimization Use Cases (Technical)
Online Mitacs training | Thursday, Nov 21 | 8 – 11 am
Learn more and register through Mitacs Edge.

Telling Spatial Stories with your Data
Part 1 | In-person | Wednesday, Nov 20 | 1 – 3 pm Register
Part 2 | In-person | Thursday, Nov 21 | 1 – 3 pm Register

Introduction to R and RStudio (beginner)
Online | Thursday, Nov 21 | 10 – 11 am Register

Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs)
Online | Thursday, Nov 21 | 11 am – 12:30 pm Register

Data Bites – Best Practices for File Formatting
Online | Thursday, Nov 21 | 12:30 – 1 pm Register

TEACHING

Tools for Designing Interactive Courses: H5P
In-person | Tuesday, Nov 19 | 10:30 am – 12 pm Register

Accessibility Studio
Online | Tuesday, Nov 19 | 12 – 1 pm Register

WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

Quantum Optimization Use Cases (Technical)
Online Mitacs training | Thursday, Nov 14 | 9 am – 12 pm | Mandatory online pre-requisite “Refine your writing and presentation skills”
Learn more and register for this or upcoming sessions through Mitacs Edge.

CGS-M Proposal: Crafting a Compelling Research Story
In-person | Wednesday, Nov 20 | 10 am – 12 pm Register

Refined project communication plan
Online Mitacs training | Thursday, Nov 21 | 7 – 10 am | Mandatory online pre-requisite “Enhance your communication skills”.
Learn more and register for this or upcoming sessions through Mitacs Edge.