By Kevin Ho on Jan 28, 2014
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 faculty and students by promoting their research in an online venue’ via several community outreach avenues such as, for example, cIRcle – UBC’s Digital Repository.
Watch/Hear UBC-based webcast & podcast lectures in cIRcle
Presented by local, national and international guest speakers alike, you can watch, listen and/or download a wide range of webcasts and podcasts in areas of Business, Economics, History, Civilization, Libraries, Literature, Languages, Health, Medicine, Teaching, Education, Religion, Sustainability, Law, Science, the Visual Arts, and more.
Visit the IKBLC Multimedia collection in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/27306.
Did You Know?
While it was ‘[c]onstructed around the core of the Main Library of The University of British Columbia, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) demonstrate[s] the fundamental relationship between the heritage of the past and the potential of the future’. Re-live its grand opening on April 11, 2008 at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2520.
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By Kevin Ho on Jan 21, 2014
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 Repository – see statistical information link below.]
Find IRES in cIRcle
Explore IRES research papers and working papers in cIRcle via the Institute for Resources, the Environment and Sustainability (IRES) cIRcle community at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/886. [Click on “Show Statistical Information”]
About IRES
The Institute for Resources, the Environment and Sustainability (IRES) is “a problem-focused and curiosity-driven interdisciplinary research institute and graduate program, with interest and expertise in a wide range of topics under the realm of environment and sustainability.”
Did You Know?
There is a UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Reports collection in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/18861. Discover how many changes “have been implemented or influenced decision making” at UBC and beyond. Also, get involved in shaping a sustainable UBC by 2034. Take the survey at: http://sustain.ubc.ca/get-involved/conversations-2034-%E2%80%93-envisioning-sustainability-ubc.
Above image is courtesy of the Institute for Resources, the Environment and Sustainability (IRES) site
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By Kevin Ho on Jan 17, 2014
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 in the global community”.
For 2013/2014, the AAI has four new initiatives in addition to its annual conference. Learn more about these initiatives and the conference at: http://aaiconferenceweek2014.org/about-aai-2/.
Celebrate the UBC AAI conference week by visiting the Africa Awareness Initiative community in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/44019.
Did You Know?
The top three items in the Africa Awareness Initiative community in cIRcle have been accessed and/or downloaded from Australia, Canada, China, France, Ghana, India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United State, and others: A case study of rural water supply in Kenya; Language education policy and multilingual literacies in Ugandan primary schools; and, Everyday life information seeking behaviour of urban homeless youth.
Above image is courtesy of the UBC Africa Awareness Initiative Conference Week 2014 site
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By Kevin Ho on Jan 14, 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 Reforms Information Sessions are intended for the following:
- UBC researchers who would like to understand the new CIHR funding opportunities (1st competition deadline is Fall 2014);
- UBC researchers who wish to apply for CIHR grants through the new Foundation or Project Schemes;
- UBC researchers currently funded by CIHR who would like to understand their options in terms of early renewal of current Open Operating Grants, potential funding gaps and the transitional programs; and
- Research support staff and administrators.
For session dates and times or more information, visit: http://research.ubc.ca/node/1083.
Did You Know?
The Award Programs and Funding Agencies’ community items in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository have been accessed over 7,300 times from all corners of the globe. One of the top items (also co-authored by Dr. Janice Eng) is, The association of depression and pain interference with disease-management self-efficacy in community-dwelling individuals with spinal cord injury. Published by the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, this peer-reviewed article has been accessed 1,123 times. View it in cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/19587.
Above image is courtesy of the Office of the Vice President Research & International site
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