{"id":1621,"date":"2016-09-03T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T22:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2016-09-03T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T22:28:15","slug":"make-your-voice-heard-ubc-federal-research-and-innovation-initiatives-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/2016\/09\/make-your-voice-heard-ubc-federal-research-and-innovation-initiatives-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your voice heard: UBC Federal Research and Innovation Initiatives Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the UBC research community across every discipline, <strong>including postdocs<\/strong>, are invited to participate in a campus-wide consultation\u00a0to share their advice and perspective on the input UBC provides to the federal government on its Review of Fundamental Science in Canada.\u00a0UBC is seeking input on the questions pertaining to scientific research in Canada, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\">How do we develop, recruit, and retain talent?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\">What is the best structure of granting councils and peer review?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\">How should Canada participate in\u00a0international research?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If these issues resonate with you, please attend the roundtable meetings, planned as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tuesday, <strong>September 6<\/strong>, 1.00-3.00 pm<br \/>\nUBC Vancouver Campus<br \/>\nSeminar Room,<br \/>\nSage Bistro<br \/>\n6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, <strong>September 7<\/strong>, 2:00-4:00pm<br \/>\nBlusson Lecture Hall,<br \/>\nICORD<br \/>\n818, West 10th Avenue, Vancouver<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please express your interest in participating in one of these roundtable sessions via the form <a href=\"https:\/\/research.ubc.ca\/federal_initiatives#consult\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you can\u00a0contribute through a direct\u00a0written response to the Fundamental Science Review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencereview.ca\/eic\/site\/059.nsf\/eng\/00024.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0through the Government of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the UBC research community across every discipline, including postdocs, are invited to participate in a campus-wide consultation\u00a0to share their advice and perspective on the input UBC provides to the federal government on its Review of Fundamental Science in Canada.\u00a0UBC is seeking input on the questions pertaining to scientific research in Canada, such as: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}