LFS Today July 20, 2021

LFS in the News

Andy Black, Patrick Pow, Maja Krzic, Sean Smuckler, Rachhpal Jassal, Ningyu Quan and Chantel Chizen were featured in an article in Country Life in BC about their study measuring GHG emissions from vegetable, blueberry and forage crops in the lower Fraser Valley. Their study is “providing information that will help researchers and farmers improve efficiencies and develop best management practices (BMP) to reduce emissions while maximizing yields”.

Read the full article here.

Tech Tip Tuesday

Designing Effective Surveys
 
While designing your surveys, keep the following points in mind to maximize your survey participation:

1. Try to keep the surveys as focused and short as possible. If the required survey is long, incentivize participation in the survey (for e.g. with a gift card)
2. Ask direct questions and eliminate ambiguity in your surveys. Use branching logic to skip through irrelevant questions and shorten the survey for some participants.
3. Avoid sending out surveys too frequently to reduce survey fatigue. A general rule would be to send out at intervals of 2 interactions or more (if it is a weekly class, survey students with a gap of at least 2 weeks).

You can access UBC’s survey tool at https://ubc.qualtrics.com/. For more information, contact the LFS Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca.

UBC Collaborative Research Mobility Awards (CRMA)

The UBC Collaborative Research Mobility Awards (CRMA) program is now open again. It provides up to $5000 to support new or existing research partnerships between UBC researchers in the Okanagan and Vancouver. Faculty members from all disciplines are invited to apply. Funding may be used to cover travel and accommodation costs associated with meetings, accessing specialized equipment, or other partnership activities.
 
The application deadline is August 5, 2021 with additional application rounds every three months as public health orders allow.
 
Further details on this program are available at https://research.ubc.ca/vpri-competitions-initiatives/collaborative-research-mobility-awards/ubc-vancouver-okanagan

CTLT Indigenous Initiatives Virtual Coffee Drop-In

22 July | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Do you have questions about how to thoughtfully integrate Indigenous content and representation into your course work? Curious about how to offer meaningful land acknowledgements in online meetings or events at UBC? Indigenous Initiatives’ Virtual Coffee Drop-ins are a great place to explore these topics, connect with others on the same learning path, or just get to know the team. 

Register here

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 the 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.