The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) will be offering a Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) on March 15, 22 & 23, 2025.

The Grad ISW is a 24-hour, fully participatory, and peer-based professional development workshop for graduate students that is beneficial to both new and experienced instructors.

Please note: You must attend all sessions and complete all independent work for the complete duration of the workshop, (i.e. the entire 24-hour workshop).

To apply for the waitlist for March 15, 22 & 23, 2025 ISW click here: https://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/graduate-instructional-skills-workshop-march-15-22-23-2025/

Application opens on January 31 at 9 am and closes on March 12 at 4:30 pm. By clicking this link, you are applying for the WAITLIST only and this DOES NOT register you for the workshop. Graduate ISWs at UBC are in high demand. To create an equitable registration process all graduate students who apply for an ISW will first be enrolled on a waitlist, from which participants are randomly selected. If a participant has applied for more than one ISW waitlist, their name will appear more frequently when generating the participant list, giving them a higher chance of being selected for an ISW. If you are accepted into the workshop, you will be contacted by our office to confirm your registration. For more information and a list of all upcoming sessions visit: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/gradisw

Workshop Eligibility:

Please read the application process and workshop eligibility prior to applying.

A participant who wishes to take the Grad ISW is eligible if they are:

• a full-time or part-time registered graduate student at UBC during the academic term when the ISW is offered
• a graduate student at UBC who has completed degree requirements but has not yet convocated
• a joint degree graduate student who is enrolled at UBC and another institution
• a graduate student at UBC pursuing non-degree studies
• a visiting graduate student that is eligible to take courses

A participant who wishes to take the Grad ISW is not eligible if they are:

• not a graduate student at UBC
• a graduate student at UBC who has on-leave status
• a visiting graduate student that is not eligible to take courses

Best,

Audrey Castillo (She/Her/Hers)

Event Coordinator

Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Traditional Territory

214 – 1961 East Mall | Vancouver BC | V6R 1Z1 Canada

audrey.castillo@ubc.ca

https://ctlt.ubc.ca/

 

Climate Conversation: The ‘Climate’ of Political Polarization and Misinformation in Canadian Politics

February 12, 2025, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
AERL 107 (in-person)

Registration (includes button to add event to your calendar)

Co-hosted by the Climate Solutions Research Collective and the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions during Climate Emergency Week.

In this tumultuous period in Canadian politics, concerns over issues like polarization as it relates to climate change, and climate misinformation are front of mind for many.  

Join colleagues from the Department of Sociology and the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions for a ‘Climate Conversation’ around these topics. Dr. Emily Huddart, will share her experience in researching ideological polarization with respect to climate change, and Dr. Chris Tenove will share research he and his CSDI colleagues are doing on climate misinformation in Canada.

 

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UBC Climate Solutions Research Collective
climate.collective@ubc.ca

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
Room 431 AERL | 2202 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada

The Climate Solutions Research Collective is a new UBC pan-university initiative designed to build connections across UBC climate researchers, groups and initiatives, and to encourage new collaborative research on climate change solutions. It aims to foster engagement across departments and faculties, and to support graduate students and faculty in applying their research and expertise to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and/or education.

Hello LFS grads,

This is it—the final deadline to submit your abstract for the 2025 Graduate Student Conference is tonight, January 24th, 2025, at 11:59 pm!

Don’t miss this chance to share your research and be part of an exciting lineup of presentations.

Please remember to:

1. Review the abstract guidelines???? 
2. Submityour abstract before the clock strikes midnight.
3. register for the conferenceto secure your spot! 

We can’t wait to celebrate your contributions and the amazing work of our LFS grad community. Please note that late abstract submissions will not be accepted.

For more info, visit our website or email us (lfsgrads@gmail.com) with any questions.

 

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Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Council

lfsgrads@gmail.com

IOF SEMINAR – January 24, 2025 Big Fish, Little Fish: Incorporating Youth into Marine Science Today’s youth makes up a significant portion of the global population yet they hold the least power— institutionally speaking. As climate change threatens the sake of our futures, it is important more than ever to get youth involved in the the climate movement and ocean sciences. By learning ways to encourage, support, and uplift youth in our own work, we can empower the next generation of scientists to fight for a livable future.

Chanté Davis Youth Climate Activist

Friday, January 24, 2025 – 11:00am  – 12:00 pm Over Zoom

IOF SEMINAR – January 31, 2025 Good Trouble: Revitalizing Ancestral Indigenous Laws, Governance, and Practices to Restore Ocean Relationships Coast Salish fishing weir stakes Comox BC Canada. Guinness323, CC BY-SA 3.0  via Wikimedia Common “What do we need to change in ocean research, governance, and policy?” This is the foremost question we have been asking given current colonial laws and practices have failed to resolve crises of social inequity, biodiversity loss, and climate change brought about by centuries of colonial laws and practices. By combining research and action, several Indigenous-led transdisciplinary initiatives throughout the Pacific Rim are revitalizing and upholding ancestral Indigenous laws and governance systems that reflect generations of observing, experimenting, experiencing, and adapting to environmental change. For example, the Clam Garden Network, Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative, and Coastal Voices are beginning to increase the social-ecological resilience, productivity, and biodiversity of coastal ocean communities amid extreme climatic events, predator recovery, and socio-political rhetoric. Key ingredients to success include uplifting Hereditary Indigenous leaders and their management knowledge, acknowledging past harms, bridging sovereign knowledge systems, engaging youth and community members anxious to make a difference, and experimenting with diverse care-taking practices grounded in respect, responsibility, reciprocity, and interconnectedness. Underlying these actions are collaborative, transparent, accountable, and long-term, reciprocal relationships. Ultimately, making meaningful change towards an ecologically safe and socially just future for our oceans, and all they encompass, demands replacing entrenched power inequities and siloed practices in biodiversity science and ocean policies with equitable governance processes, systems thinking, continuous learning, and tangible long-term actions. Ḵii’iljuus (Barbara Wilson) Centre for Indigenous Fisheries Haida Matriarch Dr. Anne Salomon Professor Simon Fraser University

Friday, January 31, 2025 – 11:00am  – 12:00 pm Live: UBC’s AERL Theatre, and over Zoom IOF community members (students, faculty and staff) do not need to RSVP for this seminar series. UBC members, alumni, and all others, RSVP REQUIRED: https://oceans.ubc.ca/rsvp-iof-seminars/