VIU Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity

Scholarship, Research & Creative Activity

VIU Research Latest News

news image

From hairstylist to university

Dr. Sally Vinden’s lifelong learning journeyDr. Sally Vinden is living proof that the places education can take you have no limits. Her career has taken many…

news image

Cybercrime’s hidden toll: How online scams impact mental health

VIU student seeking participants for a study on the effect of cybercrime on emotional well-being.  Watching a friend fall victim to a cybercrime scam…

news image

Using children’s picture books to teach about climate change

Expert commentary: Education Professor Dr. Wendy Simms shares her research In 2022, the United Nations said that climate change is the defining crisis of…

news image

VIU News & Experts: February 14, 2025

Canada-US relations experts 🇨🇦🇺🇸We know what is happening with our neighbour to the south is top of mind for everyone right now, and will be for quite…

Check out our latest E-News!

News, events, resources, funding opportunities and more! Have some related news that you'd like to share? Send to SRCA@viu.ca

Latest E-news

What's Happening

Archeologist Christine Roberts’, member of the Wei Wai Kum First Nation and graduate from VIU's Anthropology program, delves into the lives of her First Nations ancestors as a monitor of excavations during upgrades to Highway 19 along the east coast of Vancouver Island near Campbell River. The highway, constructed decades ago, runs through the heart of her nation’s traditional territory.
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)
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.