Coolie Verner Prize – Natalia Bussard
Coolie Verner Prize: Made in honour of UBC’s first Professor in the Department of Adult Education (from 1961 to 1977), and awarded annually to a graduate student in EDST for research potential and/or impact in the field of adult education. Natalia Bussard is the successful recipient of this year’s Coolie Verner Prize. Natalia’s EdD dissertation research examined the transformative learning of adults who have learned and who use multiple languages (pluringuals). In this creative narrative analysis, which melds narrative inquiry and reflexive thematic analysis, Natalia brings together transformative learning theory and sociocultural theory in exploring the stories and experiences of plurilingual […]
Jun 10, 2025
Gordon Selman Award – Jiin Yoo
Gordon Selman Award: Made in honour of adult education scholar and UBC professor (at UBC between 1964-1992), and awarded annually to a graduate student in EDST for their contributions to understanding the diverse forms and locations of adult learning and education in Canada and its contributions to society. Jiin Yoo is the successful recipient of this year’s Gordon Selman Award. Jiin’s PhD dissertation research explores immigrant parents’ learning experiences in supporting their children’s education in Canada, an underexamined yet crucial area within ALE scholarship. Using critical ethnography and sociocultural learning theories, she examines how immigrant parents navigate systemic barriers and construct […]
Jun 03, 2025
Dr. Rob VanWynsberghe featured in the ReachOut magazine
May 30, 2025
Gail Markin’s EdD Dissertation Defense
Please join us in congratulating Gail Markin who successfully defended her EdD Dissertation on May 26 of 2025. Title: Principal and Vice Principal Psychological Safety in British Columbia: An Institutional Ethnography Abstract: Institutional practices and social relations are impacting the psychological safety of principals and vice principals in British Columbia (BC). Psychological safety is the belief that the environment is safe for people to share their perspectives or to ask questions without fear of being rejected, shamed, or punished in some way for doing so. Despite communication with district leaders being essential to driving school change, BC principals and vice principals […]
May 20, 2025
Mary DeMarinis – EdD Dissertation
Please join us in congratulating Mary DeMarinis who successfully defended her EdD Dissertation on May 13 of 2025. Title: Using Institutional Ethnography to Explicate the Story of Student Affairs Professionals Doing the Work of Supporting Students with Disabilities Abstract: This study explores the practices of student affairs professionals as they do the work of accommodating students with disabilities within one BC post-secondary institution. It examines the widely used accommodation model that is based on the idea that disability is a medical condition that needs to be remediated. The very model that is intended to assist students with disabilities access higher education acts […]
World Refugee Day Symposium—Afghan Women: Resisting, Redefining, and Reclaiming
May 14, 2025
Writing Sessions 2025
Contact: Dr. Shauna Butterwick shauna.butterwick@ubc.ca
May 12, 2025
Dr. Liana Appelt – the Faculty of Education Sessional & Lecturer Teaching Award
May 11, 2025
EDST GAA Presents: Mindfulness with Mahfida – Guided Meditation
https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/edst-gaa-presents-mindfulness-with-mahfida-guided-meditation/
May 10, 2025
Educational Administration and Leadership public presentations 2025
Dear EDST Community, You are invited to join us for the upcoming Educational Administration and Leadership (EDAL) public presentations of the culminating Master’s research papers. This work is a collaboration of the UBC-VSB-Richmond School District Cohort focused on the theme: Inquiry, capacity building and leadership for Indigeneity, equity and inclusion. As part of EDAL program’s on-going efforts to engage in meaningful connections with school communities, many of the final EDAL M.Ed. public presentations are held in various Lower Mainland schools and school districts as a way to mobilize knowledge and activism beyond the university. These presentations will include scholars and practitioners […]