Admissions

To be completed | This includes personal information about you and your degree program, and a brief (150-word) summary of your research interests.

To be uploaded with advisor’s signature (pdf) | This form confirms that your advisor is aware of your application to the certificate program and agrees (recognizing the additional work you may be taking on). Download the form here, consult your primary advisor or graduate program director, obtain their signature, and upload the signed form with your application. (Only one signature is required if you have multiple advisors.) Physical or e-signatures are acceptable.

To be uploaded (pdf, doc, docx, jpg, png) | Include unofficial copies of all transcripts that you submitted for your UBC graduate degree application AND transcripts from your current UBC graduate academic record, if degree is in-progress. Screenshots are allowed; official transcripts are not required.

To be uploaded (pdf, doc, docx, jpg) | Submit a CV or resume to showcase other relevant background or accomplishments (e.g., prior degree(s) or recognitions, relevant publications/exhibits/conference presentations, work/life experience, etc.).

To be uploaded (pdf, doc, docx, jpg), 500-words total | The Graduate Certificate program seeks to provide students with multi- and interdisciplinary training in migration and mobilities research, and to foster an inclusive, engaged, and interdisciplinary academic community that shares a sense of belonging irrespective of whether students are pursuing academic or other professional pathways. This 2-part statement of interest is your opportunity to demonstrate how you may benefit from, and contribute to, this year’s cohort and the certificate program. The statement is assessed for content and quality and clarity of writing, but it is not meant to be scholarly; we encourage a personalized approach. Your voice and experiences are welcome.

• Part 1 (300 words): Please submit a 300-word statement that speaks to your interest in migration as a field of research or work. Be sure to address the following questions to the extent they are relevant to you:
  • why being in this program will help advance your future research and/or professional aspirations; 
  • what academic and/or professional strengths you have and how they will help you on this path;
  • what experiences you’ve had (personal or professional, formal or informal) that inform your connection to, or interest in, migration research.

• Part 2 (200 words): This program will challenge students to stretch and learn together in new ways. Please submit a 200-word statement that speaks to the contributions you could bring to this cohort and the ways you hope to grow in the cohort. In your statement, you might address aspects including but not limited to:
  • your discipline, methods, methodologies, geographies/peoples; 
  • your own positionality; 
  • your openness to and/or experience with listening, learning, and sharing across methodologies, theoretical orientations, topics, and lived experiences. 

CMS is committed to creating a place of equity, inclusivity, and anti-racism, recognizing that we are individually and institutionally embedded in contexts of structural inequality and have much to (un)learn and practice. In line with the goals of Structural Change outlined in the UBC Strategic Equity and Anti-Racism (StEAR) Framework and Roadmap (see objectives 1.2 and 1.3), we include an optional, anonymous survey about applicants’ demographic information to facilitate longitudinal analysis of who applies to and who is accepted in the program.