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  • 2025 Career Design Studio

    The 2025 Career Design Studio for Arts Graduate Students will take place from 9am-4pm on June 2 & 3, 2025 on the UBC Vancouver campus.  This program brings together a small group of UBC Arts graduate students and postdocs to explore diverse career possibilities and learn strategies to chart a personally meaningful course as a professional.

  • Applying for a Mitacs as an Arts Graduate Student

    Join our session with UBC Arts’ Mitacs Advisor Mahtab Nazari and PhD Candidate and Mitacs BSI alum Sydney Lines to learn about what Mitacs can offer Arts graduate students.

  • April 2025 | Off to the alternate universe I go!

    Okay, so I don’t know if or how this has manifested in your circles, but I swear, based on an n of maybe 10, there is this graduate student phenomenon where we are all actually just fantasizing about opening up one or more of the following three things: a coffee shop, flower shop, or bookshop. […]

  • Academic Assistant, StEAR-funded project on linguistic justice at UBC

    This is a project coordinator position, open to a graduate or senior undergraduate student, funded through UBC’s StEAR (Strategic Equity and Anti-Racism) framework. The project, “An Awareness Campaign for Linguistic Justice at UBC,” responds to the StEAR Framework’s recommendation to “develop resources on raciolinguistic diversity.” The project involves launching an awareness campaign for linguistic justice […]

  • Entrepreneurship for Arts Graduate Students

    Through interactive workshops, the support of a cohort of peers, and one-on-one mentorship meetings, you will develop the skills to translate your ideas into an an entrepreneurial venture that you can test out and receive feedback on.

The Arts Amplifier will conclude operations on April 30, 2026.

Arts graduate students seeking opportunities to explore career pathways and professional development are encouraged to connect with to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, the UBC Career Centre, or their department to begin a conversation.

Launched in 2020 as a pilot project, the Arts Amplifier was created to offer Arts graduate students meaningful opportunities to identify and build on their unique skills and strengths in support of their professional development. We are grateful to the students, community partners, employers, and faculty members who supported this work and participated in our programs over the past five years. To learn more about what we accomplished together, please read our Five-Year Report.

  • CLOSED – Research Assistant, Digital Storytelling with Dr. Siobhán McPhee (UBC Geography)

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Graduate Student Blog Posts

Hear from our graduate student voices! Read their blog posts here on the graduate student condition, the trials and tribulations of trying to find jobs and life purpose, and the joys of struggling together.

María Núñez Kozlova, The Witchy Cabinet

María is an MA student in FHIS who participated in our Winter 2025 Entrepreneurship Workshop Series. Learn more about her business idea for The Witchy Cabinet – how she came up with this project, what her pitch is, and what advice she has for other aspiring or curious Arts entrepreneurs!

Asya and Naomi, Hikma

To learn more about CCPs, check out our previous and upcoming projects.   In Summer and Fall 2024, Asya Savelyeva (MA student, Anthropology) and Naomi Maldonado-Rodriguez (PhD Candidate, Kinesiology) joined Hikma Collective, a Vancouver-based startup providing tailored consulting services to scholars and social sector leaders. During their six month tenure with Hikma, they worked with […]

Jimmy, Jonna, and Xian; FNTC

This interview is part of our ongoing series profiling students and community partners who participated in a Collaborative Cohort Project (CCP). To learn more about CCPs, check out our previous and upcoming projects. In the fall of 2024, we offered a CCP with the First Nations Technology Council (FNTC), where members Jimmy Ho (Master of […]

Athena Loredo and Olivia Brophy, Writing Short is Hard

As part of our Fall 2023 cohort, we interviewed Athena Loredo (DMA candidate, Composition) and Olivia Brophy (MA Student, Medical Anthropology), for their collaborative cohort project with Dr. Letitia Henville’s academic editing business, Writing Short is Hard. In this project, they conducted research and interviews with SSHRC merit review committee members to produce a series […]

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