At UBC professional development for graduate students is a key priority to ensure the success of our graduates. It is a shared responsibility of a number of offices and academic units and includes a variety of workshops, services and resources.
Workshops & Events
Academic Support & Success
- Thesis Formatting
- Submitting your Thesis
- Preparing for your Doctoral Exam
- Scholarships & Awards
- Copyright for your Thesis
Teaching Development
- Instructional Skills Workshops
Writing & Communication
- Strategies for Presenting your Thesis in 3 Minutes (3MT)
- Presentation Skills
- Introduction to Interacting with the Media
- Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Writing Community
- Business Writing
- Writing with Integrity
Professional Skills
- Leading with Emotional Intelligence
- Project Management
- Essentials of Productive Project Teams
- Career Professionalism
- Introduction to Business Finance
- Enhancing your Scholarly Online Profile
Health & Wellness
- Breaking Patterns of Procrastination
- Panic to Power: Building Career Confidence
- Overcoming Perfectionism
- Assertiveness
- Time Management
- Live Well to Learn Well
- From Stress to Strength
- Building Resiliency
- Program Completion and your Finances
- Managing your Budget
- Managing your Personal Finances
Job Search Strategies
- Interview Preparation
- Graduate Career Skills
- Know Your Strengths, Explore Your Options, Design Your Career
- Discovering the Entrepreneur Within
- Alumni Profiles
Research Skills
- SPSS
- NVIVO
- Citation Management (Endnote, Mendeley, Zotero)
- Data Exploration Through Descriptive Statistics and Graphics
- Statistical Considerations When Planning Your Research Project
- Two Group Comparisons and ANOVA Models
- Quantitative Covariates and Regression Analysis
- Discrete Data: Counts and Proportions
- Mixed Effects Models
- Literature Review
Services
Academic Support & Success
Teaching Development
- Facilitators from your discipline
- Train Graduate Students to Faciltiate, Mentor, Teach and TA
- Teaching Development Consultation
- TA Training Consultation (program design, workshop design, facilitation, program evaluation)
- Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL)
- Graduate Student Peer Review of Teaching/Presentations
- One-to-one Teaching Consultations
Writing & Communication
Professional Skills
Health & Wellness
- Mental Health Support
- Medical Clinic for Students
- Access and Diversity
- Equity and Inclusion
- Zumba, Yoga
- Speed Friending
JOb Search Strategies
- LinkedIN Head shots
Research Skills
- Thesis formatting consultations
- UBC Library subject librarians research consultations
Resources
Academic Support & Success
- Responsible Conduct of Research, online course
Teaching Development
- Teaching Development Resources
Writing & Communication
- Nature Masterclasses: Scientific Publishing ONLINE
Professional Skills
- How to host a career panel
- Alumni Profiles
Health & Wellness
- Self-help Resources
- Healthy Minds Blog
- Coping Strategies Handout
- THRIVE
- Health Insurance
- Ombuds
- FNHL
JOb Search Strategies
- CV Samples
- Articulating your accomplishments
- Translating your accomplishments from academia to industry
- Sample Interview Questions
Research Skills