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Call for Applications: DAAD Scholarships and Research Grants

DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Scholarships and Research Grants are available for highly qualified graduate students, PhD candidates, and post-doctoral researchers in all disciplines to study and carry out research at universities or research institutes in Germany. These scholarship provide funds for a period of study and/or research in Germany beginning in 2016. Application materials […]

CTLT Workshops for TA’s and Grad Students

Workshops: Please follow the links to register for each workshop. Mentoring Workshop – September 17, 12:30-5:00pm Facilitation Basics 1 – September 24th, 9:00am – 12:30pm This workshop is about designing sessions/workshops and activities Facilitation Basics 2 – September 24th – 1:30-5:00pm This workshop is about facilitating sessions/workshops and activities Additional Programs for TA’s: CTLT is […]

Volunteer Opportunity: Let’s Talk Science!

Let’s Talk Science (LTS) is a national, charitable organization, focused on science outreach to support youth development in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Let’s Talk Science at UBC strives to engage youth (kindergarten to grade 12) with hands-on/minds-on activities. Take your love of science into the community and join us on Sept. 23rd at […]

People of the Land: Dialogue series with the Mapuche Territorial Alliance

People of the Land: Dialogue series with the Mapuche Territorial Alliance will bring together two Indigenous leaders from the Mapuche Nation –Alberto Curamil and Miguel Melin– with Indigenous activists and scholars from North America to exchange ideas and share experiences about land recuperation, opposition to extractive industries on their traditional territories, customary law, and Indigenous […]

Lecture by Gayatri Gopinath at GRSJ UBC

The Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice would like to draw your attention to an upcoming event that is part of our year-long GRSJ lunchtime Lecture Series. On Tuesday, September 23rd from 12-1pm there will be a lecture by Dr. Gayatri Gopinath titled Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora. She is […]

Candidate Q&A Session: Royal Canadian Legion Professorship in Group Counselling and Trauma

As part of the internal chairs & professorships search process, candidates participate in a Q&A Session with the Faculty of Education community. All are invited to attend and provide feedback. CV’s and Vision Statements of the candidates are available prior to the event on the OGPR website http://www.ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/ga-session-rcl/ Candidate: Dr. Marla Buchanan Date and time: […]

Graduate Research Assistant – UBC

The UBC Learning Exchange (http://learningexchange.ubc.ca/) is seeking a graduate research assistant (GRA) at Masters or PhD level to be the evaluator for a new three-year initiative, Seniors Thrive. Working under the direction of the Learning Exchange Academic Director and an advisory group, the GRA is expected to: Conduct a literature search on research related to […]

Call for Nominations: 2015-2016 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS)

The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program is designed to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by offering them a significant financial award to assist them during their studies at Canadian universities. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, […]

Applied Science CBEL Assistant – UBC

Position type: Part-time Student Staff Position Pay rate: $26.81/hour Hours per week: 15 Length of Term: April 20, 2016 The APSC CBEL Assistant will work directly with the APSC CBEL Officer, and will liaise with other members of the Centre and APSC as needed. This part-time student staff role will focus primarily on supporting students […]

Registration open for the 2015 Educational Innovation Conference

Registration is open for the Educational Innovation Conference to be held at the University of Edinburgh, UK from October 28-30, 2015. The 2015 Conference theme is “Using the digital to capture the international in learning and teaching.” We will include interactive sessions on how to capitalize on the universality of the internet to internationalize our […]