Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows - Summer 2024

UBC's Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows will cover a range of important campus and academic information and advice geared to help you and your families obtain the most from your Postdoc experience at UBC.

Orientation is open to all new PDFs and existing PDFs who have not yet attended a PDF Orientation.

This session will begin with an info fair and networking from 8:30 AM, with presentations beginning at 9:00 AM, and will end with a networking lunch from 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM.

More details can be found on the Orientation section of the PDFO website.

Registration

Registration in this session is required, please email postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca to register. Those successfully registered will receive a registration confirmation within one week of the session date.

NO-SHOW PENALTY: If you register and do not attend or cancel after 3pm on the day before the event, it may affect your eligibility to join future events. To avoid this no-show penalty, please cancel by at least 3pm the day before the event by e-mailing postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca.

Accessibility

If you have a disability or medical condition that may affect your full participation in the event, please email postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca in advance of the event.

This session will be held in-person at the Ponderosa Commons Ballroom. The Ballroom is located on the bottom floor of Ponderosa Commons, and is accessible via staircase and by elevator.

PDFO EVENT COMMUNITY AGREEMENT

The PDFO has created a community agreement for our events in order to foster an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment in which all event attendees feel safe and supported.

By participating in a PDFO event, we commit ourselves to:

• Treating one another with kindness, courtesy and respect in all interactions;
• Engaging in gracious, active listening and valuing others’ opinions;
• Not dominating discussions so that others can share during the session;
• Ensuring that any potentially confidential or sensitive information shared as part of the session is not shared outside of the session;
• Actively participating in the session; and
• In online sessions, when possible and if comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.

• if comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.