Community Connection Series: No Money, No Connections, No Problem! Career Persistence While Making Ends Meet

Online/Virtual Event

As a student facing financial barriers, how can you balance university life, planning your career, and networking? How do lived experiences influence your financial wellbeing in post-secondary and beyond? Lack of financial privilege can be the cause of many challenges in a student’s life, including making difficult choices regarding employment, managing time and stress, as […]

Free

Choosing a Citation Management Tool and Migrating from RefWorks

Online/Virtual Event

Whether you are a former RefWorks user in need of a new citation-management tool, or completely new to citation management, this workshop is for you. This workshop will cover citation-management basics and how to transition from RefWorks to another tool. The first part of the workshop compares the two tools supported at the Research Commons, […]

Free

Relation to Research: Traditional Knowledges in Academic Libraries with Xwi7xwa Library

Online/Virtual Event

Learn more at: https://learningcircle.ubc.ca/2022/04/19/xwi7xwa-library-relation-to-research/ - Come join us on an informative session as we learn from Kayla and Karleen how to: access materials for Indigenous knowledges so that problematic scholarship is not perpetuated, how to acknowledge self in relation to research, how to utilize knowledges as voices of our ancestors, how to acknowledge communities in […]

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Celebrate Learning Week Keynote – The Hurdle and the Highway: How We Think About Inclusion, Accommodation, and Disability, and Why it Matters

Online/Virtual Event

Dr. Timothy Cordes is the keynote speaker for the 2022 Celebrate Learning Week: https://celebratelearning.ubc.ca/events/2022-events/ Timothy Cordes’ experiences as a blind person in Science, Medicine, and as a Psychiatrist in college mental health care, have taught him unique lessons. Dr. Cordes will explore how we think about inclusion and accommodation, including realizing our own assumptions and […]

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Alumni Office Hours with Grace Kamara: BA’17: Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company – How I Leveraged My Skills in Support of My Career Transitions

Online/Virtual Event

My Career Story from UBC Arts, to the UN, Tech, and Consulting: How I leveraged my Skills in Support of my Career Transitions Grace is a young African intersectional feminist passionate about gender equality, social justice, international development and business strategy. She is a Consultant at McKinsey & Company, holds an MA in Development Studies […]

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Drop-in Career Advising for Undergraduate Arts Students

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Carli Fink, the Arts Career Strategist, will be offering drop-in advising for undergraduate Arts students from 1–3 PM Wednesdays during Term 2. Undergraduate Arts students are encouraged to drop in – no appointment needed! – and ask any career questions they may have. Students will be seen individually for up to 10 minutes each (unless […]

Drop-In Career Advising for International Undergraduate Students

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Irene Navarro, Career Educator, will be offering virtual drop-in advising for international undergraduate students from 1–3 PM Thursdays during Term 2. International undergraduate students are encouraged to drop in – no appointment needed! – and ask any career questions they may have. Students will be seen individually for up to 10 minutes each (unless demand […]