SSHRC Insight Grants: Humanities Perspectives
The Faculties of Education and Arts are pleased to co-host a panel discussion on crafting a compelling humanities-oriented SSHRC Insight Grant proposal on Wednesday, June 14.
Faculty Research Space Guidelines
The Faculty of Education’s ‘Central’ Research Space Allocation Guidelines outline guiding principles for the allocation and management of all ‘central’ research spaces.
Mitacs Elevate
Sponsor: Mitacs
Mitacs Elevate trains emerging research management leaders through an exclusive professional skills curriculum. Fellows gain theoretical and experiential training in areas such as project management and presentations.
Value:
Postdoctoral fellows will receive $55,000 annual award (plus $7,500 per year non-cash value in training).
Elevate supervising professors will also get access to competitive funding, including up to $5,000 in research expenses.
Deadlines:
ORE Deadline: June 28, 2017 (9 AM)
Sponsor Deadline: July 5, 2017 (1 PM)
2016-2017 Graduate Student Research Scholarship
2016-2017 Faculty- Wide Programs Graduate Student Research Scholarship
Town Hall – Private Donor Funding
Please join us for a open house discussion of the development of a Private Donor Funding policy on May 23. All faculty and grad students welcome!
Recent Graduates
Discover the diverse career paths of some of our recent PhD graduates! These scholars have gone on to achieve considerable success in their respective fields.
Amy Salmon
Dr. Amy Salmon has an extensive career as researcher, front-line worker, and health care administrator, working in a wide variety of areas related to substance use, mental health, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), and social determinants of health. She holds her PhD in Educational Studies from UBC, specializing in the Sociology of Education and Disability […]
Simon Blakesley
Simon Blakesley is an educator living in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. He completed the Ph.D. (Educational Studies) program at UBC (Vancouver) in 2010. His dissertation, titled “Remote and Unresearched: A Contextualized Study of Non-Indigenous Educational Leaders Working in Yukon Indigenous Communities”, engages in a critical analysis of the lived experiences of non-Indigenous educational leaders working in […]
Maren Elfert
Dr. Maren Elfert came to pursue doctoral studies in EDST at UBC after having worked for more than a decade at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg, Germany. Her research examines how international organizations contribute to the globalization of ideas, in particular educational ideas and discourses of human rights. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation on […]
Kristina Llewellyn
A historian of education and feminist scholar, Kristina Llewellyn (PhD, Educational Studies 2006), is Associate professor of Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo). Her scholarship is devoted to oral history in the pursuit of social justice. The author of Democracy’s Angels: The Work of Women Teachers (2012) and co-editor of The […]