Previous Collective Events
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September 27, 2024
Vancouver Kick Off Event: Climate Solutions Research Collective
This event will launch the Collective's 2024-2025 year!If you missed this event, read an event summary here.Join us for an opportunity to shape the themes and topics the Collective will focus on in upcoming events, centered on innovative interdisciplinary climate solutions research. Attendees will…
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August 21, 2024
Climate Conversations: Fostering Transdisciplinary Research
If you missed this event, read an event summary here. In our modern world, with multiple crises and paradoxes intertwining, the need for transdisciplinary research is greater than ever. Transdisciplinary research entails separate disciplines coming together to create new ways of knowing,…
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July 24, 2024
Climate Conversation: Greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry and related calls for restrictions on advertising
If you missed this event, read a summary here. A fossil fuel advocacy group has been found to have spread misleading information through an ad campaign claiming that Liquefied Natural Gas would definitively “reduce global emissions” and promote sustainability in British Columbia. Ad Standards,…
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June 26, 2024
Climate Conversations: State of Climate Policy in Canada
If you missed this event, read a summary here.
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June 4, 2024
Solutions Scholars - Applicant Q&A session
Thank you for your interest in becoming a Solutions Scholar! The Solutions Scholars program sponsors existing UBC Masters and PhD students to apply their scholarly research skills to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and/or education. In 2024/25, successful Solutions Scholars will work on…
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May 30, 2024
Solutions Scholars - Applicant Q&A session
Thank you for your interest in becoming a Solutions Scholar! The Solutions Scholars program sponsors existing UBC Masters and PhD students to apply their scholarly research skills to climate change mitigation, adaptation, and/or education. In 2024/25, successful Solutions Scholars will work on…
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April 18, 2024
Climate Solutions Scholars Summit
If you missed this event, read a summary here. From adaptation and mitigation to education, the 2023/24 Solutions Scholars have been exploring climate solutions related to urban environments, extreme heat, and fires.Come hear their research updates and join table discussions to advance…
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April 16, 2024
Solutions Scholars Project Pitch Event
This past spring, the Collective solicited ideas from the research community for projects that could be completed by the next round of Solutions Scholars. After a successful call, eight projects have advanced to a pitch session which will be open to the UBC community. Please join us!…
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April 12, 2024
Graduate Student Discussion: Developing Your Network to Drive Climate Solutions
Join us for our monthly Graduate Student Dialogues where we explore topics of relevance to students engaging in climate solutions focused research. These events are hosted on Zoom and open to all interested students in any discipline and at any campus. The challenge of…
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April 4, 2024
Fostering Impactful Research: An Introduction to Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge exchange is a process in which academic and non-academic partners collaborate on research to share ideas, evidence, and expertise to inform policies, practices, public dialogue, and drive positive societal change. This online workshop will introduce key terminology, discuss the purpose of…