GradUpdate – Cover Letters, Find your Motivation, Effectively Articulating the Why’s and How’s of your Research, Publishing in the Public Humanities, Love Data Week, Networking, Annotated Bibliographies, and more.

GradUpdate

In this issue, Cover Letters, Find your Motivation, Effectively Articulating the Why’s and How’s of your Research, Publishing in the Public Humanities, Love Data Week, Networking, Annotated Bibliographies, and more.

Registration now open

Cover Letters
Online | Tuesday, Feb 14 | 1 – 2 pm

Lost Your Motivation? Let’s Find it!
Staying on Track in Grad School series
Online | Wednesday, Feb 15 | 12 – 1:30 pm

Key Messaging: Effectively Articulating the Why’s and How’s of your Research
Online | Thursday, Feb 16 | 12 – 1:15 pm (Panel), 1:30 – 2:30 (Workshop)

Seats available

Copyright beyond the classroom: Considerations for including 3rd party materials in your academic work
Online | Wednesday, Feb 8 | 12 – 1 pm Register

Careers in Communication and Knowledge Mobilization (Panel)
Learn from panelists in film, indigenous storytelling, knowledge exchange, journal editing (Nature), and scientific writing.
Online | In collaboration with SFU | Wednesday, Feb 8 | 4 – 5:30 pm Register

Short, sharp and to the point: communicating your research with brevity and impact
Join Simon Clews from the University of Melbourne’s Engagement Lab for this lively keynote and learn strategies for giving a great talk
Online | Thursday, Feb 9 | 4 – 5 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

Call for Papers: Resilience & the Law in Times of Crisis
24th Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference | May 4-5 Submissions due Feb 28

Literature Reviews: Searching and Keeping Track
Online | Wednesday, Feb 15 | 12 – 1 pm Register

CAREER

GSS Coaching Program
Learn coaching frameworks and effective conversational skills.
Online | 6 sessions | Wednesdays Feb 15 – Mar 22 | 5:30 – 7 pm Register

RESEARCH

Data Analysis: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
Online | Tuesday, Feb 14 & Thursday, Feb 16 | 10 am – 12 pm | $110 Register

Love Data Week
Online | Co-sponsored by SFU, UBC, UNBC, and UVic | Open to everyone.

Steps, Tools, & Resources for Promoting Reproducibility
Monday, Feb 13 | 2 – 3 pm Register
Accessing modern and historical census data
Tuesday, Feb 14 | 10 – 11 am Register
Research Data Centre (RDC) Rundown
Tuesday, Feb 14 | 12 – 1 pm Register
Introduction to REST APIs with OpenRefine
Tuesday, Feb 14 | 1:30 – 3 pm Register
Exploring BC’s Community Information Tool
Wednesday, Feb 15 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm Register
Community and Stakeholder Engagement for Ethical Data-Driven Research | Thursday, Feb 16 | 11 am – 12 pm Register
Tidy up your data: Using MS Excel & Power Query to transform and organize your data | Thursday, Feb 16 | 1 – 3 pm Register

TEACHING

Graduate Students in Teaching Conference 2023
Online | Tuesday, May 9 & Wednesday, May 10 | Proposals featuring teaching and learning: best practices, new resources, innovative approaches, discussion of critical issues, and presentation of SoTL/TAR research projects are welcomed. Submit your proposal by Mar 3

WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

Publishing in the Public Humanities
Online | Thursday, Feb 9 | 10 am – 12:30 pm Register

14 Day Writing Challenge
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity program | free with UBC’s subscription
Online | Feb 20 – Mar 5 | commit to writing for 30 mins every weekday
Learn more and register by Feb 15.

Annotated Bibliographies: Synthesizing Multiple Studies
In person or Online | Wednesday, Feb 15 | 10 – 11:30 am Register