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2025 Summer Global Seminars - multiple still available
Global Seminars are intensive and immersive courses taught by dedicated UBC faculty in international locations, most open to students in various programs and departments. Applications extended to January 28.
January 6, 2025
CIP honours and awards open for nomination
You can recognise an extraordinary planner with several of the most prestigious awards to achieve as a Canadian Planner, including a CIP Fellowship, CIP Honorary Membership, or CIP Emerging Planner. Deadline to nominate January 20.
January 6, 2025
Partners can now apply as speakers for SCARP students' 2025 symposium
SCARP's Planning Students Association are bringing together their 2025 Student Symposium in earnest, and are now arranging several breakout panels. They now invite interested partners and alumni as speakers! Respond to apply by January 31.
January 2, 2025
Indigenous Graduate Fellowships open
Indigenous awardees are selected on the basis of academic merit, and provided a stipend ($25,000/year for doctoral students; $17,500/year for master’s students), and eligible for tuition funding. Deadline February 14, 4:00pm PST.
January 2, 2025
SCARP student's and professor's paper on landless farmers
SCARP PhD student Khadija Anjum reflects on the paper authored alongside SCARP Professor Nora Angeles: "Farm workers’ food security during food price hikes: a political economy of landless rice-wheat farm labourers in Pakistan’s Punjab".
January 2, 2025
UBC undergraduate prize in library research
A way to showcase students’ effective and innovative use of library services, information experts and resources provided by UBC Library. Prizes of $3,000, $2,000 and $1,500. Applications open January 2 - February 28, 2025.
December 9, 2024
Inaugural Peter Wall Legacy Award honours 3 SCARP recipients
We’re proud to announce that SCARP Professor Kelly Clifton, SCARP Associate Member Alex Bigazzi, and SCARP PhD student Juri Kim have all been honoured with the Peter Wall Legacy Awards for its inaugural year.
December 9, 2024
Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarship accepting applications
For graduates of any Canadian university engaged in masters/doctoral study in any field, in Canada or elsewhere, value currently $12K. The corresponding Travel Scholarship is for those in the USA or UK, currently $13.K. Deadline February 1, 2025.
December 3, 2024
SCARP's grads: a retrospective of extraordinary achievement (so far!)
We celebrate our newest graduates, as well as their many achievements over the years.
December 2, 2024
SCARP Assis. Prof. Holly Caggiano on renewable energy challenges in coming years
SCARP's Holly Caggiano appeared on San Fransisco's KCBS Radio to discuss how renewable energy is picking up speed, what the political landscape mean for the future of energy policy, and what we can do even at the local level.
December 2, 2024