In the Spotlight: Screens in Vancouver: Cinemagoing and the City in 1914
The goal of this Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded project (grant number 430-2011-006) was to ‘advance the grant holders’ knowledge of the character of film exhibition in the early part of the 20th century in Vancouver, with a specific focus on 1914 as a case study’. According to Dr. Brian McIlroy at […]
SPARC-Social Sciences and Humanities at UBC – Spring 2016
Are you part of a UBC academic unit or research network? Want to learn about grant research funding opportunities in your area? Need to deposit, share/disseminate and preserve your grant-funded research output at UBC? SPARC is pleased to share its upcoming Spring 2016 events and activities with UBC affiliated research institutes, centres and other organizations […]
Call for Submissions: GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award
Launched in 2012, the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award is a lottery-style $500 Award which showcases unique, exemplary non-thesis graduate work at UBC that is not captured anywhere else. This Award enables UBC Vancouver graduate students to expand and disseminate their research-focused, non-thesis work at UBC and beyond. The non-thesis graduate student work is vetted […]
UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Final Competition: Thursday, April 10, 2016
Ah, just one more sleep! With much anticipation, UBC’s sixth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) final competition is happening tomorrow (Thursday, March 10th – 4:30-6:00 PM at the Graduate Student Centre Ballroom). The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition for current graduate students. It gives them an opportunity to hone their presentation […]
NEW: Teaching in a Digital Age arrives in cIRcle
It is an honour to present the arrival of Teaching in a Digital Age – an open textbook in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository! Many have described him as “insightful” as well as a “pioneer” and “expert”. Dr. Tony Bates can rightly be called “one-of-a-kind”. While “his hobbies include golf, skiing and flying a small plane”, […]