Year: 2024

2024/25 LFS Graduate Student Council Elections

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Hello LFS Grads!

It is time to elect the members of the LFS Graduate Student Council for 2024/2025.

The council is responsible for planning various academic and social events throughout the year. Each year, the council also plans and hosts the annual Grad Student Conference, which brings together students to share their research with the faculty.

Please fill out this survey before May 31st!

Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Council

lfsgrads@gmail.com

Graduate Student Opportunity

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We are looking for a graduate student who is excited and motivated to help us plan and promote IBioS community events and activities for graduate students outside of IBioS. The job will entail approximately 5 hours per week of commitment for the summer, and continuing into the winter terms, and will be paid at the level of a starting teaching assistantship. Attached is a flyer with the full details of the position. We would greatly appreciate it if you could circulate this flyer to the graduate students in Land and Food Systems!

The application is open to all UBC graduate students in good standing (Master’s or Ph.D.) researching biodiversity conservation, restoration, or management from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective (social or natural science, business, journalism, etc.).

The applicant will start working in June 2024 and continue into Winter Terms 1 and 2. Please talk to your supervisor before applying!

To apply, please send your application (CV and cover letter) to Dr. Conny Scheffler (Conny.Scheffler@ubc.ca) by Sunday, June 2nd, addressing the following questions:

1) why are you interested, and how does it align with your professional goals,

2) about your research and its alignment with IBioS, and

3) what relevant experience and connections on campus do you bring to the position?

 

All applications will be screened for eligibility.

 

Cheers,

 

Emma

GradUpdate – Leveraging your Strengths to Strategize for Success, Certificate Program in Advanced Teaching and Learning, Teaching as Research Award and Workshops, Collaborative Summer Projects (Fac of Arts), and more.

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In this issue, Leveraging your Strengths to Strategize for Success, Certificate Program in Advanced Teaching and Learning, Teaching as Research Award and Workshops, Collaborative Summer Projects (Fac of Arts), and more.

Registration Open

Leveraging your Strengths to Strategize for Success
Online | Thursday, May 23 | 3 – 4:30 pm
This session includes access to a free Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment

Register

Seats available

Finding and Applying for Academic Positions
Online | Wednesday, May 15 | Join these faculty member panels:
1 – 2:30 pm: Pathway to landing an academic position
3 – 4:30 pm: Thriving in your first five years in academia
Register.

Breaking Patterns of Procrastination
Online | Thursday, May 16 | 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Register

Events and Opportunities

A selection of upcoming events are highlighted below.  I’ve also highlighted some online, on-demand recordings to check out if you have end-of-term time.
Visit  community.grad.ubc.ca and grad.ubc.ca/current-students/professional-development for our full events calendar.

RESOURCE HIGHLIGHT

Hidden Handbook
Online | A mini-series of short videos (5 – 10 mins each) to provide quick tips for success in a variety of areas across the academic sphere. Topics include:

  • Accountability Matters
  • Creating Micro-goals
  • Productivity Pick-me-ups
  • The 5 D’s” What to Do When All Your — Don’t Fit
  • Advancing Your Strategic Plan
  • How to Revise & Resubmit in No Time
  • Promoting Your Publications
  • Rethinking Self-care
  • The Art of Saying ‘Yes’
  • Touchstone Teamwork

Learn more

ACADEMIC

Systematic, Scoping & Related Reviews Workshop Series: Translating Database Searches and Finding Grey Literature
Online | Wednesday, May 22 | 1 – 2:30 pm Register

CAREER

Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP) workshop
Online | Learn about eligibility criteria, application process, work eligibility during the transition to a PGWP, and important considerations when staying in Canada after graduation
Wednesday, May 22 | 12 – 1 pm Register

Arts Amplifier 2024 Collaborative Cohort Projects (CCP)
Various positions | 60 hrs/person, May – Aug | $1800 stipend | for masters and doctoral students in the Faculty of Arts. Summer 2024 CCP partners are:

  • Centre of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver
  • First Nations Technology Council
  • Generation Squeeze
  • Heritage Vancouver Society
  • Hikma Collective

Learn more about upcoming Q&A sessions and project details and application.

RESEARCH

Data manipulation with dplyr
Online | Thursday, May 23 | 10 – 11 am Register

TEACHING

Certificate Program in Advanced Teaching and Learning
Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 | Open to all UBC graduate students who have completed an ISW and will remain graduate students until Sept 2025.Learn more and apply by May 31.

Teaching as Research Workshop Series
Online and multi-access | May – June | This series of workshops will prepare grad students to implement an educational research project in their discipline regardless of previous experience. Sessions include:

View all workshops

Teaching as Research Award
Eligible graduate students can apply for the competitive CIRTL TAR Graduate Stipend Award (GSA). Successful applicants will become TAR Awardees and receive a stipend award of $3,000. Learn more and apply by Jul 3