Seminar Videos

This session offers a practical overview of interviewing tips and techniques, emphasizing how strategic career planning during graduate school can set the foundation for interview success. Read More

Join us for the first seminar of term two, given by our IRES PhD students! Topics: Electronics at the End-of-Life: Repair Ecosystems, Consumer Decisions, and Policy Barriers and Consumption of Alt-Proteins to Mitigate Food Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada Read More

IRES grad student Manvi Bhalla will present her research on how South Asian immigrants in Canada face environmental injustice and why their voices must be centered in the country’s new environmental justice strategy. Read More

Join us for our upcoming seminar, given by two IRES grad students! Topics: impacts of urban noise on human perception and well-being, and, the emergence of renewable electricity policy in Norway and Alberta Read More

Dr. Kees Lokman will speak on coastal adaptation led by Indigenous values, cultural revival, and ecological care. Read More

This talk offers an insider’s take on how Schneider Electric embeds decarbonization, circular design, and innovation into every layer of its global strategy. Read More

How can cities adapt to rising seas and uncertain futures? IRES’s Mauricio Carvallo uses Surrey’s climate planning as a case study to show how flexible, cost-aware strategies can help protect farms, homes, and infrastructure from coastal flooding. Read More

How is the EU’s anti-deforestation law landing in Southeast Asia? This talk explores the backlash against the EUDR in rubber-producing countries and what it reveals about global power imbalances in sustainability policy. Read More

Exploring how climate change impacts the lending capacity of microfinance institutions (MFIs) to smallholder farmers (SHFs), this talk will analyze global trends in physical climate risk—particularly tropical storms and floods—and their effects on 4,500 MFIs under various climate scenarios. Read More

Join us for the last seminar in Term 2! Three of our students will present their research. Read More

So you want to save the planet? Join Angela Danyluk, Manager of Climate Adaptation and Equity at the City of Vancouver, for stories about working in local government on climate action and environmental policy. Read More

Carly’s talk is centered in the growing field of urban landscape ecology. With her students, she employs citizen science, environmental sensors, field observations, and social-science methodologies to explore how the landscape structure of our cities influences biodiversity, ecosystem services, and their interaction over space and time. Read More

Talk 1: Simulating the Impacts of Hedgerow Restoration on Metapopulation Capacity in Southern Ontario. Talk 2: Academics as activists: exploring and building political knowledge mobilization capacities to influence climate policy Read More

Transition from UBC to Policy Advisor Read More

Join Dr. Khanna's talk, titled "Evidence Based Climate Policy: What works, for whom and when?" Read More

Two students will present on Indigenous-inspired land-based learning and e-waste. Read More

This talk will focus on how to empower you to understand who you are and what you can do, regardless of where you are in your grad school journey. Read More

Join Dr. Simon Donner as he discusses his role as co-chair of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body. Read More

Talk 1: Aquatic ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry as indicators of stream health in the Deadman River watershed near Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada Talk 2: Reawakening Traditional Ecological Practices to Revitalize Satoyama Stewardship in Japan: finding adaptive capacity of Japanese village ecology, culture and spirituality Read More

Join IRES Adrian Lu for a talk titled "Trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services along landscape and local complexity gradients in the “Salad Bowl of the World”". Read More