VIU Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity

VIURAC Internal Award Recipients

These lists reflect VIURAC funding administered and awarded through the Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity Office.

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)