Researchers who study academic writing across the disciplines offer a number of evidence-based models for the macro-structure of research grant proposals. This writing workshop draws on that body of research to produce a versatile, malleable, and dynamic model or heuristic to help solve the problem of what a grant proposal achieves and how. Facilitator: Dr. Xuan Zhang, Centre for […]
Why protecting universal access now requires generationally fair revenue reform Speaker: Paul Kershaw, UBC School of Population and Public Health Over the past half century, the share of Canadians aged 65 and over has doubled, from roughly 10 to 20 per cent. Because the typical senior uses approximately four times as much medical care as a […]
Speakers: Amanda Slaunwhite, UBC School of Population and Public Health; Jennifer Duff, BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services People incarcerated in BC provincial correctional centres experience layered social, economic, and health inequities, exacerbated by high rates of mental illness and substance use disorders. In 2021, 51.1% of incarcerated people in BC had a diagnosed mental […]
UBC Library's EDI Scholars-in-Residence program is pleased to host the Disability Justice Book Club across Term 1, in two groups: the Disability Allies cohort and Disabled and Proud cohort. The club, led by Dr. Jennifer Gagnon, will explore themes of disability justice, ableism, allyship, and what it means to be disabled in academia. We will […]
UBC Library's EDI Scholars-in-Residence program is pleased to host the Disability Justice Book Club across Term 1, in two groups: the Disability Allies cohort and Disabled and Proud cohort. The club, led by Dr. Jennifer Gagnon, will explore themes of disability justice, ableism, allyship, and what it means to be disabled in academia. We will […]
Speaker: Veena Sriram, University of BC Countries around the world are experiencing health workforce crises, characterized by shortages, burnout and attrition of health workers. Protests by health workers have also gained visibility, exemplified by widespread attention to these actions during COVID-19. Dr Sriram will present findings from research on trends in the use of protest […]
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