NPAW 2025: Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows - Fall 2025

This event is part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Click here to view all events in celebration of NPAW 2025.

The PDFO’s tri-annual Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows is designed to welcome new postdocs to UBC, introduce them to key aspects of the University, and provide opportunities to connect with fellow postdocs and various campus units.

This informative session will cover essential academic and campus-related topics to help postdocs and their families make the most of your postdoctoral experience at UBC. Presentations will be given by representatives from Health, Wellbeing and Benefits, Payroll, the Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation, the Postdoctoral Fellows Office (PDFO), and the UBC Postdoctoral Association.

New postdocs, as well as those who have not previously attended an orientation, are encouraged to attend.

The session will begin with an information fair and networking opportunity starting at 8:30 AM, and will conclude with a networking lunch from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM.

Registration

Registration in this session is required and is now open. 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, medical condition, or other accessibility require that may affect your full participation in the event, please email postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca in advance of the event.

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; and
• Actively participating in the session.