Kevin Ho
All in a graduate student researcher’s day (Feb. 18, 2014)
As a graduate student, would you like to discover, gather, create and share your scholarly research with others who are interested in studying your area of research or with those who are interested in pursuing an exciting graduate student career like yours? If so, don’t miss out on the upcoming Graduate Student Workshop Series’ events […]
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: IKBLC Multimedia collection in cIRcle
As part of the UBC Library, the Irving K Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) ‘supports the University’s academic and community engagement missions through space, services, programming and more’. Since 2008, it ‘fosters and supports opportunities for engagement with communities across British Columbia’. Years later, it continues to ‘engage the UBC Library and the Learning Centre with […]
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 […]