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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.

You have the knowledge, skills, networks and strengths.

We help you put them into action.

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How Arts students are using entrepreneurial thinking
From 12pm-1pm October 21, 2025, join us at Arts Compass Hub to hear from a panel of UBC Arts students and alumni who will share their experience taking their academic training in an entrepreneurial direction and maybe you’ll leave with motivation to pursue your own projects and ideas. To be an entrepreneur means to take […]
Fall 2025 Career Design Studio (Oct. 25)
Our next Career Design Studio for Arts Graduate Students will take place from 9am-4pm on October 25 on the UBC Vancouver campus. Those who complete the studio will gain a better understanding of a range of meaningful career options for Arts grad students beyond tenure track teaching, and practice strategies and engage with materials that can help […]
Summer 2025 Collaborative Cohort Projects — Applications Open
Applications for our Summer 2025 Collaborative Cohort Projects are now open! Join an interdisciplinary cohort of Arts graduate students to work on a project with host organization for 60 hours of paid, flexible work.
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.
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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. […]
March 2025 | It’s been a busy month!
This truly is the busiest time of the year, I say, every month. But really, with many of our flagship events and opportunities opening up in Term 2, a lot has happened here at the Arts Amplifier! So, let’s take this opportunity to recap ✨ what we have been up to (and to showcase a […]


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

Upcoming Events

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!

Summer 2025 Collaborative Cohort Projects — Applications Open

Applications for our Summer 2025 Collaborative Cohort Projects are now open! Join an interdisciplinary cohort of Arts graduate students to work on a project with host organization for 60 hours of paid, flexible work.

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 […]

Fall 2024 Collaborative Cohort Projects

Our Collaborative Cohort Projects employ a team of current Arts graduate students who work with a community partner on a project identified by that partner. Together the student team and their partner organization determine a final approach to the project. The student team divides the work according to their expertise and interests and each student […]

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