Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition | Present your Research, Win Prizes!
This annual competition challenges research-based graduate students to present to a non-specialist audience
Check out our schedule to register for a departmental or 'open-to-all-disciplines' heat. Join a personal feedback session for guidance on your own 3MT. | In this issue, Cover Letters, Telling Your Research Story, Captivating your Audience, Writing Retreat for Research Masters, Integrating Generative AI into Your Research and Scholarship, Love Data Week, Inclusive Teaching, and more. | Cover Letters
Online | Tuesday, Feb 13 | 4 - 5 pm Register Speaking as a Scholar: Telling Your Research Story
Online | Wednesday, Feb 14 | 10 - 11:30 am Register Captivate Your Audience (Keynote, Interactive Workshop)
Join communication expert Ivan Ruiz for an energetic keynote and workshop to learn strategies for confidently sharing complex ideas jn a compelling narrative. Thursday, Feb 15 | 9 - 10:15 am (keynote), 10:30 am - 12 pm (workshop) Register Poster A Seat at the Table: Joining the Academic Conversation
In-person, on-campus writing retreat for research-based masters students
Thursday, Feb 22 | 9:15 am - 12:45 pm (retreat), 1 - 2 pm (consultations) Register | Waiting for Motivation? Do this Instead!
Staying on Track in Grad School Series
Online | Tuesday, Feb 6 | 1 - 2:30 pm Register Social Media Strategy for Policy Workshop
Online | Featuring UBC alum Kaylee Byers | Friday, Feb 9 | 12:30 - 2 pm Register | Call for Abstracts: 25th UBC Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Conference
Thursday and Friday, May 2 & 3 | Abstracts are invited from any discipline that aligns with the conference theme, The Rise of Radicalism.
Learn more and submit by Feb 9 (extended deadline) Using Zotero for Citation Management
Online | Monday, Feb 12 | 12:30 - 2 pm Register Pitfalls and Potential: Integrating Generative AI into Your Research and Scholarship
Online | Thursday, Feb 15 | 1:30 - 2:30 pm Register | Arts Amplifier Networking Week
Open to graduate students and postdocs in the Faculty of Arts | You must attend the mandatory workshop on Wednesday, Feb 14, 12 - 1 pm.
Online 20 min informational interviews | Tuesday & Wednesday, Feb 20 & 21 Learn more and register by Feb 9 | How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities
Online NCFDD webinar | Thursday, Feb 8 | 11 am - 12:30 pm
Join for free via UBC's subscription, then register. BIPOC Community of Care Circle
A space for Black, Indigenous and/or People of Colour to gather within the UBC community and discuss their experiences with one another.
In-person | Every other Wednesday, Feb 7 - Apr 3 | 5 - 7 pm | Email to register | Topics include: - Feb 7 - Mental Health
- Feb 21 - Radical Love and Pleasure Activism
- Mar 6 - Institutional Harm and Community Justice
- Mar 20 - Allyship
- Apr 3 - Community Care 2
Redefining Resilience: Navigating Black Masculinity in Mental Health
In-person, BSU x SASC Panel Event | Tuesday, Feb 13 | 5 - 7 pm Register The Meditation Walk: Mindfulness and Community Together at UBC
In-person | Wednesday, Feb 14 | 1:30 - 3:30 pm Register | Love Data Week
A joint effort from the libraries at Simon Fraser University, the University of Northern British Columbia, the University of Victoria and UBC.
Online | Feb 12 - 16 Learn more and register for sessions below: - Canadian Housing Data (Statistics Canada) | Session will provide an overview of the types of data available and provide examples of how they can be used by scholars and students for three sources of housing data at Statistics Canada – The Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP), the Canadian Housing Survey (CHS) and the Census of Population Tuesday, Feb 13 | 10 - 11:30 am Register
- Introduction to Machine Learning: Regression Models
Tuesday, Feb 13 | 1 - 3 pm Register - History buffs: Learn how to find Statistics Canada information pre-1981 | Wednesday, Feb 14 | 10 - 11 am Register
- Pandas DataFrames in Jupyter Notebooks | Wednesday, Feb 14 | 2 - 3:30 pm Register
- Data Visualization with ggplot2 |Thursday, Feb 15 | 10 - 11 am Register
- Designing Web Maps with Mapbox | Thursday, Feb 15 | 1 - 3 pm Register
- SFU’s Big Data Hub Presents Data Visionaries Series: Visualizing Data | Friday, Feb 16 | 12 - 1 pm Register
Data Bites - Introduction to depositing datasets in Borealis
Online | Wednesday, Feb 14 | 12:30 - 1:15 pm Register Introduction to the Unix Shell
Online | Wednesday, Feb 14 | 1 - 3 pm Register | Re-imagining data: Using arts-based methods for new perspectives in research, teaching and learning
Online CIRTL webinar | Monday, Mar 11 | 11 am - 12:30 pm Register A Question of Value – Indigenous Students’ Perspectives on Open Education
Online | Monday, Feb 12 | 1 - 2 pm Register Inclusive Teaching: Universal Design for Learning
Online | Thursday, Feb 15 | 11 am - 12:30 pm Register | WRITING AND COMMUNICATION | 14-Day Writing Challenge
Online | Feb 26 - Mar 10
Join for free via UBC's subscription, then register by Feb 16. French Beginner 1 Classes
Online GSS class | Tuesdays and Thursdays, Feb 27 - Mar 28 | $70 Register | | | | |
