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Date & Time

Wednesday, 13 May 2026
11:00 am to 12:30 pm

Location

Hybrid, In-person at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre + Zoom

Offered by

Graduate Pathways to Success

Registration Closed / Past Event

You probably have a plethora of academic and professional obligations as well as opportunities that you could engage in during your time in grad school. It can be challenging to decide how to prioritize or choose your engagements and projects when there are only so many hours in the day, week, or semester. 

How do you choose which opportunities to take advantage of? 
What does “succeeding” in and after grad school look like for you? 
Are you setting yourself up to thrive in your intended career path after grad school? 
Do you know that path?

Join this interactive workshop to take charge of your journey in grad school, set short-and-long term goals with intention, and build your personalized game plan.

The session will help you to:

  • Develop or enhance your academic plan for completing your graduate degree
  • Explore possibilities and design your career path
  • Build a road map for navigating the many opportunities available
  • Establish strategies for attaining your professional objectives

 

Note: this is an interactive session with participatory elements and Q/A that work best for in-person attendance. When you register, you can choose if you’d like to attend the session in-person or online via Zoom. We'll be providing refreshments for in-person attendees. 

Facilitator

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Jacqui Brinkman, MSc, is the Director of Graduate Student Professional Development at the UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Through this role, she works to improve the graduate student experience. Previously, she has managed postdoctoral and undergraduate programs in the Faculty of Medicine and was a lab-based researcher both within academia and industry. She completed her MSc in Biology at McGill University.

Registration Information

Registration is open to current UBC graduate students. You can choose to attend the session in-person or online via Zoom. This workshop does contain interactive elements and a Q/A that work best for in-person attendees. After registering, you will receive an automatic response from Qualtrics. We will confirm your registration closer to the event date. If you experience any difficulty with registering, please e-mail us at graduate.pathways@ubc.ca with your full name, your program, department and/or your UBC affiliation.

If you’ve registered and are no longer able to attend, please cancel your registration by emailing graduate.pathways@ubc.ca. 
 

Accessibility

If you have a disability or medical condition that may affect your full participation in the event, please email graduate.pathways@ubc.ca, 604-827-4578, well in advance of the event.