GradUpdate

In this issue, Imposter Phenomenon, Designing your Grad School/ Career Strategy, Writing Consultations, CTLT Spring Institute, Teaching as Research Epistemology, Women in STEM Career Fair, Communication Strategy for Policy (Sciences), and more.

Registration open

Imposter Phenomenon
Online | Wednesday, May 24 | 12 – 1:30 pm

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Getting the Most Out of your Academic Experience: Designing your Grad School/ Career Strategy
Join this interactive session to hone your individual road map for your graduate program, building in time & strategies for attaining your professional goals
Online | Thursday, Jun 1 | 3 – 4:30 pm (+ optional 30 min Q&A, work time)

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Seats available

Doctoral Defence: Doctoral Examination and Defence Procedures
Online | Tuesday, May 16 | 2 – 3:15 pm Register

Leveraging your Strengths to Strategize for Success
Receive a free Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment; learn your top 5 strengths
Online | Thursday, May 18 | 3 – 4:30 pm Register

Service Highlight

Writing Consultations
In-Person or Written Feedback | May 23 – Aug 18 | Various days and times
Writing consultations support writers across many types of graduate writing situations: academic, creative, professional, and technical.
Learn more and book your consultation

Explore additional UBC services to support your personal and professional development.

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 Proposals: Ways to Indigenize BCCAT’s Approach to Research and Decolonize Its Research Practices
The BC Council on Admissions and Transfer’s is looking for subject matter experts (SMEs) in Indigenous research to respond to the call entitled Exploring Indigenous Ways of Knowing and BCCAT Research Learn more and submit your proposal by May 29.

CAREER

Women in STEM Virtual Career Fair
Join the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST) for an interactive career fair focused on connecting employers and recruiters in STEM to Canadian women and underrepresented groups.
Online | Free | Friday, May 26 | 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Learn more and register.

RESEARCH

Data manipulation with dplyr
Online | One of six R workshops | Thursday, May 25 | 10:30 – 11:30 am Register

Introduction to Machine Learning
Online | Thursday, May 25 | 12 – 2 pm Register.

TEACHING

CTLT Spring Institute
In-person and Online | May 29 – June 1 | Various days and times | Topics include:

• Teaching and Learning in the Time of ChatGPT
• Students as Partners in Course Re-design
• Impact of Multi-Access Delivery on Student Learning and Sense of Course Community
• From Theory to Practice: Streamlining Flexible Assessment with Canvas
• Conscious Learning and Academic Integrity: Designing Reflective Paths towards Student Learning
• and more.

See all events and register.

Teaching as Research Epistemology
Part of a series of workshops to prepare applicants of the Teaching As Research (TAR) program to implement an educational research project in their discipline regardless of previous experience.
Online | Thursday, May 25 | 2 – 4 pm Register.
The TAR Awards are open to graduate students & postdocs, with graduate students needing to be in their second year of study. The award is $3000. Learn more and apply by June 20

Change Leadership for Inclusive Teaching and Learning
Online CIRTL event | 10 week synchronous course
Thursdays Jun 1 to Aug 3 | 10 – 11:30 am Register.

POSE Open Chat: A Global and Diverse World of Scholarly Communication is Well Under Way
Online | Program for Open Scholarship and Education (POSE) event
Tuesday, May 23 | 11 am – 12 pm Register.
Browse all POSE events.

WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

Communication Strategy for Policy (Sciences)
In-person | Tuesday, May 23 | 11 am – 12:30 pm Register