We are excited to let you know that we have launched a whole new series of GIScience workshops. The feedback on the pilot versions of these workshops has been great.  Encourage your students to sign up right away as these are being offered at a more intimate group size of just 30 students per workshop.

If you prefer to share the newsletter via link, you can find it here:

https://bit.ly/UBCRCNewJuly272020

As usual, if you have any questions, please just let me know.  Have a great week!

Sarah

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, webinars on dissertation and theses formatting, job search strategies, visualizing data, open assignments, and more!

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

 

Help improve training in qualitative data analysis at UBC Survey closes July 31 | win 1 of 20 $50 Amazon gift cards Learn more Dissertations and Theses Formatting: Tips For Successful Submission ONLINE Thursday, August 6 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM Learn more

CAREER EXPLORATION

 

Webinar: Resume & Cover Letter Wednesday, August 5 | 3:00 – 4:00 PM or Thursday, August 6 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM Learn more: Aug 5 or Aug 6 Webinar: Job Search Strategies Thursday, August 6 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM Learn more Webinar: LinkedIn Friday, August 7 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM Learn more

RESEARCH SKILLS

 

Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis with R Thursday, July 30 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Learn more Geospatial Analysis & Visualization with Python Tuesday, August 4 | 1:00 – 3:00 PM Learn more Visualizing Data with ArcGIS Online Wednesday, August 5 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Learn more Understanding Spatial Data: Map Projections Thursday, August 6 | 1:00 – 3:00 PM Learn more

TEACHING DEVELOPMENT

 

Using the UBC Wiki to Enhance Student Learning Through Open Assignments Friday, August 7 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM Learn more

WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

 

Dissertation Success Curriculum 12-week online, on-demand program Learn more

Invitation to Join the UBC Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster

The UBC Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to work collaboratively on projects that explore our shared and contested pasts, and their implications for the present.

In the past year, Cluster members have organized and participated in a diverse range of events and projects that interrogate how we (re)claim, dispute, represent, document marginalized and traumatic histories and how we can reconcile the past and the present. Some highlights of last year’s events include the launch of a Vancouver Archive of the Umbrella Movement (in Hong Kong), a workshop on how to recover the submerged histories of Indigenous objects placed in indigenous collections, and film screenings-cum-discussions of films about political violence in India from 1984 to the present.

The Cluster invites graduate students who are interested in contested, marginalized, traumatic, or forgotten histories, or in ways of representing, documenting, and interrogating the past to join the cluster. The Cluster is particularly keen to support graduate students in initiating or driving activities that contribute to the Cluster’s focuses and interests.

Benefits of Joining the Cluster:

1. Invitations to the Cluster’s events and activities, which feature speakers and scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds
2. Opportunities to network and forge connections or collaborations with UBC faculty and graduate students from different departments and centres in UBC
3. Opportunities to propose cluster activities and keynote speakers for Cluster support (Deadline for Call for Proposals: 3 August 2020!)

Check us out at our Cluster website: https://histories-cluster.ubc.ca/!

To join us right away, sign up at https://histories-cluster.ubc.ca/about-us/join-cluster

For questions about the cluster, please contact the Cluster Graduate Student Coordinators: Jelena Todorovic (jekutic@gmail.com) or Edgar Liao (hislbe@mail.ubc.ca). Alternatively, please send your inquiry to Interdisciplinary.Histories@ubc.ca

UBC LFS and MFRE to Become Part of Canada’s Food Price Report

 

The UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems will co-author the renowned Canada’s Food Price Report together with the report’s leader, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois from Dalhousie University, who will actively contribute to the UBC Master of Food and Resource Economics program as an LFS Affiliate Professor.  

Thank you

Best
Paulina Gonzalez Miranda  MFRE
Educational Researcher
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus| Musqueam Traditional Territory

paulina.gonzalez@ubc.ca
https://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca/

Dear UBC Graduate Students,

We would like to invite you to participate in a survey about supporting graduate students’ learning and practice of qualitative data analysis at UBC. This study is funded by UBC’s AMS and will help improve graduate training in qualitative data analysis at UBC.

We greatly appreciate your participation. At the end of the survey, you will be able to take part in a raffle, where you can win 1 of 20 $50 Amazon.ca gift cards. Upon clicking the link, you will be asked for your consent to participate in the study. If you choose to withdraw from the study, you will still be able to participate in the raffle.

Complete the survey now: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ebQMwByCbTvhTIp

Best wishes,

Amir Michalovich
Co-investigator
PhD Candidate in Language and Literacy Education

Allan Cho
Principal Investigator
Research Commons Librarian

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Amir Michalovich
PhD Candidate| Language and Literacy Education
Consultant, Computer-aided QDA  | UBC Library
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

403-2725 Melfa Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1N4 Canada