LFS Today May 3, 2022

 News  

Acting Dean

Please note that Zhaoming Xu will serve as the Acting Dean until Thursday, May 5 while Rickey is away.

Share your feedback in the Remote Work Survey

All faculty and staff across UBC are invited to share their feedback in the Remote Work Survey. Whether you work remotely/hybrid or on-site, the survey is an opportunity for all faculty and staff – including leaders – to share their experiences.

You can access the survey here: https://hr.ubc.ca/workplace-surveys

The survey will take 5-10 minutes to complete and responses will be confidential.

Your feedback in this survey will help the university consider how future work arrangements will continue to make UBC an inspiring place for students to learn, for faculty and staff to research, teach and work, and for leaders to understand how to support their teams.

The survey closes end of day on Monday, May 10.

LFS in the News

LFS was mentioned in an article about working with Big Mountain Foods on new food products and upcycling food waste. BC Business

Tech Tip Tuesday: Reporting Phishing

If you have successfully identified a suspicious email message, or if you have fallen for the phish, report the incident to the UBC CISO right away at security@ubc.ca!

The next steps to consider if you fall for a real attack would be to: 

•  Run a full virus scan of the device you used to click on the link. 
•  If you submitted your password, change the password as soon as possible. 

If you still have the email, please do not click on any links and simply delete the email.

For more information on self-phishing please visit Privacy Matters self-phishing page at hxxps://privacymatters.ubc.ca/secure/self-phishing (please replace hxxps with https).

Please continue to send suspicious emails to security@ubc.ca. If you have any questions or concerns, you can also reach out to the LFS Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca. 

 Events  

May 2 to 8 – Mental Health Week

The theme of this year’s Mental Health Week is empathy, and in order to recognize this theme from May 2-8 the team at Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA ) are encouraging Canadians to #GetReal about how to help. They have shared some helpful advice to help you think about empathy during mental health week:

• We may be different, but that doesn’t make us rivals.
• Let’s stop polarizing and start empathizing.
• Be there for each other when times are hard and be ready to listen.
• You don’t have to agree to understand, and you don’t have to fix it to help.

Visit the CMHA website for practical advice, articles and information about empathy.

UBC Mental Health Resources 
It has been quite a challenging few years with a lot of external uncertainty, a pandemic, new geopolitical tensions, inflation, and an ongoing reckoning with a colonial past that continues to cause suffering, it is no wonder there has been such a concerted effort to raise awareness of mental health supports.

UBC is a signatry to the Okanagan Charter and is working towards becoming a health promoting university. We have made a strategic commitment to advancing wellbeing for all, and during this year’s Mental Health Week we want to share a few the mental health supports offered to UBC faculty and staff, with the hope of raising awareness and literacy.

View mental health resources offered to UBC faculty and staff

 Deadlines  

May 13 – 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 5 pm, Friday May 13, 2022.

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

May 23 – Job Posting: Indigenous Academic Advisor Position

The Indigenous Academic Advisor is an exciting and unique opportunity to make a difference for all students at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems. As part of the team supporting Indigenization and decolonization, this position will support faculty members to develop and include Indigenous ways of knowing into curriculum. This position also plays a vital role in providing an additional level of support for Indigenous students within the Faculty and fostering an environment for Indigenous students to thrive.

The closing date for this job posting (https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs/job/UBC-Vancouver-Campus/Indigenous-Academic-Advisor_JR7203) is 11:59pm on Monday, May 23.  We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.

May 27 – SoTL Seed Program: Call for Proposals

The UBC Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL) and the Centre for Teaching, Learning, & Technology offer a support program for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The SoTL Seed Program provides graduate research assistants, collegial support, and complementary funding for projects that seek to research and evaluate impactful pedagogies. Selected projects broaden our understanding of teaching and learning in higher education and show a potential for significant contributions to the UBC community and beyond.

Projects are strategically selected to reflect the breadth of work at UBC in terms of disciplines, scholarly approaches, and expertise.

Deadline: May 27, 2022. Please see the Program page for more information.

Rolling Call for Proposals: SoTL Dissemination Fund

In 2019, the Provost Office announced a new fund to support the publishing and dissemination of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning work. The funds are managed and adjudicated by the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) and the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL).

The Dissemination Fund supports journal processing feedback, conference registration, travel costs, etc. All full time faculty at UBC-V are eligible to apply.

Deadline: Ongoing. Please see the Fund page for more information.

To learn about similar opportunities in the future, consider subscribing to the ISoTL Newsletter.