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The Doctoral Defence information session walks students through the doctoral examination process and explains the different defence modes - in-person, virtual, and hybrid.
The session includes:
- Steps in the doctoral examination,
- Timelines and pressure points, and
- a Q&A.
Robyn Starkey's work is focused on assisting UBC doctoral candidates with preparing for their final examinations.
This session will cover the benefits of negotiating your job offer, things you can negotiate, and tips and strategies for job negotiation.
This workshop focuses on understanding and managing the feelings of imposter phenomenon.
The UBC Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) intends to build connections, community, and capacity for doctoral students who are interested in explicitly linking their doctoral work to an arena of public benefit and integrating broader and more career-relevant forms of scholarship into their doctoral education process. Up to $10,000 twice, for a total of $20,000 per student is available to support innovative/collaborative scholarship which the student would otherwise be unable to pursue. Funding can be used for:
The talk will focus on scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences. It will provide an opportunity to ask questions about the process of publishing a book with a university press. Topics of discussion include:
This session will cover typical sections, what makes the CV different from a business-style resume, and how to understand the ways in which the hiring committee will use the CV.
Putting things off to the last minute? Having a hard time starting a project? Or is it hard to finish and actually put a close to something you are working on? This workshop is here to help you procrastinate less and get more done. Contrary to what most people think, procrastination is not fundamentally a time management problem, which is why just trying to manage your schedule better is limited in effectiveness in changing this pattern of behaviour.
In this workshop you will learn:
Quick – tell us the top five things you are good at! Can you do it? Or would it be easier to tell us the things you’re not good at? The truth is many of us spend more time focused on (and trying to fix) what we’re not good at, instead of discovering, appreciating, and cultivating our strengths.
Graduate students today have a plethora of academic and professional obligations as well as opportunities they may engage in during their graduate journey. There are also many ways to define success both within and after graduate school.