The Department Research Half Day aims to showcase ongoing and completed research initiatives, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and highlight innovative projects that align with the department’s strategic goals. This event provides a space for faculty, staff, and learners to exchange ideas, gain feedback, and identify opportunities for future research partnerships. It will include two research capacity building sessions and a research poster showcase.
Update | May 19, 2026
Please note, we are pivoting to a fully virtual event based on registration data and feedback. For those who already registered to attend in-person, our Research Coordinator will be in touch soon to coordinate virtual attendance details with you. Thank you, everyone, for your patience and support as we do our best to revive our annual Research Day after a 10+ year hiatus! We look forward to seeing you!
How to join: A Zoom link will be sent to all registered attendees closer to the event date.
Agenda
All sessions will now happen virtually via Zoom. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
9:00 – 9:20 am: Welcome & Introduction
Welcome, overview of goals of research day, brief explanation of how attendees can participate in discussions (e.g. through q&a platform).
9:20 – 10:20 am: Writing successful research grants
This panel will explore questions and tips on developing competitive research grant applications for programs such as CIHR.
Speakers: Flora To-Miles and Stefanie Novakowski from UBC Support Programs to Advance Research Capacity (SPARC)
10:20 – 10:40: DFP Research Office Resources
Speakers: Hiresh Gindwani, DFP Research Coordinator
10:40 – 11:10 am: Break + Poster Presentations
Done in virtual breakout rooms + across the smaller rooms in DHCC. This would be time for teams from the different labs and learners with research projects to present their posters in a more casual setting.
11:10 am – 12:30 pm: Involving learners in the research project lifecycle
Explore the ways faculty can engage learners in meaningful research through: PG scholar projects, FLEX Projects, Research Electives.
Speakers: Dr. Evelyn Cornelissen and Dr. Brian Ng (Postgraduate Scholarship and Clinician Scholar Program co-leads), Dr. Margaret Manville (Undergraduate Program Director), Dr. Hamideh Bayrampour (Associate Professor, Midwifery), Dr. Jude Kornelsen (Associate Professor, Centre for Rural Health Research), and Marienne El-Mikati (Student Research & Education Coordinator, FOM Office of Research)
12:30 pm – 12:45 pm: Closing
Poster Presentation
Structure:
- The poster presentation is virtual, we are organizing 2-3 zoom breakout rooms, each in a videoconferencing room in DHCC.
- Virtual participants can pick a breakout room to go to. In-person participants can go to the physical room where the poster will be shown on screen.
- There will be a moderator in each room to make sure the posters are on the screen. The moderator will also relay all questions – received via chat, call, and in-person – to the presenters.
- Depending on the total number of posters we receive, each room will be set up with 3 or 4 posters. This means each poster in the room to be displayed on the screen for 5 – 10 minutes, and folks can ask the presenters questions virtually.
- Poster will be available on this page for virtual viewing on the day of the event, and after.
Viewing times:
- During the event: 10:40 – 11:10 am PT
- After the event: posters can be viewed on this page.
Format:
- We are currently accepting posters in powerpoint and pdf formats.
- Feel free to use UBC’s E-Poster templates – ePoster – Horizontal /ePoster – Vertical.
Deadline:
- Please send us a virtual copy by Wednesday May 27th 2026 to dfp.research@ubc.ca