GRADUATE STUDENTS

Managing Difficult Conversations – November 13

This day-long workshop provides practical skills in how graduate students, recent grads and junior professionals can navigate situations in which they need to raise a difficult issue with a supervisor, or respond to a problem.

Learn more and register: http://bit.ly/36oD5G1

Join the Equity Student Advisory Council (ESAC)

ESAC provides a forum for diverse student leaders to share their voice and collaboratively inform Equity & Inclusion Office policies, decisions, and practices.

Learn more and apply by Nov. 10: http://bit.ly/34nWaGx

Get Connected – November 18 & 19

Come out to meet new friends and enjoy a night filled with food, art, games and conversation themed around pop culture!

BIPOC (Nov. 18): http://bit.ly/2JFaPFk

Two-spirit, queer and trans (Nov. 19): http://bit.ly/36umgtw

 WORKSHOPS

 Through the Lens: Trans and non-binary gender identities – November 27

Led by Kai Scott, a former social scientist and the co-founder of TransFocus, this workshop invites participants to reflect and build on their understandings of gender and gender diversity.

Learn more and register: http://bit.ly/34obi6Y

Through the Lens: Being blind in a sighted world – December 6

Led by activist and PhD student, Laura Bulk, this workshop explores the barriers, challenges and nuances of living with a visual disability in a sighted world.

Learn more and register: http://bit.ly/2PEKr24

 EVENTS

 Is it Time to Wave the Flag? – November 13

Join the Honourable Janet Austin, Lieutenant Governor of BC, and Santa J. Ono, President & Vice Chancellor, UBC, alongside prominent LGBTQ2+ leaders and advocates, as they share their unique perspectives and vision for shaping a diverse and more inclusive society in Canada and beyond.

FREE registration for students, faculty and staff!

 Learn more and register: http://bit.ly/2JWDx4X

From Awareness to Action to Innovation: Empowering Leaders Through Inclusive Excellence with Dr. Damon A. Williams – November 14 

This keynote will focus on sharing some of the latest EDI-related research, concepts, and best practices in higher education that all leaders can leverage in their day-to-day lives to help promote a culture of everyday inclusion.

FREE registration. Reception and book signing to follow.

Learn more and register: http://bit.ly/2PC5Rgj

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A workshop on  “Meta-analysis as a tool in literature review” will be given later in this term by Dr. Marcin Baranski of the  University of Life Sciences, Warsaw.
Dr. Baranski (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcin_Baranski)  has several publications focused on meta-analyses and is currently involved in the following two projects:

• Ekhagastiftelsen project 2018-1: Promoting human health and well-being by maintaining matrix related organic food qualities from field to fork.
• Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership, 2018-1-PL01-KA203-051124: Transformation of European Food Systems towards Sustainability by Transnational, Innovative Teaching (TEFSI).

The workshop will be held on Nov 13, 14, and 15 from 9:00 – 12:00.  Please review the workshop details below.  If you are interested in attending, please complete the information at  Meta-Analysis Workshop Registration.  Your response is needed by Oct 31, 2019.  

If you have further questions, please email christine.scaman@ubc.ca

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Workshop:  Meta-analysis as a tool in literature review
For who: Senior undergraduate and graduate students. Please note that enrolment will be limited to 20.
Pre-requisite:  Completion of an introductory statistics course ( e.g. LFS 252, FRST 231 or equivalent)

Topics covered will include:

1. search and meta-analysis,
2. fixed vs random effects model,
3. statistical heterogeneity of the data,
4. meta-regression,
5. publication bias,
6. critical appraisal in evidence synthesis,

The workshop will have practice and ‘homework’ including:

1. introduction to R statistical software,
2. meta-analysis protocol writing,
3. dataset inspection and problems solving,
4. conducting meta-analysis in R using various methods and visualisation of the results,
5. designing meta-regression,
6. inspecting for publication bias,
7. assessing of the strength of evidence

Workshop format – 9:00 – 12:00, on three consecutive days
Day 1: Theoretical background on importance of systematic literature search and meta-analysis, steps in meta-research, the citation universe through scientific literature database Web of Science, search phrase composing.
Practical tasks: participants choose a meta-analysis topic, select key words for a search, run a search in Web of Science, report a number of identified references, screen through a couple of pages and select relevant publications.
Day 2: Theoretical background on fixed vs random effects model in meta-analysis, statistical heterogeneity of the data, meta-regression, publication bias, sensitivity analysis, critical appraisal in evidence synthesis, introduction to R statistical software.
Practical tasks: participants download and install R software and conduct basic data management and calculations.
Day 3: Theoretical background on dataset inspection and handling, problems solving, meta-analysis in R using various methods, visualisation of the results, meta-regression, meta-analysis protocol writing.
Practical tasks: dataset inspection, meta-analysis and heterogeneity calculations, detection for publication bias, assessments of the strength of evidence.

Christine Scaman  PhD

Associate Professor, Food, Nutrition and Health

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

Room 247, 2205 East Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada

Phone 604 822 1804 | Fax 604 822 5143

christine.scaman@ubc.ca

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/christinescaman/

We have just released our November newsletter and hope you will be willing to share it with your graduate students. You will see some special one off opportunities in this newsletter edition and we hope these opportunities will help your students with their research.

Here is the link to the newsletter if you prefer to share the link:

http://bit.ly/UBCRCNewsNov2019

As usual, if you have questions or concerns, please just let us know.

Hope you are enjoying these beautiful sunny fall days,

Sarah Blay (she, her, hers)
Program Coordinator | UBC Library Research Commons
Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

Walter C. Koerner Library | 455-1958 Main Mall | V6T 1Z2
sarah.blay@ubc.ca
researchcommons.library.ubc.ca

Food as Medicine Update 2019: Hot Topics in Nutrition Through the Lifespan

Friday, November 15, 2019, 8:30am to 4:30pm.

Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, ON

***Webcast option available (live and replay)***

Program & Registration available here: https://foodasmedicineupdate.ca

The Food as Medicine Update series was created to address the knowledge-gap in continuing medical education related to the role of nutrition in patient care. In this full day symposium, healthcare professionals will learn about the most recent clinical research on nutrition through the lifespan. This group learning CME activity is accredited by the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) office at the University of Toronto.

As part of this event, Dr. Walter Willett will be awarded the Rundle-Lister Lectureship in Transformative Nutritional Medical Education in recognition of his outstanding contributions to translational research in the field of nutrition and health and the translation of this work to clinical practice.

In-person or Webcast (live and replay) registration options are available! Don’t miss out!

REGISTER HERE:  https://foodasmedicineupdate.ca

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Thanks,

Karen

Karen Lee
Director of Marketing and Communications
Faculty of Land and Food Systems | University of British Columbia
Phone 604 827 5297 | Cell 604 312 6343
karen.lee98@ubc.ca
landfood.ubc.ca

BC Food Technologists is hosting a movie night event on Nov. 20, planing for food, movie, and post-movie discussion moderated by BCFT executives.

The documentary to be screened, Food Evolution, covers topics on GMOs, communications, environment change, etc.

This event aims to help students and new professionals to build networking, and also to promote the discussion among everyone related to the agri-food system. So everyone is welcome!

The details are in the attached document and links.

Would you please circulate the information?

Thank you very much!

 

Marti Hua

New Professionals Committee

BC Food Technologists

 

 

RSVP:

https://bcft.wufoo.com/forms/2019-bcft-movie-night-food-evolution

Trailer

https://youtu.be/IVuN19Id_2c