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New CWA Course Available: Accessible Interviewing & Accommodations

The Centre for Workplace Accessibility’s new course Accessible Interviewing & Accommodations provides guidance to hiring managers and others involved in recruitment on making interviews more accessible, and creating a welcoming, inclusive environment where all job candidates can showcase their strengths and skills.

Walking the path of reconciliation together

Walking the path of reconciliation together

UBC Medicine and the Australian National University sign historic agreement to collaborate on efforts to help improve the health and wellness of Indigenous populations.

Derek K. Thompson – Thlaapkiituup, Director of Indigenous Engagement

Centering Indigenous voices in the culture of medicine

How the Indigenous Speaker Series is helping to transform culture inside the Faculty of Medicine — and beyond.

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Pride

Learn and celebrate with us during this Pride season.

Are you REDI’s next Executive Director? Champion equitable learning & working environments across the Faculty of Medicine. deadline: May 30th, 2024

Executive Director Role Open: Champion Equity in Transforming Health for All

The Faculty of Medicine’s Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion is hiring an Executive Director. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of healthcare education and practice. The deadline to apply is midnight on May 30th, 2024.

Farewell Roslyn Goldner

Farewell Roslyn Goldner, Executive Director of the REDI Office 

As we bid farewell to Roslyn Goldner, who recently stepped down as the Executive Director of the Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (REDI), we pause to acknowledge the tremendous impact and indelible mark she has left on the Faculty of Medicine and the broader UBC community.

Former seed2STEM participant Dean Harris (far right) with colleagues from ICORD’s Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Group. Credit: Martin Dee/ICORD.

Strengthening STEM pathways for Indigenous youth

A look back at the early impacts of seed2STEM, an innovative UBC summer research program for Indigenous youth in B.C.

REDI is Here to Help over the Holidays Season

REDI is Here to Help over the Holidays Season

As the holiday season approaches and things begin to unwind, the REDI team is here to offer support in thinking through EDI challenges in your role. Chat with us about embedding EDI into roles, practices, and policies or actioning change to support equity, decolonization, and inclusion in your unit. Submit a request for a 1:1 consultation today!

Welcome Harpreet Ahuja and Madison Tardif

Welcome Harpreet Ahuja and Madison Tardif

Meet Harpreet Ahuja and Madison Tardif, REDI’s new Equity Advisors.

Thank You Message: We Welcome the Children Back Home

Thank You Message: We Welcome the Children Back Home

On Wednesday, September 20th 2023, we were honored to welcome an esteemed panel of Survivors of the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada. We are absolutely honored and grateful for their courage, wisdom and generosity of heart and soul. Read our Thank You Message.