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Sep 19, 2025

Guest Lecture – Covering the Vancouver School Board: The Chimera of Municipal Politics

https://edst-educ.sites.olt.ubc.ca/?p=30381 Guest Lecture – Covering the Vancouver School Board: The Chimera of Municipal Politics

 

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New Special Issue: “Living a life that feels just right”

Details: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/aln

 

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Sep 18, 2025

Congrats to Jafar Iqbal for his selection as PSI Scholar

 

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Nasim Peikazadi – Successful PhD Dissertation

Please join us in congratulating Nasim Peikazadi who successfully defended her PhD Dissertation on September 12 of 2025. Title: IDENTITY AND POWER: IRANIAN WOMEN’S NEGOTIATIONS OF BELONGING IN A TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXT Lay Summary This study explores the perceptions of identity and belonging of first-generation Iranian women in British Columbia, Canada. It particularly focuses on the […]

 

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Sep 15, 2025

Critical Voices Issue #1, The Krisis of Educational Policy

Note from the Editor in Chief, Dana Goedbloed We have finally launched the first issue of Critical Voices and are thrilled with the response from so many of our alumni. The editorial board, consisting of Natalia Bussard, Kathy Siedlaczek, John Fleming, and Marilynne Waithman have spent many hours with me in establishing the presence on […]

 

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Sep 05, 2025

Writing Support Sessions

The purpose of these zoom workshops is to support students on their dissertation journey who are at various stages including: refining research questions, developing proposals, preparing chapters, reading relevant material, and revising based on feedback. We begin with a check-in, followed by 3-4 blocks of time of 30 to 40 mins each (audio and video […]

 

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Sep 04, 2025

Congrats to Mahfida Tahniat for her selection as a Climate Solutions Scholar

Learn more: https://climatesolutions.ubc.ca/solutions-scholars-program/meet-solutions-scholars https://climatesolutions.ubc.ca/profiles/mahfida-tahniat

 

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Sep 02, 2025

Head’s statement for the academic year 2025-26

“The homeland will be when all of us will be strangers”  — from a poem by Francesco Nappo (translated from the Italian)* Dear EDST Members, students, staff, and faculty: Greetings and hope the long weekend has been restful and re-invigorating. Today, Monday, September 2nd, 2025, we embark on a new academic year, 2025-2026. Welcome to […]

 

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The Education of Mestizaje: A Folk Phenomenology

Recording Event SMAP’s Summer Virtual Speaker Series comes to an end on August 28th with a talk by Sam Rocha. Dr. Rocha is a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia specializing in philosophy of education. You can find the details for his talk below and on the flyer attached. Everyone is welcome to […]

 

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Aug 29, 2025

Inaugural Lecture – Dr. chuutsqa Rorick

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/inaugural-lecture-dr-chuutsqa-rorick/

 

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