PDFO receives recognition in Canada's Top Employers for Young People 2023

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For the eleventh consecutive year, UBC has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People in 2023. This special designation recognizes employers that offer the nation’s best workplaces and programs for young people starting their careers.

The Postdoctoral Fellows Office (PDFO) is proud to have received special acknowledgement for the tenth consecutive year for the support, advocacy, and professional development opportunities they provide to UBC’s postdoctoral community. In addition to the flagship Foundations of Career Planning Program and Postdoctoral Fellows Teaching Internship, the PDFO introduced in 2021 a six-week Summer Institute in Project Management designed to provide foundational knowledge in project management.

This year, the PDFO received additional acknowledgement for the Postdoctoral Fellows Teaching Internship (PDTI), a teaching development program to provide postdocs with an opportunity to develop and delivery guest lectures with a faculty mentor. The PDTI was recently highlighted in University Affairs Magazine as one of the few postdoc teaching programs in Canada.

The PDFO continues to develop new programming for UBC’s postdoc community. In addition to its formal programs and initiatives, the PDFO offers many other free professional development workshops on a wide range of topics covering academic growth; career building; leadership; personal development; and equity, diversity and inclusion, as well as information sessions and three annual orientation sessions each year for new postdocs.  

For more information, read the full UBC announcement.