Application deadline: 4:00 pm PT on May 19, 2023.
The students apply directly to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC CGS Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements – Spring 2023 Competition

The Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (CGS-MSFSS) Program supports high-caliber Canadian graduate students in building global linkages and international networks through the pursuit of exceptional research experiences at research institutions abroad. By accessing international scientific research and training, CGS-MSFSS recipients will contribute to strengthening the potential for collaboration between Canadian and foreign institutions.

• Eligibility: Open to Canadian citizens or permanent residents who hold a Tri-Agency (CIHR, NSERC, or SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) at the Master’s or doctoral level or a Vanier CGS. For complete eligibility criteria and program details, please review the harmonized program description hosted on NSERC’s website: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/CGSForeignStudy-BESCEtudeEtranger_eng.asp
  • Please note that international students who hold a Vanier CGS are not eligible for this award. SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship holders and NSERC PGSD holders are also not eligible (as they do not hold a “CGS”).
• Value: Up to $6,000 for 2 to 6 months research study abroad.
• Application deadline: 4:00 pm PT on May 19, 2023, to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Applicants apply directly to G+PS)

  All application materials should be submitted as 1 PDF document via online submission (see link below). Applicants are strongly encouraged to collect letters from their supervisors and include all PDF documents in one online submission.

SUBMIT APPLICATION HERE

For details about this competition, please see:
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canada-graduate-scholarship-michael-smith-foreign-study-supplement

Applicants: It is your responsibility to ensure that your application is complete by the deadline.
Please follow up with your referees before the deadline as appropriate.

Subject: Doctoral Deadlines for August 31 Program Completion

The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for August 31, 2023 Program Completion was last Friday, April 14. While this is a slightly flexible deadline, forms should really be in by Friday this week, to avoid delays.

As a reminder, the other dates candidates need to meet are as follows:

FRIDAY, 9 JUNE 2023 – Doctoral dissertation (and supporting documentation) submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for external examination

FRIDAY, 4 AUGUST, 2023 – Last Day for Final Doctoral Oral Examination

THURSDAY, 31 AUGUST, 2023 – Acceptance of final, approved doctoral dissertation by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Students will be able to choose to defend either in person or on Zoom. We will work with students to select the most appropriate mode for their defence.

There is an information session for students about the Doctoral Exam process organized by Graduate Pathways to Success on Tuesday, May 16 at 2pm.
Students who are interested in attending this Zoom session can find more information here: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/23133-doctoral-defence-doctoral-examination-defence-procedures

Please distribute this email to any faculty or students you think may be interested.

Best,

Robyn

Robyn Starkey (Pronouns: No Preference)
Doctoral Exams Coordinator
Office of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
The University of British Columbia 170 – 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 822 3989
robyn.starkey@ubc.ca | grad.ubc.ca

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Are you working on a complex challenge and searching for ways to empower transformation – grounded in social, racial and ecological justice and community-engaged research? If so, this offering might be for you.

Registration is now open to UBC graduate students for Designing for Transformation – a free, non-credit course for learning and applying approaches from social innovation, systemic design and regenerative development, using equity-centered and decolonizing methodologies. The course is led by interdisciplinary practitioners Lindsay Cole, Lerato Chondoma and Jennifer Cutbill (with feature guests to be announced during the course).

The challenges we face demand more than incremental change, they require transformation. This in turn requires transforming our ways of knowing, being and doing, and our roles and responsibilities in relation. This offering provides opportunities to un/learn and apply emergent and resurgent practices with peers across disciplines, working on an enriching diversity of complex challenges; all supported by practitioners working across sectors, disciplines and knowledge systems.

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Who is This For: current UBC graduate students (Ph.D. or Masters) and Postdoctoral Fellows.

Format: two modules; a total of eight synchronous, online sessions. Option for peer groups to meet in person (we may also meet in person for the closing session of Module 2 – but TBC together).

Schedule:

• MODULE 1 – Planting Seeds (introduction): Synchronous class sessions: May 16, 23 and 30, 2023. Register by May 14, 2023 to secure a spot
• MODULE 2 – Growing Roots & Shoots (deeper application): Synchronous class sessions: June 13, 20, July 4,18, August 1, 2023. Register by June 3, 2022. Students applying for Module 2 must have completed Module 1.

Learn more here and register today to secure your space!

FISHGLOB Consortium – April 6, 2023. 2:00-3:00 pm Fish biodiversity facing global change Global change, linked to climate and direct anthropogenic impacts, is causing redistribution of marine species worldwide, modifying fish population and stock structure, as well as community compositions. These changes may have strong impacts on fisheries and natural fish biodiversity as well as related ecosystem services. However, our capacity to assess and monitor short and long-term changes in species distribution and biodiversity is hampered by data availability and heterogeneity. This event will present activities of the FISHGLOB consortium which has collected and combined a unique data set of scientific bottom trawl surveys conducted regularly during the last decades across the globe. Topics will cover species assemblages’ homogenization/differentiation through time, consequences on fish stocks shared across countries, and fishery management. Finally, FISHGLOB aims to provide a platform enhancing international cooperation and knowledge transfer among data providers, scientists and stakeholders in order to support biodiversity and fishery management adaptation in a time of global change. SPEAKERS Bastien Mérigot, Marbec Aurore Maureaud, Yale University Zoë Kitchel, Rutgers University Juliano A. Palacios, University of British Columbia Malin Pinsky, Rutgers University Nancy Shackell, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) James Thorson, NOAA Deng Palomares, University of British Columbia Robert Guralnick, USC SPONSORS Sea Around Us, French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB) – Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity(CESAB), French Embassy in Canada, Rutgers University, University of Montpellier.

Thursday, April 6, 2023 2:00 – 3:00 pm IN PERSON: Michael Smith Lab Theatre 2185 East Mall, UBC Vancouver

Please RSVP at: https://oceans.ubc.ca/rsvp-iof-seminars/