Looking for information, tips and tricks on transitioning to the next step of your academic career? Thriving in the First 5 Years in Academia is an opportunity for UBC PDFs to interact with current faculty members who will be sharing their perspective and providing guidance to help you make a successful start as an academic. Based on your feedback, the multidisciplinary panel will be covering the following topics:

• Knowing Where You Are Going
• Tenure
• Skill Development
• Collegiality and Independence
• Life Balance
• Gender Differences
• Peculiarities Unique to Arts, Science and Medicine

This workshop features a presentation and discussion of these pertinent topics and the opportunity to ask questions. Attending is highly recommended for any PDFs considering a career in academia.

Registration

Registration is required - please sign up online. Those successfully registered will receive a confirmation email from the PDFO.

If you have registered but are no longer able to attend, kindly let us know via email to postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca.

About the Panel

Dr. Jeffrey Richards

Jeffrey Richards is an Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology (tenured in July 2009). He runs an active research program with 2 post-docs and 8 graduate students with a focus on understanding the physiological and biochemical adaptations to low oxygen exposure in animals. His teaching responsibilities include Introductory Biochemistry and an advanced course in Biochemical Adaptation.

Dr. Bronwen Wilson

Teaching early modern art and architecture, Wilson's research and publications have explored print culture in Venice, the visual culture of the human face (1550-1650), the making of publics in early modern Europe, visual imagery produced in the context of journeys to Constantinople, and early modern globalization. Concerned with the demands visual imagery and media make on us, her graduate students work on topics that range from the geopolitics of gift-exchange and scientific illustration to the theology and politics of realism, from masculinity to martyrs, and from icons to intermediality.

HsingChi von Bergmann

HsingChi von Bergmann is associate professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, focusing on research in curriculum and instruction in health sciences education. She has a Bachelor’s in Physics, received her Master of Science in Science Education, and a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction focusing on Science Education.

Prior to UBC, HsingChi held an appointment as associate professor in Science Education at the University of Calgary, where she was coordinator of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Education, and an evaluation consultant for the UoC's Faculty of Science. She has also been a visiting professor at Michigan State University, East Lansing, and a visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Von Bergmann is a member of the editorial board for the Contemporary Issues and Trends in Science Education series. She was co-founder of the Hong Kong Accord on Global Science Education (2008). Her previous research areas include: TIMSS, problem-based learning; inquiry teaching, learning and assessment; college science teaching and evaluation (physics and mathematics education); history and philosophy of science in science education; opportunities to learn for science teachers; and science curriculum studies in K-12.

HsingChi has numerous journal publications published in Science & Education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, American Journal of Physics, etc., a book based on her work with TIMSS: Why Schools Matter (Jossey-Bass, 2001), and various invited chapters. She also contributed to a Research White Paper related to STEM-ACT as a result of her SSHRC Project.