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Raising research priorities for the benefit of the community, university, and faculty

Raising research priorities for the benefit of the community, university, and faculty

By Patty Wellborn on March 3, 2016

There is a growing awareness that we need to challenge the ways the universities engage with communities and the way that we think about the boundaries between knowledge production and community engagement.

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Lawrence Berg was instrumental in launching ACME – An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies which is now celebrating its 10th year online.

UBC website a focal point for critical writing, intellectual discourse

By Darren Handschuh on January 24, 2012

E-journal founded a decade ago grows from risky venture to global success

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UBC hosts experts on Nordic post-welfare states for April 11 public workshop

By Bud Mortenson on March 21, 2011

The campus community and the public are invited to participate in a day of discussion at UBC’s Okanagan campus about neoliberalism and post-welfare Nordic states.

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UBC focuses on cultural safety in local healthcare

By Jody Jacob on June 30, 2010

UBC researchers have partnered with members of local healthcare organizations on a research initiative that aims to strengthen cultural safety and effect organizational change for aboriginal healthcare in the Okanagan Valley.

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UBC students create fire mapping social network for Okanagan

UBC students create fire mapping social network for Okanagan

By Jody Jacob on May 3, 2010

If you live in the Okanagan Valley chances are good you have been affected by a forest fire in some way.

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UBC Okanagan researcher of the year honours shared by Evans and Murch

By Bud Mortenson on March 16, 2010

Social science researcher Michael Evans and biochemistry researcher Susan Murch have been honoured as co-recipients of the 2009-2010 UBC Okanagan Researcher of the Year award.

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UBC study: Aboriginal people feel excluded from mainstream health and social services in Okanagan

UBC study: Aboriginal people feel excluded from mainstream health and social services in Okanagan

By Bud Mortenson on March 10, 2009

A new study by UBC Okanagan researchers partnering with local Aboriginal Friendship Centres has investigated the relationship between the urban Aboriginal population in the Okanagan Valley and the region's mainstream social service and healthcare delivery systems.

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