Announcing new Food, Nutrition and Health co-Directors
With Chris Scaman’s retirement on June 30, we are pleased to announce that Gail Hammond and Barbara Stefanska have taken on the role of co-Directors of the FNH program until June 30, 2025. They look forward to working with everyone and welcome ideas that are inclusive and aim to improve the working environment for all members of our community (e.g., students, staff, faculty, community partners). Barbara serves as lead co-Director from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, so please direct questions to her first. From July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024, Gail will serve as lead co-Director and will be the primary contact person for inquiries in the second year. A plan for the last year of the term will be determined in due course.
We would like to sincerely thank Chris for her leadership and service to FNH. |
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New LFS branded templates: Canva 101 Workshop
Interested in learning about the basics of designing with Canva, a beginner-friendly graphic design platform?
Shannon Wong, LFS Communications Coordinator, will share some tips to get you started, including creating social media graphics and posters, navigating the LFS Brand Kit – including the new icons – and introducing new templates with updated branding.
Please indicate your availability through this Doodle poll by Friday, July 29. A one-day workshop will be scheduled via Zoom.
If you have any questions, contact Shannon at shannon.wong@ubc.ca. |
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Events
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Today – Lunch & Learn JEDI Session: The Beach Cartography – Exploring the different stages of EDI work with Will Valley
The next Lunch & Learn session will be held on Friday, July 22th, 2022 at noon (PT). Will Valley (Associate Dean, EDI at Faculty of Land and Food Systems) will lead the session this week.
The Lunch & Learn Series hosts a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)-based discussion session on the third Friday of each month. These sessions are led by Will and the Learning Centre Team, and will be open to all. For these sessions, attendees will be provided with an article or podcast episode that will be explored in a reflective and interactive discussion.
It is common to hear individuals state that they feel overwhelmed when integrating EDI into their teaching. “The Beach” is used in the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective as a cartography that attempts to articulate different affective investments that people bring to engagements with global challenges and global justice. It emerged as a response to the need to talk about our fears of “drowning” as we face the complexities, complicities, paradoxes, uncertainties, inequalities and contradictions of social and global justice work. In this Lunch and Learn session, we will review “The Beach” cartography, discuss the layers and and questions associated with each stage, and consider how insights from this cartography can shape experiences and expectations in our teaching practices.
Resources: Andreotti, V. (2016). The educational challenges of imagining the world differently. Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d’études du développement, 37(1), 101-112.
Join Will and the Learning Centre team this Friday for our monthly JEDI drop-in session. To register for the series, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1
Follow the Lunch & Learn Series on Twitter and the Lunch and Learn Series Webpage |
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Sept. 24 – Homecoming 2022 – Save the Date and Participate!
Celebrate Homecoming 2022, back in-person since 2019! And this year we are hosting aOpen House and a special Class Reunion.
LFS is making a call out to all LFS faculty and staff for your participation ideas. We invite you to showcase your research, exhibit your student-run clubs, or create an interactive booth to highlight your LFS program.
Our audience are alumni, family and friends and the wider UBC Community.
We look forward to seeing you there!
If you would like to participate, please fill out this participation survey. Submit this Survey by August 3rd.
Saturday, September 24, 2022
MCML Building
1:30pm-3:30pm
Please contact Niki Glenning niki.glenning@ubc.ca if you have any questions. |
Aug. 1 – Job Posting: MLWS/GRS Program Administrator Position
The MLWS/GRS Program Administrator plans, researches, conducts, implements and contributes to plans and operations that advances the programs’ objectives, communications goals, outreach and professional relevance and academic rigor of the Master of Land and Water Systems (MLWS) program at the graduate level, and the Global Resource Systems (GRS) program at the undergraduate level, within the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS). The Program Administrator researches relevant issues and educational needs of students by potential employers to help shape and strengthen the future strategic directions of these programs, as well as aid in student recruitment via digital communications.
Click here to view the job posting: https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs/job/UBC-Vancouver-Campus/MLWS-GRS-Program-Administrator_JR8829.
The closing date for this job posting is 11:59 pm on Monday, August 1st . We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. |
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Aug. 12 – CIHR Reviewer in Training Opportunity for Early Career Researchers
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is pleased to announce the launch of the Reviewer in Training (RiT) program for the Fall 2022 Project Grant competition.
The RiT program offers Early Career Researchers (ECRs) a learning opportunity to gain a better understanding of the elements of high quality review and the peer review process through direct participation in the Project Grant competition with the support of a Mentor. RiT participants will be assigned up to three applications to conduct practice reviews, attend the peer review meeting, present one of their reviews, and participate in the committee meeting. Following completion of the RiT program, participants will be promoted within CIHR’s Reviewer Pathway and are expected to participate in peer review when requested and available to do so.
The application period for the RiT program closes on August 12th, 2022.
If you have any questions, please contact college@cihr-irsc.gc.ca. |
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