Rights for Students at Work Podcast
See podcast of the session on “Rights for Students at Work” on our blogsite. This session was prompted by findings from our Hard Working Student study about the challenges faced by many working students at UBC. The Hard Working Study team includes EDST Faculty members, Alison Taylor and Hongxia Shan. Link: https://blogs.ubc.ca/hardwork/category/resources/
New Book – Posthumanist and New Materialist Methodologies
EDST’s Claudia Diaz and Paulina Semenec published their new book, Posthumanist and New Materialist Methodologies: Research After the Child published by Springer Details: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811527074 This book features interviews with 19 scholars who do research with children in a variety of contexts. It examines how these key scholars address research ‘after the child’ by exploring the […]
Congratulations on Learning Transformed Fund
For more details, visit: https://educ.ubc.ca/learningtransformedfunding/
Congratulations Dr. Michelle Stack on the Visiting Research Fellowship
Michelle Stack is awarded Visiting Research Fellowship at the ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, at the University of Bremen, Germany. She will be developing a social network and critical discourse analysis concerning the role of celebrity academics in both undermining and protecting academic freedom. Her research at ZeMKI will build on a […]
Congrats on the 2020 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)
Congratulations on the 2020 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)! Dr. Bathseba Opini, EDST. Co-applicants: Dr. Hartej Gill, Dr. Jason Ellis, Dr. Annette Henry, Dr. Michelle Stack, Dr. Andre Mazawi, John Yamamoto, Rod Brown, Dr. Shaya Golparian, Dr. Daniel Shiu, Meena Uppal, Ashley House, Dr. Vince White, Dr. Marianne McTavish, Mary Kostandy, Alison St. Pierre, […]
New Publication – The Rise and Fall of Adult Literacy: Policy Lessons from Canada – Dr. Jude Walker
The Rise and Fall of Adult Literacy: Policy Lessons from Canada, co-written by EDST’s Dr. Jude Walker, has been published in The European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (RELA) Link: https://www.rela.ep.liu.se/contents.asp?doi=10.3384/rela.2000-7426.2020111
Dr. Mona Gleason – Killam Faculty Research Prize in the Arts and Humanities, Senior Scholar Category
Congratulations to Dr. Mona Gleason, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, on the UBC Killam Faculty Research Prize in the Arts and Humanities, Senior Scholar Category Established in 1986, the UBC Killam Faculty Research Prize is awarded in recognition of distinguished research and scholarly contributions of international significance. Up to ten prizes are awarded annually to full-time […]
Dr. Vanessa Andreotti – Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, Junior Scholar Category
Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Educational Studies, on the UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, Junior Scholar Category Ten UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowships are provided annually from the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fund for Advanced Studies established through a bequest from the late Dorothy J. Killam. These awards assist promising faculty members […]
New Report – Hard Working Students, Report of 2018 and 2019 Survey Findings
Hard Working Students, Report of 2018 and 2019 Survey Findings, co-authored by Alison Taylor, Milosh Raykov and Robert Sweet has been published in cIRcle UBC cIRcle Link It’s a mixed methods study of undergraduate students’ term-time work experiences at two universities. Our report focuses on presenting our quantitative findings at UBC.
MA Student Daniel Jordan on CTV
Daniel Jordan, Director Of Sunshine Coast Mental Health and M.A. Student of EDST, was a guest on CTV Morning Live’s “Starting the Conversation about Mental Health” Link: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1885892 Supervisor: Dr. Jude Walker