Assistant Professor Dr. Ilsa Cooke and PhD Student Elsa Yuan have received funding from the UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) PhD Collab pilot program for their project "How to build a living planet: the ingredients for life on other worlds".
The PhD Collab is a pilot program originated and funded by G+PS, and has garnered strong interest in its two-year span, with 100 applications from across more than 50 academic units at UBC. This initiative offers awards and guidance to support PhD students from different disciplines to co-develop new knowledge and/or applications to address complex questions or problems.
The primary objectives of this program are to provide new opportunities for PhD students to build competencies and networks in collaborative, inter/transdisciplinary scholarly work, and to advance collaboration as a desired research and learning mode across disciplines to enrich scholarship. “It is wonderful to see so many PhD students from different disciplinary backgrounds applying to this program to learn from one another,” says Dr. Jenny Phelps, Assistant Vice-Provost of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies.
As part of their doctoral work, students will collaborate with each other, faculty, and in some cases, other partners from sectors beyond the academy. This award is meant to free up student time and cover research and professional development expenses in ways that may not be possible with discipline-specific funding sources.
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