2025 Patricia Dyer Memorial Award
PhD student Yu Guo was awarded the 2025 Patricia Dyer Memorial Award. About the award: In memory of Patricia Dyer, the Patricia Dyer Memorial Award in Education award was endowed by her family, friends, and colleagues. The award is offered to a graduate student in Educational Studies who demonstrates enthusiasm for ideas and commitment to […]
2025 Buttedahl Memorial Lecture
2025 Buttedahl Memorial Lecture What Kind of University Do We Want?: In Defense of University-Community Engagement Date: Wednesday April 30, 2025 2-4pm Location: Ponderosa Ballroom RSVP: https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/2025-buttedahl-memorial-lecture
Morgan Westcott’s Successful EdD Dissertation
Please join us in congratulating Morgan Westcott who successfully defended her EdD Dissertation on March 21 of 2025. Title:Polytechnic Instructors as First Responders to Student Crises: Centring Faculty Voices Abstract:The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify and describe the ways some instructors experience encounters with students in distress, to better support instructors, centre their […]
Jason Ellis’s Chapter of ETFO’s report Promises Unfulfilled: Addressing the Special Education Crisis in Ontario
Learn more: https://www.etfo.ca/news-publications/publications/promisesunfulfilled_addressingthespecialeducationcrisisontario
Facing the climate crisis with critical hope: Preparing students for an uncertain future
No registration required. See you on Friday in Ponderosa Oak House 2012! Synopsis: Young people today are experiencing an overwhelming sense of eco-anxiety, climate grief, and a loss of hope as they grapple with the harsh realities of a changing planet. The latest IPCC report (2023) gave the world just a few years to limit warming […]
Congratulations to David Warkentin on successfully defending his EdD Dissertation
Please join us in congratulating David Warkentin who successfully defended his EdD Dissertation on March 10 of 2025. Title:Unsettling Education in Stó:Lō Téméxw: Exploring the Particularities of Place in Curriculum Research Abstract:The role of place in education is complex and multifaceted; place is both a topic of inquiry and a context for education. Yet many Western […]
Climate Justice and the University
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/climate-justice-and-the-university-shaping-a-hopeful-future-for-all/