Welcoming new UBC Farm staff!
The UBC Farm is welcoming two new staff to their core team! Please welcome the new perennials and volunteer coordinator Andrew and communications and knowledge translation assistant Juliana.
Andrew grew up on the East coast of the US, where he learned to love blueberries, pawpaws and mushrooms. He had the opportunity to work and learn on a wide variety of farms and is coming most recently from working at a University of Hawaii research farm, where he focused on sustainable agriculture and perennial crops.
Juliana Cao will be joining the Faculty as the new Communications and Knowledge Translation Assistant with the CSFS and BC Food Web starting Monday, June 13th. Juliana is a recent UBC grad with a BSc in Natural Resources Conservation, during which time she was a long-time volunteer with UBC Sprouts, a member of UBC Common Energy’s Emerging Green Builders team and the Zero Waste Squad. As a Work Learn student she worked with the UBC Sustainability Hub (previously USI) as their Communications and Engagement Assistant and since graduation has been the Events and Communications Coordinator for the Columbia Institute. She also was the owner of a pop-up vegan bakery, Very Loaf, in her hometown of Calgary. |
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Today – Lunch & Learn Series: Open drop-in session
This session will be held on TODAY Friday, June 10th, 2022 at noon. This will be an open drop-in session with the Learning Centre team.
Come join the LC Team as we navigate and plan for teaching needs in the next year. If you have any projects or professional development plans for the summer, we’d love to hear about them.
To register for the session, 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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June 14 – In Conversation With Carole Lévesque
Join us for the final session of In Conversation With, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC’s) series of public talks held in collaboration with The Conversation Canada, featuring the winners of SSHRC’s 2021 Impact Awards.
Carole Lévesque is the recipient of the SSHRC 2021 Connection Award. She is a professor at the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre at l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique, and director of the DIALOG network, a research and knowledge network facilitating collaboration between universities and Indigenous community partners. Her areas of expertise include Indigenous Peoples and knowledges, community integration, social environment, and sustainable development.
Tuesday, June 14
2pm (eastern)
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June 22 – Fall 2022 CIHR Project Grant Webinar and Early Consultations
To kick-off SPARC Project support for the Fall, a panel of speakers have been coordinated to discuss their experiences serving on CIHR Project Grant Peer Review Committees (PRCs). This event will be held on Wednesday, June 22 from 10:30am-12:00pm via Zoom.
This event is suitable for all faculty and affiliated staff, and would be especially beneficial for new faculty and early career researchers (ECR). For more information and to register, please see the Insights from Peer Review page.
Additionally, at the June 2 University Delegates meeting, CIHR released the dates for the upcoming Fall 2022 Project Grant cycle. They are as follows:
- Fall 2022 competition launch date: Tuesday, July 5
- Fall 2022 Registration Deadline: Wednesday, August 17
- Fall 2022 Application Deadline: Wednesday, September 14
If any faculty members who would be interested in scheduling a consultation ahead of time, please feel free to contact Marliese Dawson, new SPARC lead for CIHR Project Grant, directly marliese.dawson@ubc.ca, to schedule a meeting. |
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June 24 – LFS Teaching Colloquy 2022: So you want to talk about decolonization?
On Friday, June 24th from 9:30am to 12:30pm, join your LFS colleagues for a discussion on decolonization.
The term decolonization is used more and more in higher education, but has different meanings for different people and groups. What are the commonalities and differences between interpretations of the term? How does decolonization relate to our teaching? And where do we even start?
RSVP here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9F8Iuc9ay4bLzP8
This 3-hour, fully online session will be roughly separated into three parts:
- Exploring related concepts and definitions
- Mapping Decolonization in Higher Education Cartography: what are some ways to think about the process of decolonization?
- Panel Discussion: the strengths and limitations of decolonization in a fundamentally colonial institution (and society)
By the end of this session, participants will have a better understanding of the landscape of decolonization and possibilities for integrating perspectives into teaching spaces. We hope to see you there and actively engaged! Contact the Learning Centre for more information: it@landfood.ubc.ca
Suggested resources for preparing for the session:
- [Reading: estimated 80 mins] Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1-40.
- [Reading: estimated 36 mins] Andreotti, V., Stein, S., Ahenakew, C., Hunt, D. (2015). Mapping interpretations of decolonization in the context of higher education. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 4(1), 21-40.
- [Video: 12mins] The Bus within Us Methodology: https://youtu.be/SyeoaVbp-ys an approach to develop the capacity to sit with the tensions, complexities, and contradictions that emerge when engaging with difficult material related to decolonization
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June 30 – For Consultation: Draft Senate Policy V-131 Use of Digital Materials for Assessment
To: Groups identified as having an interest in draft Vancouver Senate Policy V-131: Use of Digital Materials for Assessment
The Vancouver Senate Academic Policy Committee has directed that the attached draft policy be circulated to groups across the UBC Vancouver Campus for consultation.
The Committee welcomes feedback until Thursday 30 June 2022. Please submit comments via the following Qualtrics form: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3xhPGbbm3gdRro2. Responses are anonymous by default but respondents may choose to self-identify. |
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