LFS Today Jun 21, 2021

Accepting Winter 2021-2022 Work Learn Proposals

With the summer session well underway, you may have begun to consider the possibility of hiring a student for the winter term to work in your lab, unit, or department. Working on campus is an excellent way for students to gain professional skills and experience, apply their knowledge in a practical setting and develop strong connections within the UBC community. Your commitment to hiring students helps them to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously allowing them to contribute to the work of your unit or department.

With this in mind, we would like to announce that proposals for the Winter 2021-2022 Work Learn Program (Sept 1, 2021-April 30, 2022) are being accepted now until July 5, 2021. For those new to the Work Learn Program, if your Work Learn proposal application is successful, your Work Learn student’s position is subsidized at $8 per hour for a maximum of 300 work hours from September 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022. Work Learn students work a maximum of 10 hours a week during the winter terms.

In developing your proposal, please follow closely the recommendations found in the Submission Guide. The more submission guide questions that you answer, the better your chances are for obtaining funding. Of equal importance is adhering to the Position Classification/Salary Guide, which outlines the student’s general job descriptions and pay scale ranges. Work Learn positions are part-time hourly appointments and must fit within the appropriate rates and conditions as outlined in the Position Classification/Salary Guide. To submit a proposal, you have one of two choices:

1. Submitting it directly to the Work Learn Program via CareersOnline website before the 11:59 pm external deadline on Monday, July 5, 2021. Those who choose this option must create an account and list Mona Lee as the administrator in their submission form. This way, Mona is notified if your submission is approved for funding. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to submit your proposal. You will not receive a web confirmation receipt upon submission.
2. Completing the LFS online internal application form, where you will receive a confirmation receipt shortly after your submission. Mona Lee will then review your proposal and offer suggestions before submitting them to the Work Learn Program on your behalf. The LFS internal deadline for proposals is 12:00 pm noon on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Should you miss this internal deadline, please refer to bullet #1 for instructions.

Need an example of a good proposal to get you started? A few successful employers have agreed to share theirs with you!

• Project Worker (Project Worker – lab position)
• Research Assistant (Project Assistant – lab position)
• Finance Assistant (Office/Library Worker)
• LokoLab Research Assistant (Researcher/Professional – research position)
• International Event Assistant (Researcher/Professional – non-research position)

Survey to Provide Input on Course Co-development with University & Indigenous Partners

From the Co-producing Aquatic Science Team:

Dear UBC Community Member,

We want to first acknowledge that this invitation is coming as we continue to grieve and demand justice for the hundreds of Indigenous children who lost their lives at Canada’s residential schools. This is a challenging time for many and we hope that our project (described below) will be one contribution among many in working towards making the Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action a reality on our campus and beyond.

As part of the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Project, “Co-producing Aquatic Science Curriculum Through University-Indigenous Community Partnerships”, we are seeking input from diverse members of the UBC community (students, staff, researchers, and faculty) about a new course at UBC.

Please consider participating in our anonymous survey:http://bit.ly/IOFCurriculumSurvey

We aim to use the information from the survey to co-develop curricula between University and Indigenous partners to provide skills development opportunities and support for future leaders. While our project focuses on marine and freshwater sciences, we are looking for a diversity of perspectives from individuals  engaged in participatory research and education with Indigenous partners (communities, governments, and/or organizations).

This is a new project led by affiliates and researchers in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and will be one of several initiatives being undertaken through UBC’s new Centre for Indigenous Fisheries and led by its principal investigator Dr. Andrea Reid (Nisga’a Nation).

We anticipate the survey will take ~15minutes to complete. The survey will close on July 16.If you have any questions or concerns regarding the survey or the course development, please contact Sara Cannon at s.cannon@oceans.ubc.ca.

We appreciate your time and consideration.

Best,

The Co-producing Aquatic Science Team

IGNITE Book Club: Ayesha S. Chaudhry & David Chariandy 

Wednesday, June 30
2:30pm – 4:00pm PST

On June 30, Dr. David Chariandy, award-winning author of ‘Brother’, will be in conversation with Dr. Ayesha S. Chaudhry about her new book, ‘The Colour of God’. By revisiting a series of pivotal moments in her life, Dr. Chaudhry examines the colonial, racialized, and gendered beliefs and ideals with which she was raised. Braiding together Western, South Asian and Quranic storytelling styles, Chaudhry weaves her personal experiences with social commentary, and invites us to reimagine our ideas of self and family, state and citizenship, love and loss. This final IGNITE! event of the year is not to be missed.

Register here

A Bright Future for Indigenous Sports: Recognizing BC’s Young Athletes 

Thursday, June 24
10:00 PM – 11:30 AM

This panel features young athletes, all of whom were awarded the Premier’s Award for Indigenous Youth Excellence in Sport, which celebrates the outstanding achievements of Indigenous youth athletes throughout the province for their leadership qualities both on, and off, the field. Join moderator Janene Erickson as she talks to the panel of young athletes including Taya Suttill, Hunter Lang, Jonathan Fraser-Moore and Garnet Currie.

Register here

CCS/CIHR Action Grants: Primary Cancer Prevention

The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Cancer Research (CIHR-ICR), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH), and partners have committed approximately $5M over one year to jointly fund up to 25 Proof-of-Concept Grants focused on interventions in Primary Cancer Prevention.

The intent of this Phase 1: CCS/CIHR Action Grants program is to motivate Canadians to take “action” to avoid known modifiable risk factors for cancer and to encourage the research and end-user communities to take “action” towards harnessing new ideas, platforms and technologies from within and outside the cancer field to test out bold, novel interventions with the potential to prevent cancer.

The goal is to stimulate the necessary multidisciplinary and multi-sector collaborations needed to test the feasibility of small-scale interventions, applying creative concepts with scalable and/or modifiable potential. The focus is strictly on interventions in primary cancer prevention, i.e. stopping cancer before it starts. Proposals related to secondary/tertiary prevention will not be considered.

Important dates:

• Registration due date: June 23, 2021
• Full application due date: September 10, 2021
• Anticipated funding start date: January 15, 2022

More information on this funding opportunity can be found here.

Innovate BC Ignite Program Applications Now Open!

Program Objectives
The Ignite program aims to provide academic and industry consortiums or project partnerships with the opportunity to accelerate their innovations towards commercialization, to help solve known industry problems and provide significant economic, environmental, social and/or health benefits to British Columbians.

The specific objectives of the program are to:

• Support market-driven research and development aimed at addressing the core needs of local industry sectors to improve their competitiveness and provide strategic benefits to British Columbia;
• Strengthen strategic academic-industry partnerships that provide opportunities for advanced technology transfer and commercialization;
• Support talent development and training of high-caliber personnel through collaborative research and development work between industry and post-secondary institutions;
• Enhance British Columbia’s economic development by supporting the commercialization of new technologies in various sectors.

Award Amount and Duration
Awards are valued to a maximum of $300,000 (CAD) over a 3-year maximum project duration. Projects must secure matching funds from industry or government sources at a ratio of 2:1 matching dollars to Innovate BC’s Ignite dollars ($1 Ignite funds matched by applicants with $2 dollars from other sources).

Important dates

• Deadline to submit application: June 30, 2021
• Deadline for invited applicants to submit full proposal: September 17, 2021
• Anticipated notice of decision: Early December 2021
• Anticipated start of funding: Early 2022

Click here for the program guidelines and to submit an application