Cristina Rubino Receives VCHRI Top Graduating Doctoral Award
Join us in congratulating Cristina Rubino, a recipient of VCHRI’s 2024 Top Graduating Doctoral Award! Cristina is a PhD Candidate in Dr. Lara Boyd’s Brain Behaviour Lab. Cristina’s doctoral dissertation defense will be held this August. The Top Graduating Doctoral award recognizes the outstanding efforts of VCHRI trainees whose pursuit of research has made them […]
Gig platform workers need better health and well-being protections
RHSC PhD candidate Atieh Yekta has published a new article in The Conversation on the need for better health and well-being protections for gig platform workers. As a trainee under @huotsuzanne supervision, Atieh aims to bring awareness of how social and technical factors are shaping the occupational experiences of platform workers and producing and/or reproducing […]
2024 Indigenous Graduate Fellowship Recipients
The University of British Columbia offers the Indigenous Graduate Fellowship (IGF) and the IGF Research & Engagement Award. The IGF is a multi-year fellowship offered to Master’s and Doctoral Indigenous students and provides a stipend and tuition funding. Award winners are selected on the basis of academic merit through an annual competition administered by the […]
Brittany Pousett Receives a CIHR Fellowship
The CIHR Fellowship provides support for highly qualified candidates at the post-health professional degree or postdoctoral (post-PhD) stages to add to their experience by engaging in health research either in Canada or abroad. CIHR’s Health Research Training Strategy aims to equip research trainees so that they emerge from their training as scientific, professional, or organizational leaders within and beyond […]
June Student of the Month
Name: Julianne McLeod Program: MSc Supervisor: Dr. Naznin Virji-Babul Tell us a little bit about your lab! The Perception-Action Lab, led by Dr. Naznin Virji-Babul, focuses on exploring the neural mechanisms underpinning perceptual-motor and social-emotional development from infancy to adulthood. Utilizing brain imaging tools such as DTI, EEG, MEG, and MRI, the lab examines patterns […]
June Alumni of the Month
Name: Sarah Weller Program: MSc Graduated: 2019 Thesis Title: “Exercise counselling to promote exercise behaviour change in individuals with prostate cancer” How would you describe your research in the UBC Rehabilitation Sciences program? I was given the opportunity to contribute to and lead many different exercise oncology research initiatives within Dr. Kristin Campbells lab, including […]
Admissions | June 15
The deadline for submitting the online application to begin our MSc and PhD programs in September 2023 (as a late applicant) or in January 2024 is June 15, 2023. Please note, there will also be an October 15, 2023 deadline to apply for January 2024 program start, as a late applicant. If you’re interested in […]
2024 Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CGS-M) Recipients
Congratulations to our recipients of the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS-M)! The CGS-M are administered jointly by Canada’s three granting agencies CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC and are awarded to high-calibre Master’s level scholars to help develop their research skills and assists in the training of highly qualified personnel. We are pleased to announce that Sabrina Cao, […]
BC Graduate Scholarship | Deadline June 15, 2024
The Province of British Columbia has launched the British Columbia Graduate Scholarship Award. This is a $17,500, one-time only, award offered to graduate students who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents, in any field of study. Please see below to determine your eligibility: To apply, please submit the following, as one pdf, to Cassandra at […]
May Student of the Month
Name: Abdullah Alsuraybi Program: PhD Supervisors: Dr. Ben Mortenson Tell us a little bit about your lab! At the ICORD building, I am working alongside Mona Alkhudair to investigate the application of 3D printing technology in occupational therapy. Our research is centered on developing personalized therapeutic tools through 3D printing, tailored to meet the unique […]