Vote for the Most Creative Pumpkin! Thank you to everyone who submitted their pumpkins to our carving contest! We invite everyone to vote for their favourites at the link below. Please choose your three favourite pumpkins by entering 1, 2, or 3 next to their captions. Voting ends on Monday, November 9. Click here to vote! Here are the prizes: First place – Isman Cup Bragging Rights & Lunch Delivered via Door Dash Second and Third place – LFS Swag Bag mailed to you Campus Mail Workday Application for Metering/Courier Does your LFS program/unit or research group mail-out envelopes and parcels to off-campus locations and charge it to a speedchart? If yes, you need to fill out a Campus Mail Workday Application for Metering/Courier Form. You can find the form here. Return the completed form to Rebecca Lee’s attention at lfs.dean@ubc.ca and keep a copy for your own records. Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) Seminar Topic: People and the Sea: A positive vision for 2050 Speaker: Boris Worm, Killam Research Professor in Marine Conservation Biology at Dalhousie University When: Friday, November 6, 11:00am RSVP: https://oceans.ubc.ca/rsvp-iof-seminars/ More info. Cross-University Wellbeing Series UBC Health Promotion and Education, SFU Health Promotion, and BCCampus are partnering to host Thriving Beyond Campuses: Wellbeing in Learning Environments, a dialogue series connecting BC post-secondary schools. This province-wide online dialogue series is being held in lieu of the Building Connections: UBC & SFU Wellbeing in Learning Environments Symposium that was cancelled due to COVID-19. Thriving Beyond Campuses is a dialogue series for faculty, educators, and staff to connect on the topic of how well-being relates to teaching practices and learning environments. Please see the 2020 events below. The events for 2021 will be announced later this fall; please subscribe to the BCCampus newsletter to receive updates on these events! The impact of mental bandwidth depletion on student mental health and well-being November 10, 4:00-6:00 PT Keynote speaker: Cia Verschelden For many of our students, the cognitive resources for learning are being diminished by the negative effects of poverty, as well as discrimination and hostility against groups marginalized on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other aspects. Due to the pandemic and social unrest, uncertainty — which is at the core of all bandwidth depletion — is significantly affecting our students’ capacity to learn and our own capacity to do our work and maintain well-being. Cognitive Bandwidth: Keynote Commentary November 12, 4:00-6:00 PT How do you understand cognitive bandwidth in the context of your learning environment? As a follow-up to Cia Verschelden’s November 10 keynote presentation on bandwidth scarcity and recovery, we will explore the complexities of cognitive bandwidth as it relates to well-being in learning environments. A panel of commentators will respond to the keynote presentation and share their reflections in relation to their experiences teaching and learning at two of B.C.’s post-secondary institutions. Roundtable Discussions: Promising Learning Environment Practices that Enhance Student Well-being December 3, 4:00-5:30 PT Are you a faculty member or instructor interested in exploring ways to enhance student well-being in your learning environments? Join us for these interactive roundtable sessions showcasing practical ideas for creating conditions for well-being. Faculty and staff champions at SFU and UBC will share promising practices that enhance student well-being in their pedagogy, curriculum, and programs. Through themed virtual sessions, participants will have the opportunity to discuss and share their current approaches, as well as gain insight. Sandbox Webinar Series: Teaching Sustainable Food Systems in our Times Time: Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 10:00AM PST Topic: Critical Food Literacy through Multicultural Texts Speaker: Lina Yamashita, PhD Program Director, VIA One way to invite students to engage with Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) issues in the food system is to use multicultural texts that highlight diverse, marginalized perspectives of food workers, many of whom are people of color, women, and/or undocumented. There are three objectives for this interactive webinar: 1) introduce a conceptual framework for fostering critical food literacy; 2) model the process of teaching with multicultural texts about food workers, with virtual adaptations; and 3) illustrate the need for instructors to be comfortable with discomfort and to be both reflective and reflexive as they engage in sustainable food systems education. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83898091762?pwd=YWJMMWpiUVBEcW5ZZXNSZTNVaUhyZz09 Meeting ID: 838 9809 1762 Passcode: 2qzfx3 Time: Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 10:00AM PST Topic: Pedagogy and Pandemic: How the Contemplative Technopedagogy Framework can Enrich Teaching and Learning During Covid-19 Speakers: Justin Shanks, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Information and Society, Montana State University Given the widespread changes related to the ongoing COVID-19 global public health pandemic, teaching and learning are increasingly utilizing digital technology. Considering the scope, scale, and speed of these various changes, it is critically important to emphasize contemplation when making decisions involving technology and education. This webinar will introduce the Contemplative Technopedagogy Framework and explore how the framework can help food systems educators make pedagogical decisions about digital technology with intent to effectively and holistically enrich teaching and learning. While clearly applicable to current educational environments, this framework and associated topics are also entirely relevant to teaching and learning in post-pandemic contexts. Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 857 4937 0091 Passcode: 9xcKqc 2021 France Canada Research Fund (FCRF) New Scientific Collaboration Support Program The FCRF aims to support developing new expert partnerships between France and Canada by promoting researcher mobility. The 2021 FCRF guidelines and application form can be downloaded here: https://francecanadaculture.org/launch-of-the-2021-call-for-proposals-of-the-france-canada-research-fund/ UBC Internal Selection: The FCRF requires that all universities pre-select a maximum of 5 proposals. To be considered for UBC’s internal selection, researchers must email their applications directly to the French Embassy in Ottawa (assistant.science@ambafrance-ca.org) with copy to UBC’s FCRF correspondent, Heather Frost (heather.frost@ubc.ca) by November 13, 2020. UBC will conduct an internal selection process to identify a maximum of 5 proposals for evaluation by the Embassy by December 11, 2020. Job Posting: Duke University Postdoctoral Fellowships Duke University and the World Wildlife Fund are inviting applications for two postdoctoral fellowships: Small-Scale Fisheries & Food Security For recent graduates with a PhD in topics related to food security or fisheries (e.g. economics, natural resource management, geography, political science, or marine science) to perform collaborative research related to the urgent need for robust, evidence-based strategies and policies that achieve sustainable and equitable outcomes for biodiversity and people involved in small-scale fisheries. See the job posting. Social and Cultural Aspects of Fisheries For recent graduates with a PhD with a background in the social sciences with an emphasis in resource management, food systems, communities, or community-based systems dynamics to perform collaborative research related to the cultural meaning of food and governance of food systems, including its religious, aesthetic, moral, and cultural aspects, and its relationship to sustainable food production. This Duke-WWF postdoctoral fellowship will provide the successful applicant a unique opportunity for research, financial support for travel and attendance of conferences, collaborative hosting of workshops, strong administrative backing, and motivated faculty and experts interested in academic exchange. See the job posting. |
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