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Date: Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

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C.K. Choi, Room #351
1855 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2

About the Event

This 2 hour session invites graduate students and early career researchers into a conversation about knowledge translation and exchange, exploring what it means to share research ethically and responsibly, with community, and across public channels. 

This session will be held in collaboration with the Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) at UBC focusing on its guiding frameworks, success stories, and the lessons it offers researchers just beginning to think about the public dimensions of their work. From there, we’ll zoom in, spotlighting two PSI Scholars whose research embodies the kind of community-engaged intersectional scholarship the Gender+ Collective works to foster.

The session will include facilitated discussion, opportunities for peer reflection, and space to consider how these frameworks apply to your own research context to ensure it goes beyond the academic paper and into the community and beyond. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

About our Speakers

Serbulent Turan (he/him) is the Manager at the Public Scholarship Initiative within UBC’s Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. A recipient of UBC’s President’s Staff Award for Enhancing UBC Experience, Serbulent has built PSI into a thriving network of nearly 400 doctoral students and PhDs across disciplines, connecting personally with each cohort, tracking scholars’ progress, and offering tailored mentorship that supports them academically, professionally, and personally.

Addye Susnick (they/them) is an educator, organizer, zine artist, and PhD candidate in political theory at the University of British Columbia. Their dissertation project, “Prefiguring Trans Futures: The Affective, Anarchic Politics of Trans Joy,” integrates political and social theory with community-engaged research and zines to theorize trans joy as a radical political feeling. In and beyond their research, Addye is passionate about fostering accessible learning spaces through creative and collaborative pedagogy. They are especially interested in creative writing and visual art as modes of meaning-making, a passion they share through community-based zine workshops. Outside of work, Addye can frequently be found volunteering at Spartacus Books, wandering their East Van neighborhood, making art, and playing with their beloved cats.

Drew Hall (they/them) is a PhD candidate in Botany at UBC and a Public Scholar. Their research sits at the intersection of biology education and gender studies, examining how plant and algal biology curricula at UBC reproduce binary understandings of sex and how those framings affect the experiences of two-spirit, queer, trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex students. Their work is embedded in a broader effort within UBC’s Biology program to build more inclusive approaches to teaching sex and gender, and looks toward K-12 education as a future site of transformation. For Drew, public scholarship is about connecting the “how” of the scholarship they engage in (the theory, the methods, the every-day activities that contribute to scholarship) with the “why”.

About the Gender+ Collective

The Gender+ in Research Collective at UBC’s Office of Regional and International Community Engagement aims to foster dialogue and co-creation in the incorporation of gender and other identity intersections during the research process. Our work focuses on capacity and community building, while also providing tools that facilitate researchers in using the gender+ lens in their work.