Global News
December 18, 2018
UBC Assistant Professor of Kinesiology Dr. Eli Puterman explains how your body deals with stress and how exercise can help combat that. He explains why exercise is vital during times of stress.
Link to the video.
AESS 2019 Sustainable Futures
The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) is an independent faculty-and-student-based professional association in higher education, designed to serve the needs of environmental scholars and scientists who value interdisciplinary approaches to research, teaching, and problem-solving. The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) serves the faculty, students and staff of the 1000+ interdisciplinary environmental programs in North America and around the world. We seek to strengthen teaching, research and service in environmental studies and sciences, and to improve communication across boundaries that too often divide the traditional academic disciplines. The Association facilitates the professional development of Association members not just as individuals but also to advance Environmental Studies and Sciences as a whole.
The 2019 Conference will take place at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, from June 26-29, 2019.
We invite proposals for panels, discussion symposia, roundtables, and workshops.
Proposal Descriptions and Guidelines
UBC Education Library Website has been updated
Dec 13, 2018
You might have noticed that the Education Library’s website has been refreshed! As we head into a new year, we wanted to make sure that everyone who uses our library was able to find our most sought-after resources and answers to common questions as efficiently as possible. We’ve created new categories that reflect the scholarly activities happening in the Faculty of Education and the library resources that are most needed to support those activities. You’ll find our most-used guides for research in education and juvenile literature, library materials for teaching, learning and lesson design, and faculty and graduate student supports right from our main page. As always, please reach out to the Education Library team for further information about library services and assistance finding and utilizing library and research materials.
Use your learning to work toward a more equitable world
Maclean’s 2019 University Rankings Magazine
By:
December 3, 2018
My parents were not wealthy and never went to university. It was therefore necessary for me to learn to navigate the many cultural practices of university life through trial and error. I was surprised when one student, who came from a wealthy family, was given a generous financial scholarship, while I was holding down two jobs and working around the clock. I gathered up the courage to ask him how he knew about the scholarship. Without a moment’s hesitation, he said, “I make it my business to find out.” I have never forgotten this lesson on the relationship between human agency and access to knowledge and opportunity. We need to make it our business to “find out”—not only about scholarships and financial aid, but the way human possibility is socially and historically constructed, both locally and globally, and how we can achieve a more equitable world through sharing access to knowledge and power.
Link to full text.
Pramod Sah has won this year’s Mary Ashworth Scholarship
December 11, 2018
Pramod Sah has won this year’s Mary Ashworth Scholarship, valued at $1000. Pramod will use the scholarship to travel to the 2019 TESOL International Convention in Atlanta, Georgia where he will present a paper related to his graduate studies titled Translanguaging in English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Classrooms in Nepal as well as Neoliberal Language Policy as Cultural Reproduction. Pramod will share his research at the 2019 BC TEAL Conference and/or write an article for the BC TEAL Journal.
For more information, please visit bcteal.org/teal-charitable-foundation/congratulations-to-tcf-winners
Reconciliation alive and thriving at UBC’s teacher graduation ceremony
Vancouver Courier
By: Tracy Sherlock
December 8, 2018
If a recent teacher graduation is anything to go by, the University of British Columbia is preparing new teachers well to infuse their teaching with Indigenous culture and ways.
That’s a good thing because B.C.’s new curriculum aims to add First Nations culture and learning into all areas of a student’s learning. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission placed education near the top of its calls to action and priorities directly related to education were found throughout its report.
Link to full text.
Happy Holidays
Dear colleagues and friends from near and far:
2019 has been an exceptional year for the Faculty of Education: it has been a year of thoughtful reflection and new beginnings. As we look back upon the past year, we would like to acknowledge those who have helped us shape this Faculty into one of the best in the world. Thanks for a great year, and we wish you all the best as you embark on 2020.
Best,
Dr. Blye Frank
Dean and Professor
Faculty of Education
University of British Columbia
SSHRC IDGs: ORE Internal Review Support Program
Education faculty applicants to SSHRC’s Insight Development Grants (IDG) program may submit their applications for criterion review and feedback to the Office of Research in Education.
Submission deadline: January 2, 12 Noon.
Applicants are asked to please email both the exported PDF and Word versions of your application to Robert Olaj in the ORE at robert.olaj@ubc.ca
Please note that because of application volume and time constraints applications submitted after January 2 may not receive full reviews.
New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration
Deadlines:
Portal to submit Notice of Intent (NOIs) opens December 17, 2018.
January 11, 2019 4:30 PM (PST): Notice of Intent agency deadline
February 1, 2019 at 8:30 AM: ORS deadline to receive fully signed RPIF and application
February 6, 2019 8:30 AM: Applicant’s e-Submission deadline
February 7, 2019 4:30 PM (PST): Agency deadline
Canada’s three research granting agencies (SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR) have collaborated to launch a new funding initiative designed to generate opportunities for early career researchers (ECRs) to conduct high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research not available through funding opportunities currently offered by the three agencies. The New Frontiers in Research Fund seeks to inspire highly innovative projects that defy current research paradigms, propose a unique scientific direction, bring disciplines together beyond the traditional disciplinary approaches, and/or use different perspectives to solve existing problems. The program is managed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Important note: Please note that the eligibility criteria for team members is highly specific, as are the types of projects that the program is designed to support. Please be sure to read carefully the program description and eligibility criteria.
2019 Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research – Research Trainee competition is NOW OPEN
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research 2019 Research Trainee competition is now open for applications, with the letter of intent due January 11, 2019. This program supports post-doctoral fellows in the training phase of their research careers, to build research capacity in BC and cultivate the next generation of BC health research leaders.
New for this year we are implementing a gender neutral peer review process to foster gender equity in our programs and BC health research. This will apply to all 2019 competitions.
To support gender neutral peer review, applications and the CV that MSFHR peer reviewers receive will list only the applicant’s last name (rather than first and last). Application forms that capture information on career interruptions will simply list ‘parental leave’ instead of distinguishing between ‘maternity’ and ‘parental’ leave, and those submitting letters of reference or recommendation will be instructed to use gender neutral language and provided with guidance to support this. We have also introduced unconscious bias training for reviewers.
