Grace Chen
2019/20 iSchool MLIS Co-op Student of the Year Excellence in the Workplace During her time as Library Technician at the Royal British Columbia Museum, Grace’s primary duty was to design and single-handedly manage the Archives Library Barcoding Project, a volunteer program that facilitated the barcoding of the museum’s collections, which carries over 100,000 titles. As […]
Elizabeth Cardoso Fernandes
2019/20 Honourable Mention iSchool MLIS Co-op Student of the Year Excellence in the Workplace As Co-op Student Librarian at UBC – Woodward Library, Elizabeth was a dedicated liaison librarian to the faculties of Forestry, Science and Land & Food systems. She also provided reference services to all 7 Faculties that Woodward Library supports. In addition […]
Utkarsh Sikka
2020 Undergraduate Arts Co-op Student of the Year Honourable Mention Excellence in the Workplace Utkarsh was the first Workday Learning Rover hired to work with the UBC Integrated Renewal Program (IRP) on Workday, an enterprise system for managing human resources, finance, and student administration. In this role, he was not only responsible for assisting with […]
Henry John
Background In early 2020, Henry—a UBC History PhD candidate and PhD Co-op student—began his first full-time paid work term with the Kaatza Station Museum and Archives in Lake Cowichican, Vancouver Island, on unceded Ditidaht, Ts’uubaa-asatx, and Quw’utsun territories. Posed with the initial task of archiving a 300-box collection of records from the International Woodworkers Association […]
Patrick van den Brink
BA: Major in Geography, Minor in Education Where did Patrick work? Work Term 1 (4 months): Community Relations Associate, BC Lions Football Club Work Term 2 (4 months): Co-op Student, BC Corporate Services for the Natural Resource Ministries Work Term 3 (8 months): Strategy and Engagement Student, Department of Fisheries and Oceans – Fish and […]
Pavlina Pajot
Background In Fall 2020, Pavlina—who was then a UBC English PhD candidate and PhD Co-op student—completed a paid work term with the UBC Knowledge Exchange (KX) Unit. In her role as a Training Development Assistant, she developed the foundations of a self-paced training module on using social media as a tool for the two-way exchange […]