Internal Award Recipients 2022

Amplify

Aggie Weighill ($2000) - Leisure Matters VIU  

Shannon Dames  ($1633.78) - Amplifying Success through Media: Cultivating Connection and Security with Psychedelic-assisted therapy as an effective approach to supporting mental wellness.

Explore

• Marla Morden ($1999.90) - Using 360° Panorama and HMD Technology to Promote Ecological Validity and Experimental Control in Psychological Research
• Linda Neilson ($2000) - ABE ELL Pathways
• Heather Wiebe ($2000) - Conformational Changes in Lactate Dehydrogenase Under High Pressure
• Lindsay McCunn ($2000) - The Effects of Microgravity of Wayfinding, Sense of Place, and Environmental Familiarity in the International Space Station as Experienced in Virtual Reality

Engage

• Sheila Grieve ($2000) - Evaluating Outdoor Play in Early Learning and Care Programs; is There Need for an Assessment Tool?
• Linda Neilson ($2000) - ABE ELL Pathways

Gather

• Sally Vinden ($2982.50) - Plant Medicine: Supporting Growth and Well-being through Learning from Plants
• Andrew Loudon ($3000) - Seaweed Challenge, Applied Learning in Local Food Systems: Seaweed Product Development 
• Elizabeth Gillis ($2000) - North American Wildlife Technology Association Annual Meeting and Professional Development Conference

Innovate

• Eliza Gardiner ($5000) - The Inclusive Theatre Project

Inquiry

• Heather Wiebe ($5000) - Conformational Changes in Lactate Dehydrogenase Under High Pressure
• Maureen O'Connor ($5000) - Successful Integration of Perioperative Specialty Education for 4th Year BSN Program Students

Share

• Sheila Grieve ($1200) - Plant Medicine: Supporting Growth and Well-being through Learning from Plants
• L'abbe Sonnet ($1200) - Geopoetics Symposium
• Danielle Alphonse ($1200) - Strengthening Assessment of Spiritual Development in Indigenous Early Childhood Programs
• Cheryl Warsh ($1200) - Royal Society of Canada Celebration of Excellence and Engagement 
• Jodi Latremouille ($1200) - Grief-Writing: Navigating Individual and Collective Suffering Through and Ecological Curriculum. Conference Presentation for Hollyhock Geopoetics Symposium
• Brian Dick ($1200) - Developing a New Engineering Technologist Career Pathway from First Year Engineering

Amplify

• Alexandra Weissfloch ($1797) - Development of Chemical Hazards Educational Resources  
• Patricia Johnston ($2000) - Sharing Knowledge Between North and South: Setting the Foundation for Decolonizing Arctic Education in Canada 
• Shannon Dames  ($1633.78) - Amplifying Success through Media: Cultivating Connection and Security with Psychedelic-assisted therapy as an effective approach to supporting mental wellness.

Collaborate

• Joanne Schroeder ($2000) - World Leisure Centre of Excellence
• Robert Mahikwa ($2000) - VIU Research Institute for Indigenous Methodologies and Mentorship [RIMM] Gathering Community Insight, Consultation, and Establishing the Strategic Plan

Explore

• Shannon Dames ($2000) - Explore: A ‘Two-Eyed’ Approach to Mental Health Care: Responding to the Mental Health Crises with an Innovative Transcultural Treatment Option
• Alexandra Weissfloch ($1983) - Development of Chemical Hazards Educational Resources
• Elizabeth McLin ($1994) - Hiring People with Diversabilities & the Theory of Planned Behavior
• Andrew Loudon ($2000) - Microbial Ecology and Soil Health of Naturalized Meadows in Vancouver, BC

Engage

• Jeff Lewis ($2000) - Awareness of Climate Change Through Education and Research (ACER)
• Alexandra Weissfloch ($1890) - Development of Chemical Hazards Educational Resources
• Christine Quist ($2000) - Rhododendron Revival Research
• Paula Waatainen ($1951.30) - Designing an Assessment of Deliberative Dialogue with a Grade 12 teacher
• Patricia Johnston (2000) - Sharing Knowledge Between North and South: Setting the Foundation for Decolonizing Arctic Education in Canada
• Ken von Schilling ($2000) - Port Hardy Recreation - Robotics and Coding

Gather

• Aggie Weighill ($3000) - BC Protected Areas Research Forum
• Patricia Johnston ($3000) - Sharing Knowledge Between North and South: Setting the Foundation for Decolonizing Arctic Education in Canada

Inquiry

• Tim Stokes ($5000) - Karst Aquifer Modelling and Karst Spring Investigation, Port Alberni and Quadra Island, British Columbia
• Aggie Weighill ($3000) - BC Protected Areas Research Forum
• Jenn Houtby-Ferguson ($4850) - Tourism Disaster Communications: Framing Wildfire and Bushfire Risk
• Moghimehfar Farhad ($4984) - Crowding in BC Parks: The Experiences of People with Mobility-Related Disabilities

Innovate

• Caroline Josefsson ($5000) - Garry Oak Ecosystem Restoration on the VIU Nanaimo Campus
• Shannon Dames ($4980) - Innovate: A ‘Two-Eyed’ Approach to Mental Health Care: Responding to the Mental Health Crises with an Innovative Transcultural Treatment Option
• Alexandra Weissfloch ($4467) - Development of Chemical Hazard Educational Resources
• Elizabeth McLin ($4128.25) - Hiring People with Diversabilities & The Theory of Planned Behaviour
• Spencer Russell ($5000) - Gene cloning and gill expression of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) ATPase genes.
• Spencer Russell ($5000) - Field testing of a quantitative PCR assay for the detection of Tenacibaculum ovolyticum bacteria from Vancouver Island marine waters.

Share

• Heather Wiebe ($1200) - Molecular dynamics investigation of the interplay between volumetric and thermodynamic properties of pressure-resistant lactate dehydrogenase
• Heather Pastro ($1200) -Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Visual Imagery and Indigenous Children's Literature
• Sarah Crover ($1200) -The Cam as “Noble Parent”: Herbert’s Anthropocentrism Reconsidered
• Tim Stokes ($1200) - Preliminary Findings from Graphical Modelling of Two Karst Aquifers on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
• Jean Blackburn ($1200) - Situating Representations of Indigenous Knowledge in Place & Context: Recommendations for Vendors
• Lindsay McCunn ($1200) - Chairship Responsibilities at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association
• Patricia Geddes ($1200) - Situating Representations of Indigenous Knowledge in Place & Context: Recommendations for Vendors
• Elizabeth McLin ($1200) - The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program: VIU's Experience and Belonging
• Sylvie Lafreniere ($1200) - The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program at VIU
• Heather Pastro ($1200) - Looking at Young People's Indigenous Literature in the Classroom
• Heather Pastro ($1200) - British Columbia Art Teachers Association (BCATA) Annual Conference
• Marie Hopwood ($1200) - The Movement of Women, Beer, and Feast Foods in Establishing the Inka Empire
• Paula Waatainen ($1200) - Sharing Engage Grant and Dissertation Research at an International Conference
• Warren Heiti ($1200) - Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association Conference
• Sarah Carruthers ($1200) - Growing Accessible and Inclusive Systems Design Course with Plant UML
• Jamie Gorrell ($1200) - TSW 2022: Genetic Diversity of Vancouver Island Marmots

Publish

• Jamie Gorrell ($1000) - Genetic Management on the Brink of Extinction: sequencing microsatellites does not improve estimates of inbreeding in wild and captive Vancouver Island Marmots (Marmota vancouverensis)