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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. Seven experts from four universities in Iceland, Sweden and Denmark are visiting on April 11 for a workshop from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Arts building ART 218. […]

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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

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. Now people's personal accounts can be shared on a brand-new social media website that features documentation and mapping of every forest fire in the Okanagan Valley over the last 25 years. Created by two […]

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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. "I am proud to say that we could not pick only one recipient for the award -- the committee chose two very deserving co-recipients to share the award," noted UBC […]

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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. Results of the project indicate that Aboriginal People feel excluded from mainstream services. "Previous research from other communities suggests […]

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