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Job Title: WL S24 GAA – First Year Exp. Ed Research
Position Summary:
The First Year Experiential Education (FYEE) Project is an approved and funded “Advancing Education Renewal” (AER) project through the Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic. This project brings together faculty members from Sociology and Geography, the Office of Regional and International Community Engagement, and undergraduate and graduate research assistants who have strong evidence-based beliefs in the teaching and learning outcomes possible through high-quality experiential learning in the classroom.
In particular, we are interested in a deeper exploration of this pedagogical approach in large first-year classes, and have the intention to identify, analyze and address key barriers to engagement and teaching effectiveness for faculty members. As such, this project intends to build on the teaching and learning initiatives already developed and implemented by the applicants, incorporating some of the key findings of the Grain and Gerhard (2020) report on Experiential Education at UBC.
In identifying and addressing the unique barriers faced at the first-year level, this project intends to build the foundations of a scaffolded vision of experiential education, which will incorporate rich existing experiential education capstone courses at UBC. In this final stage of the project, the GAA First Year EE, will work with the research team, building on the work completed to date.
Job Duties:
- Outline distinct but scaffolded learning outcomes for experiential education at 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th year building on this project research, existing UBC research and reports, peer institution research and reports, and literature reviews.
- Lead the development of a model/framework that addresses the findings from the first stages of research, with a focus on articulating the resources (and associated costs) to support the intended pedagogical outcomes.
- Gather information and coordinate with different units, staff and faculty within FoA in the development of the model/framework. Possible activities include surveys, interviews and workshops with instructors to gather data and feedback on potential sustainable, institutionalized supports.
- Conduct data collection, analysis, presentation of findings, report writing and presentation activities.
- Support the coordination and implementation of a symposium with a focus on experiential education in large and early-year courses in the Faculty of Arts.
- Other duties as appropriate.
Qualifications:
- Ability to work independently on a timeline that impacts the success of other team members and project goals
- Experience with qualitative research methods and/or completion of previous applied research projects.
- Experience with the development of business cases, and/or operational models.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Willingness to actively contribute to a positive team environment
- Commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
- Experience organizing symposia or conferences is an asset.
- Desire to work both independently and as part of a team.
Supervision:
There are three members of the supervision team for this project, Dr. Siobhán McPhee (GEOG), Dr. Katherine Lyon (SOCI), and Tamara Baldwin (ORICE). The GAA will meet with the supervisors in regular project team meetings.
Hours per week: 20
Salary: 30.27
Eligibility: This position is for eligible UBC-Vancouver graduate students.
Please reach out to us at ubc.orice@ubc.ca if you have any questions.