Attention doctoral students,

If interested, you apply directly to the Trudeau Foundation; departments and UBC do not submit nominations.

Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarships

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship Program offers a three-year leadership program designed to train Engaged Leaders, equipping doctoral candidates with the skills to translate their ideas into action, for the betterment of their communities, Canada, and the world.  At least 12 doctoral Scholars are selected each year and receive generous funding for their studies.

The Foundation welcomes applications from candidates across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, in business schools, public health and law. Candidates’ research must be related to one or more of the Foundation’s four central themes: Human Rights and Dignity; Responsible Citizenship; Canada and the World; and, People and their Natural Environment.

Value: Up to $40,000 stipend plus up to $20,000 research and travel allowance per year for three years

Application Deadline: 1 December 2022 at 2:00 pm PT (5:00 pm ET)

Reminder: As of the 2020 award competition year, interested applicants apply directly to the Trudeau Foundation to be considered in the national competition; all interested and eligible applicants may apply.  The University of British Columbia no longer nominates a subset of applicants to the national competition (there is no department-level or university-level adjudication).

For further information including eligibility requirements, please visit our webpage: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/trudeau-foundation-doctoral-scholarship or the Trudeau Foundation webpage: https://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/become-scholar.  Questions about this scholarship should be directed to the Trudeau Foundation at scholarships@trudeaufoundation.ca.

This Friday at the MFRE Industry Insight Series we will host Heather Farmer and Alain Guy speaking about Sole Food: Transforming Urban Space Into Street Farms.

The MFRE Industry Insight Series is a weekly speaker series hosted by the UBC Master of Food and Resource Economics (MFRE), and designed to provide students first-hand knowledge of the important issues that are rapidly reshaping the current climate, food and environmental sector.

As always, we highly appreciate if you can share this information with your members and community by forwarding this email and/or sharing on social media. Full information below and on our social media channels. Please follow us to keep up to date with future events.

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Sole Food: Transforming Urban Space Into Street Farms

 

Speaker: Heather Farmer & Alain Guy

Date: November 17, 2023

Time: 3:00-4:30 pm

Location: Room MCML 160

 

About Sole Food:

Sole Food Street Farms is an internationally recognized social enterprise that transforms vacant urban land into street farms. Our mission is to empower individuals with limited resources by providing jobs, agricultural training, and inclusion in a supportive community of farmers and food lovers.

Alain Guy is a farmer and community member with 15 years of experience. Since joining Sole Food in 2009, Alain has held many roles on the farm including field supervisor and propagation house lead. Heather Farmer is Sole Food’s Program and Administration Director. Heather is responsible for the day-to-day management and advancement of Sole Food and Cultivate Canada Society’s missions. Together, Alain and Heather look forward to sharing industry insights from Sole Food’s experience farming in the heart of the city

 

The MFRE Industry Insights Series – Connecting Students to Industry Leaders

Join this weekly series which features industry experts and provides students first-hand knowledge of the important issues that are rapidly reshaping the current climate, food and environmental sector.

Every Friday 3 pm

Visit our website for more information and upcoming speakers.

 

Alejandro Barrero Ademe

Marketing Manager
Master of Food and Resource Economics (MFRE) | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
http://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca/

 

This week’s IRES Seminar is in the Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre:

November 16, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with James Connolly

Planning for Socially Equitable Green Climate Urbanism

Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm

Location: Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre (Basement, 2212 Main Mall) Please check in at the Admissions Desk first before going to the Theatre.

No food or drinks allowed in the Theatre.

Click here to register for Zoom link. Zoom will be terminated if we encounter tech problems 5 to 10 mins into the seminar.

Talk summary:

How do land-use-based climate strategies reorder the local geography of risk for urban residents? In this talk, I argue that the answer to this question is more complicated than the one commonly presented in public discourse. If processes outlined within established “green gentrification” research continue as an engine for change in cities, then urban climate interventions cannot be understood as simple risk reduction actions. Rather, they have to be seen as actions that reorder the spatial dimension of risk – or, in other words, create a new riskscape pattern – within cities. This reordering occurs specifically because of interactions across social and ecological risks. I will outline these interactions based on my recent research and discuss what this way of thinking about planning interventions means for the practice of green climate urbanism.

 

  Dr. James J.T. Connolly, Assistant Professor
School of Community and Regional Planning

Bio:

James J.T. Connolly is Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia and the former Co-Director of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) within the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA). His research interests focus on the intersection of urban greening and social justice, with a focus on processes of green gentrification, climate risk, and the politics of urban transformation.

 

 

See you on Thursday in the Beaty Museum Allan Yap Theatre!

 

_______________________________________________________________________________

Bonnie Leung

RES Program Support (she/her/hers)

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)

University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL Building)

Room 429 – 2202 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z4 | Canada

 

Email: bonnie.leung@ubc.ca

Tel: 604-822-9249

Hello LFS TAs!

Come celebrate the end of the term with your fellow TAs at LFS TA DAY! Happening online and in-person (FNH 300) on Wednesday, Nov 22, from 11-12. 

• Learn about the new *Advance TA Skills Certificate* program, where you can earn a certificate for professional development in teaching!
• Meet other TAs and let us know how your term went!
• Enjoy some snacks (in-person)!

RSVP by Nov 20: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x4X4NP09a7FeVE