Faculty of Art
Are you interested in a few extra hours of paid work this fall?
Would you like experience working in an interdisciplinary group and applying your research skills in a non-academic context?
Are you interested in supporting good work at the City of Vancouver?
If so, please RSVP for a Q&A session with Ileana Costrut of CityStudio Vancouver. CityStudio is the City of Vancouver’s research hub: their mission is to bring together city staff, academics, and community to work together and design experimental projects that make Vancouver more sustainable, liveable, joyful, and inclusive.
In this 60-minute question-and-answer session, you will
- hear about previous CityStudio projects,
- learn more about how the Arts Amplifier is working with CityStudio, and
- have the chance to meet with other graduate students to co-develop and pitch a project that engages with one of CityStudio’s Proposed Project Ideas for the coming year.
Some research questions the City of Vancouver would like to see addressed include:
Reconciliation and decolonization
- How do we implement UNDRIP at the City?
- The City of Vancouver is a city of reconciliation. What should our City Hall look like?
Equity, diversity, inclusion, and access
- How can the City foster a culture of accessibility and inclusion amongst its employees and throughout departments?
- How do we improve accessibility and ‘appropriateness’ of our online services?
- How can we encourage accessibility and a feeling of inclusion in our parks and other public spaces?
- How can we make complex information more accessible?
- City bathroom strategy: environmental scan, best practices, recommendations?
- How can we make bus transport more desirable and dignified?
Sustainability and community wellbeing
- Can we evaluate or quantify the social benefits of green infrastructure?
- How can we create a strategy to measure the value and community benefits of implementing natural systems?
- How to increase biodiversity (habitat, pollinators, foraging) in hardscape (urban) parks/plazas in creative ways?
- Green Renters: How might we empower renters in Vancouver to reduce their emissions and improve their indoor living space?
- What are some of the equity considerations for Vancouver in climate change mitigation and adaptation?
How will this short-term paid work be structured?
The Arts Amplifier’s Collaborative Cohort Projects (CCP) are 70-hour paid projects in which the PhD students who perform the work are involved in determining its shape & scope. You’ll with a group of three or four other PhD students to address a research question of your choice, using the methods you suggest. Students who complete the 70-hour work placement will receive a $1800 stipend (subject to taxes).
These positions are open to all PhD students in the Faculty of Arts. We have secured funding for Canadian citizens and permanent residents to take part in this paid work, and are awaiting confirmation of funding for international students.
Please note that you must be physically present in Canada in the fall in order to receive payment for your work, and you must not be on leave from UBC while participating in a CCP.
Questions about CCP? Technical difficulties? Please contact arts.amplifier@ubc.ca
Interested in doing work for the City of Vancouver, but unable to attend the live Q&A session? Please fill out our get support form to chat about next steps.