LFS Today July 19, 2021

LFS in the News

Kristen Walker appeared on CKNW where she discussed the recent coyote attacks, including the response from the B.C. Conservation Officer Service. CKNW

UBC Farm Webinar Series: School Food Systems

Taking on Food Insecurity with Our School Food Systems
Thursday, July 22nd, 11:00 – 12:30 PST

Join Samantha Gambling, BC Chapter of the Coalition for Healthy School Food, Claudia Paez, Farm to Cafeteria Canada, and Ian Marcuse, Our Place Food Strategy, as they discuss how our school food systems may be an avenue to address food insecurity and how to tackle the widespread inequity communities of colour experience in regards to food insecurity. Let’s discover solutions to make our school food systems stronger and to nourish the next generation. 

Register here

UBC Bound!

This summer, UBC Bound! will be welcoming new UBC students from cities across Asia. It’s a great opportunity for new students to meet alumni in their region, hear their stories, pick up some tips for adjusting to university life, and receive insider information from the people who have already been there and back.

Note: All UBC Bound! events in 2021, with the exception of Beijing, will be virtual using Zoom.

UBC Bound! is coming to:

• Guangzhou, China (July 23rd)
• Beijing, China (July 24th – In Person)
• Singapore (July 24th)
• Philippines (July 24th)
• Malaysia (July 24th)
• Japan (July 24th)
• Hong Kong (July 24th)
• Shenzhen, China (July 24th)
• South Korea (July 24th)
• Taiwan (July 30th)
• Indonesia (July 30th)

Learn more and RSVP here.

Piloting Student Facing Learning Analytics

Are you interested in piloting student facing learning analytics?

My Learning Analytics (MyLA) is a project from the University of Michigan with contributions from UBC. It is a dashboard that provides students with information about their engagement with course materials and resources, assignments, and grades in a Canvas course. There’s a wealth of documentation and a demo video on the UM site: hxxps://its.umich.edu/academics-research/teaching-learning/my-learning-analytics

If you are interested in using MyLA in a course this summer or fall, please submit a request to the LT Hub (lt.hub@ubc.a) and they can add it to your course.

Advance Notice of NEW SSHRC Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative

The initiative aims to support partnership research to inform actions to address social disparities related to race, gender and other forms of diversity.

Research in the social sciences and humanities is essential to understanding and tackling inequities in society, and identifying systemic barriers and discrimination.

With new funds outlined in Federal Budget 2021, SSHRC will soon launch the Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative. This strategic initiative will enhance society’s understanding of the causes and persistence of systemic racism and discrimination, and the impact of oppression on Canadians and our communities, and will help develop strategies to support greater justice and equity.

This initiative will support community-based and community-led research, carried out in partnership with postsecondary institutions, that is based on the lived experience of underrepresented and disadvantaged groups, including but not limited to women; First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples; people living with disabilities; racialized minorities; religious minorities; and LGBTQ2+ people, as well as individuals who identify as, or belong to, more than one of these groups.

The federal government is investing a total of $12 million for this initiative. The funds will be awarded for three-year partnership grants, each valued at up to $450,000, geared at co-creating new knowledge and connection activities, and developing talent on critical issues to create a more equitable Canada. The research projects will be awarded competitively, through a merit review process, by a diverse, multidisciplinary and multisector adjudication committee of external experts with both research and lived experience.

The funding opportunity will launch in summer 2021, with complete details about the application process and deadline available then.

This pre-announcement text can also be found here.

Input on the Imagining Canada’s Future (ICF) Initiative

SSHRC would like to seek your input on the Imagining Canada’s Future (ICF) initiative. 
 
In 2018, SSHRC, in partnership with Policy Horizons Canada, engaged with leaders across academic, government, business and community sectors as part of a foresight exercise to identify key emerging, societal issues facing Canadians. This horizon scan resulted in the identification of 16 future global challenges.
 
Three of the challenges were the focus of recent knowledge mobilization efforts, including the funding of knowledge synthesis grants: Living Within the Earth’s Carrying Capacity, Working in the Digital Economy and the Emerging Asocial Society (KSG competition to launch in fall 2021).
 
SSHRC are now looking ahead to identify three additional future challenge areas to be featured in future programming and/or corporate activities between 2022 and 2025.  SSHRC is inviting cross-sectoral stakeholders from across academic, public, business and community sectors to help identify the next key future challenges on which to focus knowledge mobilization efforts, as part the Imagining Canada’s Future initiative.
 
SSHRC kindly invite you to disseminate this invitation to participate in the online survey to the members of your network, association or organization. Responses are anonymous. The survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete. We kindly ask that you complete the survey by Friday, July 23^rd. 
 
SSHRC greatly value and recognize the diversity of expertise and insights that we receive and much appreciate hearing your views.
 
Please click on the following link in order to access the survey:  Engagement on Future Challenges.
 
If you have any questions or comments on this survey, please contact SSHRC through its Imagining Canada’s Future inbox: ifca-sica@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.