Core Area
Research
Strategic Area
Targeted infrastructure development to propel our research
Goal Status
In Progress
Objectives
- Dean’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure (DACOPAT) to host promotion and tenure workshop for tenure-stream faculty (2024).
Achieved Goals
- SPIIF fund approved project to support mentorship and training for early career researchers (May 2023); two events delivered fall 2023.
- 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).
- 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 Pharmaceutical 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).