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The 2010-2011 academic year promises to be a busy one, with a number of announcements, reminders, and opportunities awaiting you below. RXN will continue to deliver research information and news on a monthly basis. If you would like to submit information for future editions, please contact Raina Ducklow @ raina.ducklow@ubc.ca.
RESEARCHERs receive over $447k FROM SSHRC
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) recently announced the successful applicants for the 2009-2010 Standard Research Grants competition, including six faculty from UBC's Okanagan campus receiving a combined total of over $447K.
The broad purpose of the Standard Research Grants program is to support research and develop excellence in research activities in the social sciences and humanities. Last year, 2,880 applications were submitted across Canada, and the average success rate nationwide was 32.7%. The UBC success rate was 45%. Congratulations to these Okanagan campus recipients!
2009-2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant Winners |
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Luis Aguiar
Associate Professor, Sociology, Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences
Grounding the organizing of building cleaners worldwide: the role of the justice for janitors model in place |
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Graham Brown
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management
The effects of ownership and territoriality on creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship |
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Paul Davies
Assistant Professor, Psychology, Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences
The brass ceiling: perceived stereotypicality and vulnerability to stereotype threat |
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George Grinnel
Assistant Professor, English, Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies
Romanticism, terror and the limits of the national imaginary |
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Brent McFerran (on leave)
Faculty of Management
Antecedents and consequences of status contagion in a consumer context |
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Stephen Porter
Professor, Psychology, Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences
The secrets of the human face: investigating genuine and falsified emotions in the universal facial expressions |
FEDERAL GOV'T INVESTS $182M TO BENEFIT RESEARCH
Researchers and Universities across Canada will soon benefit from a large investment made by the Government of Canada.
Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), and Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Natural Resources, formally announced the federal government’s commitment to invest in the Canada Foundation for Innovation's (CFI's) Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF), during a visit to McGill University last month.
"This investment will create jobs and improve the quality of life of Canadians. It will also help our universities develop, attract and retain some of the best scientific minds on earth" said Minister of State Goodyear.
The funding will provide researchers with new facilities and equipment at Canadian universities—a benefit that will also enable universities to attract top researchers to their institutions.
According to Industry Canada’s press release, “the federal government will invest $182 million in the CFI's LOF. Funding for this program will be drawn from a $600-million investment announced by the Government of Canada as part of Canada's Economic Action Plan.”
Click here to read Industry Canada’s News Release
Click here to access the submission guidelines and timeline for the for CFI'S LOF
FUNDING FOR CARBON MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
 Carbon Management Canada Inc. (CMC) is a national research network focused on carbon management in Canada's fossil energy sector. CMC promotes and supports research by Canadian academic and research organisations into carbon management in the extraction and use of fossil fuels.
CMC is accepting proposals for innovative, ambitious research that has the potential to have major impact on greenhouse gas emissions in fossil fuel recovery. It is expected that successful proposals will display innovative approaches that are more than incremental enhancements of traditional approaches.
Applicants with exciting early-stage work that may be too preliminary to warrant a multi-year fully networked proposal are encouraged to submit for smaller ‘starter’ funding amounts to facilitate early background work that may lead to high value research areas.
Deadline: October 22, 2010 For more information visit the CMC website: (http://www.carbomanagement.ca/home.html) or contact cmcadmin@cmc-nce.ca
NETWORKING FOR BIO-ENERGY & BIO-PRODUCTs research
LifeSciences BC invites researchers to attend a networking opportunity with Novozymes, a leading global company in industrial enzymes and bio-innovation from Copenhagen, Denmark. With BC’s biomass resources and government policies, there is great potential for innovative research projects and for BC to become a global leader in BioEnergy & BioProducts.
The seminar includes presentations from LifeSciences BC, Novozymes, and Genome British Columbia.
Date: September 9, 2010
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 am
Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, 655 Burrard Street, Vancouver - Plaza Ballroom
For more information contact: Bob Ingratta @ bingratta@lifesciencesbc.ca
Click here for registration details
GENOME BC INFO SESSION
Join Genome BC representatives for an informative session on Genome BC's Strategic Plan and New and Ongoing Programs. Presenters include: Dr. Rich Howlett, Director, Business Development; Dr. Gabe Kalmar, Executive Director, Operations; and Dr. Pierre Meulien, Chief Scientific Officer.
Date: September 15, 2010 Time: 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Location: Fipke 124 Register online: www.research.ubc.ca
SSHRC & NSERC GRANT REVIEWER WORKSHOPS
Do you want to know what really happens when your application is reviewed? The Research Services Office is offering workshops with reviewers from NSERC and SSHRC to tell you what happens to your application once you click ‘Submit’. Tips and information on what reviewers look for and what not to do!
SSHRC Standard Research Grant
Presented by UBC faculty who are current and former SRG reviewers
Date: Sept. 22, 2:30 - 4pm Location: LIB 304 Click here to register
NSERC Discovery Grant
Presented by current NSERC reviewer and UBC Faculty member Gordon Binsted Date: Sept. 29, 2:30 - 4pm Location: LIB 304
Click here to register
HEALTHY AGING AND CHRONIC DISEASE SYMPOSIUM
Are you interested in issues surrounding healthy aging while managing chronic disease?
Join the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention for a two-part symposium on October 13, 2010. The morning session will feature a key note address from Dr. Anne Martin-Mathews, Scientific Director, followed by a networking opportunity and a panel presentation.
Date: October 13, 2010 Time: 8:30 to 12:00 pm
Location: UNC 200 Contact: caron.currie@ubc.ca or 807.8072
In the afternoon, the Research Services Office and the IHLCDP invite you to attend a roundtable discussion on research opportunities with the CIHR Institute of Aging and Health.
Time: 1:30 - 3:00 pm Location: ADM 103E
Contact: debbie.stokes@ubc.ca or 807.9658
CCGS GRADUATE STUDENTS SHOWCASE RESEARCH
Community, Culture & Global Studies Student Presentations |
Student Name |
Paper/Presentation & Conference |
Michelle Walks |
Female masculinities in Cross-Cultural Context
Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Conference,
UBC’s Okanagan campus, May 2010 |
Tamil Kendall
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Reproductive rights, reproductive choice: Access to reproductive health services for Mexican women with HIV
XIX Annual Canadian Conference on HIV/AIDS Research,
Saskatoon, May 2010
Panel chair for: Reproductive Rights of Women with HIV in the Global South (Global Village debate)
And presented: Criminalisation of HIV Transmission and Exposure and Obligatory Testing in 8 Latin American Countries (oral); and Universal access to reproductive health for women with HIV? Policy and programme gaps in Latin America (poster)
XVII International AIDS Conference,
Vienna, Austria, July 2010 |
Tabitha Steager
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Building Local Food Systems: Motivations, Connections, and Challenges
Canadian Association for Food Studies 2010 Conference,
Congress of the Humanities, Montréal
As Chair of Slow Food Canada's Ark of Taste, Tabitha also gave an invited lecture to conference attendees and Montreal media on Red Fife Wheat and the Slow Food Ark of Taste. |
Tammy Davies |
The Power and Language of Food: Changing Foodways of Bedouin Women in Northern Israel
The Conference on Food, Power & Meaning in the Middle East and the Mediterranean,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, June 2010 |
Vicki Nygaard |
Sharing Strategies for Teaching Social Justice Issues in Academic Classrooms: What Works, What Doesn't and Why.
Reclaiming Activism in Academia Symposium Okanagan College May 5-9, 2010 (Co-organizer)
The third edition of Vicki's text, Social Problems in a Diverse Society, was published by Pearson Canada in April 2010. |
Marc Brillinger |
The Changing Face of Resistance
The Reclaiming Activism in Academia Symposium, Okanagan College, May 2010 |
Catherine Siermacheski
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“Canadian Women Glass Blowers”
(presented a brief prospectus)
Annual conference of the Glass Art Association, Montréal, June 2010 |
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