Events

UBC Emergency Preparedness Week

PreparedBC's daily webinars on: Inclusive Preparedness (May 5), Cultural Safety and Preparedness (May 6), Animal Preparedness (May 7), and Insurance: Why it Matters (May 8).

Workshop: Leveraging your strengths in your career search

10:00am - 11:30pm

learn more about your particular top strengths, how they interact with each other, how they shape your perspective, what opportunities you have to describe them, and how they can be leveraged for success in grad school and beyond.

Kairos Blanket Exercise

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Created in partnership with Indigenous Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and educators, this interactive hands-on learning experience examines both the historical and present-day relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island.

Indigenous City: Responsibility & Relationality in City Making

A 2-day workshop led by Kamala Todd, on the CoV's journey to becoming a “City of Reconciliation”, some of the origins and impacts of colonization and urbanization on Indigenous lands and people, and the possibilities when cities take on these roles.

Principles of data visualisation

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Some of the most commonly used approaches and techniques for making clear visuals from messy data. Does not require any programming knowledge or experience with a specific software.

UBC APSC climate justice workshop

3:00pm - 5:00pm

This workshop, "The Intersection of People and the Planet", is hosted by EDI.I Office in the Faculties of Applied Science, Forestry and Land and Food Systems and in collaboration with the Centre of Climate Justice at UBC.

UBC Botanical Garden's Climate Conversations, with keynote by CoV Planner Lisa Brideau

8:45am - 4:45pm

Lisa Brideau, author of the climate fiction thriller Adrift, Planner and Senior Sustainability Specialist with the CoV, will speak on the power of imagination in shaping resilient futures. More local experts discuss a climate-changed future.

PIBC panel and networking event: Journey to RPP certification

5:30pm - 8:30pm

PIBC represents networking and knowledge, and many PIBC events earn points towards RPP certification. This time: Planning Candidates, Pre-Candidates, PLAR applicants, and others within the planning profession mentor or be mentored in this gathering.

UBC Partnering in Research Conference

9:00am - 5:00pm

A day of learning, dialogue, and action involving over 200 faculty, staff, graduate students, and community partners exploring the world of partnered research.

Water and Environment Student Talks 2025 Conference

Organised by a committee of UBC/UVic grad students, bringing together water and environmental researchers from diverse disciplines. Registration deadline for visitors is May 31, and for submission of abstracts is April 7.