GradUpdate

In this issue, Doctoral Defence: Doctoral Examination and Defence Procedures, Writing Personal Statements: Crafting Your Professional Identity, Translating Database Searches and Finding Grey Literature, Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund, Intro to Data Management Plans, and more.

Registration open

Doctoral Defence: Doctoral Examination and Defence Procedures
Online | Tuesday, Nov 7 | 2 – 3:15 pm

Register

Seats available

Finding and Applying for a Job
Online | Wednesday, Nov 1 | 2 – 3 pm Register

Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Online | Friday, Nov 3 | 10 am – 12 pm Register

Policy Reports
Hybrid | Friday, Nov 10 | 12:30 – 2 pm Register

Project Management (2 days), Mitacs Training
Note: Due to the high demand for this workshop and limited seating, we will admit students via drawing all registered names from a hat.
In-person attendance for both full days is required.
In-person | Tuesday & Wednesday, Nov 14 & 15 | 9 am – 5 pm Register

Op-eds for Policy
Hybrid | Monday, Oct 30 | 12:30 – 2 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

Systematic, Scoping & Related Reviews Workshop Series: Translating Database Searches and Finding Grey Literature
Online | Wednesday, Nov 8 | 1 – 2:30 pm Register

Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund Information Session
Online | Wednesday, Nov 8 | 2 – 3 pm Register.
Graduate students are eligible to apply for Stream 3 funding, Learn more.

Creating and Managing Your Academic Profile – Profile Tools
Online | Thursday, Nov 9 | 11 am – 12 pm Register

RESEARCH

The Process to Establish Recommendations and Clinical Practice Guidelines: Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analyses, Quality of the Evidence
Online | Tuesday, Nov 7 | 9 am – 12 pm Register

Making Research Open: An Introduction to cIRcle, UBC’s Institutional Repository
Online | Tuesday, Nov 7 | 1 – 2 pm Register

Introduction to Machine Learning: Regression Models
Online | Wednesday, Nov 8 | 10 am – 12 pm Register

Introduction to OSF
OSF is a free open platform to support your research and enable collaboration
Online | Wednesday, Nov 8 | 11 am – 12 pm Register

Data Bites – Introduction to Data Management Plans (DMPs)
Online | Wednesday, Nov 8 | 1 – 1:45 pm Register

Loops and conditional statements in R
Online | Wednesday, Nov 8 | 2 – 3 pm Register

WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

Writing Personal Statements: Crafting Your Professional Identity
Hybrid | Wednesday, Nov 8 | 10 – 11:30 am Register