GAA in the OGPR
The OGPR is looking to hire a Faculty of Education graduate student who can provide consultation to peers on navigating the web forms for the upcoming SSHRC graduate fellowship and scholarship competition. Job Title: Faculty of Education SSHRC GAA Duration: 3 weeks (September 2 – 22, 2014) Time: 10 hours per week (approximately two hours […]
March 2014 CIHR Open Operating Grant Recipients
Congratulations to Tania Lam on being awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant!
2014 HSS Research Dissemination Grant Awardees
Congratulations to Monique Bournot-Trites, Alanaise Goodwill, Deirdre Kelly, Ryuko Kubota, and Sterett Mercer on being awarded 2014 HSS Research Dissemination Grants!
2014 Graduate Student Orientation
Information on the 2014 International Student Welcome, Main Orientation Day, GSS Orientation Day, and Volunteering Opportunities now available!
2014 Spencer Foundation Convening Grant Awardee
Congratulations to Claudia Ruitenberg in the Department of Educational Studies for being awarded a 2014 Spencer Foundation Convening Grant!
Tri-Agency/Affiliated Fellowship Info Session & Feedback Forum
Education Graduate Students are invited to join us for a SSHRC/CIHR/NSERC/Affiliated Fellowship Information Panel and Feedback Forum on September 10, 2014.
Koerner Library Research Commons Workshops and Events July 2014
Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean A Lot! Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about […]
Summer Sizzlers—30 Minute Library Workshops (July)
Topics include: • Smartboard Basics • Get Organized to Manage Your Research • Getting Published—Sources and Resources • Using APA Style • RefWorks Using Write’n Cite • Zotero 101 • cIRcle UBC’s Institutional Repository All workshops take place in the Scarfe 155. Contact the Education Library or Jo-Anne Naslund for dates and times.
Carl Leggo
Literacy education; Curriculum studies; Teacher education; Creative writing; Art-based research; Poetic inquiry; Life writing; Spirituality and education.
Dr. Leggo is a poet, educator, and scholar who promotes poetry and creative writing, and especially ways to support educational research, theory, and practice by attending to issues of poetic discourse and poetic knowing. In his teaching, researching, and writing, he promotes the significant value of attending to language from creative perspectives. He writes in diverse discourses that challenge the conventions of standard academic writing in order to investigate innovative ways of using language.
Daniel Cox
Social support; Mental health; Suicide; Program evaluation; Military and veteran populations; Trauma, stress, and coping; Career-related decision making; Help seeking; Quantitative methodology.
His current research focuses on how social support influences psychological distress. He also examines how social support and other psychological constructs predict suicide, with particular emphasis on military and veteran populations. Further, how these variables influence help seeking. Finally, Dr. Cox investigates career-related decision making.