November 5, 2026: Professional Development Seminar with Nivi Thatra
Help improve the reach of your research and your skills!
IRES’s Communications Manager will offer tips for writing lay abstracts, creating a graphical abstract, and refining your online presence
The IRES Seminar Series resumes in September 2026
Have a great summer!
October 22, 2026: Student Seminar with Charly Phillips
Talk title: Exploring actor beliefs and strategies in climate policy for beef cattle in Canada, a nascent policy subsystem
October 8, 2026: Professional Development Seminar with George Benson
In this talk, George will draw on their personal experience to explore bring large-scale systems change frameworks to the level of individual action and more!
September 24, 2026: Student Seminar with Bulgan Batdorj
Transparency is widely promoted in mining governance as a pathway to accountability, yet disclosure does not automatically produce these outcomes. Bulgan Batdorj draws on four transparency frameworks to illustrate how interventions could be designed to support disclosure.
September 17, 2026: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Bavisha Kalyan
This presentation argues that democratizing scientific knowledge is essential for developing engineering solutions that are both technically robust and advance social and environmental justice.
March 19, 2026: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. David McMillon
This talk will discuss a framework for systemic discrimination that has applications ranging from reparations and the racial wealth gap, health disparities, and environmental racism.
March 5, 2026: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Helen Brown
The session will adapt to the questions and interests of the group but might include an intro to services and resources available at UBC Library and tips for managing the research process.
January 29, 2026: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Aisling Rayne
This talk explores the multiple meanings and effects of new nonhuman neighbours, and how to support more inclusive and transparent environmental decision-making
March 12, 2026: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Emily Yeh
Join Dr. Emily Yeh for her seminar on the political economy of geothermal development in Indonesia