These lists reflect VIURAC funding administered and awarded through the Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity Office.
Explore
- Melissa Huggan ($2,000.00) - The Localization Throttling Number of Graphs
Gather
- Jeff Lewis ($3,000.00) - Awareness of Climate change through Education and Research (ACER) 2024/2025 Climate Change Symposium and School/Community Presentations
- Geraldine Manson ($3,000.00) - Traditional Plant Workshop
- Mark Williams ($3,000.00) - VIU Model United Nations Conference, 2024
Innovate
- Nadine Cruickshanks ($5,000.00) - Bunyonyi Food Forest Foundation
- Jimena Garcia ($5,400.00) - Development of Indigenous Cultural Safety Leadership Training for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
- Geraldine Manson ($5,000.00) - Medicine Bundles: Plants for Medicine, Nourishment, & Textiles
Inquiry
- Peter Briscoe ($4,245.00) - Investigating the effects of the changing demographics of winery visitors on the on-site wine sales distribution channels for small and medium-sized wineries.
- Becky Earhart ($7,000.00) - Factors Influencing Destination Memory in Children and Adults
- Jasmine Janes ($6,500.00) - Conservation of the endangered bog bird’s foot trefoil (Hosackia pinnata)
- Luis Meneses ($6,668.35) - Preservation of Open, Collaborative Scholarship in Digital Online Projects in the Arts & Humanities
- Tim Stokes ($6,910.00) - Towards A Framework For The Analysis And Investigation Of Karst Springs, Aquifers And Catchments On Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Jacobus Swarts ($6,446.07) - Kings in Directed Graphs: A Computational Study
- Heather Wiebe ($7,000.00) - Design of pressure-driven molecular wires and rotors
Share
- Gemma Armstrong ($300.00) - BC Post-Secondary Counsellors Association Annual Conference. Presentation: Journey to the Heart of Nature: Post-Secondary Counselling Inside-Out
- Shelby Bell ($1,000.00) - Presentation at Brock's Two Days of Canada Conference
- Anwen Burk ($860.00) - Conference Presentation: Navigating the Shifting Terrain of Online Education
- Sarah Carruthers ($1,200.00) - On a Path to Indigenization and Decolonization of Computer Science Teaching
- Sarah Carruthers ($1,200.00) - On Incorporating Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Computer Science Teaching as a non-Indigenous Educator
- Brian Dick ($1,200.00) - "Developing and Implementing a Comprehensive Survey Tool to Understand Persistence in Engineering Education
- Kyle Duncan ($1,200.00) - Lithium doped nanospray desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging for enhanced metabolite coverage
- Becky Earhart ($1,200.00) - Children’s Source and Destination Memory for Personal vs General Information
- Jessica Gemella ($1,200.00) - Stockholm International Conference of Research in Vocational Education and Training
- Sheila Grieve ($750.00) - Weaving Together in the Health and Wellbeing of Children with the Health and Wellbeing of Land
- David Hopwood ($1,200.00) - Life Within Death: Contextualizing Burial Practice at Kenan Tepe, Turkey from the Ubaid Period to the Late Chalcolithic Period
- Marie Hopwood ($1,200.00) - Why Bappir Matters: Using Experimental Archaeology of Beer in the Classroom
- Jenn Houtby-Ferguson ($1,200.00) - 2024 American Association of Geographers Conference Presentation
- Melissa Huggan ($1,200.00) - Cops and Attacking Robbers with Cycle Constraints
- Sylvie Lafreniere ($1,200.00) - Table ronde: Les défis des chercheurs et chercheuses francophones œuvrant dans des universités anglophones (trans: Round Table: Challenges for Francophone Researchers in Anglophone Universities)
- David Livingstone ($920.00) - "Bankrupt Education" at 30, Panel Discussion and Book Project.
- Lindsay McCunn ($1,200.00) - Chairship and Committee Responsibilities at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association
- Luis Meneses ($375.00) - Conference presentation: Exploring Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Long-term Preservation of Digital Scholarly Infrastructures
- Finn Meyer Cook ($1,200.00) - Intersecting Sustainabilities: Ecological Social Work and the Pursuit of Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Climate Action
- Gara Pruesse ($1,200.00) - Approximating the Jump Number of Posets
- Sean Toal ($1,200.00) - Are they Ready? Determining pre-service teacher competency during a global pandemic.
- Caroline Variath ($1,200.00) - Two Presentations at The International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation & Canadian Bioethics Society
- Paula Waatainen ($1,200.00) - Designing a More Authentic Assessment of Citizenship Competency in Deliberation
- Heather Wiebe ($1,200.00) - Travel funding for 2024 CSC and CSTCC conferences
- Stefanie Zaklan Duff ($1,200.00) - Hawaii University International Conferences on STEM/STEAM and Education
Publish
- Michael Asmussen ($1,000.00) - Comparison of muscle activity of the lower limbs while running on different treadmill models
- Leigh Blaney ($883.91) - Strengthening the Indomitable Spirit of Nurses Through Targeted Resilience Education
- Michael Govorov ($1,000.00) - A Usable Encryption Solution for File-Based Geospatial Data within a Database File System
- Milad Pira ($1,000.00) - Publication at the Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development (JIPD)
- Ajay Shrestha ($1,000.00) - Navigating AI to Unpack Youth Privacy Concerns: An In-Depth Exploration and Comprehensive Review
Engage
- Teresa Swan ($2,000.00) - Needs Assessment: Inclusive Trades Training
- Carolyn Swanson ($500.00) - Regional Ethics Bowl
Explore
- Milad Pira ($2,000.00) - Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: Empowering Business Students through an Online Platform
Gather
- Timothy Green ($2,225.00) - Oysters are our world: public event to showcase VIU's teaching and research projects on shellfish aquaculture.
- Jocelyne Praud ($3,000.00) - 2024 BCPSA Conference on Trust and Leadership at VIU
- Scott Priestman ($3,000.00) - Faculty of Education M.Ed. Research Conference
Inquiry
- Camie Augustus ($4,500.00) - Documenting Métis: Key Themes, Issues, and Documents in Métis History, Identity, and Peoplehood
- Sandra Johnstone ($5,000.00) - Geochemical investigation of a unique granitoid in the Nanaimo Lakes Area, British Columbia
Share
- Kyle Duncan ($1,200.00) - A multimodal MSI pipeline to uncover metabolic heterogeneity in ovarian tumors
- Joanne Falvai ($1,200.00) - Inside-Out 25th Anniversary Celebration and Conference
- Sheila Grieve ($1,200.00) - Learning Outside Together: Learning from the Land
- Jenn Houtby-Ferguson ($300.00) - Kootenay Rockies Tourism Association (KRTA) Conference presentation
- Jenn Houtby-Ferguson ($500.00) International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) West Conference Keynote presentation
- Lauren Mayes ($1,200.00) - 1) Teaching Inside-Out Online During COVID-19: Expected Challenges and Unexpected Benefits 2) Inside-Out From a Correctional Perspective
- Lindsay McCunn ($1,200.00) - The Shared Interests of EDRA and ANFA: Showcasing Research, Art, and Intersections to Encourage Member Collaboration
- Amber Morrison ($1,200.00) - "The Beginner’s Guide to Outsider Art and Ableism" by Amber Morrison (MFA) and Matthew Fox
- Lesley Osborne ($600.00) - Lesley Osborne
- Ajay Shrestha ($1,200.00) - Enhancing Scalability and Reliability in Semi-Decentralized Federated Learning With Blockchain: Trust Penalization and Asynchronous Functionality
- Wendy Simms ($1,200.00) - Preparing preservice elementary teachers to be designers of interdisciplinary learning opportunities using the Applied Design, Skills and Technologies (ADST) curriculum
- Cheryl Warsh ($1,200.00) - Hawaii International University Conference for Arts and Humanities
Publish
- Katharine Rollwagen ($1,000.00) - The Market that Just Grew Up: Fashioning the Teenaged Consumer in Mid-century English-Canada
- Sean Toal ($500.00) - Are they Ready? Determining pre-service teacher competencies during a global pandemic.
- Paul Watkins ($1,000.00) - Soundin’ Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship
- Whitney Wood ($1,000.00) - High-Tech Obstetrics, Colonialism, and Childbirth Choice in Late-Twentieth Century Canada
Amplify
- Robin Boxwell ($1,857.00) - Arts and Humanities Cultural Tour
- Georgina Martin ($1,200.00) - Me7 tselxemwílcemsts re sù7ec – kt Georgina Martin will teach our ways
- Randy Fred ($1,820.00) - Uncle Randy's Bubble
Engage
- Caroline Variath ($2,000.00) - Community Dialogues to Support Change: Navigating Together the Expansions to the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Legislation
- Warren Heiti ($2,000.00 ) - Philosophy Café 2023-2024
- Jeff Lewis ($2,000.00) - Awareness of Climate change through Education and Research (ACER): 2023/2024 ACER Funding
Explore
- Jasmine Janes ($2,000.00) - Developing a bioinformatic pipeline for Platanthera (Orchidaceae) genomic samples
- Patricia Geddes ($2,000.00) - Decolonizing Library Descriptive Practice: A Local Approach
- Kyle Duncan ($2,000.00) - Visualizing metabolites directly in tissue to help decipher tumor driven immunosuppression
- Chris Gill ($2,000.00) - Paper spray mass spectrometry as a new diagnostic tool for clinical albuminuria
- Christine Quist ($2,000.00) - Rhododendron Revival Propagation of Rare and Endangered Species for Conservation and Learning
Gather
- Chai Duncan ($3,000.00) - OCTAD: Art and Community presented by The VIEW Gallery
- Andrew Loudon ($3,000.00) - Gather: Seaweed Challenge, Applied Learning in Local Food Systems: Seaweed Product Development
- Marie Hopwood ($3,000.00) - Drinking Beer in a Blissful Mood: An Archaeology of Beer Tasting Event
- Sally Vinden ($3,000.00) - IDEAS 2024 Symposium: Innovate, Design, Engage and Applied Solutions
Innovate
- Andrew Loudon ($5,000.00) - Seaweed Challenge, Applied Learning in Local Food Systems: Seaweed Product Development
- Devin Ayotte ($4,200.00) - Augmented Reality Sandbox
- Marla Morden ($4,996.00) - Prosocial behaviours and decision-making in during pregnancy: An immersive virtual simulation (IVS) study
- Spencer Russell ($5,000.00) - MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for the detection of Tenacibaculum bacteria from Vancouver Island marine waters.
- Xueling Luo ($5,000.00) - Human-in-the-loop Study for a Closed-loop Control System Applied on a Robotic Arm: A Cost-Effective Approach for Educational Purposes
- Eliza Gardiner ($5,000.00) - Concessions of a Wannabe Rock Star - an original play by Eliza Gardiner (with focus on music video production components)
Inquiry
- Kyle Duncan ($5,000.00) - Visualizing metabolites directly in tissue to help decipher tumor driven immunosuppression
- Phillip Morrison ($4,332.00) - Thermal Tolerance of Chinook Salmon from the Nanaimo River
- Kathleen Bortolin ($4,788.00) - Sit down and shut up: the silencing of women in Canadian higher education
- Wendy Simms ($4,454.00) - Fostering STEM identities in VIU preservice teachers - phase I
- Chris Gill ($5,000.00) - Paper spray mass spectrometry as a new diagnostic tool for clinical albuminuria
Share
- Gillian Anderson ($1,200.00) - Menstruation and Menstrual Equity in Public Space(s)
- Sarah Carruthers ($1,200.00) - Growing an Accessible and Inclusive Systems Design Course with PlantUML
- Sarah Crover ($1,200.00 ) - Seminar Title - The Queen's Gambit Paper Title: The Only Good Queen is an English Queen? Tamora, Cleopatra, and the Spectre of the Foreign Queen
- Shannon Dames ($1,200.00) - A Different Kind of Conference: Exploring Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Health through Circle and Ceremony
- Brian Dick ($595.00) - Attending the AISES In Canada National Gathering
- Brian Dick ($1,200.00) - Monitoring Persistence in Engineering Studies According to Demographic Groupings
- Kyle Duncan ($1,200.00) - Differentiating prostaglandin isomers with direct mass spectrometry
- Elizabeth Gillis ($506.77) - The short- and long-term impact of a novel disease, Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease, on a free-living population of European Rabbits
- Jamie Gorrell ($1,200.00) - VIU attends the 2023 BCTWS conference
- Sheila Grieve ($1,200.00) - Plant Medicine: Supporting Growth and Well-being through Learning from Plants
- Marie Hopwood ($1,200.00) - In the Reed Buckets There is Sweet Beer: An Archaeology of Beer, Brewing and Women in Mesopotamia
- Melissa Huggan ($1,200.00) - The damage number of the product of graphs
- Erik Krogh ($1,200.00) - Finding needles in a haystack: On-line membrane permeation for the analysis of trace organic contaminants in complex samples
- Sylvie Lafreniere ($1,200.00) - “Circling Back: Re-examining Research Practices”
- David Livingstone ($626.51) - “The idea of property in men:” Frederick Douglass’s 1860 Glasgow speech as a response to the "1619 Project."
- Lindsay McCunn ($1,201.00) - Editorship Responsibilities at the International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP)
- Farhad Moghimehfar ($1,200.00) Climate Change: Inequitable Impact on Leisure Participation
- Farhad Moghimehfar ($1,200.00) - Keeping It Rural Conference, Kelowna - British Columbia & Visiting colleagues at UBCO
- Gara Pruesse ($253.75) - Greed is Good for Jump Number of Interval Posets
- Gara Pruesse ($1,200.00) - Greed Is Good for Approximating the Jump Number for Interval Posets
- Katharine Rollwagen ($1,200.00) - Consumer Education, Corporate Capitalism, and “Street Cents” in 1990s Canada
- Jeanette Schmid ($1,200.00) - European Conference for Social Work Educators-Presentations
- Wendy Simms ($1,200.00) STEM course offerings in Canadian BEd programs
- Laura Suski ($1,200.00) - Conference Presentation: The Heritage of Playgrounds: How To Remember Play
- Caroline Variath ($1,200.00) - Loss of Decision-Making Capacity and Access to MAiD: Associated Paradoxes and Challenges
- Paula Waatainen ($1,200.00) - Social Context Challenges in Administering Authentic Assessments of Citizenship Competency
- Alexandra Weissfloch ($1,200.00) - INJECTING SUSTAINABILITY INTO THE ORGANIC CLASSROOM
- Heather Wiebe ($1,200.00) - Travel funding for CSC 2023 in Vancouver
- Yu Xia ($1,200.00) - A Multi-Class EOQ Model with Applications in the Power Industry
- Yu Xia ($1,200.00) - The Not So Hard Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Problem and Its Applications
- Stefanie Zaklan Duff ($1,200.00) - S.T.E.M. conference attendance
Publish
- Dan Baker ($1,000.00) - Publication of research-based peer-reviewed manuscript in Conservation Biology
- Michael Govorov ($1,000.00) - Trivariate Kernel Density Estimation of Spatiotemporal Crime Events with Case Study for Lithuania
- Whitney Wood ($1,000.00) - “Doctors Aren’t Familiar with Your Tissues”: Self-Examination and Feminist Health Activism in 1970s Canada
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)