Events

Graduate Instructional Skills Workshop (virtual)

A 3-session virtual workshop on January 27 and 31 and February 1 and 2, 2026. If you're a grad student in Winter Session Term 1 (September-December 2025), you can apply for the waitlist of this workshop.

Workshop: telling your research story

12:00pm - 1:30pm

This workshop aims to help participants develop a better understanding of how to engage in scholarly conversations, discussing some of the essential elements of this academic genre by analyzing successful examples of academic talks.

SALA Speaker Series: designing for community, health, and connection to nature

5:00pm

SALA alum Nataile Telewiak will discuss her work on the potential for design to foster community, enhance health and well-being, and connect us back to nature by creating projects that are meaningful, innovative, and more sustainable.

IRES Pro-D seminar: Strategic Preparation for Impactful Interviews

12:30pm - 1:20pm

A practical overview of interviewing tips and techniques, emphasizing how strategic career planning during graduate school can set the foundation for interview success.

Workshop: finishing your dissertation/thesis

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Practical strategies for completing your dissertation/thesis. These strategies emphasize ways to effectively discover when you write best, thus making writing a more consistent practice and helping you to become a more productive writer.

UBC Library Orientation for Graduate Students

3:00pm - 4:00pm

An overview of the many resources and services UBC Library has for graduate students. Learn about library spaces and services, discover resources specific to your discipline, and learn how to effectively use UBC library.

Careers in Transportation: Online Open House for Students

Featuring several dozen public- and private-sector employers showcasing their organizations and job opportunities to university and college students from across Canada.

Workshop: Knowing what your employer wants

11:00am - 12:00pm

Highlighting accomplishments, transferable skills, and appealing to non-academic employers; accessing the hidden job market; informational interviews to gain industry and workplace insights; close reading of job postings; Q&A.

PIBC Webinar: Annual Planning Outlook

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Dec 10 - PIBC represents networking and knowledge, and many PIBC events earn points towards RPP certification. This time: economic, demographic, housing and industrial/commercial market information to help formulate a strategic planning perspective.

Panel on EV policy and practice in Canada

3:30pm - 5:00pm

How uptake of EVs in Canada is impacted by policy controls and other considerations, the position of the industry at a national scale, and the process of implementing EV-related policies and infrastructure alongside communities and governments.

Applying to grad school at UBC (Zoom and LinkedIn)

10:00am

For those gearing up to apply to grad school, with insights and practical advice on your application strategy, whether you're a prospective UBC grad student or have started the application process.

Panel(s) of Early Career Faculty

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Early career faculty discuss experiences on the academic job market, how they prepared for their current position, how their institution approaches community and mentoring for early career faculty, and advice for current grad students and postdocs.

Talk: Incorporating Inclusive Technologies and Best Practices for Supportive Education

1:00pm

Technologies and pedagogical best practices for supporting a diverse range of cognitive, sensory, and executive functioning needs among postsecondary engineering education students. References engineering education but open to all.

UBC Migration talk: How Canada’s Temporary Migration System Manufactures Precarity

12:45pm - 1:45pm

U. Ottawa Professor of Law Delphine Nakache describes how failed regularization attempts, temporary protection traps, and systematic rights gaps define Canada's current temporary migration system.

SCARP Speaker Series: Alumni Panel on Social Planning

12:00pm - 1:00pm

SCARP's Speaker Series is continuing its season of expert alumni panels, and everyone is welcome. This time: their career paths, and how they are working to address pressing social planning challenges in municipalities across Metro Vancouver.