Core Area
Research
Strategic Area
Targeted infrastructure development to propel our research
Goal Status
In Progress
Achieved Goals
Faculty Members
- SPIIF fund approved project to support mentorship and training for early career researchers (May 2023). Two events delivered in 2023: ECR networking event and Intellectual property workshop; two events delivered in 2024: Leadership and Teaching workshops; one event delivered in 2025: Grant writing workshop.
- Launched section on website to better support Clinical Appointments and Promotions (April 2023).
- Coordinated Faculty Mentorship Program through Emeritus Professor, Dr. Marc Levine (Sep–June annually).
- Launched peer reviewer workshops (Sep 2023).
- ADR Office helped to develop mentorship guidelines and pathways for Canada Research Chairs as part of the Equity and Inclusion Office’s (EIO’s) mentoring initiatives team.
- Dean’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure (DACOPAT) hosted promotion and tenure workshop for tenure-stream faculty (2025).
Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
- Created the postdoctoral fellow handbook and supervisor handbook, incorporating details of program information and all relevant university resources to facilitate the onboarding of new postdoctoral trainees and faculty members who are supervisors of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (summer 2023).
- Launched UBC Faculty of Pharmceutical Sciences Independence Research Grant to aid outstanding postdoctoral fellows in developing their first research grant application as an independent academic researcher by offering a small amount of independent funding of $10,000 (to support 1 grant), to support them in making the transition to become competitive candidates for tenure-track faculty positions in academia (2024).
- ADR Office provided training on "Tips and Tricks on Finding and Applying to Academic Funding as a Research Trainee" (Dec 2024).