IRES Newsletter: October 17, 2022

News & Events

Congratulations to the recipients of our 2022 IRES Departmental Awards! Join us in applauding current students Rona MacNicol & Mauricio Carvallo Aceves and alumni Dr. Dana James & Dr. Sara Nawaz.

IRES Seminar Series continues with Dr. Armstrong, who will talk about an archaeological perspective and anti-colonial approach to forest history.

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Canada’s 1st Local Conference Of Youth (LCOY) on Climate Change 2022

When: Saturday, October 22, 9:00 AM PDT

Where: Online via Zoom

Registration: Link to Zoom webinar registration

Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) Canada 2022 will be held on Saturday, October 22. The 100% virtual conference will involve keynote speeches, workshops, presentations, and panel discussions surrounding the themes of the LCOY Canada inaugural conference. By attending the conference you will be able to voice the future you want to live in and it will be shared directly with the United Nations. As 2022 will be the inaugural conference, we are inviting all Canadian youth (ages 15 - 35) to come to LCOY Canada to listen, learn, and have a voice in their future.

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Join faculty speaker Dr. Shashidharan Enarth for his talk about agriculture policy reforms in India!

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HEADS UP STUDENTS! UBC has released an animated introduction to Workday Student. If you receive a stipend from UBC, you will want to check out the 3-minute animation by clicking the button below.

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This week we announced a new collaboration: 

IRES's Dr. Amanda Giang and Dr. Terre Satterfield are teaming up with Clear Seas to study how commercial ships can reduce their environmental impact, including air pollution, releases of microplastics and underwater noise.

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A new policy brief coauthored by Dr. David Boyd states that human rights and environmental due diligence laws (HREDD laws) are needed to hold business actors accountable for the ways their actions may threaten people and the planet.

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2 Tenure Track Faculty in Environment & Sustainability | University at Buffalo

Deadline: open until filled

Multiple opportunities from the United Nations Foundation

Deadline varies

Physicaloxy: Job vacancies in schools of physical and earth sciences

Deadline varies

Assistant Professor of Cultural and Environmental Anthropology | New Mexico State University

Deadline: October 17, 2022

Manager of Conservation Research | Miistakis Institue

Deadline: October 21, 2022

Cluster hire in Climate Change Decision Making | The University of Alabama

Deadline: October 24, 2022

Assistant/Associate Professor (Feminist/Economic Geographies) | National University of Singapore

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor of Environmental Studies, Social Science | University of Oregon

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Assistant Professor, Race and Spatial Justice | University of Texas at Austin

Deadline: November 1, 2022

President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | University of Michigan

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Professor of Public Policy, Racial Justice in Science and Technology Policy | University of Michigan

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology | Colorado State University

Deadline: November 4, 2022

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies (Environmental Justice) | Hamilton College

Deadline: November 4, 2022

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies (Environmental Justice) | Hamilton College

Deadline: November 4, 2022

Assistant Professor in Indigenous and/or Black approaches to biodiversity research or management | University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus

Deadline: November 15, 2022

Professor of Public Policy, Racial Justice Approaches to Environmental Racism and Health Equity | University of Michigan

Deadline: November 15, 2022

Assistant Professor in Sociology of Health | University of Texas at El Paso

Deadline: November 22, 2022

Assistant/Associate Professor Tenure Track, Applied Socio-Environmental Sciences | Emory University

Deadline: November 27, 2022

Assistant Professor, Coastal/Marine Climate Change | Duke University

Deadline: December 1, 2022

Assistant Professor - Climate Change and Sustainability in Africa | University of Toronto

Deadline: December 5, 2022

Assistant Professor - Planetary Health | University of Toronto

Deadline: December 5, 2022

Assistant Professor in Water and Environmental Justice | University of South Florida Tampa campus

Deadline: December 10, 2022

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Join the UBC Future Waters Community

Future Waters welcomes all UBC faculty and students interested in water-related research and discussions to join both the WaterLIST mailing list AND the Future Waters Cluster.

 

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Biology TA Development & Advancement team workshop

Join TADA's upcoming workshop on the importance of alignment of learning outcomes, activities, and assessment.

October 26, 1pm - 3pm

 

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Policy Communication Workshop

Policy intersects with almost every academic field. Many research or knowledge products can effect greater change if they are also communicated to non-academic audiences in the policy world. This workshop will introduce participants to policy communications.

Register here.

Date: 12:30pm - 2pm, November 1, 2022

 

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Application open for 2022/23 Community-University Engagement Support Fund

The CUES Fund supports community-university partnerships and projects that benefit communities across British Columbia and advance collaborative research, teaching, and learning.

Deadline: October 21, 2022

 

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UBC Library Research Commons Newsletter

Check out the latest UBC Library Research Commons Newsletter for events, workshops, and more! 

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UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Update Newsletter

Check out the latest "GradUpdate" - a weekly snapshot of workshops and opportunities available to UBC graduate students.

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Recent IRES Publications

Eyster, H.N., Srivastava, D.S., Kreitzman, M. and Chan, K.M.A. (2022), Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape. Ecography e06240. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06240

[PREPRINT] Lindsay Bochon, Janet Dean, Tanja Rosteck, Jiaying Zhao. Nudging policymakers on gendered impacts of policy, 06 October 2022, available at Research Square https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2090237/v1

Ramachandran, Aishwarya, Jerry Achar, Georgia Green, Brynley Hanson-Wright, Sophie Leiter, and Gunilla Öberg. 2022. "Changing Debates and Shifting Landscapes in Science Studies: Exploring How Graduate Students with Varied Backgrounds Think About the Role of Value-Judgments in Science.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 8(2): 133–158. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2022.1179

 

External Events

Health After 2020 Dialogue Session: State-level responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in India: Learnings from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu

When: Thursday, October 27, 9:00AM

Where: Online via Zoom

Registration: Link to Zoom webinar registration

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