LFS Today July 7, 2022

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Self-paced Webinar: Fitting in Movement

In this one-hour webinar you will learn about the health impacts of inactivity and easy strategies to Fit in Movement, finishing with a 15-minute light exercise routine that you can do at your desk.

Presenters: Alyssa Reyes, UBC Athletics & Rec and Abigail Overduin, UBC Ergonomics

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Events

July 8 – Lunch & Learn Series: Jamovi Statistics Software with Brandon Oh

The next formal Lunch & Learn session will be held on Friday, July 8th 2022 at noon (PT). Brandon Ho Seok Oh (Programmer Analyst, LFS Learning Centre) will lead the discussion this week.

Jamovi is a free, open-source statistics application built on the R statistical language. It is similar to statistical software such as Minitab and SPSS.

In this session, Brandon will introduce the software and talk about his experience with developing a Design-of-Experiment (DoE) module in Jamovi for use in an FNH course. The session will focus on the following topics:

• What is Jamovi?
• Why did Brandon choose Jamovi?
• Demonstration of Jamovi with a simple dataset
• DoE module developed for Food Science

Join Brandon and the Learning Centre team this Friday to discuss how you can incorporate Jamovi in your statistical analyses. To register for this session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

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July 20, Aug. 31, Sept. 2 – Workshops on decolonial and anti-racist approaches to wellbeing

Faculty and staff are invited to rethink and reimagine what wellbeing looks like in their personal and professional lives through a decolonial and anti-racist lens. These 2.5-hour sessions — held over three months and facilitated by one of Canada’s most influential speakers, Larissa Crawford from Future Ancestors — will help participants identify opportunities to advance anti-racism, decolonization, and Indigenization at UBC.

Dates:

• Wednesday, July 20 from 12 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 31 from 12 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, September 2 from 12 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Please note, participants will need to commit to all three sessions and registration closes on July 20. Recordings will be available between sessions, but everyone who registers is expected to have participated in previous sessions. This allows the host to build on previous topics and facilitate a more relational dialogue on this meaningful and complex topic.

ASL Interpreters will be available for all three sessions.

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Deadlines

Sept. 15 – LFS Internal Research Grant Program (IRGP) 2022 Spring Application

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems Internal Research Grant Program (IRGP) provides short-term support for the development of innovative, multidisciplinary research that will eventually form the basis of a research proposal submitted to one of the Tri-Agency funding organizations (i.e. NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC) or the UBC TLEF program. The overall aim of the IRGP is to identify and support innovative, early-stage research within LFS which will enable preliminary data to be gathered for the purpose of strengthening the calibre and competitiveness of research proposals submitted to the Tri-Agency and TLEF funding competitions from LFS.

The LFS IRGP encourages collaborative multidisciplinary submissions: this year’s IRGP also aims to spark new collaborations with units and faculties external to LFS, hence applicant teams must be comprised of a lead PI from LFS and at least one other co-applicant from outside LFS with whom the PI has never worked before. The lead, and at least one other co-applicant, must be full-time LFS faculty members with a minimum of 12-month appointments.

This year’s IRGP applications must address one or more of the five priority areas from the current LFS Action Plan, Navigating Change: Addressing climate change and resilient food systems; Ending hunger and improving food security; Enhancing regional agriculture for sustainable cities; Promoting nutrition and wellbeing for healthier communities; Ensuring the health and welfare of animals in society.

Support will only be provided for the direct costs of research that are essential to the completion of the proposed research, including: stipend and salary support for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, research-related travel, and material supplies or consumables. This year’s IRGP applications must include support for at least one undergraduate student.

Applications (application form plus all attachments submitted as a single PDF file) for this funding call should be sent to lfs.research@ubc.ca by Monday, September 15 at 5pm.

Full details on the IRGP program including the Application Form can be found here.