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Announcements and updates
SCARP students invite sponsorships for their Student Symposium
To make this event possible, the PSA at SCARP are actively seeking sponsors to support this volunteer student-led event. Please read on for what sponsorship opportunities exist and what benefits each bring. Either way, we all look forward to the Symposium!
January 21, 2025
In the world of planning
SCARP Emeritus Bill Rees on the concept of urban and ecological overshoot
Rees describes urbanisation as a significant contributor to ecological overshoot and climate change, portending civil society needs to begin designing a truly viable future involving a ‘Plan B’ for orderly local degrowth of large cities.
January 20, 2025
Research and projects
SCARP's Julia Harten joins Bridging Divides Research Program with her bold project
Julia Harten is one of 7 new members of the interdisciplinary inter-university Bridging Divides Research Program, for her project, “Leveraging Machine Learning to Study Immigrant Renting via Online Advertisements in Vancouver”.
January 20, 2025
Research and projects
Holly Caggiano's report on climate action popularity
SCARP's Holly Caggiano led a report on how popular phasing out fossil fuels really is.
January 13, 2025
Spotlight
SCARP student reflects on her experience at COP29
SCARP student Brinn Cooper, one of UBC's delegates to the COP29 climate change conference, reflects on what she experienced and learned, "underscoring the urgent need for structural reforms in how climate responsibilities are shared across nations".
January 10, 2025
Academics, Development, and Resouces
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
Announcements and updates
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
Announcements and updates
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
Academics, Development, and Resouces
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
Research and projects
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