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Panel conversation: Career Development and Public Engagement for MAs, PhDs, and Postdocs in the Social Sciences & Humanities
Moderator: Danielle Barkley, PhD – Educator, Career & Professional Development (Graduate Students), UBC Centre for Student Involvement & Careers
Speakers:
- Éric Bastien – Director, Research Partnerships Portfolio, SSHRC
- Loleen Berdahl, PhD – Professor, Political Studies and Executive Director, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan; author of Work Your Career: Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD
- Katina Rogers, PhD – Co-Director, The Futures Initiative at The Graduate Center, City University of New York; author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving In and Beyond the Classroom
- Naben Ruthnum, MA – Author, Curry: Eating, Reading & Race; as Nathan Ripley, Your Life is Mine and Find You in the Dark
- Jaspreet Sandhu, MA – Loyalty and Engagement Leader, Toronto International Film Festival
Closing Remarks:
- Paul Yachnin, PhD – Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University; Director, TRaCE McGill
Special guests:
- Allison Brennan, PhD – Director, Business Development, Vancouver, Mitacs
- Ileana Costrut – Project Coordinator, CityStudio Vancouver
- Vidya Crawley – CEO & Lead Educator, Groundswell
- Miriam Esquitín, MA – Director of Vancouver Program & General Manager of CityStudio Vancouver
- Eva Reddington, MBA – Senior Advisor, Program Partnerships and Skills Development, Toronto, Mitacs
- Brian Train – Education Officer, Post Secondary Education Division, BC Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills, and Training
About Us
The UBC Arts Amplifier is a pilot professional development initiative for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the UBC Faculty of Arts, and part of the UBC Arts Co-operative Education Program. We support students and postdocs in imagining, designing, and funding their own collaborative, community-based work or artistic experiences. The Arts Amplifier welcomes, respects, and includes people with multiple and diverse backgrounds and identities, and seeks partnerships with workplaces that empower all members of the community.