Annual LFS Faculty and Staff BBQ – Wednesday, July 4th

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LFS Graduate Students are welcomed!  Please make sure you RSVP to make sure there is enough of everything to go around.

 

Annual LFS Faculty and Staff BBQ –  Wednesday, July 4th
Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 12:00 – 2:00pm
Agora, MacMillan Building, 2357 Main Mall

RSVP to rsvp@landfood.ubc.ca by noon on Friday, June 29, 2018

Please indicate:

1. How many of you will be attending? How many children?
2. Omnivore, vegetarian or vegan? Let us know.

The planning committee is busy preparing for a fun and relaxing picnic, with lots of food, grilled salmon, corn-on-the-cob, hotdogs, veggie burgers, salad, fresh fruit, drinks, and more.  And of course, birthday sweets and/or desserts to celebrate our July birthdays!

To encourage waste reduction, please bring your own cutlery, plates and cups!

PHABC Summer School – Preliminary agenda released!

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We are hoping that you might help us to promote PHABC’s 9th annual Summer School, one of BC’s only continuing education courses for public health, by distributing the following information to your network of students, alumni, staff and faculty.  Please feel free to simply forward this email along, or make it your own for sharing via email, Facebook, Twitter or any other communication channels you use. PDFs of the Summer School poster and preliminary agenda are attached for your convenience. Should the hyperlinks below not carry over, the registration page can be accessed here: https://phabc.org/2018-summer-school-registration/  


Without further ado, we are delighted to release our agenda for the upcoming summer school 2018The Public Health Approach: Building Safe & Inclusive Communities, happening at university campuses across BC from July 5th to 6th, 2018. Registration is on now, don’t miss your chance to attend one of BC’s only continuing education courses for public health.
This year our summer school will benefit from partnerships with the Saskatchewan Public Health AssociationRed Cross CanadaFrontier CollegeBC Healthy Communities and PosAbilities to delve into the theme of building safe and inclusive communities through a variety of topics including:

·  Health Equity in Practice

·  Building Healthy, Safe & Inclusive Environments

·  Healthy Relationships for Children & Youth

·  Emergency Response

·  Community Inclusion & Literacy

 

Speakers will include Ann Pederson, Director of Population Health Promotion at BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre, Richard Harvey, regional director of BC, Alberta & Yukon at Frontier College, Dr. Bernie Pauly, associate professor of the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria, Indiana Best, board member of Student Wellness Initiative Towards Community Health (SWITCH), Dr. Ian Pike, director at BC Children’s Hospital’s Injury Research and Prevention Unit, Steve Woolrich, principal of Rethink Urban, Dr. Gord Miller, President of the Public Health Association of BC, Judi Fairholm, director of Respect Education program at Red Cross Canada, Sarah Burke, Senior Manager of Community Integrated Development & Emergency Management at Red Cross Canada, and more speakers to be announced!

This two-day workshop is designed to help you identify public health approaches to building safe and inclusive communities, understand how physical and social environments influence community safety, inclusion and health, assess barriers to safety & inclusion in their own communities, and to examine innovative and collaborative methods of promoting community safety and inclusion. Don’t miss your chance to learn how you can help to create safe and inclusive communities while networking with like-minded individuals across the province and beyond!

Locations for the summer school include the University of VictoriaUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of Northern British Columbia and the University of British Columbia: Okanagan. A videoconferencing connection will allow all four main sites to actively participate in the full summer school experience. A further connection to our partners at the Saskatchewan Public Health Association will open our summer school up to members of SPHA and help facilitate inter-provincial collaboration.

To view the preliminary agenda, click here or check out our events page for the most up to date information. We hope to see many of you this summer; together we can create fair and healthy British Columbia for all.


 Thank you for your support. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have, or to request removal from our contact list. 

 Best,   

​​Kate Hiscock, BSc, MPH(c)

Summer School Coordinator, 

Public Health Association of BC

#210-1027 Pandora Avenue

Victoria, BC || V8N 3P6

LFS Community Meeting

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The Community Meeting for LFS faculty, staff and students will take place on Thursday June 28, 2018 at 12:00-1:00 pm in FNH 40, Food Nutrition and Health Building, 2205 East Mall. Coffee and cookies will be provided.

Agenda
12:00-12:15 Dean’s message
12:15-12:30 Policy School – Moura Quayle
12:30-12:45 Student wellbeing in LFS – Patty Hambler
12:45-12:50 Expenditure policies update – LFS Finance
12:50-1:00 Student Services Staff intros and update – Christine Klaray

GPS updates: July workshops, career internships + Research/Thesis support workshops and more

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GPS workshops will resume in early July with sessions on Time Management (July 17), Business Writing (July 18), Getting on Track with your Thesis (July 25), Thesis Boot Camp (July 26), and more pending.  Details posted at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/graduate-pathways-success/workshops-events  

Check out community.grad.ubc.ca for other opportunities including:

NCFDD webinars: Impostor Syndrome and Navigating the Academic Job Market https://community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4906

Apply for a Mitacs Career Connect Internship by Oct 1 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4889

Industry-Ready Résumés Workshop for Graduate Students, Jun 25 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4847

Systematic Review Workshop, Jun 27 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4727

Literature Review Workshop, Jun 29 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4703

Formatting your Thesis: Tips and Tricks, Jun 29 | community.grad.ubc.ca/event/4712

U21 Graduate Collaborative Research Award, apply by Aug 3 | community.grad.ubc.ca/forum/4896

Thank you,

Jacqui.

Jacqui Brinkman
Manager, Graduate Pathways to Success Program
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 827 4578 | Fax 604 822 5802
jacqui.brinkman@ubc.ca | @ubcgradschool
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/

 

GSS NEWS

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Ride Don’t Hide with the GSS

There’s still time to sign up to ride with team GSS on June 24th.

This special event helps create awareness about the importance of mental health and to raise funds for programs helping those who are dealing with mental illness.

SIGN UP

 

Join the GSS at Bard on the Beach July 14th

We’re organizing a special trip to see Shakespeare’s classic comedy As You Like in the beautiful setting of Vanier Park. This joyful production is a tribute to love, laughter and music. Set in the 1960’s it features 25 classic Beatles songs.

So join us for a Magical Mystery Tour. Don’t be a Nowhere Man. All you need to do is get your Ticket to Ride. Don’t Wait, Because, if you Let it Be you’ll be saying I Should Have Known Better and no one wants to be The Fool on the Hill.

GET YOUR TICKET

 

Educational Intelligence

Peter Musser swapped a career in US Naval Intelligence for graduate study at UBC. He wasn’t sure what to expect when he became a GSS councilor for his department, but it’s a decision he doesn’t regret.

“Being in GSS has given me a lot of exposure to the grad student experience outside of my own program, which has been really invaluable. It’s really easy to find yourself siloed from all of the really great things going on at UBC, and GSS is a really potent way of breaking out of that.”

 

Providing an Edge for the GSS

Meet Anna Ringsred, the GSS Election Coordinator. Anna competed at the Sochi Olympics in speed skating before coming to UBC. She reflects on how she applies the lessons of sport to graduate study and how she came to volunteer with the GSS.

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Community Announcements

UBC Extended Learning are recruiting for several roles, that grad students are encouraged to apply for. All are based on the Vancouver campus

  • Campus Guide for Pre-Grad Students
  • Graduate Seminar Facilitator – Arts & Humanities Stream
  • Graduate Seminar Facilitator – Business Stream
  • Graduate Seminar Facilitator – Engineering Stream
  • Graduate Seminar Facilitator – Science Stream

Check out CareersOnline for more information about each individual role.

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Volunteer with UBC’s Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE)

ORICE is happy to announce new volunteer position openings for our Action Team. This team will play an important role for the unit by supporting the organization of its annual Global Development Symposium and Winter I term speaker series on themes related to the Sustainable Development Goals. The ORICE Action Team will work alongside the staff in the office and the Student Leadership team to ensure the successful implementation of the events, prepare materials for promotional information, liaise with speakers and provide logistical support for the events.

More information