Dr. Linda Li appointed as Associate member
Dr.Lara Boyd was appointed as an Early Career Scholar to the Peter Wall Institute
The Early Career Scholars Program is for full-time UBC faculty who are in the professorial ranks and at the early stage of their academic careers at UBC. The Institute appoints a single cohort of up to fourteen untenured Assistant and recently tenured Associate Professors each year.
Researchers are chosen as individuals and from all academic disciplines, professions and the performing arts. They are all individuals with highly promising records who will appreciate the possibilities of intellectual and interdisciplinary exchange with peers in very different areas of research.
The objective of the program is to bring outstanding UBC early-career researchers together to share ideas and research approaches with the hope that this interaction will broaden the research perspective of participants and will enhance their future research contributions. The program benefits the participants in various ways including:
- exposing scholars to research from across the entire University,
- allowing scholars to interact with excellent peers across a wide variety of disciplines,
- providing opportunities to scholars to get a sense of the important work of top researchers throughout the University (e.g., the Institute Faculty Associates),
- exploring the connections of one’s own research with research that one would not ordinarily encounter,
- learning about the research infrastructure at UBC,
- providing special recognition and a modest stipend to support research.
This program is highly competitive and for the first time this year the Associate member status was added to take advantage of the talents of additional high quality faculty in meeting the program objectives of fostering collaborative interdisciplinary research