Vanessa Kim
2020 Undergraduate Arts Co-op Student of the Year Excellence in the Workplace During her term as Community Worker at Dixon Transition Society, Vanessa worked alongside the Communications & Development Coordinator by conducting social media campaigns to raise awareness about domestic violence, developing the 2019/20 Annual Report, and soliciting donations from approximately 200 businesses for fundraising […]
Devon Hayley Farrell
2019/20 Honourable Mention iSchool MAS Co-op Student of the Year Excellence in the Workplace As Data and Document Management Intern at Cornerstone Planning Group, Devon’s main project was to create a corporate archive that could house the firm’s project files dating back to 1974. Among other tasks, this involved making recommendations for digitizing and deaccessioning […]
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 […]
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 […]