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CILS 10th Annual Symposium: Second Call for Proposals

Intercultural Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward Friday, May 9, 2014 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. The University of British Columbia We are accepting submissions  for presentations (20 minutes) followed by discussion (10 minutes) on topics related to intercultural issues in higher education. The theme for this year, “Intercultural Research: Looking Back, Looking Forward” is intentionally broadly-stated so as to provide a forum where […]

Graduate Academic Assistant Position

A Graduate Academic Assistant (GAA) position is available to provide research and administrative support for a flexible learning project. The project focus is the development of flexible learning resources to enable faculty to employ and evaluate flexible learning techniques in our undergraduate curriculum. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: • Maintain the project plan, and facilitate the project steering committee meetings as required • […]

UBC’s Positive Space Workshops

Register for an upcoming workshop at UBC’s Positive Space. Workshops Monday, March 17 at 9am-12:30pm Friday, March 28 at 12:30pm-4:00pm Friday, April 25 at 12:30pm-4:00pm The Positive Space Campaign is an initiative intended to help make UBC more receptive to and welcoming of its lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, questioning, transgender, transsexual, gender variant, two-spirit and intersex (LGBQTTI) communities, […]

FIREtalk: Tools of the Trade

The Research Commons invites graduate students from any discipline to participate in our next FIREtalk, Tools of the Trade. To be part of the discussion, submit your proposal for a 5-minute presentation by April 16th, 2014. Or, if you don’t want to present, attend as an audience member and join the discussion after the presentations! This month’s […]

CCGSE Invitation to faculty and graduate students: Call for Disscussants

Call for Discussants The CCGSE planning committee would like to invite faculty members and graduate students to act as discussants for the 2014 Canadian Committee of Graduate Students in Education (CCGSE) roundtable discussions. One discussant will be assigned to each roundtable (2-3 papers). The CSSE planning committee is hoping to dedicate one session to the […]

IERG Conference 2014 – Call for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 21, 2014

Imagination: The great workhorse of learning Wednesday, July 2nd – Friday, July 4th, 2014 SFU Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED: APRIL 21, 2014 Thank you to everyone for submitting your proposal(s) to this year’s 9th IERG International Conference on Imagination and education. We’ve received many great proposals, but also many requests […]

ECPS CRCII Candidate Presentations and CRCII Candidate/Student Lunch

ECPS CRCII Candidate Presentations Candidates for the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health, Healing and Psychological Wellness in ECPS will be presenting an overview of their research.  All faculty and students are invited to attend and provide feedback. Presentation information, feedback forms and presentation videos at ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/canada-research-chair-ecps CRC Candidate Lunches with ECPS Graduate Students In […]

Cross Faculty Inquiry in Education Speaker Series

Cross Faculty Inquiry in Education Speaker Series presents, Dr. Heesoon Bai with Dr. Avraham Cohen and Derek Rasmussen “Core Humanity Turn: New Priority for 21st Century Teacher Education Feb. 20th,  2014,  2:00-3:30pm, Scarfe Rm. 310          Cross Faculty Inquiry in Education Speaker Series presents, Dr. Anne Chinnery: The Ethics of Teachers Lives and […]

Forum for International Networking in Education (FINE) FREE networking events at AERA 2014

The Forum for International Networking in Education (FINE), is organizing a number of FREE networking events at AERA 2014 in Philadelphia for graduate students in Eduction from U21 Universities: The FINE Forum will be held from 1pm-5pm on Wednesday, April 2nd at the Marriott Hotel, 1201 Market Street, 4th Level, Room: Franklin 9 and 10. […]

Call for nominations: SSHRC Talent Award

UBC departments may forward a maximum of one doctoral nominee and one postdoctoral nominee Value: $50,000 over one to three years Eligibility: Open to SHHRC doctoral and postdoctoral award holders Deadline for departmental nominations to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies: 4:00pm Friday, 4 April, 2014 The Talent Award recognizes outstanding achievement by a […]