LFS Today July 13, 2021 | LFS Intranet 2020

Tech Tip Tuesday by LFS Learning Centre

The Power of Good Audio
Good audio is often more important than good video. Don’t believe us? Check out this 2 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PLMiA18tBc

Plan out your workstation and recordings to use good equipment. Reach out to Learning Centre for recommendations that will fit best with your use case at it@landfood.ubc.ca.

New Regional Teaching Excellence Award in BC and The Yukon

The British Columbia Teaching and Learning Council (BCTLC) has created a new teaching award for BC and the Yukon, the West Coast Teaching Excellence Award, that is designed to recognize excellence in teaching, primarily in undergraduate courses, over a number of years. This regional external award fills a gap in the landscape of how we can recognize teaching excellence at UBC, sitting between Killam Teaching Awards internally and the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, and we are keen to support faculty who may want to apply.

Please see the West Coast Teaching Excellence Award web page for specific eligibility information, and criteria that will be used to evaluate applications. This award may be of particular interest to those who have already received an institutional teaching award, though that is not a requirement for application. This new award could be a stepping stone before applying for a national teaching award, such as the 3M National Teaching Fellows program.

Please refer to the document for UBC process and timeline.

All LFS applications are due 3:00 pm on August 12 to Judy Chan (judy.chan@ubc.ca). The LFS Review Committee will provide feedbacks to applicants for improvement. If you have questions, please connect Judy.

Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

The UBC Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are provided annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies and are available for most fields of research. The number of awards offered presently varies between three and five per year.

Value: an annual stipend of $50,000 for a maximum of two years plus a travel and research allowance of $4,000 over two years.

The application and nomination process is briefly summarized below. Refer to the Application Guide and Nomination Guide posted on our Killam webpage for complete details.

UBC Vancouver (UBC-V)

Each UBC Vancouver department or unit sets its own internal application deadline for receipt of applications (typically early to mid-October). Internal LFS application deadline is Friday, October 1, 2021 – late and incomplete applications cannot be accepted
The Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies may submit 2 nominations – one each from Applied Animal Biology (AABI, PLNT, SOIL, ISLFS) and Food Science (FOOD, HUNU) to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies by November 12, 2021 at 4:00 pm. Rather than using UBC Workspace, a Qualtrics survey link is provided in the nomination form and nomination guide for nomination submission.
UBC-V contact: killam.fellowships@ubc.ca

For complete application and nomination details, as well as detailed eligibility requirements, refer to our webpage. Please visit: https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam-postdoctoral-research-fellowship.

Applications are to be sent electronically to shelley.small@ubc.ca

Authors for the Canadian Mountain Assessment – Deadline Extended

The Canadian Mountain Assessment (CMA) is currently seeking authors interested in contributing to this foundational effort to understand the state of knowledge of Canada’s rapidly changing mountains systems, guided by innovative conceptual and ethical frameworks for knowledge sharing. This first-of-its kind Assessment will include insights from both peer-reviewed literature and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountain systems, with individual Assessment chapter teams being balanced between Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors.

CMA authors should be recognized as 1. Established or emerging academic experts 2. First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledge holders or 3. non-academic specialists (e.g. mountain guides, tourism operators, writers) with expertise/knowledge relevant to Canadian mountain systems. The CMA provides a platform for connecting and mobilizing researchers, practitioners, and Indigenous Peoples with knowledge of mountains, and is therefore helping to catalyze a community of practice related to mountains in Canada. This high-impact project is expected to inform the mountain research and policy agenda in Canada for years to come.

Click here for more information and to submit a self-nominate form

The deadline for self-nominates has been extended to Friday, July 16, 2021, to allow for further expressions of interest in this exciting project. Please circulate this call widely among your networks. For any questions, please contact CMA Project Assistant Madison Stevens at: madisonpstevens@gmail.com

Zero Waste Conference: A Future Without Waste

Early bird registration for the 2021 Zero Waste Conference is now open! Taking place live from Vancouver, Canada on Thursday, October 28, 2021, you can secure your general admission spot for only $100.00 if you act now and register before July 31^st.

For 11 years, the Zero Waste Conference has been at the forefront of Canada’s circular economy journey bringing together thought leaders, innovators and change makers, surfacing some of the best ideas from the past while presenting pioneering solutions that take us to a future we’ve only begun to dare dream is possible.

National Security Guidelines for Research Partnerships

NSERC Alliance grant applications involving private sector partners must apply the new guidelines as of July 12, 2021

On July 12, 2021, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry; the Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; and the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health issued a news release to introduce the National Security Guidelines for Research Partnerships.

The National Security Guidelines for Research Partnerships were developed in consultation with the Government of Canada-Universities Working Group, as requested in the Government of Canada Research Security Policy Statement, to ensure that the Canadian research ecosystem remains secure, open, and collaborative to protect and advance Canada’s research innovations. They will enable integrating national security considerations into the development, evaluation, and funding of research partnerships with partners from the private sector.

What does this mean for your Alliance grant application?
As of July 12, 2021, applicants (and their institutions) are required to complete the National Security Guidelines for Research Partnerships’ risk assessment form for all Alliance grant applications involving one or more partner organizations from the private sector. For such partnerships, applicants must submit the completed risk assessment form as an integral part of the NSERC Alliance application.

NSERC is currently updating all relevant instructions and resources on the Alliance website and in the online system. Applicants will be able to submit their Alliance applications starting July 23, 2021.

Note that all applications currently being prepared in NSERC’s online System, but not yet submitted, will need to include the completed risk assessment form if their application includes a private sector partner before submitting.

Information webinars and other resources
NSERC is committed to providing our research community with the most up to date information and best practices designed to reduce research security risks. We acknowledge that this new requirement will generate many questions, and we will reach out to institutions and researchers to provide answers, and to offer webinars to familiarize the community with these new guidelines. More information about these sessions will be available shortly.

We also encourage you to consult the Safeguarding your Research portal, which provides additional tools for the academic community to assess risks and to take actions to mitigate security risks associated with their research and their research partnerships.