Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity

Congratulations to the COVID Special Call Research Award Recipients!

A total of $40,782 was awarded to following for their projects:

• Michael Lait: Tracking the Social Impacts During the Covid-19 Crisis: Quality-of-Life and Housing Surveys of the Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo, and Powell River Regions
• Dana McFarland: Creating a Selective Web Archive of Central and North Vancouver Island Community Information during COVID-19
• Marian Riedel: Alternate Delivery in K-12 Schools: COVID-19 Experiences and Possibilities
• Marla Morden: The Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 on Canadian Adults, Including the Behaviour and Birth Outcomes of Pregnant Women
• Lauren Mayes: Provincial Corrections: Re-entry, Recidivism and Reincarceration During COVID
• Shannon Dames: A COVID-19 Response and Recovery Effort: Working Across Sectors to Aid Healthcare Providers Suffering from Mental Illness
• Alana Devereaux: Acute-Care RNs' Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Aggie Weighill: Leisure as a Mechanism for Coping with Stress Related to Public Health Interventions due to COVID-19.
• Gillian Anderson: The Burden of Care: Exploring the Gendered Impact(s) of COVID-19 on Mothers’ Caring Labour

Congratulations to the Provost’s 2020 Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity Award Recipients!

Early Career Research Excellence Award

• Dr. Jasmine Janes, Faculty of Science and Technology
• Dr. Lindsay McCunn, Faculty of Social Sciences
• Dr. Shannon Dames, Faculty of Health and Human Services.

Graduate Research Mentor Award

• Mary O’Neill, Faculty of Education

Undergraduate Research Mentor Award

• Dr. Linda Shea, Faculty of Health and Human Services

 Knowledge Mobilization Award

• Antje Bitterberg and Cheryl Cameron, Faculty of Health and Human Services

 Deans’ Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity Award

• Dr. Monica Soth, Faculty of Health and Human Services 
• Dr. Mark Williams, Faculty of Social Sciences

Congratulations VIURAC Explore, Inquire, Collaborate, Gather and Share Grant Award Recipients! 

A total of $55,658 was awarded to the following for their projects:

• Martin Angelstad: Exploring the Incorporation of Virtual Dissections and Digital Media in First Year Biology Lab Sessions
• Jasmine Janes: Making Raspberry Pi to Observe Pollinators in the NoIR and Shining A Light on the Night Life of Platanthera
• Laura Gover-Basar: Police Mothers: Toward an Inclusive Approach for Retaining and Promoting Policewomen
• Jeff Lewis: Awareness of Climate Change Through Education and Research (ACER) 2020 Symposium
• Gerri McEwen: Ocean Plate Stratigraphy in Southern Quesnellia: an Indicator of Subduction Polarity and Basin Extent in the Paleozoic
• Jamie Gorrell: Genetic Diversity of Jalisco Crocodiles
• Mercedes Hernandez: Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Nanaimo Area
• Alison Taplay: Centre for Collaboration, Innovation and Sustainable Community Development: Laying the Groundwork
• Cheryl Warsh and Katharine Rollwagen: Atomic Childhoods: The Cold War and Children's Popular Culture
• Heather Sanrud: Child & Youth Care National Conference Presentation
• Ravindra Mohabeer: PANEL: #CommunicationsSoWhite, Canadian Style: Working with and Through Race  and PAPER: Do/n’t Look me in the Eye; It shows Dis/Respect: Auto-Invisibility and Bifurcation as Coping Strategies in the Communication Classroom
• Janet McKeown: Carrying the Mental Load: Unpacking the Gendered Nature of Mental Labor in Families Through Leisure
• Allyson Fleming: Is an Ethos of Criticality Possible in Post Secondary Educational Administration?
• Tim Stokes: 16th Sinkhole Conference
• Albert Seinen: Freedom through Forgiveness
• Brian Dick: International Field School for First-Year Engineering Students
• Sarah Crover: Shakespeare Association of America Conference
• Fiona Meyers Cook: Resurgence! Making Space for Indigenous ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing
• Lindsay McCunn: Evaluating a Pop-up Resource Village: Making Connections with Sense of Place and Perceptions of Safety
• Paula Waatainen: Tipping Point: Designing an Urban Planning Game to Teach Democratic Deliberation Skills in Elementary Schools
• Suzanne de la Barre: Arctic Tourism in Times of Change: Urban and Overtourism
• Heather Pastro: The Path to Truth and Reconciliation Through Visual Imagery and Children's Literature
• Michael Govorov: Trivariate Kernel Density Estimation of Spatiotemporal Crime Events
• Sandra Johnstone: Engaging Multiple Ways of Knowing to Educate for Geo-Scientific Ethics
• Cynthea Masson: Alchemy and The Alchemists’ Council--Presentation at the Speculative Literature in Canada Conference