Dr. Handel Wright on CBC News
Prof. Handel Wright says Canada has a long way to go addressing racism after anti-racism adviser says she lost her federal job for criticizing Trudeau’s blackface. News Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-woman-quit-anti-racism-job-1.5396287
Dec 03, 2019
Dr Jason Ellis in an interview
Dr. Jason Ellis interviewed about his book A Class by Themselves? The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond for the Disability History Association’s podcast. The link to the podcast: http://dishist.org/?page_id=735
Nov 29, 2019
Congrats Dr. Vanessa Andreotti
Dr. Vanessa Andreotti was inducted into the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, in Ottawa on November 22, 2019. Congratulations on this achievement, Vanessa!
Nov 27, 2019
Congrats to Fall 2019 Graduates
Nov 26, 2019
Dr. Lesley Andres is featured on the BCCAT website
Dr. Lesley Andres is featured on the BC Council on Admissions and Transfers website this month for her longstanding scholarly contributions to the BCCAT. Well done Lesley! See her profile here: https://www.bccat.ca/pubs/ANDRES_Friend_of_BCCAT.pdf
Nov 19, 2019
New Book: Towards Scarring our Collective Soul Wound by Cash Ahenakew
Cash Ahenakew has published a new book with the Musagetes Organization, Canada: “Towards Scarring our Collective Soul Wound (2019), by Cash Ahenakew with a foreword by Elwood Jimmy, Vanessa Andreotti, and Sharon Stein, continues the work of the book Towards Braiding and speaks to how different sensibilities relate to pain. Using the Sun Dance ceremony to center […]
Congrats Dr. Sharon Stein – Hampton Fund
Congratulations to EDST’s Dr. Sharon Stein for having received 2019 UBC Hampton Fund New Faculty Grant. This grant seeks to help Assistant Professors in the early stages of their careers to establish a research record and become a stronger candidates for future external funding possibilities.
Nov 06, 2019
Congrats Dr. Stack on being appointed a Peter Wall Scholar
Congratulations Dr. Michelle Stack on being appointed a Peter Wall Scholar for 2020-2021. From the Wall Scholars announcement page: “As a Wall Scholar, Prof. Stack hopes to expand conversations around a networked approach of academics, activists, educators, and students to uncover the values and beliefs behind rankings, while offering space for the development of approaches […]
Nov 04, 2019
Congrats Roselynn Verwoord ISSOTL
Congratulations on Roselynn Verwoord’s (Educational Studies) recent success on being awarded an inaugural fellowship of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). This award was presented earlier in Atlanta, Georgia, at their annual conference. Roselynn represents UBC and Canada internationally with 8 other Fellows from the UK, Canada, China, Singapore and […]
Nov 01, 2019
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