LFS Today Dec 8, 2020

LFS Podcast Club – Week 1

The inaugural edition of the LFS Podcast Club (working title) will meet on Friday, December 11 at 3pm. We will discuss the following pieces:

• Heavyweight, Episode 2: “Gregor” by Jonathan Goldstein [44 mins]
• This American Life: “Tattoos and Memories and Dead Skin on Trial” by Emily Hsiao [13mins]
• This American Life: “The Hills Have Eyes” by Alex Blumberg [13 mins]
• “Summer Rain” by Nanna Hauge Kristensen [3 mins]

Please join us! Contact Duncan for a link to the Zoom meeting.

Lunch & Learn Office Hours – Flexible Assessments with Candice Rideout

This session will be held on Friday, December 11 at noon.

It can be challenging to create courses that effectively accommodate the needs and preferences of diverse learners.  A flexible assessment approach can empower students to personalize their learning experience in ways that also promote their engagement and overall achievement in the course.   

Come to this session to explore a particular approach to flexible assessment (in which students select, from within parameters provided by the instructor, the assessments they will complete and the relative value of each in the calculation of their final grade), reflect on its impact on students, and consider whether it might be a good fit for your courses.

To register for the session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

Random Acts of Recognition

Congratulations to Random Acts of Recognition recipients:

Nick Grant and Baohua Wang for their tremendous effort to assist LFS faculty with Tri-council grant applications and CFI applications. Their efforts have resulted in good success rates for our faculty in very competitive grant applications. Thanks to both!

To nominate a faculty member, staff or graduate student that’s been doing an outstanding job or has gone above and beyond in some way, send an email to lfs.recognition@ubc.ca and tell us why this person should be recognized. We’ll send them a $6 Starbucks gift card and acknowledge their good work in LFS Today.

LFS in the News

Professors James Vercammen and Hannah Wittman and Affiliate Professor Sylvain Charlebois were all quoted in a story for the National Observer: Food prices are set to rise in 2021 — and farmers, food-insecure people will take a hit.

James and Sylvain were also quoted in another story for the Vancouver Sun: COVID-19: B.C. food prices set to climb as pandemic remodels the marketplace. This story also appeared in The Province.

SPARC Workshops

Check out upcoming workshops hosted by UBC SPARC (Support Programs to Advance Research Capacity).

• SSHRC Insight Development Grants Established Scholar Workshop 
  An expert panel followed by writing exercises to help participants articulate the distinction between previous/ongoing research and new research questions they intend to explore in the IDG proposal, particularly in the Proposed Versus Ongoing Research module, but also elsewhere. Dec. 8, Zoom.
• SSHRC Insight Development Grants Grant-Writing Bootcamps
  Guided writing-prompt exercises on the summary, knowledge mobilization plan, expected-outcomes summary, and budget justification modules, and dedicated writing time for each. Dec. 10, Zoom.
• SSHRC Insight Development Grants Peer-Editing Workshops 
  Following a short presentation on the session’s module(s), participants will break into small groups to provide peer feedback. Jan 8, 12 & 13, 2021, Zoom.
• MSFHR Scholar Competition Drop-In Sessions
  One-on-one, 15-minute consultations are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Jan 12, 13 & 14, 2021, Zoom.

Awards Nominations – Canadian Agricultural Economics Society

The Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES) recognizes the outstanding contributions of its members through its awards program. The program inspires professional excellence among students, early career professionals, and experienced members. Winners are selected on the basis of their achievements and awarded at the Annual Awards Banquet during the Annual Meeting (June 18-21, 2021) at the Hilton Whistler Resort & Spa, Whistler, British Columbia.

For submission guidelines and eligibility criteria for all awards please see https://caes-scae.ca/awards/  
 
CAES FELLOWS
With its Fellows Award the CAES recognizes excellence in performance demonstrating continuous distinguished contributions to the advancement of agricultural or resource economics and substantial contributions to institution building and the Canadian agricultural and resource economics profession. Naming a CAES Fellow is an important task that all CAES members should participate in at some point during their careers. Do you have someone in mind who is not already on the Fellows’ list? If so, please do your part to keep the CAES vibrant and to ensure that those with distinguished careers are properly recognized. Get started now rather than rushing around at the last minute trying to complete the nomination. Maybe this is the year that you should get involved with the nomination process! Send your nominations to Emmanuel Yiridoe at Emmanuel.Yiridoe@Dal.Ca by March 1, 2021
 
PUBLICATION OF ENDURING QUALITY
The CAES is accepting nominations for the prestigious Publication of Enduring Quality Award. Publications that qualify include books, articles within books, and journal articles. Send us your nominations of publications that have had a significant impact on agricultural, food and resource economics that are at least 10 years old. Please take a moment to write down why this publication has been, and continues to be, important. That’s all it takes to complete the nomination! It is important to celebrate our accomplishments and nominating a colleague is an excellent way to both celebrate and let others know about the exciting research that happens within our profession. Send your nominations to Viktoriya Galushko at Viktoriya.Galushko@uregina.ca by March 1, 2021.
 
OUTSTANDING MASTER’S THESIS
The Society is accepting nominations of formally written theses at the Master’s level that demonstrate exceptional quality with respect to the subject matter of the research as well as the way the research has been conducted. The jury will attach importance to both an original approach and insight; the relevance of the research to a scientific understanding of the issues covered; the significance of the thesis in relation to issues in agricultural economics; and its interest for the public. The theses must have been completed in 2019. Nominations will be accepted from agricultural economics and related social science disciplines. Each institution may submit up to two nominations for the award and must provide two reviewers (one for each nomination) who have agreed to be part of the reviewer pool for all theses. The reviewers shouldn’t have any conflict of interest with the submitted theses and will be asked to rank three theses. Each submission requires a written nomination by the Chair of the Department, Graduate Program Chair or equivalent officer. The internal institutional selection processes are the responsibility of the endorsing official. Each institution may submit up to two nominations for the award and must provide two reviewers who agree to be part of the reviewer pool for all theses. Submit nominations to Tristan Skolrud at tristan.skolrud@usask.ca   by March 1, 2021.