Knowledge exchange is a process in which academic and non-academic partners collaborate on research to share ideas, evidence, and expertise to inform policies, practices, public dialogue, and drive positive societal change. This online workshop will introduce key terminology, discuss the purpose of knowledge exchange and its importance in a research context, and explore diverse strategies […]
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother, the late Mrs. Wat, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Cinema can play many roles, from entertainment to escapism, and from the pedagogical to the propagandistic. Within […]
Are you working on an OER Fund project or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? Do you have specific questions on how to format your OER to be accessible for all learners? Drop-in to an OER Accessibility studio to chat one on one with specialists about how to design or adapt […]
The growth of social media and networked technologies has allowed for new and interactive ways for scholars to circulate their research, expand their scholarly networks, and track their research impact. Understanding how your academic identity and your research outputs (articles, books, patents, conference proceedings, posters, data contributions, videos, blog posts, etc.) are tracked and showcased […]
Online These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights […]
R Markdown turns your analyses into high-quality, elegantly formatted, and fully reproducible output by putting together narrative text, code and plots. This workshop will walk you through the creation and usage of R Markdown. Participants are expected to already be familiar with R and the RStudio environment. The workshop is one hour, followed by an […]
Multi-access The end of term brings many hours of grading final assignments, which can be overwhelming and isolating. Why not come and spend some of your grading hours in the company of your contract faculty colleagues? We’ll have snacks, a light lunch, coffee and tea, and the comforts of shared experiences with other teaching faculty. […]
UBC's Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS) is excited to announce our 2023-2024 Behavioural Insights Seminar Series featuring an exciting set of researchers and practitioners sharing their field and lab projects using the behavioural and decision sciences to "nudge for good". Register to attend at https://bit.ly/DIBSseminars. Join us on select Fridays at 1-2pm Pacific […]
The FROGBEAR project is a research and training network that fosters scholarship of East Asian religions through field visits, skill building, study, and knowledge sharing. Since the project’s inception in 2016, our international teams of researchers have identified new textual and visual sources preserved in East Asia. The research clusters have surveyed key sites of […]
The FROGBEAR project is a research and training network that fosters scholarship of East Asian religions through field visits, skill building, study, and knowledge sharing. Since the project’s inception in 2016, our international teams of researchers have identified new textual and visual sources preserved in East Asia. The research clusters have surveyed key sites of […]
Hear from BC’s chief coroner of 13 years, on knowledge acquired in facing the province’s drug toxicity crisis, as part of the 2024 Richard B. Splane Lecture in Social Policy.
About the Talk This talk will summarize key findings and recommendations from the IRIS project, which is completing 5 years of mixed-methods data collection and analysis understand the health experiences of immigrants and migrants (im/migrants) in British Columbia. IRIS combines interviews with im/migrant community members and quantitative data from health and immigration administration to focus […]