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2016 Tri-Agency (SSHRC / NSERC / CIHR) & UBC Affiliated Fellowships Doctoral Competition
Please note ISGP internal deadline for SSHRC, NSERC and UBC Affiliated Fellowships: Friday September 30, 2016 @ 4:00pm The ISGP Lunch n’ Learn info session on Awards application will be held some time on the 2nd or 3rd week of September. Announcement will be forthcoming. Sample successful application proposals can be found on […]
A Minute with Juliane Okot Bitek
Juliane Okot Bitek is a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Students Graduate Program. She holds a Master’s Degree in English and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art (Creative Writing). Her doctoral research focuses on post-conflict narratives of formerly abducted women in northern Uganda. Juliane is an essayist and poet whose work has been anthologized and published […]
A Minute With Mira Ziolo
Dr. Mira Ziolo DVM has had an avid interest in wildlife conservation since very early childhood camping trips in the magical wilderness of Northern Ontario. Her clinical research has spanned species including tree kangaroos, ring-billed gulls, and red eared slider turtles. As a veterinary student volunteering throughout East Africa in 2005, Mira became highly attuned […]
A minute with Bindy Kaur Kang
Bindy started her doctoral program with UBC’s ISGP program in September 2011, and is looking forward to completing comprehensive exams. She received both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at Simon Fraser University. Her MA dissertation explored “othered” representations of the Punjabi Sikh Diaspora utilizing a media discourse analysis. Drawing on the interdisciplinarity […]

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Where the mind without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls - From a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, quoted by Professor Amartya Sen upon receiving an Honorary Degree from ISGP in April, 2011.

2016 Tri-Agency (SSHRC / NSERC / CIHR) & UBC Affiliated Fellowships Doctoral Competition

A Minute with Juliane Okot Bitek

A Minute With Mira Ziolo

A minute with Bindy Kaur Kang