SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants
Engage Grants support partnerships between the academic sector and one non-academic partner (public, private or not-for-profit). Deadlines: April & June 2018
Dr. Joy Butler to Receive R. Tait McKenzie Award
Dr. Joy Butler will receive the 2018 R. Tait McKenzie Award from Physical & Health Education Canada (PHE Canada), which is awarded to Canadians who have made a significant impact on physical education, health education/promotion, recreation, and dance and who have served the profession over an extended period of time.
Graduate Defence – Alayna Finley
Alayna Finley, MA, Special Education Discourse and academic language in parent/deaf child home interactions Supervisor: Dr. Joanna Cannon Wednesday, March 28, 2018 | 2:00 p.m. | Ponderosa Commons Oak House (PCOH), Room 1306A, 6445 University Boulevard American Sign Language Interpreters are available. Abstract Children are first socialized in the language of school before even setting […]
Opportunity to Serve on CIHR Advisory Boards
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has opened a call for nominations to fill 13 advisory boards that inform the strategy and funding activities for its 13 institutes. Deadline: April 9, 2018.
Canada’s curiously cautious commemoration of women suffragists
Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag, a UBC professor emerita in educational studies, wrote an op-ed about women suffragists for The Conversation.
Call for Applications | The Pat Clifford Award 2018
The Pat Clifford Award recognizes the work of emerging researchers – their research contributions, their promise, and their commitment to breaking new ground or revisiting commonly held assumptions in education policy, practice or theory in Canada. Deadline: May 31, 2018.
Dr. Wendy Carr – BCTF Honorary Life Membership Recipient
Dr. Wendy Carr receives BCTF Honorary Life Membership for active and retired members who have given outstanding service to education.
Big Questions Unanswered in Government’s Child Care Plans
Dr. Guofang Li was interviewed by The Tyee about the need to include professional learning for early childhood teachers to better support them to teach and care for children from diverse linguistic, cultural, racial, and economic backgrounds in the BC government’s $1 billion investment in universal childcare programs in the next three years.
Reappointment of Dr. Sterett Mercer – Chris Spencer Foundation Professorship in Dyslexia
Please join the Faculty of Education in congratulating Dr. Sterett Mercer on his reappointment as the Chris Spencer Foundation Professor in Dyslexia, effective July 1, 2018.
Call for Presenters | TEC Expo 2018
Instructors and students are encouraged to present educational technologies they are passionate about at the 5th annual Technology Enhanced Classroom (TEC) Expo on July 4-5, 2018. Deadline: June 1, 2018.
