September 28, 2017: IRES Professional Development Seminar
Speakers: IRES Postdocs Panel

IRES Seminar Series

Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (every Thursday)

Location: AERL Theatre (room 120), 2202 Main Mall

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Pursuing a Postdoc

Abstract: Increasingly the path of the academic includes one or more post-doctoral fellowships. Four of our IRES postdocs will join us in frank conversation about their experiences. They will cover everything from the mundane to the theoretical about what it is like to be a young researcher beyond grad school.  Please bring questions if you have them.

This seminar will not be filmed.

Bios:

Dawn Hoogeveen is a human geographer by training and completed her PhD here at UBC.  She holds an MA from Simon Fraser University and a BA (hons) from Carleton.  Her work concerns resource regulations, mining law and policy pertaining to environment, human rights, and culture.  Her postdoc work is funded by a Mitacs Elevate grant under the direction of Terre Satterfield and in collaboration with the Firelight Group.

 

Ed Gregr has spent his adult life pursuing a mix of academic and employment opportunities. He completed his PhD with Kai Chan in 2016 and is currently an Adjunct Professor at IRES working a post-doc job part-time. He enjoys making maps, especially of analyses that have not previously been mapped, and hopes to continue doing so in both academic and consulting settings.

 

Laura Morillas studies water resources in water-limited ecosystems and how climate change affects them. She received her PhD from The Experimental Station of Arid Zones (EEZA) in Spain before completing a postdoc at The University of New Mexico. Here at UBC she works with Mark Johnson doing agricultural research in Costa Rica and Brazil.

 

Lisa Powell  is jointly appointed in IRES and at the University of the Fraser Valley.  She works with the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and UVF’s Agriburban Research Centre.  She completed a Ph.D. and M.A. in American Studies and Sustainability from the University of Texas at Austin, M.S. in mathematics from Vanderbilt, and B.A. in mathematics from Harvard.  Her work focuses on food systems and conflicts and negotiations over agricultural land use.

 

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