Student Services
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Student Services to access information and resources on academic support, tutoring, advising, health and wellbeing, career building, and recreation.
Managing your Program, Supervision and Advising
As you navigate your graduate program at UBC, you are encouraged to visit
grad.ubc.ca/current-students for resources and guidance for thesis submission, doctoral examinations, deadlines, and graduation. This site also has resources including
Supervisory Relationships (including an expectations document), a
Supervisor Directory,
Student Responsibilities,
Managing your Program, and the
Graduate Game Plan — a step-by-step guide to your degree.
Academic Integrity
Academic Integrity is a commitment to upholding the values of respect, integrity, and accountability in coursework. Learning with integrity means submitting work that is one’s own, acknowledging the work of others, and following criteria provided by instructors. It is an essential part of being a member of the university community since learning with integrity ensures that graduates are properly credentialled.
The University’s
academic misconduct regulation in the Academic Calendar describes the responsibilities and standards expected of all UBC persons. Students are responsible for informing themselves of the applicable standards of academic integrity in their academic work, and seeking guidance from an instructor or supervisor when those standards are in doubt.
UBC’s
academic integrity website includes information and resources for students and faculty to learn more about academic integrity, understand its role, and learn what happens when it is breached. This includes
information for graduate students, self-guided
Canvas courses, and
FAQs.
UBC’s
generative AI website provides guidance on using Generative AI at UBC. There is additional information and FAQs on
generative AI and graduate education online.
Scholarly Integrity and the Ethical Conduct of Research
Conducting research ethically involves everyday decisions, behaviours and actions throughout the course of your research career.
The University’s
Scholarly Integrity Policy (SC6) describes the responsibilities and standards expected of all UBC persons including graduate students who are engaged in scholarly activity.
The
Scholarly Integrity Initiative offers teaching and resources in areas such as mentorship, data management, writing, authorship and publishing to help you conduct your research and scholarship responsibly. This includes a short
self-paced course on Responsible Conduct of Research.
The
Office of Research Ethics is the home of research ethics at UBC and provides extensive guidance on research ethics practices and requirements and helps you trouble-shoot your specific research questions. They offer guidance and ethics review for research involving human participants; see this
handout for more information. They also have resources for researchers conducting
Indigenous research.
Important notes:
- Research ethics board (REB) review and approval is required when your research involves people or their data.
- REB approval is required to graduate and must be obtained before you start your research.
- Completion of the TCPS2 CORE tutorial is required before you start your research.
For questions, contact
Behavioural Study Support or
Clinical Study Support.
Go Global
Go Global develops and facilitates international learning opportunities for UBC students through Global Seminars, Exchange, Summer Abroad and Research Abroad. Go Global’s programs offer UBC students the opportunity to explore the world; build independence, initiative and adaptability; and foster global citizenship while participating in meaningful international learning experiences.
Are you planning to travel outside of Canada for your research? If so, you have some responsibilities to prepare for safe travel including completing UBC’s Student Safety Abroad Registry. Go Global coordinates UBC’s Student Safety Abroad Program, which includes a policy that sets out a process for approving student international travel for university activities. Please go to
Student Safety Abroad for more information and for the
Safety Abroad Registry, or contact
Student Safety Abroad. You can learn more on Go Global’s
website.
UBC Library
UBC Library is the second largest research library in Canada. Our library locations include the
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre,
Koerner Library,
X̱wi7x̱wa Library,
Asian Library, the
David Lam Management Research Library,
Law Library,
Woodward Library, as well as the
UBC Okanagan Library and the off-campus
Biomedical Branch Library.
Watch the quick
video introduction to UBC Library for Grad students.
Contact your department’s subject Librarian.
Visit the
Research Commons, which offers grad students consultations, workshops and collaborative spaces for studying, research projects and hosting presentation.
Get support in navigating copyright for teaching, learning and research purposes with
Copyright at UBC.
Access
cIRcle, UBC’s open access digital repository for published and unpublished material created by the UBC community and its partners. Discover freely available teaching, learning, and research material, and submit your graduate
thesis or
non-thesis research.
Visit
Open UBC to learn about open scholarship and what it means to teaching, learning, and research at UBC.
The
Digital Tattoo Project provides resources and content to help you make your own informed decisions about your digital identity and learn about your rights and responsibilities as a digital citizen.
The
Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication offers a wide variety of evidence-based workshops and retreats to support you in your writing across the disciplines and professions.
Research Commons
Located on the 4th and 5th floors of Koerner Library, the
UBC Library Research Commons offers consultations, workshops and collaborative spaces for studying, research projects and hosting presentations.
Their spaces feature a computer lab, group project rooms and brightly lit, quiet study spaces.
The Research Commons team provides
workshops and
personalized consultations to support you and your research, no matter what your discipline. They can help with:
- Citation management tools
- Data analysis and visualization
- Digital scholarship
- Geospatial information and technology
- Remote computing facilities
- Research computing (with our partners from UBC ARC)
- Research data management and data management plans
- Research ethics (with our partners from UBC Research Ethics)
To get the latest news from the Research Commons, subscribe to the UBC Library Research Commons Newsletter.
Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication
The
Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication (CWSC) provides evidence-based writing consultations, workshops, and resources for UBC Vancouver community members. We welcome those with varying levels of English language proficiency, including multilingual speakers new to academic and professional English at a research university. The CWSC models best practices that support and promote linguistic diversity, expression, and identity in accord with UBC’s decolonizing, anti-racist, and inclusive
Pathway to excellence.
English, and other, Language Support
The
English Language Institute and
UBC Extended Learning offer various courses and programs, with fees, to improve your communication in English.
Centre for Accessibility
The
Centre for Accessibility facilitates disability-related
accommodations and programming designed to remove barriers for students with documented disabilities and ongoing medical conditions. You will have confidentiality about the nature of your diagnosis per the language of
LR-7. To see if the Centre is right for you and for information on registering with the Centre for Accessibility,
please click here to view an informative PDF.
Statistical Support
The
Applied Statistics and Data Science Group (ASDa) is the general statistical consulting group of the Department of Statistics at UBC. ASDa offers various services to graduate students including:
- the popular Statistical Opportunity for Students or SOS program, designed for graduate students to receive a free statistical consultation.
- the “The Fundamentals of Statistics” and other webinar series recordings previously hosted through the Graduate Pathways to Success (GPS) program.
- assistance with your research project or thesis by hiring one of ASDa’s consultants.
If you are interested in learning to use the R statistical programming language, see
Learn stats software? for some suitable resources.
For a more thorough overview of the various services offered, please refer to ASDa’s corresponding
Statistics department webpage and use their
Contact Us form to inquire further or to make a request for help.
Public Scholars Initiative
UBC’s Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) was launched in 2015 to support UBC doctoral students who wish to make purposeful contributions to the public good through collaborative, action-oriented, and/or creative forms of scholarship in their dissertation work. Doctoral students who wish to extend their doctoral research beyond academia and beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries to have a tangible impact for public good should consider applying to the PSI. In its 11 years since its foundation, PSI has accepted over 400 Public Scholars into the program, seeking to address complex questions and challenges of our world through collaborations with more than 200 partners in all societal sectors in over 50 countries. Beyond its impact, PSI is also the largest network of interdisciplinary doctoral students and PhDs in Canada. Applications to the program take place each spring, from March to May.
Learn more about the program and how to apply here.
A groundbreaking and award-winning program, PSI moves beyond ‘skills training’ and extracurricular experience and re-imagines PhD pathways that legitimize and integrate broader conceptions of scholarship and scholarly products within the core of doctoral education – dissertation research. By recognizing these forms and products as worthy determinants of the granting of the PhD, UBC is promoting a renewed commitment to 21st century relevance for the academy’s highest degree. Coming from almost all faculties and disciplines, Public Scholars are united under the PSI umbrella with a passion to contribute to the public good.
UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
ARC is UBC’s dedicated service for researchers across all disciplines working on questions that have large computational and data needs. The main digital research infrastructure (DRI) platforms,
Sockeye and
Chinook, offer free high performance computing resources (yes, including GPUs!), object storage, and all the hands-on support that goes along with using these platforms. All of the DRI services are suitable even for
highly sensitive data.
In addition to Sockeye and Chinook, ARC offers
training,
consultation, including research proposal support,
hosting survey platforms, and commercial
cloud computing infrastructure. ARC is constantly evolving to meet the needs of UBC’s researchers and always welcome any
suggestions or feedback from the UBC research community.
ARC is also in partnership with the
Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) to ensure UBC researchers have continued access and assistance to leverage the national DRI.
ARC’s services are provided free-of-charge to the UBC community.