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Check out VIU's Research Highlights Report 19/20

SRCA's annual Research Highlights Report in online magazine style report that includes news articles written throughout the year by VIU Communications, research stats and more. Click on the image or link to it here. Because research matters at VIU!

Announcing the ‘Zoom into Lunch & Learn‘ 2021 Line-Up!

The ‘Zoom into Lunch & Learn’ series provides presenters and attendees with opportunities to share, learn, and discuss their insights, research, and ideas. Held on the following Tuesdays from 12 to 12:45pm. Thanks to the following for sharing their learnings with us in 2021!

Cancelled - to be re-scheduled: Tuesday January 19th - Geraldine Manson: Traditional Foods and Medicinal Plants Project
Tuesday January 26th: Aggie Weighill: Research on Leisure as a coping mechanism for COVID related stress.
Tuesday February 9th: Jeanette Schmidt and Holly Bradley: The impact of COVID-19 on social service delivery in the Nanaimo region
Tuesday February 23rd - Ann Rogers: 'Canadian Anti-terrorism Study’
Tuesday March 16th - Dr. Christian Lange: 'Applied Phylogeography - Searching for the origins of Ebolaviruses'
Tuesday April 20th - Piera Jung, Kelly Zhang, Marti Harder: ‘What Matters Most 2.0: Views of Older Adults with Chinese Descent’

Announcing 'VIU CARES: Collaborative, Applied Research & Engagement Symposium, Thursday Feb. 18th

Join this 'Zoom Symposium' on Thursday Feb. 18th between 9am and 3pm, to learn from researchers, students and community members about their involvement in a variety of community based research projects funded through the VIU Regional Initiatives Fund. Schedule t.b.a.

Scholarly Activity Data-base Report 19/20 T.B.A.

Because of a 'data-base glitch' a number of faculty entries were missing from the annual data-base report that we published in October. We are working on round two, to be published in the New Year. We are also looking at new tools to streamline this process in the future.

What's Happening

How a Human Cousin Adapted to a Changing Climate

On Father’s Day in June 2018, Samantha Good, an undergraduate student studying anthropology at VIU, was participating in a field school that was working on an excavation in the Drimolen cave in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind. She uncovered what appeared to be a canine tooth jutting out from the loose brown sediment. Ms. Good kept digging until she found two more teeth and a partial palate, and then alerted her instructors. (Article published in the NY Times on Nov. 9th)

VIU Professor Appointed to Reference Group for Review of Indigenous Research

Dr. Georgina Martin is the only BC representative to be elected to the Tri-agency reference group, a national group responsible for providing direction on building mutually respectful relationships between Indigenous communities and researchers.

Fires are Just the 'Tip of the Ice-berg' of Climate Change Impacts on Forests

Bill Beese, VIU Forestry Professor and Forest Ecologist, shares his insights on 'forest management' as wildfires continue to rage across parts of Western Canada and the United States.