Keynote: Formation Of Scholars For The 21st Century

You're invited to a keynote session with Dr. Susan Porter!

You're invited to attend The Formation of Scholars for the 21st Century keynote address featuring Susan Porter, Dean & Vice Provost Graduate Studies at UBC. This event is one of four keynote sessions and is part of RRU's Doctoral Conference. 

Event description

The 21st century world, characterized by unprecedented complexity, interdependence, chaos, and uncertainty, is facing the most urgent problems of our history. The conventions and assumptions the academy and society have traditionally relied upon are no longer adequate to the task of addressing them, or effectively navigating the changing and expanding ways of working. Doctoral graduates are ‘scholars’ in the broadest sense, using their knowledge and intellect to integrate, discover, apply, and share knowledge. If they are to meet the moment of this day, their scholarship will need to incorporate different and unfamiliar perspectives and ways of knowing, and they will need to be systems thinkers and effective collaborators and agents of change.

As part of its ‘reimagining the PhD’ focus over the past six years, the UBC graduate school has expanded opportunities for PhD students to develop these holistic scholarly capabilities, in part through encouraging, supporting, and legitimizing more capacious forms of doctoral research, supervision, and the dissertation. These initiatives will be described, as will the work done on behalf of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies to understand the national sentiment on the issues. 

Once you register, you’ll receive a zoom link that gives you access to this presentation.

Other keynote sessions of interest:

Supporting Emerging Research Leaders 

The Research Process: Dealing with Complex, Wicked Challenges

Knowledge, Activism, and Hope: Finding the Balance

Please contact doctoral.conference@royalroads.ca if you have any questions.

 

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