LFS Today Oct 13, 2021

Final Notice: Course Expense Fund Requests due by Oct 15th

Teaching an undergraduate course in Term 2 (Jan-April 2022)?
Email your completed form to virginia.frankian@ubc.ca by Friday, October 15^th.

Course Expense Fund: For course expenses other than photocopying (e.g., laboratory supplies, field trip expenses, etc.), send in a request now if you plan to claim reimbursement later. Parking expenses for guest speakers, etc. should be included.
 
To be reimbursed, expenses must be pre-approved and itemized or your claim will not be processed.

Form and details are available at “LFS Teaching Funds Policy and Course Fees” , under “1) Undergraduate Course Expenses Fund”.
The link for the Course Expenses Fund form is in this section. Note that students should not be charged course fees for any LFS courses.

** Late requests may not receive funding **

Wellness Wednesdays

Your Mental Health Tip of the Week:

Make space at your desk for objects that give you joy.

IBPOC STEM Network

If you are an IBPOC Woman (including both cis and trans identities) or an IBPOC non-binary person within a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) field at UBC, you are invited to join an ongoing virtual networking series in which you will have the opportunity to build community with other IBPOC women. 

There will be four sessions over this year. Each session will have a specific theme but all IBPOC Women (i.e. Faculty, Staff, Post-doctoral Fellows and Graduate students) are invited to all the sessions. Each event will include small break-out ice-breaker activities for people to meet each other and will be followed by an informal discussion with three panelists and an opportunity for question and answer discussion. We expect each session to last 1-1.5 hours and each session will run on Thursdays between 2:00-3:30 pm. 

Learn more here and/or register for the series using this link.

Dates and topics:

• October 28, 2:00-3:30 pm –  Supportive ecosystems for graduate students and post-docs
• November 25, 2:00-3:30 pm – Secrets to thriving and belonging as a junior faculty member
• February 10, 2:00-3:30 pm – Navigating the minority tax and the glass ceiling as a tenured faculty member
• March 24, 2:00-3:30 pm  – Rewarding staff careers within the academy but outside of a faculty position

Join the TBC@UBC Network to Advance Team-Based Care

UBC Health is pleased to invite you to join the new TBC@UBC Network, which has launched to support the team-based primary healthcare transformation in BC with education, research, evaluation, and knowledge translation.
 
Consider joining the TBC@UBC Network if you are:

• working to affect health systems transformation and implement team-based models of care;
• developing and implementing the educational supports needed to ensure the success of such initiatives; and/or
• engaged in research related to TBC and its influence on the broader social determinants of health, healthy communities, and community engagement.

Panel Presentation: Tuesday, November 2, 12:00-1:00 pm
The first network event is on November 2 and includes a panel presentation on work currently being done to support team-based care. Panel members are from the Innovation Support Unit in the UBC Faculty of Medicine, UBC Continuing Professional Development, and the BC Primary Health Care Research Network. The presentation will be followed by a discussion around the types of questions that remain unanswered and how the TBC@UBC Network might contribute to finding solutions, given the role of UBC in education and scholarship. Join the network to receive the Zoom details for the event.
 
Join the TBC@UBC Network at https://bit.ly/tbcubcnetwork
 
Read more about the network: https://health.ubc.ca/tbc

BCcampus Research Fellows 2021-2023

Know a student who is keen to lead a small-scale research on teaching and learning in areas such as:

• Online learning and teaching
• Open educational practices
• Indigenization and decolonization
• Equity, diversity and inclusion

Apply for this BCcampus Research Grant by October 31, 2021. Full application information is available here: https://bccampus.ca/grants-calls-for-proposals/bccampus-research-fellows-2021-2023/
 
Please contact judy.chan@ubc.ca for support

PICS Theme Partnership Program

A call is now open for proposals under the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) Theme Partnership Program, which supports complex, and critically important, climate mitigation and adaptation research projects, funded up to $1 million. This flagship program currently supports three $1M projects that are investigating wildfire and carbon (storage), coastal adaptation to sea level rise and flooding, and negative emissions technology.

The deadline to submit a LOI is November 15, 2021. Notification of LOI adjudication decisions is anticipated by mid-December 2021. Invited full proposals are due before March 15, 2022.

Find out more by reading our 2021 Competition Guide for Applicants.

Enquiries can also be made by emailing picstheme@uvic.ca.

CCFI Virtual Public Trust Summit

The Canadian Centre for Food Integrity (CCFI) is proud to announce that its fifth Public Trust Summit will take place on October 19, 2021. Uniting Canadian food system stakeholders and leaders nationwide, the virtual summit will explore the 2021 Public Trust Research findings and feature keynotes on building trust in the food system.

The summit will run from 11 am to 4 pm Eastern time, and sessions will be offered in English and French.

Learn more and register here: https://virtualsolutions.bbblanc.com/register/CCFIsummit2021