Flow is one of the most valued—and least well-defined—qualities in academic writing. This workshop examines sentence-level and sentence-to-sentence strategies for creating clarity, cohesion, and momentum in academic writing. Participants will learn how decisions about information placement and sentence construction can affect how readers process complex ideas, and practice revising sentences and paragraphs for flow. Whatever […]
UBC's Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) is inviting prospective students to explore the university's course-based and professional graduate programs during Course-Based Programs Application Week, running online from October 19 to 23, 2026. With more than 90 course-based programs spanning UBC's faculties — from health and business to engineering, science, education, and the arts […]
Speaker: Jason Sutherland, UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research Jason Sutherland will examine the Canadian health system’s experience with long-stay hospital patients and how these cases reflect system pressures and affect funding and patient outcomes. Hospitals have faced challenges with Alternative Level of Care patients for decades, and the problems are largely unaddressed. […]
Academic English is, in many ways, a new language with its own conventions and expectations that all researchers must learn, regardless of our first language. Across disciplines, scholars rely on a recognizable set of expressions to articulate relationships between ideas, indicate the level of certainty in claims, and foreground the significance of their research contributions. […]
This workshop is designed for students applying for the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master's (CGRS M). Drawing on evidence-based research about successful grant proposals, the facilitator discusses particular elements of this written academic genre: audience, purpose, knowledge gap, competence claim, structure, style, and more. The workshop includes examples of successful UBC CGRS M research […]
Graduate school applications typically include a statement of intent or purpose, whereby prospective students describe their research background and expertise and begin to map out a research plan. But how do emerging scholars craft their identity in this high-stakes document? Research shows that the scholarly identity prospective students construct in these statements must demonstrate the […]
Curiosity moves us. Determination gets us there—because progress doesn’t happen on its own. See how we push forward.
