Dr. Jason Ellis – CAFE Best Book Award
Congratulations Dr. Ellis on receiving the CAFE Publication Award for Single or Dual-Authored Book, 2017-2019! From the CAFE Publication Award Committee citation: “The CAFE Publications Award Committee unanimously recommended Dr. Jason Ellis’ single-authored book published in 2019 A Class By Themselves? The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond for this prestigious publication award. In […]
New Guest Blog – Not even a sack of potatoes
Guest Post on the University of the Fraser Valley President’s blog: Shirley Swelchalot Hardman, Senior Advisor on Indigenous Affairs And EDST PhD student “Not even a sack of potatoes”. By Shirley Swelchalot Hardman https://blogs.ufv.ca/president/guest-post-shirley-swelchalot-hardman-senior-advisor-on-indigenous-affairs/
Jun 18, 2020
Erasmus International Credit Mobility from the EU
Dr. Gerald Fallon (UBC) and Dr. Eve Eisenschmidt (University of Talinn in Estonia) were successful in obtaining an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility from the European Union to support the first phase of a collaboration between the two universities over a period of three years in the field of educational leadership and administration. The focus of […]
Jun 15, 2020
New Publication: The (De)Colonial Pedagogical Possibilities of Films and Film Festival
The (De)Colonial Pedagogical Possibilities of Films and Film Festivals has been published in Postcolonial Directions in Education (PDE), issues 8.2 (2019) and 9.1 (2020), accessible at the Open Access Repository (OAR) of the University of Malta at <https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19316>.
Jun 10, 2020
Blog – We Must Tackle and Dismantle Systemic Racism and White Supremacy
We Must Tackle and Dismantle Systemic Racism and White Supremacy, written by Dr. Bathseba Opini, has been published on The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Link: http://www.ideas-idees.ca/blog/we-must-tackle-and-dismantle-systemic-racism-and-white-supremacy
Jun 05, 2020
CHA Journal Prize
The winner of the CHA Journal Prize is Jason Ellis, for “Public School Taxes and the Remaking of Suburban Space and History: Etobicoke, 1945–1954.” This article argues that school taxes were a significant policy tool for municipal officials and Etobicoke residents in their remaking of suburban space. Adding to the growing literature on the significance […]
Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Program award recipients
Congrats to our Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Program award recipients, Vanessa Lawrence and Emily Van Halem. Well done, Vanessa and Emily!
Congratulations to Shirley Hardman – SSHRCC Doctoral Fellowship
Jun 04, 2020
Congratulations Rabia Mir for the Douglas Ray Award
Congratulations to Rabia Mir (EDST MA, 2019) for winning the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC/SCECI) Douglas Ray Award for Best Graduate Paper. The title of Rabia’s paper is “Migrations, Transformations, and Getting to Home: A Theoretical and Personal Reflection.” The award gives “recognition to outstanding research in the field of comparative and […]
May 19, 2020
2020 AMS Great Trekker Award
Congratulations to Dr. Jo-ann Archibald on winning the 2020 AMS Great Trekker Award! The Great Trekker Award is presented each year to an alumnus or alumnae who has made unique contributions to the UBC and wider community. It was first established in 1950 to commemorate the Great Trek of October 28, 1922, when UBC students […]