Hi LFS Teaching Assistant,

We hope you are doing great and that the term is going well. As part of the faculty’s on-going support for your development, mark your calendars for this upcoming event:

Marking, Assessment and Feedback Workshop 

Are you preparing for midterms, assignments or end of term exams? We are inviting you to a Marking, Assessment and Feedback Workshop to help support you in

1. i) providing consistent, fair, and constructive feedback to your learners.

During the session participants will also

1. ii) practice providing constructive and positive feedback to learners.

Below are the event details;

WHEN: Wednesday, 4th November 2020

TIME: 12pm-2pm

WHERE: Virtual (a link will be provided at a later date)

 

Please RSVP here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9n4LxtDvCKYyiUJ

Best Regards,

 

Lennie and Tebby

TA Training Program Coordinators

For more information email lennie.cheung@ubc.ca or tebogo.leepile@ubc.ca

We are excited to add a new feature section to our newsletter this month: Research Power Tools. Maybe this tool will be the perfect addition to your research toolbox?

Here is the online link to the newsletter for ease of sharing: https://bit.ly/UBCRCNewsNov22020

Check out all of the existing events in the next couple of weeks and let me know if you have any questions.

Sarah Blay

Sarah Blay (she, her, hers)
Program Coordinator | UBC Library Research Commons

Vancouver home office | Traditional unceded territories of:

Musqueam | Squamish| Stó:lō | Stz’uminus | Tsleil-Waututh (source: https://native-land.ca/)

sarah.blay@ubc.ca | researchcommons.library.ubc.ca

GradUpdate In this issue, Managing Stress and Rejection, Cybersecurity Careers, Instructional Skills Workshops, Personal Statements (Writing), and more…

Seats still available

 

Statistics III: Two group comparisons and ANOVA Thursday, Nov 5 | 1:00 to 3:00 PM Learn more

Additional Events and Opportunities

 

The following highlights some upcoming events. Please find more on community.grad.ubc.ca and grad.ubc.ca/current-students/professional-development

ACADEMIC SUPPORT AND SUCCESS

 

How to Manage Stress, Rejection & the Haters in Your Midst Thursday, Nov 12 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Learn more

CAREER EXPLORATION

 

Virtual Information Session: entrepreneurship@UBC (Scotiabank Cybersecurity) Mondays,12:00 – 2:00 PM Nov 02 | Demystifying cybersecurity by exploring a variety of information security roles and responsibilities Nov 9 | Cybersecurity Career Pathways – A Day in the Life Nov 16 | Case Study of some significant cybersecurity threats in recent times and how to protect ourselves Learn more S2BN Virtual Career Cafe – In Focus:Scientific Communications Thursday, Nov 05 | 3:00 – 4:30 PM Learn more Job Search Strategies Thursday, Nov 12 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM Learn more Telling Your Transition Story to Non-Academic Employers BeyondProf event | Friday, Nov 13 | 9:00 – 10:00 AM Learn more

COMMUNITY AND NETWORK BUILDING

 

The Phil Lind Initiative: Thinking While Black Tuesday, Nov 10 | 3:00 – 4:30 PM | Jesmyn Ward Thursday, Nov 12 | 3:00 – 4:30 PM | Ibram X. Kendi Learn more Indigenous Worldviews, Climate Change and the Way Forward for Northern Trappers Thursday, Nov 12 | 10:00 – 11:30 AM Learn more

RESEARCH SKILLS

 

Statistical analysis with R Friday, Nov 13 | 12:00 – 2:00 PM Learn more

TEACHING DEVELOPMENT

 

November and December Online Instructional Skills Workshops (ISWs) Various Nov, Dec dates and times, Waitlist registration open Learn more

WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

 

Personal Statements: Writing Tuesday, Nov 10 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Learn more

The thesis team in the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies reviews students’ theses and dissertations to ensure that certain formatting requirements are met and that they are professionally presented. There is detailed information on our website about the requirements, and several resources to assist students in preparing an appropriately-formatted thesis. However, we still receive many theses with very basic proofreading and formatting mistakes. As an example, a common one is “Error! Bookmark not defined” appearing in the table of contents. If students can recognize simple mistakes before submitting, it will mean a quicker acceptance of their thesis and they will be less stressed by deadlines.

In order to ensure that students take advantage of the resources provided to help them identify mistakes in their theses, we will henceforth be requiring students to check their theses against the Sample Thesis on our website at Resources for Thesis Preparation and Checking before submitting them to cIRcle or for pre-review. Students will no longer receive detailed feedback on errors that can be identified by comparing their theses to the Sample Thesis.

Please share this information with your thesis students, and don’t hesitate to contact me if you have questions.

Kind regards,

Max Read
Associate Director, Student Academic Services
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies | Office of the Dean and Vice-Provost
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
170-6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 822 0283
max.read@ubc.ca | http://www.grad.ubc.ca

I want to get stats chatz up and running again for Nov. I know we all
Zoom too much, but I think stats chatz can be a helpful group as we
squirrel away in isolation. We had these meetings at SFU and they were
extremely useful!

I suggest we stick with our original time of Wednesday 10:30-11:30 over
zoom, every other week starting this coming Wednesday (Nov 4th).

For those new to statz chatz:

What is it? A meeting group where we can discuss our stats problem (no
matter how big or small) and we can use the power of the crowd to
discuss, clarify, learn, and hopefully find a solution. Good questions
include statistical approaches, design, interpreting outputs, etc. R
questions are harder to solve via Zoom so we recommended keeping
questions related to stats.

Who should attend? All skills levels are encouraged to regularly attend.
It is a friendly collaborative environment and you should attend
regardless if you have a question or feel that you can contribute
(lurking and learning is welcome!).

How does it work? If you have a stats questions, please bring it to the
meeting. Give us a quick summary of your stats questions and some
background of your study system and design, you can provide a sketch to
help clarify your problem (prepare a quick figure beforehand and we can
share screens or we can use the whiteboard). Try to keep your question
short and please come back and give us an update on your
solution/output, etc. Remember – no question is too simple! This is a
friendly atmosphere (this isn’t stack overflow!) and all questions are
welcome.

When? Every other week – Wednesday 10:30-11:15. First meeting Nov 4th!

Please note, this is the last email I will send department wide. If you
would like to be included in future emails please sign up to the stats
chatz listserv by sending an email to statschatz-request@zoology.ubc.ca
with the word “subscribe” on the Subject: line. To post, send email to
statschatz@zoology.ubc.ca.

All communication will be through email, however, please feel free to
join our slack channel for additional resources and discussions outside
of meeting times.
https://join.slack.com/t/statzchatz/shared_invite/zt-iz6dkezk-nQdmBG1Q9p1RBoghcW~vdw

Please let me know if you have any questions about the meeting.

Start thinking of stats questions and see you Wednesday!

Zoom link:
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/89393472615?pwd=ejRyekNWMm02TVB0SmJrKzdWYkhWdz09
Meeting ID: 893 9347 2615
Passcode: 6824

Regards,

Lindsay

Biodiversity Research Centre Postdoctoral Fellow
University of British Columbia
Google Scholar Page
(she/her)

I live, work, and play on the traditional territories of the Musqueam,
Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations