Events
Graduate Instructional Skills
A 3-day all-day workshop (March 16, 23, 24, 9:00-5:30) on teaching practice, theory application, and topical sessions specifically relevant to Teaching Assistants and Graduate Students at UBC.
Crafting Compelling Proposals for Non-Research Grants
11:00am - 12:00pm
Interpreting grant criteria; turning your project into a narrative; formatting and style guides; polishing your writing; resources you can access on campus for support.
Policy briefs and policy reports
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Covering features of both briefs and reports including audience, structure, content, and mobilization, as well as differences between briefs, reports, and academic writing.
Graduate Student Support Group
3:00pm - 4:30pm
This in-person support group is for graduate students to connect with each other in a non-judgmental and welcoming space to help navigate the unique challenges of grad school. Meets Wednesdays, Jan. 10 - April 3, 2024.
Interview workshop
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Covering: what do employers care about; types of interviews; types of questions you can expect and strategies for answering them; and tips and strategies for virtual interviews.
UBC SALA talk: Civic Government: corporate, consultative, or participatory?
7:00pm
Larry Beasley, David Ley, and Colleen Hardwick speak at this UBC SALA "Local Democracy Project" talk on the best way for citizens to achieve a sustainable city.
UBC SALA talk: Local democracy, community, and corporation
7:00pm
Local Democracy, Community Focused or Corporately Driven? Part of the Local Democracy and City Design series.
CAPACity's transit race
10:30am - 1:30pm
UBC's undergrad student-led urban planning group now invites participants to a public transit race throughout Vancouver via a randomly drawn route. Free for all UBC students.
BIPOC Networking in Urban Planning, Sustainability & Civic Governance
6:00pm - 9:00pm
CityHive and the BIPOC Sustainability Collective presents a networking event for BIPOC students and seasoned BIPOC professionals in planning, climate, affordable housing, and accessible public spaces, to learn more about career paths in this field.
Abstracts: Communicating Research Findings With Brevity and Concision
10:00am - 11:30am
This UBC Library evidence-based workshop introduces two typical structures for abstracts, while accounting for differences in disciplines and purposes.
PIBC talk: streamlining missing middle housing delivery
12:00pm - 1:30pm
PIBC represents networking, knowledge, skills, and RPP certification, and many PIBC events earn points towards certification. This time: planners, designers and builders across BC discuss policy and process challenges with missing middle housing.
Beyond COP28: Student Visions for a Sustainable Future
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Join COP28 UBC and SFU student delegates and student moderators for a panel centered in youth perspectives on climate action in British Columbia and across the globe, including expectations for COP29.
UBC SALA talk: Housing and capitalism
7:00pm
Jeremy McLeod of Melbourne, Australia’s Breathe Architecture will speak as part of UBC SALA's New Directions in Housing series.
UBC IRES seminar: ecological system change's effect on people
This talk will use the case of Cambodia's social-ecological food systems to examine how rapid changes in social-ecological systems are affecting the people who live and work within these systems.
PIBC talk: Provincial housing legislation
1:00pm - 4:00pm
PIBC represents networking, knowledge, skills, and RPP certification, and many PIBC events earn points towards certification. This time: implementing new provincial housing legislation across the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley, and Sunshine Coast.