New sustainable, socially responsible mining institute is underway
Earlier this week, a new Canadian institute was created to ‘help developing countries benefit from their mining resources in environmentally and socially responsible ways’. Named as the Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development (CIIEID), it is ‘a coalition between the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM)’. […]
In the Spotlight: IRES Research Papers and Working Papers collections in cIRcle
Need to find openly accessible interdisciplinary graduate research and/or faculty-based working papers on resources, the environment (for example, climate change) and sustainability? Curious about the effects of fair trade certification on social capital? Or, interested in a literature review about energy behaviour studies? [Hint: These are the top three IRES items in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital […]
Celebrating the UBC Africa Awareness Initiative Week via cIRcle
In case you missed it, next week marks the return of the UBC Africa Awareness Initiative (AAI) Conference Week for 2014 (Jan. 20-24). Since 2002, this annual UBC student-run organization “aim[s] to continually produce outstanding academic forums to encourage critical discussions pertaining to the relevance of the African continent, the Diaspora and its increasing involvement […]
CIHR Reforms Information Sessions – January 2014
Are you a new UBC researcher in the sciences or the arts or perhaps in an interdisciplinary field? If so, were you aware of the CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Reforms Information Session being offered to you this month? Hosted by UBC’s Health Research Coordinator and CIHR Delegate – Dr. Janice Eng, these CIHR […]