Faculty scholarly activity report 2013 2014

Faculty

Research & Scholarly Activity 2013–14

Vancouver Island University

viu.ca/research

Cover pictures left to right: st 1 row: Kathleen Reed and Dana McFarland, Jane Watson, Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa and Sheila Cooper nd 2 row: Paige Fisher, Martin Martens, Frank Moher, Dave Robinson rd 3 row: Ray Penner, Tim Goater and students, Guy Le Masurier

Message from the Provost and Vice-President Academic It is with great pleasure that I present Vancouver Island University’s 2013-14 Annual Research and Scholarly Activity Report.

In the following pages of this report, you will learn about the dynamic and exciting research and scholarship activities taking place across many different disciplines at VIU, from the ongoing work of our Canada Research Chairs and BC Regional Innovation Chairs, to traditional and applied research projects conducted by faculty and students. VIU has supported key areas of research such as the Applied Environmental Research Lab, Dr. Helen Gurney-Smith's genome work and research in the area of Healthy Aging.

Earlier this year, we celebrated VIU’s Celebration of Research Excellence and Knowledge Transfer Event (CREATE), an annual showcase of the research and scholarly activity conducted by VIU students. It is always a pleasure to learn about the innovative projects and breadth of scholarship that students are engaged in at VIU, projects that provide them with exceptional undergraduate research experiences and experiential learning opportunities.

We recognize that Scholarship has many facets as acknowledged by Ernest Boyer (1990). We celebrate scholarship that creates new and valuable knowledge, contributes to the social and economic development of the region and our communities, enhances teaching and learning, and brings in much needed resources for capital and operating expenditures.

VIU’s research success is due in large part to the generous support of provincial and federal Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

funding agencies and to the efforts of our dedicated faculty who serve in a mentorship role to undergraduate and graduate students.

We know that early involvement in research and scholarly activity helps students at all levels cope with the complexity of a constantly changing and challenging world. We appreciate the efforts of VIU faculty who continue to conduct their own research, and provide students with applied research and experiential learning opportunities that motivate and inspire them to achieve academic and scholarly excellence.

I also want to thank Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa, VIU’s Director of Research and Scholarly Activity who is retiring this year. As one of our faculty members recently stated, one could write a book on all that Liz has done during her long career at VIU! Her contributions to building a strong and highly regarded culture of scholarship is an enduring legacy.

Liz helped to establish a solid research culture at VIU, and provided enormous assistance to faculty in finding money and assisting with grant applications to support their research. Her people skills, sense of humor, love of learning and positive outlook have proven invaluable in this challenging role.

On behalf of VIU, I extend my sincere appreciation to Liz and to all our faculty members and students for another outstanding year of original, creative and innovative scholarship and research. We have much to be proud of.

Thank you!

David R. Witty, PhD, MRAIC, FCIP, RPP Provost and Vice-President Academic Vancouver Island University Vancouver Island University | 1

Contents Message from the Provost and Vice-President Academic............................................................ 1 Research and Scholarly Activity at Vancouver Island University................................................. 2 Research Centres, Institutes and Laboratory Activities ......................................................... 104 VIUFA Leaves Taken in Fiscal 2013-2014 ....... 124 Internal Research Grants ............................... 131 BCGEU Long Term Assisted Professional Development Leaves ...................................... 136 BCGEU Professional Development Group Funding .......................................................... 136 Faculty and Staff Travel and Study Abroad Grants............................................................. 136 Faculty and Staff Travel and Conference Proceedings Funding Awarded ...................... 138 Internationalization Grant ............................. 141 Research and Scholarly Activity Funding Awarded ......................................................... 142 Research and Scholarly Activity Committees/Boards (2013/2014) ................. 143

Research and Scholarly Activity at Vancouver Island University The following is a listing of some of the research and scholarly activities that faculty and staff of Vancouver Island University (VIU) have engaged in during the past year. The information was supplied by each individual for publication Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

in the Annual Research Report via the online Research and Scholarly Activity Database, which can be accessed at www.viu.ca/research.

Cowichan Campus Cowichan Campus Administration Dr. Jenny Horn Community Based Education "Food Security, Sovereignty and Literacy" Invited by Guy Le Masurier to present to his Sport Health and Physical Education class and to discuss the Food System and various aspects of it, as well as to outline actions that students may take to help create a more sustainable food system on Vancouver Island.

Community Based Education Panelist - Vancouver Island Economic Summit Sat as a panelist in the "Food Sustainability" discussion at the Vancouver Island Economic Summit, hosted by the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance. Presented the opening remarks on the state of agriculture economy in the Islands region and to suggest the importance of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in reviving Island agriculture.

Conference Presentation "How Food Studies Can Fuel Community Engagement" Interactive presentation given at the CUVic: Beyond Engagement conference, University of Victoria, May 2014. Using samples of salsa as an engagement point, the groups deconstructed the industrial and the artisanal food systems and compared their relative sustainability. Copresented with Celia White, VIU Healthy Vancouver Island University | 2

Communities Coordinator, and Pamela Jack, VIU Campus Food Movement.

Academic Collaborators: Co-presented with Celia White, VIU Healthy Communities Coordinator, and Pamela Jack, VIU Campus Food Movement.

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Agritourism Development in the Cowichan Valley" Co-supervisor for Anna Romanova, M.A., Sustainable Leisure Management, Vancouver Island University.

Academic Collaborators: Suzanne de la Barre Professional Service Board and committee memberships Co-chair of the Island Farmers Alliance; Board member, BC Food Systems Network; Honorary Advisor to Slow Food Vancouver and Gulf Islands; Member, Citta Slow Cowichan.

Research Project Traditional Trades as Employers and Training Mechanisms for Canadian Youth Project Coordinator for one of the first projects funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council "Knowledge Synthesis" grants (June 28 - Dec 31, 2013). The purpose of the project is to assess the current state of the tradesbased labour force inthe Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) sector across rural regions of Canadawith the goal of contributing to rural innovation and sustainable developmentin BC. Report was shared in Ottawa with other funded projects and with seniorpolicy advisors in Employment and Social Development Canada.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Nicole Vaugeois, VIU, Lead Researcher; Monica Shore and Nichola Evernden, VIU research assistants Community Collaborators: Pascale Knoglinger, La Société de développement économique de la Colombie-Britannique Workshop

Professional Service Hosted table at Scientific Café on Food Literacy Food Tour Coordinator Organized and hosted a pre-conference "food" tour of the Cowichan Valley for the Canadian Association of Food Studies at the Social Sciences and Humanities Congress 2013, University of Victoria. Delegates visited Providence Farm, did a Citta Slow stroll of Cowichan Bay, and sampled the wares at Merridale Cidery and Brandyhouse. The group enjoyed a local food lunch at the Cowichan Campus of VIU, where delegates were able to meet VIU faculty who are involved in delivering food-related curriculum in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities disciplines.

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As part of the Vancouver Island Community Research Alliance (VICRA) project on mapping community resources to increase Food Literacy in the Capital Regional District. This is a pilot project that will potentially lead to a larger initiative that will include the central Vancouver Island region.

Academic Collaborators: University of Victoria, Royal Roads University, Camosun College, North Island College Aaron Tapley, UVic Research Assistant and Project Manager

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Workshop Mini-Conference: Exploring Interdisciplinarity in Teaching: Next Steps @ VIU Invited facilitator for the roundtable on Agriculture, Culinary, Wine and Marine tourism.

Warren Weir Book Aboriginal Measures for Economic Development Edited by Jeff Orr, Warren Weir and the Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program (AAEDIRP). Fernwood Publishing: Halifax/Winnipeg, 2013. Aboriginal Measures for Economic Development explores measures of economic development in First Nations communities in Atlantic Canada that are of relevance for First Nations peoples. Many of the challenges faced by these communities and their local, regional and national leaders in advancing economic development relate to experiences of diverse and complex issues most of which clash with federal policies that increasingly call for centralization, standardization and uniformity. This volume illustrates the key challenges in establishing and maintaining socially- responsible economic development that is beneficial for Aboriginal communities.

Professional Service Managing Editor Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development (JAED), (V.8, No.2), Fall 2013, Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (Cando) and Captus Press Inc. (Concord, Ontario). JAED is the first journal devoted exclusively to issues and practices in the field of Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

economic development and Aboriginal peoples' communities. The journal offers articles that are of interest to those who teach and those who work in the field. This issue focuses on the topic of on-reserve property rights and the development and management of on-reserve lands. In this special issue, the guest editors have assembled a collection of papers that address historical and contemporary questions of land privatization and on-reserve land tenure systems across Canada. Guest editor's were David Natcher and Marena Brinkhurst. Dr. Natcher is currently a professor in the Department of Bioresources, Policy, Business and Economics at the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, SK). Marena Brinkhurst, a community planner and consultant, recently completed her Master's in Resource and Environmental Management in the Faculty of Management, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC).

HVAC Program Cowichan Barb MacQueen Chapter Textbook Review Modern Refrigeration Textbook, "Oil Furnace" Chapter 36, was proofed for accuracy, relevancy and completeness. Several updates and changes were made to this chapter and the new edition of this textbook is now published.

Community Collaborators: Cara Fullen, Editorial Assistant, Goodheart-Willcox Publisher Community Based Education Heat Load Project Working in the community to help local farmers'-market companies maintain and Vancouver Island University | 4

improve their food storage capabilities, a heat load project was presented for students to complete. Students visited a local company to study, plan and design food cold storage and food drying rooms. They discussed their designs with the vendor to help him understand the cost and equipment required for their design. This project allowed students to work within the community to complete the requirements of their curriculum.

UK, 2015. This collection is designed to highlight a significant gap in our understandings of leisure and particularly the role and position of animals within the related industries and social phenomena. As such, this book should have appeal across a range of disciplinary backgrounds whose interests lie with understanding human-animal relationships, including leisure and tourism studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, and zoology.

Community Collaborators: Hilary Abbott, Owner, Cheese Point Creamery

Creative Writing and Journalism

Professional Service

Marilyn Bowering

Chair, Student Activities for ASHRAE

Book

Worked with the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) to bring to their chapter meetings seminars for topics relevant to the students in the Cowichan Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC/R) program. Students were invited to attend to learn about variable frequency drives, chillers, building automation, energy efficiency and more.

Soul Mouth: Poetry Award Short-list

Community Collaborators: Calvin Tripp, University of Victoria

Faculty of Arts and Humanities Art and Design Nancy PagĂŠ Chapter "See Spot Sell: A look at how dogs are being used to sell consumer goods and the the cultural implications of this phenomenon" In Domesticated Animals in the Leisure Experience Ed. Neil Carr. Palgrave Macmillan: Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Soul Mouth (Exile Editions), a book of poetry, was short-listed for the Pat Lowther Poetry Award.

Other Activity Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize Awarded the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize for the suite of poems Threshold.

Other Activity Music video of "True Love" Faroese Film director Hedrik a Heygum produced a short film based on the song "True Love," which has lyrics by Marilyn Bowering and music by Nordic singer, Eivor. http://vimeo.com/61830828 Community Collaborators: Faroese and Nordic artists including Eivor and Heidrik a Hegym Other Publication "Hotel" Published in Geist Magazine.

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Other Publication

Gave a public reading of poetry and fiction at the Terrace BC Library.

Force Field Professional Service Published 3 poems in Force Field, an anthology of poetry by BC Women that was edited by Susan Musgrave. Gave a reading for the anthology launch at Planet Earth Poetry.

Production/Performance Inhabiting Women's Spaces Key-note presenter at a literary event Inhabiting Women's Spaces, which was presented at the Vancouver Public Library. Event included readings from poetry, fiction and memoir.

Production/Performance

Keeping Your Promises Acted as a tutor in fiction at Moniack Mhor (Scotland) for the Arvon Foundation. The one week writer-in-residency involved giving workshops, private tutoring, and public events and readings.

Professional Service Literary Jury member Acted as a literary juror for the Saskatchewan Book Awards. The Award included fiction, poetry, non-fiction and scholarly writing.

Marilyn Forever This new chamber opera was premiered at the MacPherson Playhouse in Victoria, BC. Music was composed by Gavin Bryars, for which Marilyn Bowering wrote the libretto.

Production/Performance Public Reading Gave a public reading of poetry at Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria, B.C.

Frank Moher Production/Performance Big Baby Presented at OmaDa Theatre, Athens, Greece.

February-March, 2014. Translation by Ioanna Bakalakou. This was the play's third European production.

Production/Performance

Production/Performance

Premiere of Moonbound!

Public Reading

May/June 2014. Directed the premiere of Moonbound!, a new musical loosely based on HG Wells' "First Men in the Moon," with Book and Lyrics by Frank Moher, Music by Antonio Gradanti and Frank Moher. The co-production

by Single Lane Entertainment, Maragold Theatre Productions and Headliners School of the Performing Arts, presented on Gabriola and in Nanaimo (at Malaspina Theatre), featured a cast of over 30 performers, ranging in age from four to unmentionable.

Was a featured poetry presenter in celebration of the Malahat Review's 40th anniversary.

Academic Collaborators: Staff and Editors of The Malahat Review Liteary Journal Production/Performance Public Reading

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Community Collaborators: Single Lane Entertainment; Maragold Theatre Productions; Headliners School of the Performing Arts; Composer, Musical Director: Antonio Gradanti Choreographer: Mara Brenner

Kathy Page Article "Desperate Glory" In The New Quarterly 128 (2013). This story is part of a longer project (a linked story sequence) that has been supported by a travel grant from the Research and Scholarly Activity Committee.

Book Paradise and Elsewhere Biblioasis: Windsor, 2014. A collection of short fiction. The rubble of an ancient civilization. A village in a valley from which no one comes or goes. A forest of mother-trees, whispering to each other through their roots; a lakeside lighthouse where a girl slips into human skin as lightly as an otter into water; a desert settlement where there was no conflict, before she came; or the town of Wantwick, ruled by a soothsayer, where tourists have their clothes torn from their backs. These are the places where things begin.

This is a collection of dark fables at once familiar and entirely strange that notches a new path through wild, lush, half-fantastic and halfreal terrain.

Other Activity Public Reading at Vancouver Public Library Reading from a new collection of stories, Paradise and Elsewhere, as part of the Incite readings for the Vancouver International Writers Festival.

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Dr. Kevin Roberts Book The Winnowing Circle: Pilot Hill Press. 2013.

Lions: Pilot Hill Press. 2014. The Face up Table: (short story) Transnational Flinders Univ., Australia. May 2014 In The Winnowing Circle, a young couple encounter the violent milieu of the seventies military dictatorship on an island in Greece.Through the eyes of a small boy in Adelaide, Lions portrays the fear of the Japanese advance in WW2 and the destructive effects on his family. The Face Up Table is a short story that describes part-time work in the Xmas mail rooms of the Adelaide General Post Office and the inchoate but humorous aspects of such employment.

English Dr. Sally Carpentier Board/Committee Work Council for Learning and Teaching Excellence Serving on the Provost 's Learning and Teaching Excellence Council.

Chapter "XVII New Literatures" Contributed a chapter in The Year's Work in English Studies. Eds. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2013. Overview of the critical work in Canadian Literary Studies for the year of 2012, including general criticism, along with criticism in poetry, fiction, and drama.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Ian Whitehouse

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Conference Presentation

Community Collaborators: Innovation Island

"Why Blended Learning Works."

Professional Service

Gave a presentation on "Why Blended Learning Works"with Dr. Ian Whitehouse, at a Learning and Teaching Symposium, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning.

Provost Council Presentation

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Ian Whitehouse, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning

Gave a presentation to the Provost Council on the work that has been done to date by the Innovation Lab@Cowichan.

Professional Service

Conference Presentation

Text Encoding Initiative and The Douglas Treaties

Exploring Interdisciplinarity in Teaching: Next Steps @ VIU

Chaired the panel on Katelyn Beale's presentation.

Chaired a table at the "Exploring Interdisciplinarity in Teaching: Next Steps @ VIU" mini-conference. With George Farris.

Academic Collaborators: Katelyn Beale

Academic Collaborators: George Farris Other Activity Co-Lead for the VIU@Cowichan Innovation Lab Serving as the co-lead for the Innovation Lab@Cowichan. With Dr. Richard J. Lane, George Farris.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Richard J. Lane, George Farris

Professional Service VIU Open House Hosted the VIU@Cowichan's session during VIU Open House at VIU@Nanaimo. With Dr. Ian Whitehouse and Matt Melgaard.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Ian Whitehouse, Matt Melgaard Project New Horizons Grant

A Night with Richard Wagamese

Collaborated with James Thornton, of Legacy BC, on a New Horizons Grant for digitizing narratives for the aged.

Hosted a reading and QandA with Richard Wagamese at the VIU@Cowichan campus.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Ian Whitehouse, Professor James Thornton

Professional Service

Professional Service Innovation Island Collaboration Represented VIU@Cowichan at a gathering of Mid-to-South Island Innovators under the auspices of Innovation Island.

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Research Project Investigating Holographic Communications and Delivery for Research and Teaching Projects at VIU Continued exploration of the holographic capacity within contemporary classrooms. With Dr. Ian Whitehouse.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Ian Whitehouse Research Project Story as History, Place and Wisdom This project is a continuation in the development of the revitalization and mastery of the Hul'qumi'num language, tradition and culture project. The focus of this part of the project entailed working closely with the Penelakut Elder Florence James, which began with training on the particular technologies needed to digitize language and stories. Another part of this project has involved a number of sessions held with the Cowichan Elders, establishing protocols, objectives, and outcomes.

Studies Association of the Western United States: Victorian Modernities, in Portland, OR, November 14-16, 2013.

Conference Presentation "Putting the Punk in a Steampunk Cinderella: Melissa Meyer's 'Lunar Chronicles'" A paper exploring how Melissa Meyer blends elements of steampunk with fairy tale and science fiction to rewrite the popular meme, or cultural knowledge, transmitted by Cinderella stories in order to create a stronger female role model for girls.At Current Research in Children's and Young Adult Speculative Fiction, in Wroclaw, Poland, on May 18, 2014.

Other Activity Panel Chair Chair for "Session 6A: Modern New Woman Types" at the Annual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States: Victorian Modernities, in Portland, OR, November 14-16, 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Florence James, MaryDawn MacWatt, Katelyn Beale

Other Publication

Community Collaborators: Cowichan Tribes

Book Reviewer

Terri Doughty

In "Girls' Work in The Imperial Project," Girlhood Studies 6. 2 (2013): 145-150. A review of Michelle J. Smith's Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Conference Presentation "'It is not all 'featherses' we want': Sarah Tooley Interviews Women Who Work" A paper on Sarah Tooley's use of the New Journalism to promote women's professional activities, particularly through applying the methods of the celebrity interview to interviews with women working in a range of new professions for women. At the Annual Conference of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Professional Service Editorial Board Member Served on editorial board for the journal Literatura i Kultura Popularna [Literture and Popular Culture], edited by Anna Gemra and published by the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

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Professional Service

Dr. Richard Lane

Peer Reviewer

Board/Committee Work

Served as reader for a special issue of Nineteenth Century Gender Studies.

Board member, Innovation Island Technology Association

Dr. Keith Harrison

Joined the Board of Directors of Innovation Island Technology Association in Nanaimo, BC. Some activities on the Board include: tapping in to emerging technology trends; engaging with innovation pedagogy; and speaking on innovation at selected organizations and events.

Advised on recruiting new Board members.

Conference Presentation "Re-conceiving the Chronotope: Bakhtin and Shakespeare-inflected Films" Presented at the International Philosophy Conference:Thinking Reality and Time through Film, in Lisbon, May 2014. Philosophically, Bakhtin's pragmatic premise is that aesthetic activity does not create a reality; however, realistic and truthful, the represented world can never be chronotopically identical with the historical time-space in which people actually live. All a work of art can achieve is a simulated chronotope where the temporal and the spatial fuse into one concrete whole that has tangential and ideological links to the artist's extraaesthetic situatedness.For Bakhtin, a second unRomantic premise is that all creativity is derivative: the aesthetics of the time-space represented in a novel or a film can never be wholly new, given the unavoidable dialogic engagement with past utterances. With a Bakhtinian focus on two movies, Tim Blake Nelson's O and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, some of the multiple implications -aesthetic, ideological, and epistemological -- of chronotopically re-siting Shakespeare's preexisting texts are set out.

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Conference Presentation "Building Research Capacity Through Shared Infrastructure" A paper presented at the symposium Building Large, Partnered Research Projects, organized by the Research and Scholarly Activity Office, VIU. The focus was on infrastructure benefiting a community of users, and the main example discussed was the community of Digital Humanists at VIU, facilitated through building a Canada Foundation for Innovation and British Columbia Knowledge Development-funded digital humanities lab at VIU. Conference Presentation "Developing a TEI Framework for 3D Modelling and 3D Printing: Advanced Narratological Tags" The aim of this paper, delivered at a Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Research Symposium at VIU, was to examine the transition from interpretive text encoding tags used in the digital humanities, to tags which analyse a text at a narratological level. Two research questions were addressed: (1) can a narratological approach to texts be reconfigured in terms of TEI and remediation, and (2) how Vancouver Island University | 10

does this process help further an understanding of the literary text's rhetorical devices? The paper discussed innovations in narratological tagging, based initially upon Gerard Genette's narrative theory, but going beyond this starting point to develop a digital narrative theory that can account for digital remediation, especially in a 3D environment, either virtual or 3D printed.

The text used was Rebecca West's Return of the Soldier, digitized and tagged at VIU in the MeTA DH Lab with student research assistant Deanna McGillivray. The TEI version of this text was then encoded using the new narratological tags. The resulting research was also used to examine West's use of a rhetorical device called ekphrasis (the representation of the plastic arts in writing).

"Innovation through Digital Subjectivity and Aesthetics: Heidegger, Techne and Aura" A paper presented at The Many Masks/Masques of Heidegger: Technology, Poeisis and Humanism: A Literary Theory Research Group Symposium, organized by The Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, VIU. Three innovation processes or categories were examined: "disruptive technology," "emerging technology" and "the quantified self". The core defining characteristics of innovation were also analyzed, in relation to Martin Heidegger's notion of creativity, and Walter Benjamin's notion of the auratic. In both cases, key scenes of innovation and creativity were analyzed and related to the contemporary conceptualization of technological innovation.

Conference Presentation "DH in 3D: Digital Innovation and the Modernist/Postmodernist Experimental Novel (B.S. Johnson and Rebecca West)" A keynote presentation at The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab lecture series, at the University of Victoria. The intellectual framework for the research presented here is the Royal Society's 2012 report on technology and pedagogy, prepared by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The report suggests that passive approaches to information technology need to be replaced with students learning about coding and desktop fabrication. This paper examines two analogous ways of doing the digital humanities: first, using hacked controller devices that have been reverse engineered to explore a postmodern experimental novel; and second, using the Text Encoding Initiative to explore a modernist novel.

Additionally, the paper covers research undertaken in the MeTA DH Lab at VIU to generate 3D models of literary texts, based upon XML markup.

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Academic Collaborators: Emily Marroquin, UBC English (MA student and co-director of the Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities) Conference Presentation "Innovation Through Tradition: New Scholarly Applications Modelled on Faith-Based Electronic Publishing and Learning Environments" A paper presented at the Building Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Publishing event sponsored by the SSHRC-funded Implementing New Knowledge Environments project. The event brought together researchers in the digital humanities and digital innovation, tri-council funding agencies, and industry experts. In this particular paper, two existing digital-learning environments, Logos and Olive Tree Bible Software, were analyzed in relation to opensource academic digital-database and contentdelivery systems, to examine possible knowledge-transfer lessons from the private to the public domain. The paper also explored accessible ways of representing rich digital data Vancouver Island University | 11

through contextualized data windows, as well as user-generated content, such as data tagging.

"Ekphrasis across Editions: Rebecca West through TEI and Versioning Machine"

Conference Presentation

A collaborative presentation given at the Faculty Writing Group, the Writing Centre, VIU Library. The presentation examined how the Text Encoding Initiative can be utilized along with Versioning Machine software, to create a research tool for examining textual variants with multiple editions of a literary manuscript, in this case, Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier.

Some initial work on innovations in narratological text encoding was also shared, with some discussion of how such tagging can contribute to contextualized understanding of texts, whether literary or non-literary.

"Returning to the Text through the Digital Humanities: The First World War Literature of Rebecca West and John McCrae" A brief collaborative presentation given at the VIU Arts and Humanities Colloquium, called Fascinating Technologies: Future Directions in the Arts and Humanities. The core argument was that the digital humanities can help readers analyze texts more closely, and that new technologies can help answer some "old" or traditional interpretive questions, in this case, concerning the rhetorical device of ekphrasis.

Academic Collaborators: Deanna McGillivray, MeTA DH Lab lead research assistant and VIU student in GIS. Conference Presentation "'The Question Concerning Technology' Research Questions for Digital Innovation and Digital Humanities Projects" This paper, presented at a Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Research Symposium at VIU, draws upon the Literary Theory Research Group's work on Heidegger during 2013-2014 to examine the links between technology and creativity, with focus on the Greek concept of 'techne' which means both knowledge and disclosure. The paper also examines how technology can facilitate creative exploration of research questions, especially where results tend towards multiple outputs and outcomes.

Academic Collaborators: Emily Marroquin, UBC English.

Academic Collaborators: Deanna McGillivray, MeTA DH Lab lead research assistant and VIU student in GIS. Other Activity "Ekphrasis in 3D: Text Encoding and 3D Innovation in Modernist War Literature" A presentation given to the Innovation Lab at VIU Cowichan's Planning Committee, as an example of a potential Innovation Lab project that can bring together more conventional digital humanities research with desktop fabrication, and related more practical innovation lab activities. In this paper, the literary text was encoded for spatial and narrative positioning in preparation for being remediated in 3D software, which would also allow for the 3D printing of key scenes.

Academic Collaborators: Deanna McGillivray, MeTA DH Lab lead research assistant and VIU student in GIS. Other Activity "Innovation Interview"

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An interview with Peter Sinclair, the Executive Director of the Loaves and Fishes Food Community Food Bank in Nanaimo, BC. The interview focused on innovations introduced by Sinclair into the food bank/depot system, such as a client database for more effective delivery of food to families, and the creation of multiple food bank locations for ease of access for clients. The application of entrepreneurial business models to social non-profit systems was also explored. Data from the interview was utilized for a subsequent presentation at VIU. Community Collaborators: Peter Sinclair, Executive Director of Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank, Nanaimo, BC. Other Activity

and emotional health. The presentation analyzed consumer expectations and market data in relation to this topic, as well as selected software and hardware currently available or being developed. Two additional areas examined were the "gamification" of quantified-self data, e.g., in the North American healthcare market, and the proliferation of self-tracking devices available for youth. The relevance of these emerging technology trends to Vancouver Island were also briefly examined.

Community Collaborators: Innovation Island Technology Association, Nanaimo.

Other Activity Associated Researcher, The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory

"Text Encoding Fundamentals" Co-organizer and participant in a course taken at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, The University of Victoria, June 2013, covering the Text Encoding Initiative process for tagging literary texts using an XML editor. The course was taught by the Director of the online Women Writer's project, Julia Flanders, and UBC English professor Constance Crompton. The self-directed project component focused on developing analytical tags for modernist fiction.

Other Activity "The Quantified Self: A Report on Innovation Trends"

Appointed an Associated Researcher at The University of Victoria's Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory, directed by Canada Research Chair and Distinguished Professor, Ray Siemens. The post involved travelling to the lab for research purposes, as well as engaging in joint activities, such as collaborating on a SSHRC partnership grant application, and on preparations for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in 2014 and in 2015. Interacted with other lab researchers and members, as well as contributed to a lecture series organized by the lab.

Other Activity Collaborator

A presentation given at Innovation Island Technology Association, Nanaimo, May 2014.

The main focus was the way in which emerging technology trends are currently centred upon the "quantified self," which can be defined as the generation of personal user data through selftracking. Quantified-self data is collected for a variety of reasons, including personal fitness, and the attempted improvement of physiological Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Collaborator on the successful SSHRC Connection Grant (50K) for the 2014 Digital Humanities Summer Institute, held at The University of Victoria.

Academic Collaborators: The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory, The University of Victoria.The Digital Humanities Summer Institute, The University of Victoria.

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Other Activity The Critical Digital Humanities Group Launched a new collaborative research group co-directed with Dr. Emile Fromet de Rosnay, Department of French, The University of Victoria. Building upon the work of the VIUUVic DH-Theory Group (2013), funded by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, UVic, this new group aims to develop innovative approaches to the digital humanities, drawing upon literary theory, continental philosophy, speculative computing, the new textualities, and other related modes of critical thinking. An initial discussion concerning research questions that could be explored by the group was undertaken at the Many Masks/Masques of Heidegger: Technology, Poeisis and Humanism: A Literary Theory Research Group Symposium, The Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, VIU Cowichan, May 2014.

Professional Service "Levinas, Ethics and the Digital Humanities" A panel co-chaired with Emily Marroquin (UBC) at The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, ACCUTE, Victoria. The panel was the culminating event of the 2012-2013 Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (VIU) series on Ethics and The Humanities Emmanuel Levinas through Theory and Phenomenology, with focus on Levinas's Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority.

Visiting speakers during this series were: Dr. Emile de Rosnay (Dept. of French, University of Victoria), Dr. Stephen Ross (Dept. of English, University of Victoria), and Emily Marroquin (UBC). The panel at ACCUTE featured Dr. Jens Zimmermann, Canada Research Chair at Trinity Western University, "Levinas, Derrida and Heidegger on the Future of the Humanities," Dr. Emile Fromet de Rosnay "Fanon, Levinas and the Archive in web2.0 and beyond," and Karen Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Correia Da Silva (UBC PhD student), "The Telematic Encounter: Digital Face-to-Face in Paul Sermon's There's No Simulation Like Home."

Academic Collaborators: Emily Marroquin, MA student and co-director of the Literary Theory Research Group, UBC department of English.

Research Project In Flanders Fields: Historical Contexts and Digital Graphical Surface Analytics A project in which each publication instance of the Canadian First World War poem In Flanders Fields will be digitized and tagged using the Text Encoding Initiative. The historical contexts of the poem's production and interpretation will be further explored through analyzing the graphical surface of each publication instance.

Software will be developed for context analysis within the historical and graphical publication environment, and a new mode of analytical tagging will also be developed using XML. Academic Collaborators: Deanna McGillivray, MeTA DH Lab lead research assistant and VIU student in GIS.

Research Project Advanced Narratological Text Encoding Tags A two stage digital humanities project: (1) applying standard narratological theory to text encoding practices using an XML editor and a digitized text from the MeTA DH Lab at VIU, and (2) the development of a new approach to narratology, through designing and applying narratological tags that account for spatial and temporal positioning of a narrator, focalizer, character or scene. The new narratological tags enable a text to be digitized three dimensionally, Vancouver Island University | 14

for example, through the production of an animated three dimensional scene. The new narratological tags also reveal the full scope of embedded textual tropes that relate to spatial and temporal positioning within literary texts.

Research Project Exploring Textual Variants Across Editions: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier Utilizing the text encoding software called Versioning Machine, this collaborative project examines the first three versions of Rebecca West's novel The Return of the Soldier: the original British edition, the first American serialized edition, and the first American novel edition. Versioning Machine facilitates the study of textual variants through encoding of a base text and the variants from subsequent editions.

These versions can be displayed in parallel columns, and key words and phrases can be searched for, with the textual variants displayed across each column, making this a useful digital humanities tool for manuscript research and analysis.

Community Collaborators: Deanna McGillivray, MeTA DH Lab lead research assistant and VIU student in GIS. Research Project Visualizing Character Interaction in the Play Version of Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier A digital humanities project which explores character interaction and remediation, in this case, the transposition of Rebecca West's 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier, into dramatic form with the play version of the text (written and arranged by John Van Druten in 1928).

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comparative analysis of the play with the original editions of the text.

Workshop "Blender for 3D modelling and printing" Co-organized and attended a Blender 3D modelling and printing workshop hosted by the Innovation Lab at VIU Cowichan, October 2013. The workshop also involved utilizing a 3D scanner and printing the scanned object to the Innovation Lab's MakerBot 3D printer.

Susan Lymbery Research Project Shut In, Shut Out, Shut Up: Maternal Caregivers of Long-term Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors In July 1983,Susan Lymbery's six-year-old son had an inoperable malignant brain tumor (PBT).

Thirty years later, he has progressive losses in sight, hearing, and mobility. In her 40s, Lymbery earned her BA with distinction (MUC) and MA (UVic) while care-giving.Some 4,000 Canadians care for a PBT survivor, shut in by sorrow and burdens, shut out by an abled society, and shut up by "relations of ruling" (Dorothy E. Smith,2002). Caregivers serve life sentences as unpaid, invisible and silenced workers.Lymbery's doctoral research project, "Research for Canadian Caregivers of Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors," creates a Blog for isolated and lonely caregivers in a safe, private space. Her work supports resiliency in hope of social improvements.Lymbery's thesis voices marginalizing social practices, makes caregivers more visible, and exposes their economic and health-related burdens. This social justice work reveals the structural and social organization of care for PBT survivors in Canada.

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Academic Collaborators: Lymbery expresses her thankfulness to her committee: Dr. Shauna Butterwick, UBC; Dr. Michelle Stack, UBC; and Dr. Jerry Hinbest, VIU.

(which took almost five years to complete) provided me a unique opportunity to collaborate extensively with international colleagues in the field.

Community Collaborators: Canadian caregivers of pediatric brain tumor survivors

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Dr. Cynthea Masson

"Text as Stone: Desire, Sex, and the Figurative Hermaphrodite in the Ordinal and Compound of Alchemy."

Article

Studies in Popular Culture 35.2 (2013): 43-67.

Print. This article won the 2013 Whatley Award for Best Paper in Studies in Popular Culture.

Focusing on Joss Whedon's television series Angel, I combine theories of puppets with theories of vampires to explore connections among representatives of the living dead. In particular, I discuss the character Angel, who becomes a puppet in the episode "Smile Time," and his embodiment of "the puppet paradox" as a necessity of his destiny. (The paper is a revised version of my 2012 keynote address for SCW6: Slayage Conference on the Whedon verses.)

In Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain. Ed. Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014. 111-26. Print. This chapter focuses on the works of two late medieval alchemists: Thomas Norton and George Ripley.

I argue that the alchemical texts act as "substitutes for the alchemical goal itself: the creation of the Philosopher's Stone" and that "if the alchemical text is the Stone, then alchemical desire is fulfilled through reading the text."

Using the theories of Alexandre Leupin on the relationship(s) between language and sex, it explores the grammatical and figurative copulation used by Norton and Ripley to describe a critically-important stage of alchemy: that of conjunction or the alchemical hermaphrodite.

Book

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Reading Joss Whedon

"What the Hell: Angel's 'The Girl in Question'"

Co-edited with Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, and David Lavery. Syracuse University Press, 2014. This 500-page volume represents a major contribution to the field of Whedon Studies. It comprises 23 chapters, plus introductory material, critically discussing a wide variety of Joss Whedon's works--from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Much Ado About Nothing to Marvel's The Avengers. The editors and contributors are academics from universities throughout Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom; thus, the lengthy project

In Reading Joss Whedon. Ed. Rhonda V. Wilcox, et al.Syracuse UP, 2014. 134-46. Print.

This chapter (revised from an earlier conference paper) uses theories of existentialism to compare an episode of Joss Whedon's television series Angel to elements of Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit and Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.

"'Break Out the Champagne, Pinocchio': Angel and the Puppet Paradox."

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Article "Dwelling Places and Social Spaces: Revealing the Environments of Urban Workers in Victoria using Historical GIS" In Labour/Le Travail, vol. 72 (Fall/Automne 2013). In this interdisciplinary case study, a historical geographical information system [GIS] was used to reconstitute the residential and social space of workers in Victoria, B. C. in the late 19th century. The essay demonstrates the value of GIS as a research tool and new epistemology in the fields of labour and urban history.

historians, geographers, and writers that was gleaned from over forty years of British Columbia's leading scholarly journal, BC Studies. This chapter combines geographical information system [GIS] research and textual analysis to challenge the notion that Canada's oldest Chinatown was a 'forbidden' or even forbidding place to non-Chinese residents.

Academic Collaborators: John S. Lutz, Department of History, University of Victoria; Donald J. Lafreniere, Department of Geography, Western University; Jason A. Gilliland, Department of Geography, Western University Chapter

Academic Collaborators: Donald J. Lafreniere, Department of Geography, Western University (University of Western Ontario)Jason A. Gilliland, Department of Geography, Western UniversityJohn S. Lutz, Department of History, University of Victoria Book Ladysmith: Our Community, Your Credit Union - A History A modern history of Ladysmith, B.C. and the Ladysmith and District Credit Union. The book was published to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Credit Union in May 2014.

The cover features a painting by E. J. Hughes, "Ladysmith, B.C." Illustrated with nearly eighty historical photographs from the Ladysmith Archives, the book has been nominated for a Heritage BC Award.

"Turning Space Inside Out: Spatial History and Race in Victorian Victoria" Chapter published in Historical GIS in Canada, Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin, eds., (University of Calgary Press, 2013). This study combines research derived from a historical geographical information system [HGIS] and discourse theory to assess relations between racial communities (Caucasians, Chinese and First Nations) in Victoria, B. C. from the 1860s to the early 1900s.

Academic Collaborators: John S. Lutz, Department of History, University of Victoria; Donald J. Lafreniere, Department of Geography, Western University; Jason A. Gilliland, Department of Geography, Western University; Megan Harvey, Department of History, University of Victoria

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"Race and Space in Victoria's Chinatown, 1891"

"Victorian Sim Cities: Playful technology and Google Earth"

Chapter published in Home Truths: Highlights from BC History, edited by Richard Mackie and Graeme Wynn (Vancouver: Harbour Publishing, 2012). Home Truths is an anthology of work by Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Chapter published in Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology, ed., Kevin Kee (University of Michigan Press, 2013).

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models and geo-spatial applications) can create digital simulations of 19th century cities, and these virtual Victorian urban places can be effective learning and teaching tools for students in Geography, History and other disciplines.

This chapter focusses on a digital reconstruction of Victoria, British Columbia, c. 1891, built with the assistance of Digital Media colleagues at VIU. Academic Collaborators: John S. Lutz, Department of History, University of Victoria Community Based Education Victoria's Burnside Gorge neighbourhood in 1912-1913 A Community Heritage Project. This public history project focuses on Victoria's Burnside Gorge neighbourhood a century ago and was developed in conjunction with the Burnside Gorge Community Association [BGCA].

Volunteers (including seniors and students) identified and photographed over 100 residential dewellings that were built in 1913 or earlier. We described the architectural features of the dwellings and created biographies for the Edwardian-era households, using nominal data from the 1911 census and other historical records. We created an interactive, digital map of the households, with an application called ArcGIS Online, along with paper maps and brochures for self-guided walking tours. The digital map, household biographies, and brochures are available online at: www.cliomedia.ca

Reviewed manuscripts for scholarly journals on papers relating to: 1912 Vancouver Island Miners' Strike and the BC Militia; Vancouver Island regiments raised for WWI; Vancouver Island tourism initiatives; and Chinese-First Nations relationships in rural BC. Other Publication Book reviews J. F. Bosher's Imperial Vancouver Island: Who was Who, 1850-1950, reviewed in BC Studies, No. 179 (Autumn 2013). Patricia Skidmore's Marjorie - Too Afraid to Cry: A Home Child Experience (2012), reviewed in BC Studies, No. 177 (Spring 2013). James Wood's Militia Myths: Ideas of the CanadianMilitia Soldier, 1896-1912 (2010), reviewed in BC Studies, No. 178 (Summer 2013).

Professional Service Editorial board, BC Studies BC Studies, The British Columbian Quarterly is a refereed quarterly journal published under the auspices of the University of British Columbia.

It is the leading publication for articles and reviews in the field of British Columbia history.

Professional Service Member, City of Victoria Heritage Advisory Panel

Other Activity

This committee advises Victoria City Council on heritage-related matters as defined in the provincial Local Government Act. The committee also makes recommendations re: the designation of heritage buildings; structures and lands; and the preservation, alteration, renovation or demolition of heritage properties in the City of Victoria.

Peer reviewer

Professional Service

Community Collaborators: Burnside Gorge Community Association, Victoria, British Columbia.

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Victoria Labour History Walking Tour

Production/Performance

Hosted a walking tour of industrial-era Victoria, B.C., c. 1913, sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Labour History. The tour was included in the official program of activities for Congress 2013 (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference) held at the University of Victoria. In this Congress 2013 event, learned tourists were reminded that Victoria, "the city of gardens," was also a city of brothels and breweries, iron foundries and opium factories, sawmills and saloons, and that workers from many races shaped the character of the city. A follow-up presentation was made at the University of Victoria Legacy Gallery on 5 June 2013.

Meridian: A Multimedia Performance Event

Dr. Cheryl Warsh Professional Service Executive-Director, Western Association of Women Historians An elected, 4-year term as the 'linch-pin' for an American (now North American) historial association headquartered in Southern California. This is the first time a Canadian is serving in a senior executive position. For more information about the organization, see www.wawh.org

Presented at Hamilton's Factory Media Arts Centre, in conjunction with New Adventures in Sound Art's SOUNDPlay series.

Academic Collaborators: Marian van der Zon, VIU; Justin McGrail, VIU; Kevin Mazutine, VIU Production/Performance Meridian: A Multimedia Performance Event Presented at Toronto's NAISA Space, in conjunction with New Adventures in Sound Art's SOUNDPlay series.

Academic Collaborators: Marian van der Zon, VIU; Justin McGrail, VIU; Kevin Mazutine, VIU Production/Performance Meridian: A Multimedia Performance Event Presented at VIU's Malaspina Theatre, in conjunction with the Crimson Coast Dance Society.

Academic Collaborators: Marian van der Zon, VIUJustin McGrail, VIU; Kevin Mazutine, VIU

Media Studies/Digital Media Technology

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Robin Davies

Presented at OCADU in conjunction with New Adventures in Sound Art's SOUNDPlay series

Production/Performance Accidentally Sublime, or How the Creation and Exhibition of Video in the Classroom Increases Participants' Engagement A video presentation for VIU's Arts and Humanities Colloquium series.

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Meridian Artists' Talk

Academic Collaborators: Marian van der Zon, VIUJustin McGrail, VIUKevin Mazutine, VIU Workshop Audio Production Workshop Vancouver Island University | 19

Course facilitated for CHLY, Radio Malaspina.

Workshop Your Computer is a Musical Instrument Course facilitated for the Peninsula Elder College.

Dr. Ravindra Mohabeer Conference Presentation "Living with media at the edge of time: Thoughts on Media Flow and the West Coast" Presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Communication Association Annual General Meeting, Victoria, BC, June 2013.

Workshop "Before we begin, what are we going to do: The importance of Questions" The W5 of Academic Research Series, hosted at Vancouver Island University.

Doug Stetar Conference Presentation "Song of the Grass-Mud Horse: Language and Resistence in Chinese Social Media" Vancouver Island University, Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series, February 2014.

Royal Road University, Guest Speaker, June 2014.Beginning with Deng Xiaopeng's experiment in 'opening up' China in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, a wide range of Chinese citizens have sought to create a space for greater civic independence from official Chinese government practices. Today there are several hundred million Chinese social media users continually engaging in a rapidlyFaculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

evolving and fascinating process in which the online public is supporting, questioning, and at times vehemently challenging the Chinese government. As the government moves to keep these channels clear of certain topics considered 'sensitive', users respond by developing oblique references designed to circumvent official censorship. One of the most persistent and famous of these online 'resistance memes' is the Grass-Mud Horse mythology. With one-fifth of the world's population, what is going on today in China is arguably the most important political movement on the planet. And it's a movement that, because of language and culture, remains largely unseen in the West.

Production/Performance What is Education?

Begun in the fall of 2012, this ongoing videodocumentation project aims to document changing attitudes towards education within the VIU community and the general population. By build a collection of short reflections on the meaning, role and value of education, the goal is to provide a video history of changing attitudes towards education. Annually, participants from with the VIU community and beyond are invited to reflect on specific questions relating to education. Individual reflections will be available online, sortable by various criteria.

Modern Languages Dr. Ana Maria Donat Community Based Education Community Engagement - From Local to Global International Development Week Activities: With the collaboration of V.I.U. Spanish Club students, created a Spanish culture-centered display for the international theme showcase Panel. The Spanish Club displayed posters, and Vancouver Island University | 20

information on activities sponsored by the Spanish Club. The display showcased the educational international and multicultural nature of the V.I.U.S.U. Spanish Club.

Academic Collaborators: Meg Savory, International Faculty, International Projects and Grants Coordinator Community Collaborators: Students in the Executive body of the VIU Spanish Club Community Based Education VIU Students Union (VIUSU) Spanish Club Faculty sponsor of V.I.U.S.U., Spanish Club.

This Educational Club welcomes the students, the VIU Community and the community-at-large to educational and fun activities that foster and promote the acquisition and practice of the Spanish language and the exploration of the Spanish-speaking countries' culture. Yearly activities include: Movie Night presentations and Cine Forums, multicultural theme dinner nights, conversation sessions, and Salsa dance nights. The V.I.U.S.U. Spanish Club provides an experiential learning initiative and educational experience to students by enabling them to engage with the Spanish native-speaking community in a conducive setting; this activity enriches students' language learning and exposure to the Spanish language and culture.

The Spanish Club Movie Nights showcase the cultural background of the Spanish-speaking countries by showing award-winning films from a variety of Spanish-speaking countries, enabling the students to be exposed to different accents and colloquial expressions, which provides an educational and enriching experience.

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Worldbridger Film Club, which is sponsored by Dr. Colleen McVeigh.

Community Collaborators: Vancouver Island University Students forming the Executive of the Spanish Club and members of the community at large. Includes VIU students of the Spanish program, VIU International students who are native speakers, and the Spanishspeaking VIU community Curriculum Development Spanish specialty: Certificate in Languages and Culture Collaborated in the Curriculum Development for the new Certificate in Languages and Culture, Romance Languages, Spanish specialty.

Project The arts and its role in interdisciplinary subjects On-going research project focused on the study of the relationship between the arts and interdisciplinary subjects. Collaborated with colleagues in this research and scholarly activity sponsored by Dr. John Hill and the Scholarly Writing Group.

Academic Collaborators: Tamara Cameron, Dr. John Hill, Sasha Koerbler, Dr. Richard Lane, Leanne Rose

Music Gregory Bush Board/Committee Work Chair, VIU Music Department Redevelopment Committee

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Member, VIU Senate; Program Review Oversight Committee; Senate Planning and Priorities Committee Community Based Education

The Toronto Jazz Orchestra May 24, 2014. The Toronto Jazz Orchestra annual "O Canada" concert. The Canadian premiere of "Westcoasting", a composition for jazz orchestra by Greg Bush.

Director, Georgia Straight Big Band Continue to be the music and artistic director of the Georgia Straight Big Band, a communitybased performance ensemble.

Community Collaborators: The Toronto Jazz Orchestra.

Research Project

Other Activity

Assisted leave

"What Music Profs Really Do When They're on Leave"

Assisted leave January 1 - June 30, 2014.

Project is to compose 90 minutes of music for a seventeen-member jazz orchestra.

Lunch and Learn Series at VIU. Greg Bush is quite excited about his upcoming assisted leave, when his project is to compose 90 minutes of original music for a large jazz ensemble. This talk was on the creative process and preparation involved in composing and performing music.

By sharing his own interpretation of why music is a "language," the hope is that those in attendance will walk away with a better understanding and appreciation of what a jazz musician and composer actually does in creating music for listeners.

Production/Performance Music director Music director, VIU theater department production of "The Man from La Mancha", March 6 - 15, 2014.

Production/Performance Performer Continue to be an active performer, with recent performances in Campbell River, Courtenay, Parksville, and Nanaimo.

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Workshop Guest artist/director Guest artist/director for high school students at Camp Homewood, Quadra Island, BC.

Faculty of Education Education Dr. Nadine Cruickshanks Research Project "Tales of Transformation" through a Belize Field-School Practicum Weaving narrative and interpretive inquiry this research documents "Tales of Transformation" as shared by five VIU student teachers who embarked on a 5-week teaching practicum at Holy Cross Anglican Primary School in San Mateo, Belize (April-May, 2012). This international experience has compelled student teachers to look critically at B.C's education system and bring awareness to the prevailing assumptions at play when considering global educational initiatives. Three areas of Vancouver Island University | 22

transformation identified include: 1) Shifted Educational Views; 2) Changes in Teacher Presence; and 3) Perspective Consciousness or Altered Worldview. In support of future international field-school opportunities, participants highlight the challenges, implications, and recommendations that help inform:1) Planning, Communication, and Professional Development, 2) Preconceived Mindsets, and 3) Fund-raising. Participant narratives are compiled in chart-form as well as report-style, allowing for a more succinct summary of findings as well as clear interconnections between transformation, contributing experiences, and effects on future practice.

Dr. Paige Fisher Board/Committee Work Board Member, International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement This board is comprised of educators, researchers and policy-makers from 10 different countries who are charged with coordinating the International Congress organization including its annual gathering and its various ongoing networks such as a Data Use Network, an Educational Leadership Network and an Early Childhood Education Network.

Board/Committee Work Board Member, Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre A non-profit organization with a focus on early childhood development, prevention, collaboration, best practices, evaluation and culture. This organization has entered into partnerships with several Nanaimo community groups to offer services for Aboriginal youth of Nanaimo, including an explicit focus on enhancing educational options of Aboriginal children.

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Board/Committee Work Member, Rural Education Advisory Committee Serving as a member of the Rural Education Advisory Committee, which meets to share perspectives and devise strategies to support learners in rural and remote communities in British Columbia. A key project associated with this group is Growing Innovations, which supports innovative projects in schools in rural BC. See more at www.ruralteachers.com Conference Presentation "How can a community of learners enhance student literacy learning while celebrating Aboriginal languages and cultures?"

ICSEI Congress in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement). This international congress symposium presented a film showcasing the results of a study which examined efforts to enhance literacy achievement in rural and remote public schools with high percentages of Aboriginal students in British Columbia.

Community Collaborators: BC Ministry of Education, School District #82 Coast Mountain, School District #92 Nisga'a, School District # 85 Vancouver Island North, School District # 70 Alberni, School District # 91 Nechako Lakes, School District # 68 Nanaimo/Ladysmith Conference Presentation "The role of assessment for learning in evidence-based reading instruction" Presented at Changing Results for Young Readers Fall Symposium in Vancouver, BC. This symposium presentation was offered as a learning support to educators from across British Columbia as they explore methods of supporting struggling readers and enhancing reading achievement through collaborative inquiry.

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Community Collaborators: BC Ministry of Education Other Publication Co-Editor: ICSEI Express and Digest This online newsletter and journal for the International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) offers international scholars a peer-reviewed venue to publish 'digest' versions of work connected to school effectiveness and improvement to an international audience. The Digest offers three issues per year. www.icsei.net Professional Service Changing Results for Young Readers Design Team Member / Early Reading Facilitator: This research project is a 10 million dollar initiative funded by the BC Ministry of Education that includes educators from school districts in every region of British Columbia.

The focus of the project is to support reading achievement among K-3 students across the province while researching teacher perspectives on reading strategies. As an advisory board member, I have been involved in supporting the design and implementation of the project along with a group of accomplished BC scholars from various fields related to early literacy learning.

This has involved making presentations to groups from across the province during provincial meetings. As a facilitator, I have been supporting a group of teachers in Gold River, British Columbia as they strive to enhance their literacy instruction. See more at http://changingresultsforyoungreaders.bclibrarie s.ca/ Academic Collaborators: BC Ministry of Education

Increasing Literacy Outcomes and Learner Confidence in Remote Rural Schools in British Columbia This study examined efforts to enhance literacy achievement in rural and remote public schools with high percentages of Aboriginal students in British Columbia, Canada. A small network of educators in six school districts were supported by literacy and inquiry coaches as they sought to improve outcomes for learners by creating spaces of belonging and support. Participatory research methods such as focus groups and team analysis of professional learning and student achievement tell a story of emerging transformation among students and teachers as they draw on traditional knowledge and innovative practices to enhance literacy learning.

Workshop "Assessment for Learning in the SecondarySchool Context" Offered a seminar/workshop for Secondaryschool teachers to enhance their understanding of the theory and application of assessment for learning strategies in support of enhanced student achievement.

Workshop "We are all learners, we are all teachers: How to motivate students in the classroom" This professional learning seminar was offered as part of an international collaboration between Vancouver Island University and Tema Ridge School in Tema Ridge, Ghana. Educators from several schools came together to learn about current research and strategies to support engagement and achievement in K-12 classrooms.

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Academic Collaborators: Ron Sandland, Professor in the Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University

Dr. Rachel Moll

"Social media use among pre-service primary teachers" A paper published in 2013 in the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 10 (8), 3-12.

Article "A new approach to modelling student retention through an application of complexity thinking" A paper published in 2014 in Studies of Higher Education, 39 (1), 68-86.

Academic Collaborators: Jonas Forsman, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden; Cedric Linder, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden; Duncan Fraser, Department of Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Steffan Andersson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden Article "Probing Student Experience and Success in an Engineering Programme through Development of a Questionnaire and Complexity Analysis" A paper included in the Proceedings of the Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2103 - Kuala Lumpur.

Academic Collaborators: Duncan Fraser, Department of Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Jonas Forsman, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden; Maartje van den Bogaard, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Holland; Cedric Linder, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden Article

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Academic Collaborators: Wendy Nielsen, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia; Teresa Farrell, Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University; Nicole McDaid, Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University; Garry Hoban, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia Board/Committee Work Member, Faculty Council of Teaching and Learning Conference Presentation "Physics Students' Social Media Learning Behaviours" A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Victoria, BC. Academic Collaborators: Nicole McDaid, Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University; Teresa Farrell, Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University; Wendy Nielsen, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia; Cedric Linder, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden Conference Presentation "Social Media Use Among Preservice Primary Teachers for Learning Science Content" A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Victoria, BC Vancouver Island University | 25

Academic Collaborators: Wendy Nielsen and Garry Hoban, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia

Learning and Teaching Science in the 21st Century: Realities and Possibilities of Social Media

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded research project (2011-2014).

"Animal Assisted Literacy: Its Effects on Reading Achievement and Attitudes Towards Reading" Sigal Smith, Master's of Educational Leadership, VIU. Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

Academic Collaborators: Wendy Nielsen, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia; Cedric Linder, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden

Dr. Amina Turton

"Factors that Affect Union Participation by Teachers"

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Denise Wood, Master's in Educational Leadership, VIU

"Working with Learners with Physical and Health Impairments in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math"

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Motivation and Engagement in Inquiry-Based Learning with One-to-One iPads" Romola Wright, Master's in Educational Leadership, VIU Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Student Engagement: Experiencing the Joy of Learning through Learning in Depth" Terri Zolob, Master's of Educational Leadership, VIU Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Using Play-based Learning to Improve Student Writing" Katherine Loos, Master's in Educational Leadership, VIU Research Project

Invited chapter in S. Green (ed) S.T.E.M. Education: Strategies for Teaching Learners with Special Needs. Nova Science Publishers, 2014. This chapter addresses the issues surrounding the increased access of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for students with physical and health impairments. Descriptions of the breadth of physical and health impairments that are currently being served under the Individuals with Disabilities Act 2004 (IDEA, 2004) within our schools, homes and hospitals are discussed.

Focus is given to STEM approaches that have been developed as a response to the decline in K-12 students and graduates within the United States STEM 'pipeline'. This chapter further looks at how these approaches are suitable to the teaching of those individuals with physical and health impairments.

Academic Collaborators: Editor, Satasha Green, Chicago State University (Dean) Conference Presentation

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"Our Healing Generation" Turton, A.M., and Harty, R. (2014). Presented at Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI. Where does 'our healing' come from? The voice of the mainstream speaks of 'best practices' though it's actual content is based on 'non-traditional' 'non-indigenous' ways of being, which are applied to Alaskan Native, Native American and First Nations peoples. The National Resource Center for American India, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian Elders suggests undertaking the physical, socio-cultural and economic factors involved in the life of Alaskan Native Elders. The Alaskan Native Heritage Center Offers a school program that provides at-risk youth the opportunities to be steeped in traditional and character-building experiences. Experience and evidence tells us this is indeed not only feasible but occurs through the interaction of teaching and learning, listening, sharing as well as hearing and feeling.

The Cook Inlet Tribal Council provides a setting where new educational skills and access to technology are grounded within a traditionidentity framework.

Community Collaborators: Robert Harty, Academic Advisor of Cook Inlet Tribal Council High School Program Other Activity Reviewer Manuscript Reviewer for Teaching Exceptional Children, Multiple Voices Journal, and Exceptional Children Proposal Reviewer for Council of Children with Behavioral Disorders Conference Professional Service Division of Culturally Linguistically Diverse Learners (DDEL) (elected): Research and Professional Issues Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

DDEL is one of the special interest groups of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, including students with disabilities and those identified as gifted. http://community.cec.sped.org/DDEL/homepage Was elected to the Research and Policies position. This position works within CEC to develop and research and policy agenda that represents and advocates for students that have English Learners backgrounds and those that are culturally diverse. This year we created a collaboration with the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders (CCBD) to further boost the production of our peer-reviewed journals (Multiple Voices and Behavioral Disorders and Beyond Behavior) and understanding of overrepresentation within special education.

Professional Service Executive Committee, Council of Children with Behavioral Disorders (CCBD) (elected): Member-at-Large, Ethnic and Multicultural Concerns Council of Children with Behavioral Disorders (CCBD) is an international community of educators that is the voice and vision of special education for children and youth with or at risk of emotional and behavioral disorders. CCBD is a diverse, vibrant professional organization that works together and with others to ensure that these students are valued and included in all aspects of life. www.ccbd.net/about/executivecommitteeCCBD is a trusted leader in shaping education policy and practice and is globally renowned for its expertise and leadership in Promoting and publishing research that improves policy and practice for children and youth with or at risk of emotional and behavioral disorders; Providing professional development opportunities that Vancouver Island University | 27

improve policy and practice for children and youth with or at risk of emotional and behavioral disorders; Advocating on behalf of individuals with emotional and behavioral disorders and partnering with other organizations and individuals who share this commitment; and Extending critical professional support to our colleagues in these endeavors, the members of CCBD. Academic Collaborators: Multiple both North American and International (see link below) Community Collaborators: Gail Krivel-Zacks Vancouver Island University (Special Education)Elisabeth Kroeker - Vancouver Island University (Special Education)

Sport, Health and Physical Education Rick Bevis Board/Committee Work Board Member, Volleyball BC A member of the Board of Directors of Volleyball BC, one of the largest Provincial Sport Organizations in our province. Board representative on the High Performance Committee, who's focus is on policy development and implementation regarding Team BC athlete selection and program development.

Community Based Education Coach Education Programs Delivered National Coaching Certification Programs to coaches, Level 1 and 2 Technical, and served as a mentor coach for coaches in the NCCP/Volleyball Canada Level 3 certification program.

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Community Coach and Administrator Provided coaching and administrative leadership for the Mt. Benson Volleyball Club and the Vancouver Island Beach Volleyball Club. Guest Coach at the Woodlands Secondary Beach Volleyball Academy.

Professional Service Head Coach, Canadian Deaf Men's Beach Volleyball Team Served as the Head Coach for the Canadian Deaf Men's Beach Volleyball Team, which participated in the 2013 Deaflympics held in Sophia, Bulgaria.

Professional Service Team BC Volleyball Developed the curriculum and acted as Head Coach for Volleyball BC's U14 Baden Cup Beach program. This is the entry point for Team BC in Volleyball BC's Provincial Team model.

Eiko Eby Community Based Education National Coaching Certification Program The National Coaching Certification Program is part of the Coaching Association of Canada.

January 2014 - Conducted Fundamental Movement Skills - Community Leadership Workshop. February 2014 - Training in Learning Facilitation Modules. February 2014 Training and Co-facilitated the pilot project Learn to Train Module Field Hockey. February 2014 - Training in Ethics and Concussion Modules. April 2014 - Conducted Field Hockey - Community Coach Workshop. April 2014 Conducted Field Hockey - CompetitionIntroduction Workshop.

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Other Activity Community Sport Coach and Club Executive A volunteer coach in community field hockey (both indoor and outdoor) in Nanaimo and central Vancouver Island. President of Nanaimo Women's Field Hockey Association. The age range includes youth to adult level. The knowledge gained is for development of PHED 150 Field Hockey.

Professional Service Committee chair, Nanaimo Professional Physical Educators The committee chair for the organization that includes VIU Sport, Health, and Physical Education (SHAPE) Faculty; School District Physical Education Specialists; and leaders of physical-activity community organizations. The goal of this organization is to have a community group for advocacy of healthy, active lifestyles in Nanaimo. This is a liaison group between School District #68 and the V.I.U. SHAPE department to help develop professionaldevelopment opportunities around physical activity.

Professional Service Conference Organizer Fundamentals Movement Skills Conference. A conference organizer for the January 26, 2014 conference held at Vancouver Island University to provide education and physical education students with National Coaching Certification Program-trained status in Fundamental Movement Skills - Community Leader.

Workshop Fundamental Movement Skills Community Leader Workshop Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

The Sport, Health, and Physical Education (SHAPE) Faculty certified 56 students as 'Community Leaders' in the National Coaching Certification Program - Fundamental Movement Skills. This was the SHAPE department's third year delivering it as a circuit approach. The workshop taught leaders and educators to teach and improve fundamental movement skills for children. Workshop content focused on responsibility and safety as well as aspects of teaching movement skills such as throwing, catching, striking, kicking, agility, balance, coordination, and creating safe, fun games.

Academic Collaborators: Mike Armstrong, Don Cohen, Guy Le Masurier, Les Malbon, Louis Mattar, Brad Reimer

Dr. Guy Le Masurier Board/Committee Work Member, VIU Research Awards Committee Book Fitness for Life 6th Edition Co-authored the 6th edition of Fitness for Life, which is a high school fitness education curriculum that focuses on health- and skillrelated fitness concepts, self-management skills and becoming an informed consumer of health, fitness and wellness information. In addition to co-authoring the textbook, I created the teacher ancillaries, which include 105 lesson plans (activity and classroom), student worksheets, PowerPoint slides, activity cards, a comprehensive test bank, and student web resources.

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(www.fitnessforlife.org). As lead author I have worked with the publisher (Human Kinetics) to secure co-authors from across Canada, establish the table of contents, create consensus around special features, and to determine the scope of the project (i.e., book formats and teacher ancillaries). The anticipated publication date is Spring 2016.

Conference Presentation "Bandwagon or Bust? Challenges and opportunities for online Physical Education"

and a reduction in quality of life. Conversely, it shares the positive effects of human movement on human health, cognitive health, academic achievement, social connection, and connection to nature. In addition to delivering a keynote address to the teachers in the Telluride school district in Colorado, I delivered two workshops for classroom teachers (i.e., elementary and secondary) to share strategies for incorporating movement into their classroom lessons.

Conference Presentation Keynote presentation "Tennis Lessons for Life"

A podium presentation at the Society for Health and Physical Educators America (SHAPE America) National Meeting in St. Louis, MO. This presentation focused on the challenges and opportunities with the online delivery of Fitness Education, an important part of a comprehensive Physical education program at the secondary level. Lynda Ransdell, Dean and Professor at Montana State University, was a co-presenter.

Conference Presentation "Help Me, Help You!" Alongside Paige Fisher PhD, from the Faculty of Education at VIU, we delivered a presentation for the Directorate of Agencies for School Health that was aimed at informing BC public school educators and BC Health Authority personnel about the potential collaborations available to them under the Healthy Schools BC Learning Framework.

Academic Collaborators: Paige Fisher, PhD VIU Faculty of Education Conference Presentation Keynote Presentation "Ambassadors of the Movement movement" This keynote focuses on the powerful scientific evidence linking physical inactivity to disease Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

This keynote presentation was delivered to Comox Valley community members during their Tennis for Life event on May 7, 2014. The event celebrated their national award from Tennis Canada titled "Building Tennis Communities Excellence Award". In addition, the Comox Valley was named the "Tennis Friendly Community of the Year" in 2014 by Tennis Canada. This keynote presentation highlighted lessons learned from a lifetime of tennis that began on the courts in the Comox Valley.

Conference Presentation Podium Presentation and Workshop Delivered workshop and gave podium presentation for Physical Education British Columbia, which is a Provincial Specialists Association of the BC Teachers' Federation.

Professional Service "How Sitting Became the New Smoking" This presentation for The 5 W's of Research series at VIU highlighted research focused on physical activity measurement and physical activity epidemiology. The presentation described the co-evolution of physical activity measurement and physical activity epidemiology, as well as how physical activity Vancouver Island University | 30

recommendations are developed. The presentation illustrates how 'advances' in technology have negatively impacted our health and how we might overcome some of the challenges to our risky, sedentary lifestyles.

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Brenda Lane

Abstract Reviewer Served as a reviewer of research abstracts in the Exercise Science category for the 2014 Annual meeting of the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD).

Professional Service Program Chair, Physical Activity and Health Promotion Served the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) as the Review Program Chair for Physical Activity and Health Promotion Research abstracts for the 2014 Annual Meeting of AAHPERD in St. Louis, MO. Workshop "When I say 'Go'. Maximizing physical activity in movement settings" This workshop was attended by elementary classroom teachers and secondary Physical Education specialists from the Sea-to-Sky (Squamish/Whistler) school district (SD#48).

The workshop provided strategies and resources for maximizing physical activity in movement settings.

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Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Board/Committee Work VIU Curriculum Committee Representative for the Faculty of Health and Human Services.

Board/Committee Work Conference planning committee Member of the planning committee for the Canadian Association of Medical-Surgical Nurses (CAMSN) conference to be held at the University of Calgary June 20, 2014.

Board/Committee Work Western region representative Appointed as the Western region representative to the Canadian Nurses Association's MedicalSurgical Nursing Certification Examination Committee for a six-year term.

Conference Presentation "Devastating Pancreatitis" A poster presentation was shared at the American 24th Annual Medical-Surgical Nursing Conference April 10 and 11, 2014 at the San Francisco Conference Center, California.

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death. Participants were guided through sequenced questions with answers accessed by flip-up tabs for the appropriate interventions and underlying pathophysiology of devastating pancreatitis.

Conference Presentation "Guest Speakers Dress Up Complex Health Challenges - Presenting Mr. Fail Livor and Mrs. Rena Lafailure" An oral presentation shared at the Collaboration for Academic Education in Nursing conference held April 24 and 25th, 2014 at North Island College in Comox, BC. In this presentation, the speaker dressed up as a liver failure patient to share the teaching method used in class to challenge students with integration of the clinical manifestations of liver dysfunction and link the pathophysiology, diagnostic tests, and collaborative interventions. A picture of the presenter dressed as a renal failure patient for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing class was also discussed. This teaching method matched with the confernece theme of Innovation in Teaching.

Professional Service Nurse Expert Opinion Provided nurse expert opinion for three legal cases involving epidural abscess, venous thromboembolism, and pulmonary embolism.

Barbara Metcalf Conference Presentation "Applying Calibrated Peer Review to the CAEN Curriculum: An Innovative Teaching Strategy" Paper presented at the 2014 Collaboration for Academic Education in Nursing Conference: CAEN Version 2.0: Innovations in Teaching the CAEN curriculum; Courtenay, BC, April 2014.

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and 2nd year BSN students at VIU explored the merits of using Calibrated Peer Review (CPR).

CPR is an innovative pedagogical strategy structured to enhance students' writing across the curriculum through a process of peer review.

CPR was integrated across three 1st semester nursing theory courses and one 3rd semester theory course. The desired outcomes of the CPR pilot intervention were: improved student writing, enhanced student ability to critical analyze assignments and rubrics, and student growth in the professional competencies of academic peer review and the receipt of peer feedback. These outcomes were assessed through faculty focus-group discussion, student surveys, and student reflection on the process.

The CPR process (including background information, implementation challenges and successes, and recommendations) were the subject of this presentation.

Academic Collaborators: Carol Eschak, MN, Professor, BSN, VIU; Margaret Huml, BSN, Professor, BSN, VIU

Disability Studies Alison Taplay Board/Committee Work Secretary, Board of Directors, First Credit Union; Member, VIU Faculty Association Professional and Scholarly Development Committee; Micro Board Member, Rebecca Glaze Support Society Conference Presentation "Defining Diversity: Creating Community" At Royal Roads University, Leadership Conference, in Victoria, October 2013. Shared information about this community-engaged project funded by the Vancouver Foundation.

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innovation with the potential for replication. The presentation shared knowledge and ideas about citizen engagement, diversity, and capacity thinking.

The Child and Youth Care Educational Accreditation Board is involved in developing standards based upon an outcomes-model for educational programs.

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School and Community Support Worker

Groundswell 2014 Conference The conference was designed to enhance the Defining Diversity: Creating Community ongoing research project. Lead a community planning committee to design and implement this innovative conference designed to inspire creativity, ideas, and relationships that advance the well-being of the Powell River region. The conference was intentionally crafted to provide participants with an experience akin to community-engaged research. The conference was funded by an award from VIURAC.

Leif Rasmussen

Health and Human Services Administration

Member, Research Awards Committee

Dr. Carol Stuart Conference Presentation "Re-considering Life-Space Intervention for Young People" World Child and Youth Care Conference, in St. Johns, Newfoundland, June 25-28, 2013.

Other Activity Managing Editor, Relational Child and Youth Care Practice A quarterly publication with peer-reviewed articles, columnists, and practice-based articles.

Professional Service Member, Board of Directors

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Board/Committee Work Chair, Student Travel and Research Awards Committee Responsible for duties of organizing and chairing meetings providing student applicants with travel and research awards.

Board/Committee Work

Responsible for providing awards for applicants for research awards at VIU Board/Committee Work Member, VIU Student Awards Committee Participation in the working/advisory committee existing to support the Financial Aid and Awards Office in the equitable allocation of student awards. This includes the selection of all student awards that, per criteria, are subjective in nature and require discretionary decisions to determine the most suitable candidate(s).

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able to present with her. The presentation reviews and explores current research literature on parents and family views of transition to adulthood, followed by a discussion focused on collecting parent perceptions of current transition practices.

Academic Collaborators: Kathleen Haggith

Faculty of International Education and English Language Centre English Language Centre Dawn Johnson Conference Presentation "Staying in the Game: Supporting Academic Reading Skills Acquisition" This presentation shared research on influences that support the acquisition of academic reading skills sufficient enough to ensure success for international students in their studies at Englishspeaking universities. The focus included extensive reading and the factors that support it.

Presented at the Association of B.C. Teachers of English as an Additional Language conference, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, May 24th 2014.

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event "He will have grown so tall by the time we see him next!" and when the present participle can be used to refer to a past event, "The mother duck swam across the pond quacking at her ducklings behind her," how can we expect our students to follow the path? The simple present tense is not simple, doesn't specifically refer to the present and mostly doesn't really care about time. The definition of the simple present tense consists of explanations of habits or repeated actions, but the progressive is an ongoing event.

So when I say, "I attend university this semester," is this a habitual or repeated action every Monday, Wednesday and Friday? If I say," I am attending university this semester," does that mean I am always doing it as in an ongoing action? The road to understanding the language of verbs is long and heavy. Alternate explanations of the English grammar system are the prime focus of this presentation.

Curriculum Development A Simple English Lesson Authored A Simple English Lesson, which is now a website presenting a variety of alternate views of English grammar and teaching. The information is presented in four 'courses,' three of which now have some initial content. Twenty years of teaching, classroom observation, and reflection have gone into this project so far.

Another ten to twenty years are needed to polish it.

Workshop

"English Grammar Uncloaked"

"Re-focus on Reading Comprehension and Writing Production"

At the TESL Canada Conference Land of Living Languages, May 2014; University of Regina, SK. Is it any wonder that our students feel like Mr. Bean on his way to the amusement park?

This way? That way? What? Over there? When you can use the past participle to refer to a future

Presented October 19, 2013 at a TEAL conference, University of Northern BC in Prince George. This workshop focuses on getting students to examine any reading in a new way.

The tool used is a one-page chart on which they record various elements of the reading passage.

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Participants will first learn the system, then analyze a text and record their work on the simple chart, ending with a report from each group. This is not parsing, instead a more useful unit is used: an expanded preposition phrase.

This becomes the basis for teaching complex sentence structures. In 1998 (at a TEAL workshop), the inspiration for this alternate view of English occurred. Through working with ESL and EFL students, it developed into a way of examining English that sparks students' minds, making it easier for them to comprehend and generate complex sentences. From sub-sentence level grammar to complex sentences with subordinate clauses, relative clauses, appositives and adverbial phrases or direct objects, this simple system works with decoding and generating processes. See "An Alternate View of English Grammar," in Arabia's Proceedings of 17th International TESOL Conference (2012).

International Education Administration Dr. Graham Pike Article "Global Education in Times of Discomfort" Journal of International Social Studies, 3, 2 (2013). This article focuses on how the influences of prevailing economic and political forces have determined the development of global education as a grassroots movement for educational change in the K-12 system and offers some thoughts on how the movement might tackle some key challenges that inhibit its broader acceptance. In the current era of neoliberalism, it is argued that the visionary goals of global education are now more urgently needed in order to provide future decision makers with the tools required to make ethicallysound judgments on matters that will determine the fate of humankind. The article is based on Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

the Jan L. Tucker Memorial Lecture presented to the International Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Seattle, November 2012.

Conference Presentation "International Relations: Inspiring International Students and their Families to Invest in Vancouver Island" Presentation at the Vancouver Island Economic Summit, Nanaimo, October 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Pedro Marquez, Dean, Faculty of Management, Royal Roads University; Andrew Marton, Associate VicePresident International, University of Victoria Conference Presentation "Social Responsibility or Institutional Prosperity? Towards an Ethical Model of Internationalization."

Canadian Bureau for International Education Annual Conference, Vancouver, November 2013. The presentation explored some of the ethical dilemmas faced by individuals and institutions engaging with the internationalization process in higher education as they strive to balance the economic benefits to be gained from international education activities with the more altruistic, and often stated, goals of fostering social justice and global citizenship. Using data from both macroand micro-studies, the presenters outlined some key ethical issues faced by personnel involved in international education practice around the world and explored some of the challenges arising from a lack of congruence between individual and institutional goals for internationalization.

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Academic Collaborators: Rhonda Friesen, Manager, Office of International Relations, University of Manitoba.

Paper External Reviewers' Report on the Master's Program in Education at Lakehead University, June 2013.

Revision of the requirements for the BBA Major in Financial Services Held faculty and students discussions that lead to a revision of which specific Finance (FNCE) courses were mandatory requirements for the BBA Major in Financial Services that now allows for greater student flexibility in finance elective choices.

A report prepared for the Vice-President Academic, Lakehead University, in accordance with the University's Quality Assurance Process.

Research Project

Academic Collaborators: Stephen Elliott, Dean of Education, Queen's University; Doug Ivison, Chair of English, Lakehead University.

Held responsibility to supervise students and research development in the Faculty of Management's Global Financial Research Office. The primary purpose of the Office is to expose BBA, MBA students, faculty and community members to the broad array of professional-grade global financial data and research, and utilize this data in our teaching, research and student learning. Numerous reports were written by student interns, and data was provided for research in company financial performance, equity analysis, foreign exchange rates, capital market expectations, risk management in international banking and advanced analytic tools for portfolio analysis and back-testing. Many Faculty of Management faculty have utilized this Office for their personal research projects and for student exposure through demonstrations and course assignments.There were 7 Research Assistants (student interns) during the academic year.

Faculty of Management Finance and Quantitative Methods Dr. Keith Jensen Curriculum Development Four new electives in Finance (FNCE) Developed four courses to be taught in partnership with the Canadian Institute of Financial Planners that specifically meet the academic rigor of our BBA program and the necessary preparatory studies required to the Certified Financial Planner designation in Canada. FNCE 360 Professional Financial Planning; FNCE 361 Estate Planning and Risk Management; FNCE 460 Strategic Investment Planning and Wealth Management; and FNCE 461 Income Tax Planning.

Academic Collaborators: James Warring, MBA, CFP, Professor, Department of Finance, VIU. Daniel Martinez, MBA, CFP, Part-Time Faculty, Department of Finance, VIU. Curriculum Development Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Global Financial Research Office

Academic Collaborators: Ahmad Saud Alhussain worked for his MGMT 499 Management Internship from May through early August. Nikolaus Reinartz utilized the Center to aid in his last finance elective prior to entering graduate studies in Germany. Yulin Geng and Yuhua (Steven) Zong

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Article

Dr. Martin Martens

"Venture and Development Capital"

Article

Contributor to forthcoming dictionary project Blackwell's Business Dictionary. Krishna Paudyaled; 2014.

"Whose firm is it anyway? Analyzing ownership effects on IPO performance"

Conference Presentation "Business Strategies for Emerging Markets" Presentation at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) University, Sao Paulo Brazil Conference Presentation "Creating Value through Investment Structure: The Role of Convertible Preference Shares" Presentation to 180 members of the Hong Kong Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Conference Presentation "Private Equity in China" A presentation to membership of the British Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong Conference Presentation "Problem Solving Skills for International Managers" Seminar provided for senior management, TIM Communications, Rio de Janeiro Curriculum Development PowerPoint Slides Completed PowerPoint slides to accompany an international finance text Eun, Resnick, Brean.

International Financial Management; McGraw Hill, 2014.

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Sur, S. and Martens, M. L. (2013), Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. 30 (4) pp.

264-279. This study revisits current practice that ownership holding at Initial Public Offering (IPO) has a homogeneous impact on IPO performance. Using signalling theory, we develop and test a conceptual model explaining the relationships between the aggregated ownership structure and IPO price premium. We argue that aggregated ownership has a direct effect on issue price premium, and offer specific hypotheses on the effect of the shares sold during the offering by each type of owner on IPO performance. We use archival data from a sample of US firms that issued IPOs between 1996 and 2000 and find a significant direct effect of ownership configuration, namely, heterogeneity in effect of each ownership type on IPO performance as well as interaction effects between different ownership types.

Production/Performance What Happens After Produced a different kind of training video for patrollers for the Volunteer Ski Patrol annual training weekend at our resort. This documentary gives a voice to the people they help and provides a perspective of ski patrol from the patient's point of view. When the ski patrol helps an injured person off the mountain, treats them in the First Aid Room, and sends them off to the hospital, the patroller rarely hears from the patient about the outcome after they have left. In the video, several patients tell their side of the story to tell patrollers "What Happens After." The video was created and produced keeping in mind the concept of pro-social Vancouver Island University | 37

motivation. Volunteers in public service organizations are strongly motivated by helping others. They feel good about themselves when they help others. They find more meaningfulness in their work and hearing from those they help provides confirmation of that meaningfulness.

The video is meant to help people understand at a deeper level what ski patrollers generally feel about their work.

Member, Board of Governors, Vancouver Island University

Community Collaborators: Lukas Roy, Student at North Island College; Robert Hilscher, Film Editor, True North Productions

Awards committee for research at the graduate and doctoral level in the field of Blindness in Canada. Offered by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. www.cnib.ca/en/research/funding/rosspurse/Pages/default.aspx

Research Project Collaboration in Grant by Industry Canada, Office of Consumer Affairs The project is directed toward the investigation of consumer groups who organized following the occurrence of widespread failures in the construction industry. The goal is to understand how these groups emerge, how they contribute to the redefinition of a problematic issue in society, and how they influence the adoption of public policies. The theoretical framework uses social movement theory and collective action.

This approach also helps to focus on the problem definition, changes to its meaning, and the consequences of the social movement development. The study of the responses of the government would assess whether these groups were able to exercise some or all of their claims, and to consider the scope of the solutions adopted.

Member of the VIU Board of Governors, serving on the Governance Committee and the Policy Development and Review Committee Professional Service Chair, Ross C. Purse Doctoral Fellowship

Project Assessment of Organizational Culture within the Faculty of Management Facilitated the implementation of an organizational culture assessment as a contributor to the Faculty of Management Strategic Steering Committee.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Dave Twynam, Strategic Steering Committee Chair, Dean, Faculty of Management; Dr. Aggie Weighill, Recreation and Tourism; Chris Jeager, Faculty of Management; Duane Weaver, Faculty of Management; Bryan Weber, Faculty of Management; Peter Briscoe, Chair, Hospitality Management; Dr. Rob Ferguson, Chair, Recreation and Tourism

Academic Collaborators: Cecile Pilarski, Association des consommateurs pour la qualitĂŠ dans la construction, Quebec; Adrien Vallat, Association des consommateurs pour la qualitĂŠ dans la construction, Quebec

Recreation and Tourism

Dr. Steven Purse

"Mining the Ore and Pining for Women" and "Riding the Boom"

Dr. Suzanne de La Barre Conference Presentation

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"Mining the Ore and Pining for Women: Feminizing Place and Attracting Women to the Swedish Periphery" with Sandberg, L. "Riding the Boom: Tourism entrepreneurs' perspectives on the role of tourism support organizations during intense mining investment periods in Arctic regions" Both presented at the 5th Nordic Geographers Meeting, June 11-14, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Cultural Planning in a Small Post Industrial City" Monica Shore, M.A., Sustainable Leisure Management, Vancouver Island University.

"Agritourism Development in the Cowichan Valley" Anna Romanova, M.A., Sustainable Leisure Management, Vancouver Island University.

Other Activity Committee work International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN) - Steering Committee member; conference planning committee; Tourism and Arctic Observation Systems - paper coordinator (conference to take place in August, 2014).

Swedish Environmental Foundation, MISTRA Arctic Futures - panel presentation coordinator (in progress for 2014). World Leisure Centre of Excellence at VIU Other Activity Graduate student field-based learning Coordinated field-based learning in Ucluelet and Tofino for Master of Arts in Sustainable Leisure SLM 604: Influencing change towards sustainability, January 14-17. Students participated in a four-day field trip to the West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The field trip was designed to give students an opportunity to experience the applied dimensions of course theories and Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

concepts on change, innovation and sustainability. In collaboration with the Whistler Centre for Sustainability, students undertook a feedback solicitation activity for the District of Tofino (Community Sustainability Plan).

Other Activity Manuscript reviewer Reviewer for journals and scholarly conferences: Journal of Tourism and Culture; Northern Review; and member, Scientific committee, Rural Tourism Conference, Portugal, 2014.

Other Activity Other presentations MISTRA research: Mini-symposium - Tourism development in Norrbotten. Lule책 and Pajala, Sweden (May 20-21).Place identity, wilderness and cultural tour guides, and sustainable tourism in the Yukon. Yukon College Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series, Yukon College, Yukon (October 23).

Other Publication "Minding the Boom: Governance, Organizations, and Tourism in Sweden's Heart of Lapland" In Lemelin, H., Maher, P. and Liggett, D. (Eds), The 3rd International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPRTN) Conference Proceedings; From talk to action: How tourism is changing the Polar Regions (pp. 21-40). Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada: Centre for Northern Studies Press.

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Funded by Swedish Environmental Foundation, MISTRA (2010-2014).In collaboration with: Department of Geography and Economic History, Ume책 University Keywords: Arctic, community economic development, mining, tourism

Dr. Tom Delamere Conference Presentation "Cittaslow: Ecogastronomy, Life, and Leisure A Comparative Case Study" Presentation at the 14th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, May 2014. Cowichan Bay BC was the first Cittaslow "Slow City" designation in North America and is focused on preserving the unique identity of the area and improving the quality of life for its residents, local businesses, and visitors. Wolfville NS went through part of the Cittaslow ratification process in 2009, receiving support from many of the key stakeholders, and a positive evaluation from the Cittaslow assessors. However, local political issues coupled with constraints on the available time of the key individuals led to the ratification process being stalled. Qualitative content analysis of the recorded interviews and field notes was utilized to establish key themes; establish the antecedent conditions to the awarding of the Cittaslow designation; understand relationships between local residents, businesses, and tourists; and the desired lifestyles of those stakeholder groups from the perspectives of the Cittaslow proponents in their communities.With Mr. Peter Briscoe, VIU and Dr. Susan Markham-Starr, Acadia University.

Rob Ferguson Board/Committee Work Member, Academic Integrity Committee Member, VIU Faculty of Management Academic Integrity Committee, 2013-2014 Board/Committee Work Member, Curriculum Committee Member, VIU Faculty of Management Curriculum Committee, 2013-2014 Conference Presentation I am Here: Mapping the Self Within Knowledge Mobilization Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Congress 2013, University of Victoria, June 2013 Professional Service Chair: Qualicum Beach Family Day 2014 Chair of the Qualicum Beach Select Committee on Family Day Celebration Planning www.qbfamilyday.com Professional Service Co-Chair, Articulation Committee Co-Chair, BC Tourism Management Programs Articulation Committee, 2013-2014.

Dr. Grant Murray Article

Academic Collaborators: Mr. Peter Briscoe, Professor, Hospitality Management, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Susan Markham-Starr, Professor Emerita, Recreation Management, Acadia University Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

"Cooperatives, concessions, and comanagement on the Pacific coast of Mexico" Co-authored article in Marine Policy (2014): 44: 49-59 Vancouver Island University | 40

Academic Collaborators: McCay, B.; Micheli, F.; Ponce-Diaz, G.; Shester, G.; RamirezSanchez, S. and Weisman, W. Article "Historical perspectives and recent trends in the small-scale Mozambican fishery" Co-authored article in Ecology and Society (2014) 18(4): 65 Academic Collaborators: Blythe, J. L. and M. S. Flaherty Article "Navigating change: Well-being, values, and the management of marine social-ecological systems" Co-authored article in PICES Press (2014) 22(1): 15 Academic Collaborators: D'Anna, L., MacDonald, P., and Patterson, M. Article "Strengthening threatened communities through adaptation: Insights from coastal Mozambique" Co-authored article in Ecology and Society (2014) 19(2): 6 Academic Collaborators: Blythe, J; Flaherty, M. Article "The capacity to adapt?: Communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand" Co-authored article in Ecology and Society (2014): 19(2):5

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Academic Collaborators: Bennett, N.; Dearden, P.; and Kadfak, A. Board/Committee Work Canadian representative, Section on Human Dimensions North Pacific Marine Sciences Organization (PICES) Conference Presentation "Application of a landscape level ecosystem based management governance assessment framework to the Southern Gulf Islands, B.C: some preliminary findings" Co-author on a presentation to the BC Protected Areas Research Forum, Thompson Rivers University, 2013 Academic Collaborators: Randall, C.; Robinson, L.; Dearden, P.; Rollins, R., and King, L. Conference Presentation "Capturing social values in the seafood sector: New tools for new times" Co-authored presentation to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES): Communicating Forecasts, Uncertainty and Consequences of Ecosystem Change, October 11-20, Nanaimo, Canada.

Academic Collaborators: MacDonald, P. and Patterson, M. Conference Presentation "Community evaluation of protected area governance in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania"

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Co-authored presentation to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada,Victoria, Canada June 25, 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Kisingo, A., Dearden, P., and Rollins, R. Conference Presentation "Connecting Landscapes: An examination of the role of protected area governance" Co-authored presentation to the BC Protected Areas Research Forum, Thompson Rivers University, 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Rollins, R.; Kisingo, A.; Dearden, P.; and Clark, M. Conference Presentation "Exploring the evolution and current state of the Tla-o-qui-aht payment for ecosystem services pilot project" Co-authored presentation to the BC Protected Areas Research Forum, Thompson Rivers University, 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Burrows, D. and Randall, C. Conference Presentation "Exploring the potential for tourism-related payment for ecosystem services in Tla-o-quiaht Tribal Parks" Co-authored presentation to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Victoria, Canada, June 2-5.

Academic Collaborators: Burrows, D. and Randall, C. Conference Presentation Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

"First Nations values in protected area governance: Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks and Pacific Rim National Park Reserve" Co-authored presentation to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Victoria, Canada, June 2-5.

Academic Collaborators: King, L. Conference Presentation "Polycentric Governance and Socio-Ecological Performance of Community Resource Management Areas in Ghana: Assessing structures, effectiveness and outcomes" Co-authored presentation to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Victoria, Canada, June 2-5.

Academic Collaborators: Agyare, A., Dearden, P., and Rollins, R. Conference Presentation "Protected areas and governance innovation in Canada, Tanzania and Ghana" Co-authored presentation to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Victoria, Canada, June 2-5.

Academic Collaborators: King, L. Conference Presentation "Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction: Synthesis of Research Findings" Co-authored presentation at the 50th Anniversary of the College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, Tanzania. November, 2013.

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Academic Collaborators: King, L., Kahana, L., Kisingo, A., Orozco-Quintero, A.

At home in Baynes Sound: Photographs and commentary by Sound residents

Conference Presentation

Photovoice publication produced for distribution to the community members of Baynes Sound.

"Social value of marine ecosystem services: Insights from multi-dimensional subjective well-being" Co-authored presentation to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES): Communicating Forecasts, Uncertainty and Consequences of Ecosystem Change, October 11-20, Nanaimo, Canada.

Academic Collaborators: D'Anna, L. and Dudas, S.

Academic Collaborators: D'Anna., L. Other Publication Baynes Sound opinion survey on shellfish aquaculture: Findings Community feedback report on shellfish aquaculture impacts.

Academic Collaborators: D'Anna, L. Professional Service

Conference Presentation

Director, Institute for Coastal Research

"University protected-area agency research knowledge mobilization: Insights from an exploratory case study of BC Parks"

Research Project

Co-authored presentation to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Victoria, Canada, June 2-5.

Academic Collaborators: Rollins, R. and Randall, C. Graduate Student Thesis Supervision Post-Doctoral and Graduate Student supervision Post Doctoral Fellowships, VIU: Carleigh Randall; Linda D'Anna; Patricia MacDonald PhDs, University of Victoria: Andrew Agyare; Jones Lewis Arthur; Michele Patterson; Saul Milne; Rachelle Beveridge Masters of Arts, VIU: Michelle Liu; Michele Greene; Jake Skinner Other Publication Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

A governance assessment framework for landscape-level ecosystem-based management Co-applicant on a two-year SSHRC funded project led by VIU that is developing analytical tools that will help to analyze the governance of protected areas withing the larger socialecological landscape in which they are embedded. Includes work in Canada, Tanzania and Kenya.

Research Project Aquatic Foods Initiative Led by Michele Patterson, this multi-year project is developing strategies that will increase the economic, cultural, social, and ecological values of BC's aquatic food resources.

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Co-applicant on the social science component of a five year, NSERC-funded project analyzing the human dimensions of aquaculture including governance, socio-cultural and economic costs and benefits. Participating in a project led by Linda D'Anna that explores the relationships between the shellfish aquaculture industry and community well-being in Baynes Sound.

Research Project Exploring distinct indigenous knowledge systems to inform fisheries governance and management on Canada's coasts A six-year SSHRC funded project, co-led by Dalhousie University and the Assembly of First Nations. Along with local partners (BC First Nations Fisheries Council and the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation), VIU is providing leadership for the Pacific region on a project exploring the articulation of indigenous and other knowledge systems in fisheries management.

and is examining the linkages between conservation and conditions of poverty in and around protected areas in Ghana, Tanzania, and Canada. This international communityuniversity research alliance involves community groups, government agencies, and academics and is conducting research in four linked streams: governance, costs/benefits, knowledge mobilization, and human-wildlife interactions.

Dr. Pete Parker Conference Presentation "Decentralized conservation and poverty reduction in Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal: An assessment of livelihood diversification" Presented at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Victoria, Canada, June 2-5, 2013.

Research Project

Conference Presentation

New tools for new times: Capturing community values in marine resource management

"Linking livelihoods and conservation through various protected area governance structures"

Together with Pat MacDonald and Michele Patterson, this SSHRC-funded project is adopting novel (Q method) approaches and identifying and characterizing a broad range of values associated with the seafood sector in Campbell River, BC. The overall goal is to provide a framework for the articulation of those values, and to foster dialogue about shared and divergent objectives within the seafood sector.

Himalayan Resources Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 23rd, 2014. Invited speaker.

Research Project Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction: A Canada-Africa Research and Learning Alliance This six-year project is co-funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and International Development Research Council, Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Conference Presentation "More than just Trip Advisor: Sustainable tourism planning in Panama" The Celebration of Research Excellence and Knowledge Transfer Event (CREATE), Vancouver Island University, March 27, 2014.

Conference Presentation "Perceived impacts of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on nearby communities"

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Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Victoria, Canada, June 2-5, 2013.

Conference Presentation "Utilizing existing agency methodological frameworks to facilitate development and policy creation: Examples from Nepal and the Caribbean"

"Ecotourism development in China: A case study of National Huidong Sea Turtle Reserve" Co-supervisor, Sixin (Michelle) Liu, Master thesis, VIU Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Green matters: An assessment of sustainability in hotel preference decisionmaking"

The W5s of Academic Research, Vancouver Island University, October 18, 2013

Ivona Bucan, Master thesis, VIU

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

"A analysis of the Sunshine Coast Trail as an form of competition to promote regional economic development"

"The Benefits and Sustainable Development for the Urban Parksin Nanjing, China"

Justine Powell, Masters thesis, VIU

Project

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "A psychographic analysis of young travelers in Canada" Anna Nehm, Master thesis, VIU Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "A sustainability audit of the arts and cultural programs in the Cowichan Valley" Co-supervisor, Pratik Chakravarty, Master thesis, VIU Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Assessing home inn contributions to sustainable tourism development in Dali and Heshun ancient towns, Southwestern China" Huixan, OuYang, Master thesis, VIU

Co-supervisor, Chen Yang, Master thesis, VIU

Nepal Research and Study Tour This field school provided students with a better understanding of the issues related to community-based conservation and tourism development within developing countries (particularly in Nepal). Models of communitybased conservation governance, sustainable livelihoods development, and critical issues in tourism development were examined. Students critically evaluated three different governance structures of protected areas representative of jungle habitats, Himalayan alpine, and 700 year old urban centers; all of which were UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Research Project "Reducing poverty and protecting nature through sustainable tourism development in rural Panama"

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

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Dr. Carleigh Randall

Conference Presentation

Article

"Knowledge Mobilization In and Beyond a Protected-Area and Poverty-Reduction Research Network"

"Perceived crowding and encounter norms of kayakers in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve in Canada" Tourism in Marine Environments, 9 (1/2) 35-51

Presentation at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria BC. June 5, 2013.

Conference Presentation

Academic Collaborators: Rollins, R. Conference Presentation "Application of landscape-level ecosystembased management governance assessment framework to Southern Gulf Islands, BC" Presentation to BC Protected Areas Research Forum, Thompson Rivers University, December 4, 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Robinson, L.W., Dearden, P., Murray, G., Rollins, R., King, L. Conference Presentation "Exploring the Evolution and Current State of the Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks Payment for Ecosystem Services Pilot Project" Presentation to BC Protected Areas Research Forum, Thompson Rivers University, December 4, 2013 Academic Collaborators: Burrows, D. and Murray, G. Conference Presentation "Governance for Landscape-Level EcosystemBased Management" Poster presented at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria BC, June 5, 2013 Academic Collaborators: Robinson, L., Murray, G., Rollins, R., Dearden, P., King, L. Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

"Landscape-Level Ecosystem-Based Management Governance Assessment Framework and its application to the MuskwaKechika Management Area, BC Canada" Co-author of a presentation at World Wilderness Conference, Wild10. Salamanca, Spain October 4-10th 2013 Academic Collaborators: Dearden, P., Law, L and Robinson, L. Conference Presentation "Landscape-Level Ecosystem-Based Management Governance Assessment Framework and its Application to the Southern Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada" Presentation to the Travel and Tourism Research Association Conference, Ottawa, Ontario October 16-18, 2013 Academic Collaborators: Robinson, L., and Dearden, P. Conference Presentation "Protected Area Agency Research Knowledge Mobilization: Insights from an exploratory case study of BC Parks" Presentation at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Victoria BC. June 5, 2013 Academic Collaborators: Rollins, R. and Murray, G. Vancouver Island University | 46

Community Collaborators: Stevens, T., BC Parks and Dyck, B. Ministry of Environment Conference Presentation "Wine Tourism Linkages in the Wine Islands, BC: Application of a network approach" Presentation to the Travel and Tourism Research Association Conference Ottawa, Ontario October 16-18, 2013 Board/Committee Work

assessing environmental related governance structures and processes at the landscape level.

Project researchers developed and are applying a governance-assessment framework to four case studies. More information and case study reports can be found at http://sites.viu.ca/landscapelevel/

Dr. David Robinson Board/Committee Work VIU Assisted Professional Leave Committee

Member, VIU's Council for Teaching and Learning Excellence

Conference Presentation

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

"Capacity Building Needs for Farm Cooperatives Project"

Exploring the Potential for Tourism-Related Payment for Ecosystem Services in Tla'o'qui'aht Tribal Parks External thesis supervisor for Burrows, D. (2013), Sustainable Leisure Management Masters Program, VIU. Academic Collaborators: Grant Murray, Institute for Coastal Research, VIU Community Collaborators: Terry Dorward, Tlao-qui-aht First Nations Other Publication Wine Tourism Entry Encyclopedia of Sustainable Tourism. (Cater, C. and Garrod, B. eds.) (In press) Research Project Landscape Level Ecosystem-Based Management: A framework for assessing governance at the landscape level Co-Applicant. This SSHRC Insight Development Grant-funded project focuses on Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

(2013, April) Farm and Agro-tourism Association of Los Santos Conference and Workshops, Nubotropica Research Foundation, Santa Maria De Dota, Costa Rica.

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision 'Shark Conservation Education in Coastal Mexico'. Golby, Graig. Masters of Arts, Royal Roads University.'Benefits, Challenges, and Funding Models for Arts and Culture in the Cowichan Valley Regional District, BC, Canada.' Pratik Chakravart. Masters of Arts in Sustainable Leisure Management, VIU. 'A Case Study of the 'Heart of Gold Project: Empowering Small Scale Farmers in Costa Rica.' Abhay, M. Masters of Arts in Sustainable Leisure Management, VIU. Other Activity VIU Research and Educational presentations Robinson, D., Everden, N., and Dorby, J. (2013, November). The Heart of Gold Rural Community Empowerment. VIU International Education 'International Student Involved Research Symposium'. Robinson, D., Vancouver Island University | 47

Kirkham,K., Everden, N., and Dorby, J. (2013, November). Engaged Student Learning: A Case Study of the Heart of Gold Rural Community Empowerment. VIU: Best Practice Research Series.

Professional Service Academic Journal Reviews and International Research Evaluation

Academic Collaborators: Earth University; UNED; Rainforest Alliance; Earthwatch Institute, Community Collaborators: The 'Farm and Agro-tourism Association of Los Santos' Cooperative; Nubotropica Research Foundation

Dr. Rick Rollins Article

Australia Planner Journal ; Geographical Research; Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change; and Earthwatch Institute, USA. Project The Heart of Gold Project: Empowering Small Scale Farmers in Costa Rica Corporate farming threatens the livelihoods of many small-scale farm-ing communities in Central America. Small-scale farming cooperatives, with volunteer planning support from Canadian universities, have the potential to reduce rural poverty and landlessness and to contribute to a more sustainable form of rural development. The Heart of Gold Project is an international community-university planning alliance between pioneer leaders from the Farm and Agro-tourism Association of Los Santos cooperative in central Costa Rica and energized Vancouver Island University (Canada) students and their professors who want to contribute to change. Please see the great student blog at http://viuheartofgold.wordpress.com. Each year students undertake field-work on 2-5 month internship positions in Los Santos. The project has impacted the learning and world-views of over 40 VIU undergraduate students and 10 community volunteers from Vancouver Island.

These young student interns are 'pioneer leaders' in the realm of undergraduate-based international development.

Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

"Nature-based Tourism in Mole National Park, Ghana" Acquah, E., Dearden, P., Rollins, R (2014).

Submitted to African Geographical Review Academic Collaborators: Acquah, E., Dearden, P., Rollins, R Article "Perceived crowding and encounter norms of kayakers in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Canada" Randall, C. and Rollins, R. (2013) Tourism in Marine Environments, Volume 9, issue 2.

Academic Collaborators: Randall, C. and Rollins, R. Article "Understanding Inter-Community Performance Assessments in Community-Based Resource Management at Avu Lagoon, Ghana" Agarye, A; Dearden, P., Murray, G. (2014).

Academic Collaborators: Agarye, A; Dearden, P., Murray, G. Book Parks and Protected Areas in Canada: Planning and Management (4th Edition) Vancouver Island University | 48

Dearden, P., Rollins, R., and Needham, M. (2014). Accepted for publication, Oxford Press.

Academic Collaborators: Dearder, P., Rollins, R., and Needham, M. Conference Presentation "Challenges with Nature-Based Tourism in Mole National Park, Ghana" Rollins, R; Emmanuel Acquah; Grant Murray; Phil Dearden; Anne Stahl (2014). Canadian Congress on Lesiure Research, May, 2014; Halifax NS. Academic Collaborators: Rollins, R; Emmanuel Acquah; Grant Murray; Phil Dearden; Anne Stahl Conference Presentation "Connecting Landscapes: an Examination of the Role of Protected Area Governance" Rollins, R; Grant Murray; Alex Kisingo; Phil Dearden; Marlea Clark (2013). BC Protected Areas Research Forum. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC. Academic Collaborators: Rollins, R; Grant Murray; Alex Kisingo; Phil Dearden; Marlea Clark

Conference Presentation "Examining How National Park Tourism Impacts on Nearby Communities" Rollins, R, Pete Parker, Grant Murray, Vancouver Island University; Terry Dorward; Erin Heeney (2013). At Congress of Social Science and Humanities, Victoria, BC, June 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Rollins, R, Pete Parker, Grant Murray, Vancouver Island University,Terry Dorward; Erin Heeney Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "An examination of surfing as sustainable tourism" Merv Jefferies (2010 - ) PhD, University of Victoria Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "An examination of sustainability in urban parks in Nanjing, China" Chen Yang, Masters thesis, Vancouver Island University Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

Conference Presentation

"Bui National Park (Ghana): Implications for Displaced Communities"

"Examining How National Park Tourism Impacts on Island Communities"

Arthur Jones (2011 - ), PhD, University of Victoria.

Pete Parker, Rollins, R., Grant Murray, Vancouver Island University; Terry Dorward; Erin Heeney, (2013). Island Studies Conference, Gabriola Island, BC

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

Academic Collaborators: Pete Parker, Grant Murray, Rollins, R. Vancouver Island University; Terry Dorward; Erin Heeney

Masaruli Baker (2010 - ) PhD, University of Victoria.

Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

"Cost and benefits of tourism to communities adjacent to Serengeti National Park, Tanzania"

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"Dive Tourism in Thailand" Skye Augustine (2011- 2013). MA, University of Victoria.

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "First Nations Tourism" Rob Ferguson (2009 - ) PhD, Gloucester University, UK.

protected areas in Ghana, Tanzania, and Canada.

This international community-university research alliance involves community groups, government agencies, and academics and is conducting research in four linked streams: governance, costs/benefits, knowledge mobilization, and human-wildlife interactions.

Dr Nicole Vaugeois Article

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Governance of Protected Areas in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem" Alex Kasingo, PhD, University of Victoria.

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Human wildlife interactions in Mole National Park, Ghana"

"Using experiential education to expose graduate students to the relevance of case studies in sustainability and innovation" Journal of Sustainability Education. Spring 2013, special issue on experiential education.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Pat Maher, UNBC Board/Committee Work

Emmanuel Acquah (2010 - 2013) PhD, University of Victoria.

Co-director, World Leisure Centre of Excellence in Sustainability and Innovation

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

Co-Director with Joanne Schroeder, VIU. Engaged in actioning the strategic plan for the Centre, profiling the work of the Centre, expanding our international network and creating education and research opportunities for scholars and community members around sustainability.

"Influencing Visitor Behavior in Protected Areas" Matt Bowes (2010 - ) PhD, University of Victoria.

Research Project Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction: ACanada-Africa Research and Learning Alliance Co-applicant in the Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Project. This six-year project is co-funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and International Development Research Council,and is examining the linkages between conservation and conditions of poverty in and around Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Academic Collaborators: Joanne Schroeder, VIU Co Director; Suzanne de la Barre, Grant Murray, and Ken Hammer, VIU members of committee; Monica Shore, Justine Powell, and Liane O'Keefe, VIU Research Assistants Board/Committee Work Member, steering committee Steering committee for the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning, VIU to assist the

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Centre in strategy development to advance teaching and learning at VIU. Academic Collaborators: Liesel Knaak, Director; Tom Carey, advisor; Steve Lane, member of committee; Lars Apland, member of committee; Liz H-K, member of committee; Robin June Hood - member of committee

Community Based Education "Enhancing agritourism supports in the Vancouver Island region" Invited presenter to the Agriculture Advisory Committee for the District of North Cowichan.

Chapter

Community Collaborators: District of North Cowichan

"Innovation Theory in Tourism"

Community Based Education

In Donohue, H. and Kelly (eds). Demystifying Tourism Theories. Wrote a book chapter to synthesize theoretical advancements on innovation with respect to tourism.

"Expanding market intelligence through community-based tourism research"

Community Based Education "Creating resilient, attractive and sustainable coastal communities for tomorrow's generations" Re-invited public lecture (after event held in the fall with Katherine King), this time with Shannon Bence (MA VIU) to share the results of her thesis work on "Attraction and retention of young adults to rural communities".

Academic Collaborators: Shannon Bence, VIU MA student Community Collaborators: Tourism Powell River Community Based Education "Creating resilient, attractive and sustainable coastal communities for tomorrow's generations" Invited public lecture at VIU Powell River Campus to stimulate thought on models for social and economic resilience.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Katherine King, Bournemouth University Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Invited talk to the Tofino Chamber of Commerce to share the results of a pilot model to expand marketing intelligence on visitors to the region.

Academic Collaborators: Nichola Evernden, VIU Community Based Education "Positioning BC Resort Municipalities for Long Term Prosperity" Invited keynote presenter to the Resort Municipalities Collaborative in Tofino, June 7-9.

Community Collaborators: District of Tofino Community Based Education "Positioning Tofino for Long-term Prosperity" Invited public lecture to initiate the start of the Integrated Community Sustainability Plan and Tourism Master Planning process for Tofino.

Community Collaborators: District of TofinoWhistler Centre for Sustainability Community Based Education "The economic rationale for investment in active transportation" Vancouver Island University | 51

Invited presenter to the Walkable Communities workshop held in Powell River and organized by Vancouver Coastal Health.

Community Collaborators: Vancouver Coastal Health; Powell River Cycling Association

Invited presenter at the Islands Agriculture Show held at the Cowichan Agriculture Grounds.

Conference Presentation "Sequencing and sandwiching feedback for maximum learning"

Community Based Education "The role of tourism in regional resilience" Invited public lecture in both Sidney and Tofino at the Tourism Vancouver Island annual Professional Development Series.

Presentation at the University of Calgary Teaching and Learning conference, co-presented with Micki McCartney, VIU. Academic Collaborators: Micki McCartney Conference Presentation

Community Collaborators: Tourism Vancouver Island

"The economic rationale for investment in trails and pathways"

Conference Presentation "A case study on a case studies course in sustainability" Invited case study presenter at the Exploring Interdisciplinarity in Teaching conference at Vancouver Island University.

Invited presenter at the Vancouver Island Trails Network Conference held in Courtenay under the theme "Partnerships and Development". Copresented with Ken Melamed, Whistler.

Community Collaborators: Vancouver Island Trails Network

Conference Presentation

Conference Presentation

"Encoders of knowledge: The experience of an international research alliance in knowledge mobilization via a multi-author blog"

Creating resilient communities through sustainable tourism planning

Conference presentation at the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum in Mississauga, ON, June 2-3, 2013. The presentation was on research into the use and experience of multiple authors on the Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction blog - www.paprproject.ca Academic Collaborators: Brianne Labute, BTM, Research Assistant VIU. Conference Presentation

Presentation at the Liveable Cities Forum in Vancouver in April, 2014. Partnership with the District of Tofino and the Whistler Centre for Sustainability.

Community Collaborators: District of Tofino; Whistler Centre for Sustainability Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Attracting and retaining young adults to rural communities"

"Enhancing innovation in agritourism: Expanding synergies between agriculture and tourism"

Shannon Bence, Masters in Sustainable Leisure Management, VIU

Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

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Academic Collaborators: Dr. Terri McDonald, BC Regional Innovation Chair in Rural Economic Development at Selkirk College; Dr. Katherine King at Bournemouth University, UK Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "The Potential Utility of Tourism Demand as an Indicator of Sustainable Development in Tourism" Gordon Clark, Masters in Sustainable Leisure Management, VIU Academic Collaborators: Richard Porges, Senior Research Manager for Destination BC; Hwan Suk Chris Choi, University of Guelph Other Publication BC Resort Communities Strategic Labour Market Analysis

Single author of a blog that shares information, ideas and insight with a diverse range of stakeholders on amenity-based rural development. The site also contains numerous resources, how-to manuals, case studies and reports, which creates open access to resources and tools for business owners, community leaders and policy makers. http://sustainableruraltourism.ca/ Professional Service Aborignal Tourism Entrepreneurship Working Group Invited member on a working group to develop a model to support the development of entrepreneurship and leadership skills in aboriginal tourism development. Organized by the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation.

Academic Collaborators:

Successful proponent in competitive bid to ascertain the unique labour market situation in BC's 14 Resort Municipalities, with particular emphasis on the seasonal labour market.

Entailed the design and execution of a multiplemethod approach and the supervision of a 5 person research team to provide the provincial steering committee with the intended deliverables. (Feb 2013- June 2013) Successfully completed and now assisting with knowledge mobilization.

Community Collaborators: Bruce Whyte and Colleen McCormick, Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation; Frank Brown, Heiltsuk First Nation; Randy Bell, Namgis First Nation; Brian White, Royal Roads University; Dave Pinel, North Island College

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Pat Maher, UNBC; Micki McCartney, VIU; Erin Heeney, VIU; Blake Rowsell, UNBC

Professional Service

Community Collaborators: Go2; Whistler Chamber of Commerce; Tofino Chamber of Commerce; Fernie Chamber of Commerce

Member of the committee for the Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation.

Other Publication Sustainable Rural Development blog

Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Professional Service Board member, Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation

Member, Tourism Leadership Committee

Research Project From here to there: Transportation study for the Alberni Clayoquot Regional District

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Advisor on the research project undertaken by the Sociable Scientists (and VIU graduate Laurel Sliskovic) to assess the accessibility and affordability of the existing transportation system in the ACRD.

Community Collaborators: Jenn Houtby Ferguson, Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation; Kirsten Soder, Tourism Tofino

Community Collaborators: Sociable Scientists; Alberni Clayoquot Regional District; Vancouver Island Health Authority

"BC Tourism Labour Market Strategic Analysis"

Workshop

Invited presentation to the District of Tofino Council on October 10, 2013.

Research Project Traditional Trades as Employers and Training Mechanisms for Canadian Youth One of the first projects funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council "Knowledge Synthesis" grants (June 28 - Dec 31, 2013). The purpose of the project is to assess the current state of the trades-based labour force in the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) sector across rural regions of Canada with the goal of contributing to rural innovation and sustainable development in BC. Report was shared in Ottawa with other funded projects and with senior policy advisors in Employment and Social Development Canada.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Jenny Horn, VIU; Monica Shore, VIU; Nichola Evernden, VIU Community Collaborators: Pascale Knoglinger, La Société de développement économique de la Colombie-Britannique Research Project Community-Based Visitor Research Study Advisor and analysis support for the community-based visitor study. Pilot in 2013 by Nichola Evernden with Nanaimo Economic Development Corporation and Tourism Tofino.

Academic Collaborators: Nichola Evernden, VIU Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Faculty of Science and Technology Biology Dr. Tim Goater Article "Introduced Bullfrogs and their Parasites: Haematoloechus longiplexus (Trematoda) Exploits Diverse Damselfly Intermediate Hosts on Vancouver Island" Journal of Parasitology, 99, 59-63 (2013) Coauthored with Bachelor of Science (Biology) 2009 graduate, Colin Novak, who published the results of his Biology 491 independent research project. The study examined how an invasive parasite disperses and rapidly expands its range on Vancouver Island. Colin went on to complete his Masters degree in parasitology at University of British Columbia in 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Colin Novak (VIU alumnus) Book Parasitism: The Diversity and Ecology of Animal Parasites (Second Edition)

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Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2014.

Two core philosophies underlie the second edition of our textbook. The first is that complex interactions that occur between parasites and their hosts (from the molecular cross-talk that occurs at the host-parasite interface, to the effects of parasites on host communities) are fundamentally ecological. The second is that a real appreciation for the phenomenon of parasitism requires knowledge of how evolution has shaped diverse parasite adaptations. Thus, for undergraduates who are introduced to the phenomenon of parasitism in animals, the authors see a need for a single text with an integrated synthesis of the biodiversity and the ecology/evolution of parasites. This dual, interdisciplinary approach is the hallmark of the text. The 17 chapters (eight of which are new since the first edition) are revised to meet the needs of a new generation of parasitology students, whether their interests lie in ecology, conservation biology, evolution, immunology, medical, wildlife, or veterinary sciences.

Further information, including sample chapters and endorsements, can be obtained at www.cambridge.org/parasitism.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Cameron P. Goater, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge; Dr. Gerald W. Esch, Professor, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University

Dr. Erick Groot Other Activity "The relationships among Loma salmonae (Microsporidia), spawning pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), and environmental conditions in the Quinsam River, B.C., Canada" Undergraduate Student Research Proj. (BIOL 491): Morgan, Megan, BSc student, Biology Dept., VIU. Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Erick Groot, Professor, Biology Dept., Vancouver Island UniversityDr. Simon Jones, Research Scientist, Aquatic Animal Health Lab, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC

Dr. Jane Watson Community Based Education "Marine Mammals of Langara Island - their natural history and conservation" The biology of local marine mammal species was described in a talk presented to the staff and guests at Langara Fishing Lodge, Haida Gwaii.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. John Ford and Graeme Ellis, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, BC. Conference Presentation "Spatial and temporal variation in kelp forest composition off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island" Presented at Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference, Seattle, Washington; April 30-May 2, 2014.

Conference Presentation "The effects of a returning predator; sea otters, red turban snails and changing prey dynamics" Presented at the Western Society of Naturalists meeting in Oxnard, California; November, 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Leah Saville, Westwind Marine Laboratories; Gina Lemieux, Archipelago Marine Research; Arin YeomansRoutledge, VIU; and Nick Davey, VIU Other Activity

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"The effects of a returning predator; sea otters and changing prey dynamics" This was a seminar presented in the University of Auckland to colleagues and graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences. The seminar was given while on sabbatical.

Academic Collaborators: Leah Saville, Westwind Marine Laboratories; Gina Lemieux, Archipelago Marine Research; Arin YeomansRoutledge, VIU; and Nick Davey, VIU Other Activity Sea otters, kelp forests and natural variation; some questions of scale This was a research seminar presented to colleagues and graudate students at the University of Auckland's Leigh Marine Labs, where I was visiting while on sabbatical.

Professional Service "Getting Science Right" Participated in a public forum sponsored by the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

The forum examined how policy decisions made by the Canadian Federal Government are affecting Canadian Scientists and their research.

The forum was held at SFU's Harbour Centre in Vancouver.

Research Project The ecology of sea otters and their effects on kelp forests along the west coast of Vancouver Island Work was continued on a long-term research project examining changes in subtidal community structure in areas occupied by sea otters along the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Academic Collaborators: Linda Nichol, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Anne Salomon, REM, Simon Fraser University; Erin Rechsteiner, Hakai Beach Institute

Centre for Shellfish Research Dr. Helen Gurney-Smith Article "An innovative approach for seed sorting in small farm operations" Y. Perrault, E. Bereziak, B. Paquin, P. Mulot, P. Steffens, H. Gurney-Smith and M. Long. 2013.

Aquaculture Association of Canada Special Publication, 23: 65.

Article "Population genetics and health status of the basket cockle (Clinocardium nuttallii) in Canadian waters" H.J. Gurney-Smith, S.C. Johnson, Y. An, K.J. Supernault, D.M.H. McNeill, C.L. Abbott and R.E. Withler. In Journal of Shellfish Research, submitted 2014.

Board/Committee Work Interim Chair, NSERC Awards Selection Committee Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Awards Selection Committee for Vancouver Island University.

Board/Committee Work Member, Canadian Animal Care Committee Canadian Animal Care Committee member for Vancouver Island University.

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"A functional genomics approach to assessing ecosystem health and resilience in keystone bioindicator species"

"Basket cockle (Clinocardium nuttallii): candidate commercial aquaculture species in British Columbia"

H.J. Gurney-Smith*, C. Thomson, D. Sanderson, J. Kimball and S. Johnson. North Pacific Marine Science Organization, PICES2013, in Nanaimo, BC, Canada. October 2013.

Aquaculture Collaborative Research and Development (ACRDP) Fact Sheet: 16.

DFO/2012-1852.

Conference Presentation "Health and husbandry research plans and discussions" Active Malapsina Mariculture Association Annual Conference, BC Shellfish Growers Association in Lund, BC. April 2014.

Other Activity "Ecological research on economically important bioindicator shellfish species"

Other Publication "BC shellfish could be in trouble" Article by H. Eastmure. 91.7 CoastFM audio and on-line article. http://917coastfm.com/news/bc-shellfish-couldbe-in-trouble/ 26 Feb, 2014.

Other Publication "Declining scallop numbers cause layoffs"

H.J. Gurney-Smith*, W. Evans, D. Munroe.

2014. Guest lecture for FISH 322.

Article by M. Shaw. Canadian First Nations Radio (CFNR), Terrace. Audio and on-line article. www.classicrockcfnr.ca/decliningscallop-numbers-cause-layoffs 26 Feb. 2014

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Other Publication

"A functional genomics approach to assessing ecosystem health and resilience in keystone bioindicator species"

"Development of genomic health assessment tools for marine mussels (Myt-OMICS)"

H.J. Gurney-Smith, C. Thomson, D. Sanderson, J. Kimball and S. Johnson. 2013. PICES-2013 conference proceedings.

Other Publication "Acidic ocean deadly for Vancouver Island scallop industry" Article by K. Vass. 2014. CBC News BC audio and on-line article. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britishcolumbia/acidic-ocean-deadly-for-vancouverisland-scallop-industry-1.2551662 26 Feb, 2014

S.C. Johnson and H.J. Gurney-Smith. 2013. In Aquaculture Association of Canada Special Publication, 23: 57.

Paper "A status assessment of perkinsiosis, bonamiosis and marteiliosis in commercial marine bivalves from southern Brazil" S. S端hnel, S.C. Johnson, H.J. Gurney-Smith, C.S. Ivachuk, A.L.C. Schaefer, V.A. Pontinha, M.L. Martins, A. Figueras, M.L.T. Maciel, M.L. Martins, R.A. Ruiz, A. Figueras, A.R.M. Magalh達es. In Journal of Shellfish Research, accepted 2014.

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Paper "Aquaculture potential of the basket cockle (C. nuttallii) in BC, Canada. Part 2: Effects of stocking density and depth on second year grow-out performance of three size cohorts in intertidaland off-bottom suspended culture systems" A. Dunham, H. Gurney-Smith, S. Yuan, N. Plamondon and C.M. Pearce. 2013. In Aquaculture Research, 44 (8): 1277-1299.

Paper "Aquaculture potential of the basket cockle (Clinocardium nuttallii) in British Columbia, Canada. Part 1: Effects of stocking density on first year grow-out performance in intertidal and off-bottom suspended culture systems" A. Dunham, H. Gurney-Smith, S. Yuan, N. Plamondon and C.M. Pearce. 2013. In Aquaculture Research, 44 (8):1236-1253.

Paper "Detection of a parasitic amoeba (Order Dactylopodida) in the female gonad of oysters in Brazil" S. S端hnel, C.S. Ivachuk, A.L.C. Schaefer, V.A. Pontinha, M.L. Martins, A. Figueras, G.R. Meyer, S.R.M. Jones, S.C. Johnson, H.J. Gurney-Smith, A.R.M. Magalh達es and S.M. Bower. In Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (in press).

Paper "Effects of astaxanthin on reproductive success in the tropical scallop Nodipecten nodosus (Linnaeus, 1758)" S. S端hnel, F. Lagreze, A. Pereira, F.C. da Silva, H.J. Gurney-Smith, M. Bercht, M. Maraschin, A.R.M. Magalh達es and J. Fernando Ferreira.

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2014. In Journal of Shellfish Research, 33(1): 89-98.

Paper "Ingestion rate, absorption efficiency, and faecal production in Spot prawns (Pandalus platyceros) and California Sea Cucumbers (Parastichopus californicus) fed waste from sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) culture" L.C. Orr, D.L. Curtis, S.F. Cross, H. GurneySmith, and C.M. Pearce. In World Aquaculture Society, accepted 2014.

Paper "Ingestion rate, absorption efficiency, oxygen consumption, and faecal production in green sea urchines (Stronglyocentrotus droebachiensis) fed waste from sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) culture" L.C. Orr, D.L. Curtis, S.F. Cross, H. GurneySmith, A. Shanks and C.M. Pearce. 2014. In Aquaculture, 422-423: 184-192.

Patent Methods and probes for monitoring marine waters.

H.J. Gurney-Smith, C.A. Thomson and S.C. Johnson. 2013. US Provisional Patent Application # 61/861,842 Academic Collaborators: Dr. Catherine Thomson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Shellfish Research, VIUDr. Stewart Johnson, PARR Co-ordinator, Fisheries and Oceans Canada Professional Service External grant reviewer

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External grant reviewer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA.External grant reviewer for the North Pacific Research Board (USA).

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Interaction program

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Sustainability and innovation of native marine species

Combined approaches to understanding ecosystem function With research assistant Caitlin Smith - NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award recipient.

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CAPES - Coordenacnao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior. International collaboration with Brazil and Mexico.

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Functional ecology of keystone bioindicator and conservation species

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With research assistant Kayla Mohns - NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award recipient.

"Delicate polydimethylsiloxane hollow fibre membrane interfaces for condensed phase membrane introduction mass spectrometry (CP-MIMS)"

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Dan Baker (International Centre for Sturgeon Studies, Vancouver Island University) Research Project Market and commercialization assessment and IP protection of MytOME Genome BC Proof-of-Concept Program Research Project Molecular characterization of mussel larvae and adult responses to culturing conditions and toxic algal blooms Academic Collaborators: Drs. Nevejan and Vandegehuchte (University of Ghent, Belgium) Research Project Research strategizing to support scallop industry development and stabilization in northern British Columbia Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 2014, 28, 671681. Condensed phase membrane introduction mass spectrometry (CP-MIMS) permits direct and rapid analyte measurements in complex samples, eliminating potential contamination and/or dilution from sample workup steps, facilitating rapid sample screening and 'realtime' monitoring applications. PDMS hollow fibre membrane (HFM) flow cell interfaces were coupled with an electrospray ionization (ESI) triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. Flow cell and direct insertion 'J-Probe' interfaces using 0.5 micron thick composite PDMS HFM were utilized for direct naphthenic acid measurements. The rapid screening and continuous, on-line monitoring of carboxylic acids and hydroxylated compounds directly in complex sample matrices under ambient conditions at pptr-ppb detection limits was demonstrated. Push/pull acceptor phase (methanol) delivery maintained ambient hydrostatic pressures within the HFMs, improving ESI stability and analytical Vancouver Island University | 59

sensitivity, especially with stopped acceptor flow operation. Signal response times less than 2 min were achieved for thin, composite PDMS HFMs. Academic Collaborators: M.D. Willis, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Chemistry, VIUK.D. Duncan, Graduate Student, Chemistry, UVicE.T. Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU Article "Measurement of spatial and temporal variation in volatile hazardous air pollutants in Tacoma, Washington using a mobile membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) system" J. Environ. Sci. Health A (2014) 49, accepted, in press. The objective of this study was to use MIMS, implemented on a mobile platform to provide real-time, fine-scale, temporally and spatially resolved measurements of several hazardous air pollutants. This work is important because there is now substantial evidence that fine-scale spatial and temporal variations of air pollutant concentrations are important determinants of exposure to air pollution and adverse health outcomes. The study took place in Tacoma, WA during periods of impaired air quality in the winter and summer of 2008 and 2009. Concentrations of vapor phase pollutants measured by membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS), notably benzene and toluene, had relatively uniform spatial distributions at night, but exhibited substantial spatial variation during the day; daytime levels were up to 3-fold higher at traffic-impacted locations compared to a reference site.

Conference Presentation "Advances and Environmental Applications of Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry"

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American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Asilomar Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Invited Presentation. This highprofile invitation was made at the 'Gordon Style', International conference held at Asilomar in October. The attendees are hand picked, and represent a collection of key researchers with targeted expertise; this meeting focused upon Environmental Mass Spectrometry and Toxicology. Our work in the area was well received, and the exposure from this presentation has resulted in several new international collaborative project starts.

Conference Presentation "Mass Spectrometry and Environmental Applications" Invited Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. This annual invited lecture presented the topic of mass spectrometry and its numerous environmental applications, including our work with MIMS. This presentation increased our international exposure, and maintains our ongoing collaborative network with researchers at the University of Washington.

Conference Presentation "Membrane Introduction Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Recent Advances and Applications" Invited Presentation, Lake Louise International Tandem Mass Spectrometry Conference.

MIMS is a continuous, on-line, direct sampling analytical methodology. A semipermeable membrane separates a sample (liquid, gas, slurry) from an acceptor phase entrained directly to the ion source of a mass spectrometer. The acceptor phase can be gaseous, suited for methods such as EI and CI in GC-MS/MS type instruments (GP-MIMS), or condensed phase (liquid) allowing the full gambit of atmospheric Vancouver Island University | 60

pressure ionization sources (CP-MIMS).

Analytes that permeate the membrane do so as a mixture, and must be resolved at the mass spectrometer by either m/z, or better, with higher specificity using MS/MS. Analyte selectivity can be achieved at the membrane, ionization and mass analyzer level, or by making sample condition adjustments (e.g. pH, temperature).

Presented was an overview of the wide range of recent developments and applications for MIMS from our group, with examples from mobile MIMS applications and the emerging method CP-MIMS. Conference Presentation "Miniature Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (CP-MIMS) Probes for the Direct Measurement of Pharmaceuticals and Contaminants in Complex Samples" Presented at Post-ASMS Symposium, Vancouver BC. Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (CP-MIMS) permits the simultaneous chemical detection of multiple analytes directly in complex samples. A semi-permeable hollow fibre membrane (HFM) interfaces aqueous samples from a continuous flow of an acceptor phase (e.g., MeOH), which transfers the permeants as a mixture to mass spectrometer for resolution by SIM or MS/MS. The membrane precludes much of the sample matrix, resulting in reduced instrumental noise and low detection limits. Mini CP-MIMS probes were examined for the online chemical analysis of pharmaceuticals and environmental contaminants, directly from complex sample matrices (e.g.,oil sands process waters). We introduce the use of a thin-film composite HFM mini probe to improve analytical response times for larger analytes.

Academic Collaborators: ET Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU; KD Duncan, Graduate Student, Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Chemistry, UVic; GW Vandergrift, Undergraduate Student, Chemistry, VIU Conference Presentation "Real Time Chemical Measurement By Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (MIMS) - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks" Invited Guest Lecture, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy. This invited guest lecture was given in the faculty of science, and was attended by faculty and graduate students. The exposure has resulted in growing interest from several Italian researchers, and is leading to an increased collaboration with VIU, including potential interest in sponsorship from a leading mass spectrometer manufacturer.

Conference Presentation "Real-Time, Geospatially-Resolved Atmospheric Contaminant Monitoring by Membrane Introduction Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MIMS-MS/MS) Near Oil and Gas Operations in Alberta, Canada" Invited Oral Presentation, American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA. The 'lab-to-field' revolution is growing rapidly in the field of mass spectrometry as better portable systems become available. Real-time monitoring techniques such as Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry can provide continuous time series information that can be used for monitoring dynamic changes in contaminant concentration and to complement techniques involving sample collection for subsequent off-line measurements.

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visualization to both investigate atmospheric contaminants (e.g. BTEX) near oil and gas operations in Alberta, Canada as well as to inform adaptive sampling strategies. This presentation recognizes our substantial contributions in this rapidly-growing research area.

Researcher, Chemistry, VIU; NG Davey, PhD Student, Chemistry, UVic; M Martinsen, PhD Student, Chemistry, NTNU, Norway;RT Short, Researcher, SRI International, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Academic Collaborators: ET Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU; RJ Bell, Post Doctoral Researcher, Chemistry, VIU; NG Davey, PhD Student, Chemistry, UVic; M Martinsen, PhD Student, Chemistry, NTNU, Norway; AJ Thompson, Research Technician, Chemistry, VIU; IJ Simpson, Research Associate, Chemistry, UC Davis, CA, USA; DR Blake, Professor, Chemistry, UC Davis, CA, USA

"Application of Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (MIMS) as a tool for studying gas phase phthalate - particle interactions"

Conference Presentation "Understanding the Effects of the Earth's Magnetic Field on Mobile Mass Spectrometry: Simulation, Experimentation and Solutions"

Graduate Student Thesis Supervision

Martin Angelsta, MSc., Simon Fraser University Academic Collaborators: George R. Agnes, Professor, Chemistry, SFU; Erik T. Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Development and Application of a Ruggedized Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometer for In-Field Environmental Monitoring" Nick Davey, PhD, University of Victoria

Presented at Post ASMS Symposium, Vancouver BC. As the technical hurdles for field portable mass spectrometers are overcome, the popularity of in-field measurements has increased tremendously. As such, we have observed that the instrument response of certain mass spectrometer systems is affected by the instrument's magnetic bearing. The effect is the result of an ion source electron beam deflection caused the Earth's magnetic field. The deflection is direction dependent and may decrease the electron transmission through the ion source aperture, reducing the instrument sensitivity by as much as 70% in extreme cases.

This effect is unobserved for stationary instruments, and ion beam deflections are negligible due to their much higher mass. We have examined the problem and developed novel solutions to mitigate its effects.

Academic Collaborators: ET Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU; RJ Bell, Post Doctoral Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Academic Collaborators: Krogh, E. T., Professor, Chemistry, VIU; Fyles, T. M. F., Professor, Chemistry, UVic Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Development and Application of Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (CP-MIMS)" Kyle Duncan, PhD, University of Victoria Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Environmental Monitoring near Oil And Gas Extraction Operations using a Field Portable Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometer" Morten Martensen, PhD Thesis Supervision, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) Vancouver Island University | 62

Academic Collaborators: Erik Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU; Oyvind Mikkelsen, Professor, Chemistry, NTNU, Norway; Rudolf Schmidt, Professor, Chemistry, NTNU, Norway Other Activity "Non steady state calibration studies for semi volatile organic compounds using Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry" BSc Thesis Supervision, Mathias Baltes (Universitat des Saarlandes). This was our first exchange student from the the Universitat des Saarlandes. The exposure to research over a three month stay in our group was foundational for Mathias, and was entirely funded by his host institution. The bench science was conducted at VIU, but the assembly of results was conducted abroad. The exchange has resulted in a sabbatical visit for me in Germany at his host institution this spring, where I continued supervision of the student in a pre-MSc project.

The exposure for our VIU students was invaluable as well. It is anticipated that the student will continue to contribute to VIU over the course of his advanced degree, building research capacity between VIU-UdS with the outcomes of his studies.

Academic Collaborators: Volmer, D. A., Professor, Chemistry, Universitat Des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, GermanyKrogh, E. T., Professor, Chemistry, VIU Other Publication Research and Development of Membrane Introduction Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MIMS-MS/MS) as an On-Line Monitoring Platform for Rapid Environmental and Process Monitoring of Heavy Oil Extraction Operations

between the AERL, NTNU and Statoil Norway, aimed at the development and application of membrane introduction mass spectrometry for in-field environmental monitoring. Specifically, the report summarizes the research and development work completed on aportable MIMS system for the direct and continuous insitu environmental sampling and analysisof volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) at environmentally relevant concentrations. The instrument can also be adapted for process monitoring applications.

Patent System and Method of Delicate Membrane Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction MassSpectrometry (CP-MIMS) Both a US Provisional and PCT have been successfully filed to protect intellectual property related to the development and use of Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry.

Academic Collaborators: ET Krogh, Chemistry, VIU Professional Service American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Environmental Division Working Group Co-Chair The ASMS Environmental Division working group organizes and runs a workshop and sessions at the annual conference (~7000 attendees). This year, I am co-chairing the division, and we will have several sessions and a workshop at the ASMS conference in Baltimore, MD, USA. Professional Service Chair, Conference Session

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Invited Chair for the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS). This high-profile invitation will allow me to chair an orals session in an important area of our research focus (Portable Mass Spectrometers) at this large international conference (~7000 attendees).

These positions require substantial organization as well as selection of the submitted talks to build the program. The invitation to serve in this capacity recognizes the strengths of our research program at VIU. Professional Service Co-Chair, Annual Conference in Vancouver, BC Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) Environmental Division. This invitation has allowed Erik Krogh (VIU) and I to contribute substantially to the Canadian Chemistry Society through the organization of the Environmental Division Symposia at the annual conference.

There are 7 distinct, multi-day symposia that showcase the best and brightest Canadian Environmental Chemists. In addition to overall organization, we were responsible for raising travel funding from sponsors to successfully bring numerous international guest speakers to the conference.

Academic Collaborators: Erik Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU Professional Service Member, Nominating Committee Association of Professional Chemists of British Columbia (ACPBC). Have been a past chair of this committee for three years where our role is to ensure the continuity of the board and executive officers.

Research Project "CP-MIMS fundamentals and development" Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

This project has been closely tied to the exploration and development of Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (CP-MIMS) in our group.

Supervised NSERC-Undergraduate Student Research Award recipient, Gregory Vandergrift who has worked closely with both undergraduate and graduate researchers to achieve important scientific outcomes, including several peer-reviewed publications and manuscripts, as well as international conference presentations.

Academic Collaborators: ET Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU Research Project "Real Time Mass Spectrometry Laboratory" Canadian Foundation for Innovation-Funded Research Project. The infrastructure will support a research and technology development program to create a state-of-the-art mobile mass spectrometry facility that will provide real-time, high precision measurements of chemical determinants of environmental and human health. Included is a research vehicle to house ruggedized mass spectrometers adapted to provide continuous monitoring and on-line calibration. Instruments will be modified with on-line membrane sampling interfaces and to operate in a moving vehicle, which will be accessorized with a suite of meteorological and additional air/water quality sensors. On-board global positioning information willbe interlaced with instrument data to yield real-time contaminant concentrations which can be visualized on geo-spatial scales. This technology development will be used for rapid in-field analysis, continuous process monitoring and real-time mapping of chemical contaminants in Google Earth.

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Research Project Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (MIMS): Applications for Direct, On-Line, InField Ground Water Contaminant Monitoring Membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) utilizes a semi-selective membrane as an interface between a sample to be measured and a mass spectrometer. The technique is online in nature, allowing direct, continuous measurements for atmospheric or aqueous samples, and can easily follow dynamic concentration events such as contaminant plume movements or destruction during remediation strategies. This project is to develop emerging mass spectrometry methods for rapid, on-site screening and monitoring in and around contaminates sites.

Academic Collaborators: ET Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU Research Project Assisted Leave Research Visit, Universitat des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany. The proposed research from this visit was aimed at overcoming some of the limitations of current MIMS sample introduction technologies and extends methodology to analysis of highly complex mixtures of biological molecules and environmental contaminants. The techniques explored will now allow applications of realtime analysis of very complex samples, such as heavy oil contamination analyses and lignin degradation product characterization. The research conducted during the visit will yield high impact publications and lay the foundation for joint Canadian/German funding applications.

This visit helps to formalize links between VIU and UdS, and is expected to lead to frequent faculty/student exchange in the future.

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Academic Collaborators: Dietrich A. Volmer, Professor, Chemistry, UdSErik T. Krogh, Professor, Chemistry, VIU Workshop "Food and Flavorings" Division American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), Minneapolis, MN, USA. This invited presentation was one of three at the workshop, and showcased the potential for Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (MIMS) as a real-time field monitor for volatile and semivolatile molecules associated with foods and flavorings. This international exposure has generated increased interest in our VIU-based research program, and strengthens our reputation for cutting-edge science.

Workshop "Monitoring Hydrocarbon Emissions" American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Environmental Division, Minneapolis, MN, USA. This invited presentation was one of three at the workshop, and showcased the potential for Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (MIMS) as a real-time field monitor for environmental impacts associated with hydrocarbon extraction, transport and processing. This international exposure has generated increased interest in our VIU-based research program, and strengthens our reputation for cutting-edge science.

Dr. Jessie Key Article "Practical Labeling Methodology for CholineDerived Lipids and Applications in Live Cell Fluorescence Imaging" In Photochemistry and Photobiology, 90, 3, (2014)http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.111 Vancouver Island University | 65

1/php.12234/abstract;jsessionid=3FE8FE16EBD 21BE603E2267F231C9D33.f02t04 Academic Collaborators: Caishun Li, Jessie A. Key, Feng Jia, Arpan Dandapat, Soo Hur and Christopher W. Cairo, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Dr. Erik Krogh Community Based Education Molecules Matter: The life and times of a snowflake and other interesting stories Session presented at Spring Break Days, held at VIU, March 2014.

Community Based Education Understanding Climate Change: The Science and Implications Presented at Island Health AGM, Campbell River Academic Collaborators: L. Richards, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University; D. Short, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University Conference Presentation "Direct analysis of naphthenic acids in complex samples using on-line membrane introduction mass spectrometry" EnviroAnalysis conference, Toronto, ON, CAN, Abs#MS1-085 Academic Collaborators: K. Duncan, G. Vandergrift, D. Letourneau, and C.G. Gill; Chemistry, Vancouver Island University

"Miniature Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (CP-MIMS) Probes for the Direct Measurement of Pharmaceuticals and Contaminants in Complex Samples" 61st American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference, Minn. MN, USA Academic Collaborators: K. Duncan, G. Vandergrift, C.G. Gill; Chemistry, Vancouver Island University Conference Presentation "Real-time geospatial contaminant mapping using mobile membrane introduction tandem mass spectrometry" EnviroAnalysis Conference, Toronto, ON, CAN, Abs#MS1-088.

Academic Collaborators: N.G. Davey, R. Bell, and C.G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University; M. Mortensen, Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Conference Presentation "Real-Time, Geospatially-Resolved Atmospheric Contaminant Monitoring by Membrane Introduction Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MIMS-MS/MS) Near Oil and Gas Operations in Alberta, Canada" 61st American Society for Mass Spectrometery conference, Minn. MN, USA

Community Collaborators: M. Woudneh, AXYS Analytical Services; C. Hamilton, AXYS Analytical Services

Academic Collaborators: R. Bell, N. Davey, A. Thompson, and C.G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University; M. Martinsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; I. Simpson and D. Blake, Chemistry, University of California - Irvine

Conference Presentation

Conference Presentation

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Understanding the Effects of the Earth's Magnetic Field on Mobile Mass Spectrometry: Simulation, Experimentation and Solutions

Technical report on water quality for Vancouver Island lakes, written for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

61st American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference, Minn. MN, USA

Academic Collaborators: Z. Yim, C.G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University

Academic Collaborators: R. Bell, N. Davey, C.G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University; M., Martinsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; T. Short, SRI International

Community Collaborators: R. Ferguson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Other Publication Nutrient Levels in Segregated Forest Litterfall Samples from Clayoquot Sound Forest District Technical report on nutrients in communitymanaged forest in UNESCO biosphere reserve, written for International Forest Products.

Academic Collaborators: H. McSorley, Z. Yim, C.G. Gill; Chemistry, Vancouver Island University Community Collaborators: W. Warrtig, International Forest Products Other Publication Research and Development of MIMS-MS/MS as an On-line Platform for Rapid Environmental and Process Monitoring of Heavy Oil Extraction Operations Final technical report and summary of research and development work for Statoil ASA, Norway.

Academic Collaborators: C.G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University Other Publication Vancouver Island Lake Nutrient Study Data Report Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Paper "Delicate Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Membrane Interfaces for Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (CP-MIMS)" Paper published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrom. 28, 671-681, 2014.

Academic Collaborators: M.D. Willis, K.D. Duncan, and C.G. Gill, Chemistry, all of Vancouver Island University Paper "Seasonal, Spatial and Temporal Variations of Air Toxics in the Seattle-Tacoma Airshed Measured by Membrane Introduction Tandem Mass Spectrometry" Paper submitted to Journal of Environmental Health Science - Part A, December, 2013.

Academic Collaborators: N.G. Davey, M.G. Yost, C.G. Gill, J.M. Etzkorn, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University; M. Martinsen, Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; J.H. Park, R.S. Crampton, C.T.E. Fitzpatrick, T.V. Larson, C.D. Simpson, Occupational and Enviro Patent System and Method of Delicate Membrane Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (CP-MIMS) Vancouver Island University | 67

United States patent filing Academic Collaborators: C.G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University Professional Service Life on the Edge: Real-time measurements in real-world samples

A project to develop emerging mass spectrometry methods for rapid, on-site screening and monitoring in and around contaminated sites.

Academic Collaborators: C. G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University Research Project

Chemical Institute of Canada, Vancouver Island Award Lecture

Real-time Mobile Mass Spectrometry Laboratory

Project

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) infrastructure grant for acquisition and development of advanced instrumentation and sensors for real-time geo-spatial mapping of environmental contaminants.

Public Education and Dissemination of Climate Change Implications and Solutions VIU Capacity Building Grant for Awareness of Climate change through Education and Research project, a public outreach program aimed at increasing the understanding of the science and implications of climate change.

Academic Collaborators: C.G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University Research Project

Academic Collaborators: J. Lewis, Geography, Vancouver Island University

New Directions and Applications of Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry

Project

Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Team Discovery Grant

Segregation and Nutrient Analysis of Forest Litter Fall in Clayoquot Forest Biosphere Reserve A project to study nutrient cycling in a community managed forest ecosystem as function of variable retention harvest practices.

Academic Collaborators: C.G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University

Academic Collaborators: C.G. Gill, Chemistry, Vancouver Island University Workshop "Real-time chemical mapping on geo-spatial scales"

Community Collaborators: W. Warrtig, International Forest Products

Invited talk at the Communicating Chemistry Workshop for the Association of Chemical Profession of BC, SFU Harbourside, Vancouver, BC.

Research Project

Workshop

Applications for On-line, In-Field Groundwater Contaminant Monitoring

"Teaching the imperceptible: Using analogies to relate the abstract to common experience"

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Workshop presented for the Centre for Innovation and Excellence, VIU, Nanaimo, BC

Dr. Alexandra Weissfloch Curriculum Development Integration of Green Chemistry into the Organic Chemistry Curriculum Green chemistry principles, which focus on replacing traditional chemical processes with substances and methodologies that are environmentally-benign and non-hazardous to human health, were integrated into the organic chemistry courses at VIU. Both the lecture and laboratory portions of the courses were infused with green chemistry practices to overcome the pronounced lack of green chemistry in the currently available textbooks and lab manuals.

This work contributes significantly to VIU's commitment towards environmental sustainability.

Professional Service Invited speaker Lectures given on "Changing the Colour of Chemistry: Greening the Undergraduate Curriculum" to science faculty members and students at Mahidol University, Thailand, and Ibaraki and Yamagata Universities, Japan.

These presentations were given as an introduction to the relatively effortless and lowcost steps that can be taken by post-secondary educational institutions to adopt environmentally-benign practices in chemistry curricula.

Research Project The Relative Reactivities of Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Alcohols: A Green Esterification Experiment

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This project consisted of the development of a laboratory experiment for undergraduate organic chemistry students that is much more environmentally-benign than traditional esterification experiments. The experimental conditions used during this experiment drastically reduce energy consumption and chemical waste. In addition to teaching students state-of-the-art green chemistry techniques and principles, this experiment promotes critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Computing Science Dr. Gara Pruesse Conference Presentation "A new algorithm to compute the bump number using lexicographic labelling" Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, in Boca Raton, Florida, March 2014Finding the bump number of a partially-ordered set is a combinatorial optimization problem that has been studied since the 1980's. Efficient algorithms have been found to solve the problem, but the proofs of correctness are complex, and the algorithms are extremely complex from a programming standpoint. A new algorithm for bump number was presented that is extremely simple, and the proof of correctness elegant and easy to understand. The bump number has applications in scheduling in the presence of communications delays for precedence-constrained tasks. The methods employed have been applied to other problems to yield efficient and simple algorithms, including the Two-Processor Scheduling Problem, and for finding minimum path covers for graphs arising from partially ordered sets (i.e., cocomparability graphs).

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Academic Collaborators: Derek Corneil, Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, and Lalla Mouatadid, Ph. D. candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Earth Sciences Sandra Johnstone Other Publication Fossils of Vancouver Island Poster A summary of the fantastic diversity of fossils found on Vancouver Island. The poster contains an overview of the geological history of Vancouver Island and many images of common and spectacular fossils of various ages from locations around the Island. Available freely online: www.viu.ca/earthscience/fossilsofvancouverisla nd.pdf

Dr. Jerome Lesemann Article "A refined understanding of the paleoenvironmental history recorded at the Okanagan Centre section, an MIS 4 stratotype, south-central British Columbia, Canada" With Brennand, T.A., Lian, O.B., Sanborn, P. 2013. A refined understanding of the paleoenvironmental history recorded at the Okanagan Centre section, an MIS 4 stratotype, south-central British Columbia, Canada. In Journal of Quaternary Science, 28(8), 729-747.

Academic Collaborators: T.A. Brennand, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser UniversityO.B. Lian, Department of Geography, University of the Fraser ValleyP.T. Sanborn, Ecosystem Science and Management Program, University of Northern British Columbia Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Article "Genesis of dispersal plumes in till" In Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 50, p.

847-855 (2013)This article outlines the genesis of ore dispersal plumes in till. In many parts of Canada, glacial erosion has modified the landscape and dispersed large quantities of sediment over the landscape. As glaciers mover over and erode ore sources (gold, copper, diamond-bearing rocks, etc.), the eroded material forms a plume within the sediments covering the landscape. These plumes are mineral exploration targets as they can be used to trace the original ore source. Exploration in glaciated terrain has relied on this exploration approach for decades. However, there has, to date, been very little examination of the processes responsible for generating such dispersal plumes. This article addresses conceptually and numerically, some of the conditions responsible for generating dispersal plumes. This article received:- 2013 Best Paper Award Recognition from the Geological Association of Canada, NRC Research Press, and Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Editor's choice recognition, September, 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Roger LeBaron Hooke, Professor Emeritus, University of Main, Orono, USADonald I. Cummings, Consultant, DC Geoscience, Gatineau, QC, Canada; David R. Sharpe, Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada Conference Presentation "Glaciofluvial systems of glaciated Canada: insights from the barren lands and areas of thick sediment cover in Canada" With Sharpe, D; Russell, H; Pugin, A. In Canadian Quaternary Association and Canadian Geomorphology Research Group Conference, Program and Abstracts; CANQUA-CGRG, 2013; Vancouver Island University | 70

p. 215 (ESS Cont.# 20130060), Edmonton, Alberta.

Academic Collaborators: Sharpe, D.R., Geological Survey of Canada; Russell, H.A.J., Geological Survey of Canada; Pugin, A., Geological Survey of Canada Other Publication "A remote predictive surficial materials map, eastern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut" Government publication. A remote predictive surficial materials map, eastern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. With Sharpe, D R; Giroux, D. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7230, 2013; 1 sheet, doi:10.4095/292622 Academic Collaborators: Sharpe, D. R., Geological Survey of Canada; Giroux, D., Geological Survey of Canada Other Publication "Assessment of the structure, content, and usability of the Kimberlite Indicator and Diamond Database (KIDD)" Government of Canada, Scientific Presentation.

With Russell, H A J; Kjarsgaard, B A; Sharpe, D R. Geological Survey of Canada, Scientific Presentation 25, 2014; 23 pages, doi:10.4095/293658 Academic Collaborators: Russell, H A J; Geological Survey of Canada; Kjarsgaard, B A; Geological Survey of Canada; Sharpe, D R; Geological Survey of Canada Other Publication "Geochemistry of till samples, NTS 75-I, 75-J, 75-O, 75-P (Mary Frances Lake - Whitefish Lake - Thelon River area), Northwest Territories" Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Government Publication. With Kjarsgaard, B A; Knight, R D; Plourde, A P; Sharpe, D R. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7351, 2013; 26 pages, doi:10.4095/292390 Academic Collaborators: Kjarsgaard, B. A. Geological Survey of Canada; Knight, R. D. Geological Survey of Canada; Plourde, A. P., University of Ottawa; Sharpe, D. R. Geological Survey of Canada Other Publication "Glacial dispersal Indicator Mineral plume library, data entry reference manual" Government Publication. With Fuss, C; Russell, H A J. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7369, 2013; 97 pages, doi:10.4095/292804 Academic Collaborators: Fuss, C., University of Waterloo; Russell, H.A.J., Geological Survey of Canada Other Publication "Heavy mineral partitioning in sedimentary facies: Lac Baby Esker, Lac Timiskaming region, Canada" Government Publication. With Cummings, D I; Kjarsgaard, B A; Russell, H A J; Sharpe, D R. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7425, 2013; 49 pages, doi:10.4095/292817 Academic Collaborators: Cummings, D. I., DC Geoscience, Gatineau, QC; Kjarsgaard, B.A., Geological Survey of Canada; Russell, H.A.J., Geological Survey of Canada; Sharpe, D.R., Geological Survey of Canada Other Publication "Portable XRF spectrometry of surficial sediments, NTS 75-I, 75-J, 75-O, 75-P (Mary Frances Lake - Whitefish Lake - Thelon River area), Northwest Territories" Vancouver Island University | 71

Government Publication. With Plourde, A P; Knight, R D; Kjarsgaard, B A; Sharpe, D R. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7408, 2013; 25 pages, doi:10.4095/292714 Academic Collaborators: Kjarsgaard, B. A. Geological Survey of Canada;Knight, R. D. Geological Survey of Canada;Plourde, A. P., University of Ottawa;Sharpe, D. R. Geological Survey of Canada Other Publication "Significance of indicator minerals from till and esker samples, NTS 75-I, 75-J, 75-O, 75-P (Mary Frances Lake - Whitefish Lake - Thelon River area), Northwest Territories" Government Publication. With Knight, R D; Kjarsgaard, B A; Plourde, A P; Sharpe, D R. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7540, 2013; 33 pages, doi:10.4095/293341 Academic Collaborators: Kjarsgaard, B. A. Geological Survey of Canada; Knight, R. D. Geological Survey of Canada; Plourde, A. P., University of Ottawa; Sharpe, D. R. Geological Survey of Canada Other Publication "Structure and data quality assessment of the Kimberlite Indicator and Diamond Database (KIDD)" Government Publication. With Fuss, C., Kjarsgaard, B.A, Russell, H.A.J. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7509, 2014; 33 pages, doi:10.4095/293334 Academic Collaborators: Fuss, C., University of Waterloo; Kjarsgaard, B.A., Geological Survey of Canada; Russell, H.A.J., Geological Survey of Canada

Dr. Tim Stokes Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Community Based Education Earth Science Instructor "Discovering Fossils" classes at VIU Kids Summer Camp (July 2013); Mineral and Rock Lab for McGirr Elementary School (Dec 2013); and a Geoscape Nanaimo Workshop for Departure Bay Elementary (Feb 2014).

Conference Presentation "The Challenges of Identifying, Evaluating and Managing British Columbia's Karst Lands" Paper presented at the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC) Annual Conference in Whistler, BC. October 24-26, 2014. Karst is a complex three-dimensional landscape that has a wide range of values.

Forestry, renewable energy projects, quarrying and mining, oil and gas, and urban activities can be significantly impacted by karst landscapes due to subsidence, soil piping, uneven and unpredictable terrain conditions, and unusual groundwater flow conditions. Conversely, these activities can affect karst landscapes and systems by impacting subsurface drainage and water quality, sensitive habitats, and introducing excess soil, organic debris and contaminants to the subsurface. Identifying and recognizing that karst is present in the early stages of a project or development activity is key, as it can be easily overlooked and lead to future problems.

Assessment of karst landscapes requires an indepth understanding of karst science, and a range of different skills and experiences.

Management decisions and strategies for karst should only be developed following careful onsite assessment and evaluation.

Conference Presentation "Towards a Geologic and Geomorphic Model for the Evolution of Karst on Vancouver Island: Vancouver Island University | 72

Why this is important and how it can be tied to karst management?"

University of Washington Press, 2013, pp. 227252.

Presented at the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association (ACKMA) Conference, Waitomo, New Zealand. May 1217, 2013. Also produced a paper from this presentation, entitled "Constraints for Karst Landscape Evolution on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada: Concepts, Research Plans and Outcomes"Approximately 4% of Vancouver Island is underlain by limestone, much of which is karstified and occurs within the Mount Mark, the Quatsino and the Parson Bay formations. As a working model, it is apparent that glaciation and tectonic uplift have been significant in forming the mountainous terrain of Vancouver Island and are likely important factors for the development of karst.

This research project entails mapping selected areas of karst on Vancouver Island and collecting data on landscape characteristics, combined with information on bedrock and surficial geology. Cave morphological data will be integrated with the surface bedrock/karst geology and topographic/elevation information in order to better understand the geologic and geomorphologic processes that have led to the unique and valuable karst landscapes on Vancouver Island.

Conference Presentation

Forest Resources Technology Bill Beese Chapter "Variable retention harvesting in North Pacific temperate rainforests" A chapter on variable retention harvesting and the role of this approach for biodiversity conservation in temperate rainforest ecosystems.

In G. Orians and J. Schoen, eds. Ecology and Conservation of North Pacific Rainforests.

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"The age of trees in old-growth temperate rainforests on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada" 98th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 4-9, 2013 (Co-authors: J. Sandford, T. McCormick).

This talk described a research study that examined stand- and landscape-level patterns in tree ages in coastal old-growth forests. Data were assembled for tree age, height, diameter and site characteristics representing 1,114 plots and 4,033 trees from over 20 projects established over 60 years on Vancouver Island.

Most dominant trees were found to be 150 to 450 years old (median 289, mean 326). The frequency of trees over 350 years old diminished rapidly; trees over 850 were uncommon. There was a higher median age at higher elevations and in areas with less frequent fire and windthrow. Many coastal forests can be considered "all-aged." The actual time since major disturbance can be much greater than the average age indicates, suggesting an important distinction between the age of a forest and the age of the trees within it. Knowledge of the development of these original forests and their variability over the landscape can inform ecosystem-based approaches to forest management and conservation.

Paper "Can retention forestry help conserve biodiversity? A meta-analysis" This study used a systematic review protocol to conduct a meta-analysis of 78 studies including 653 comparisons of forest species and openhabitat species, between retention cuts and either clearcuts or un-harvested forests, with the main Vancouver Island University | 73

objective of assessing whether retention forestry mitigates the effects of cutting on biodiversity.

Retention cuts supported higher richness and a greater abundance of forest species than clearcuts as well as higher richness and abundance of open-habitat species than unharvested forests. Retention harvesting had negative impacts on some species compared to un-harvested forest, indicating that certain forest-interior species may not survive in retention cuts. Positive effects of retention cuts on richness of forest species increased with proportion of retained trees and time since harvest. Fedrowitz, K., J. Koricheva, S.C. Baker, D.B. Lindenmayer, B. Palik, R. Rosenvald, W. Beese, J.F. Franklin, J. Kouki, E. Macdonald, C. Messier, A. SverdrupThygeson and L. Gustafsson. 2014. "Can retention forestry help conserve biodiversity? A meta-analysis" Journal of Applied Ecology (accepted 15 May 2014) Professional Service Reviewer Reviewed scientific journal articles for Forest Ecology and Management.

Math Dr. Lev Idels Article Six published papers Co-authored with Prof. P. Amster (Argentina), L. Berezansky (Israel), E. Braverman (Calgary).1. "Existence Theorems for Some Abstract Nonlinear Non-autonomous Systems with Delays, Communications" In Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 19 (2014) 2974-2982. 2. "The Mackey-Glass Model of Hematopoiesis with Non-monotone Feedback: Stability, Oscillation and Control" In Applied Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Mathematics and Computation 219 (2013) 6268-6283. 3. "Periodic Solutions in General Scalar Models of Population Dynamics with Delays, Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications" In NoDEA Vol. 20, Issue 5 (2013) 1577-1596. 4. "Existence of Periodic Solutions in the Modified Wheldon Model of CML Electron" In Journal of Differential Equations 272 (2013) 1-14.5. "Mackey-Glass model of hematopoiesis with monotone feedback revisited" In Applied Mathematics and Computation 219 (2013) 4892-4907. 6.

"Periodic Solutions of Nonautonomous Mackeytype Systems with Delay" In Journal of Difference Equations and Applications Vol. 4 (2013) 1, 11-22.

Academic Collaborators: Prof. P. Amster (Argentina), L. Berezansky (Israel), E. Braverman (Calgary) Curriculum Development Math - 370 Numerical Analysis New third-year course in Math. Numerical analysis is the story of how functions, derivatives, integrals, and differential equations are handled as strings of numbers in the computer. This course analyzes the basic techniques for the efficient numerical solution of problems in science, economics and engineering.

Topics span root finding, interpolation and approximation of functions, integration, differential equations, and iterative methods in linear algebra. Students will also learn to use MATLAB in order to explore and apply the mathematical techniques taught in the lectures.

A few class lectures will be devoted to MATLAB, which will suffice in case students have not had prior programming experience.

Note: VIU students for the first time will be introduced to Matlab and its applications.

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Editor Edited 30 papers and reviews for Applied Mathematical Modelling Journal by Elseveir.

Professional Service Reviewer for numerous journals Biological Dynamics; Advances in Differential Equations; Nonlinear Analysis Series B: Real World Applications; Nonlinear Analysis Series A: Theories, Methods, and Applications; Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society; Applied Mathematics and Computations; Communications In Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations; Applied Math Letters; and Computers and Mathematics with Applications.

Project Global attractivity of the cancer-free equilibrium for delayed pathological angiogenesis and treatment With Prof. L. Berezansky (Israel), Prof E. Braverman (Calgary).For different models of angiogenesis under controlled perturbations, we examine continuous dependence, permanence and extinction of the solutions, as well as stability and oscillations and the size of the region of attraction. We identify the types of oscillations, i.e., sustained, decaying and unbounded, and estimate the amplitude and periods. This project will also highlight how delays in combination with other system structures and parameters influence system dynamics. All results might be used to examine qualitative behavior of stem cell dynamics models.

Academic Collaborators: Prof. L. Berezansky (Israel), Prof E. Braverman (Calgary) Project Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Linearization by Weakly Nonlinear Systems for Highly Nonlinear Models With L. Berezansky and Amster P. Since in most cases, classical linearized techniques failed, we develop a novel quiasi-linearized method that defines and produces special classes of weakly nonlinear systems that have the global and dynamic equivalence to the systems examined in our papers. For nonlinear nonautonomous systems with delays, we obtain results analogous to the generalization of Hartman-Grobman linearization theorems. We extend the use of Leray-Schauder topological degree to prove the uniqueness and global existence of periodic, anti-periodic and quasiperiodic solutions of certain abstract classes of high-order nonlinear nonautonomous systems functional equations with time-varying and state-dependent delays.

Project New Qualitative Methods for Highly-Nonlinear Models with Applications to Networks and Economics Highly nonlinear non-autonomous models give rise to challenging problems, and a systematic study presented in this project will therefore provide solutions to most interesting open problems. My novel approach reduces stability analysis of a broad class of systems with highorder nonlinearities to special classes of weakly nonlinear systems.All results might be used to examine qualitative behavior of stem cell dynamics models, study stability of high-level artificial neural networks, and investigate fluctuations of stock markets. For neural networks, practically finding exponential stability conditions will guarantee that, whatever transformation occurs, the networks' ability to store rapidly the activity pattern remains invariant due to self-organization. Some applications impact outside of the boundaries of Vancouver Island University | 75

my field include stability of price dynamics in a commodity market, or finding optimal strategies for chemo treatments of cancer tumor growth to give insight into treatment strategies that will maximize healing of a patient while minimizing damaging side-effects.

Academic Collaborators: Gary MacGillivray; Mathematics and Statistics; University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada; Andre Raspaud La BRI Bordeaux University France

Project

Raymond Penner

Novel Results for the Stabilization, Control and Anticontrol for Second Order Models

Article

It is well known that control of dynamical systems is a classical subject in engineering sciences. Time-delayed feedback control is an efficient method for stabilizing unstable periodic orbits of chaotic systems. More than fifty years ago, N. Minorsky considered the problem of stabilizing the rolling of a ship by the "activated tanks method," in which ballast water is pumped from one position to another. In order to solve this problem, he constructed several models with autonomous delay-differential equations of the second order and studied stability and control problems for these equations.

Dr. Jacobus Swarts Article "Obstructions to locally injective oriented improper colourings" MacGillivray, Gary; Raspaud, AndrĂŠ; Swarts, Jacobus. In European Journal of Combinatorics, 35 (2014), 402--412. Oriented colourings that are injective on inneighbourhoods, but which need not be proper colourings, are considered. We first find some bounds on the number of colours needed, and determine the complexity of the associated decision problem. We then consider the Polynomial cases and describe efficient algorithms, based on colouring extensions, which either produce a colouring with the given number of colours or a forbidden substructure.

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Physics/Engineering/Astronomy

"Induced energy polarization of the vacuum and the Coma cluster" Canadian Journal of Physics, 91, 1114 (2013).

In this article, the theory of an induced-energy polarized vacuum is applied to the Coma cluster.

The theoretical virial-mass distribution of the cluster is determined and found to be in good agreement with previous virial-mass estimates.

A more concentrated intra-cluster gas profile than one based on the assumption that the gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium and isothermal was found, however, to lead to better agreement with measured shear values in the inner regions. The theory also leads to good agreement with measured-velocity dispersion values in the case of the galaxies of the cluster being in radial orbits. This article is available at www.raypenner.com.

Article "Induced energy polarization of the vacuum and the resulting cosmology" 2014 (eprint arXiv:1405.5165) In this article the theory of an induced energy polarized vacuum is now applied to superclusters. From a model of the distribution of superclusters, the overall density parameter of universe as given by the theory of an induced energy polarized vacuum is W = 0.94 Âą 0.23. This is consistent with a geometrically flat universe. In addition, by treating the superclusters as unbound systems, the theory leads to an accelerating expansion of Vancouver Island University | 76

the universe in line with observations. The theory of an induced energy polarized vacuum is therefore now shown to explain the observations currently attributed to dark energy.

Article "Induced-energy polarization of the vacuum and the rotational curve for the Galaxy"

Fisher relationship. Overall, it is found that rotational curves generated by the inducedenergy polarized vacuum theory can readily produce observed features in the rotational curves of spiral galaxies. This article is available at www.raypenner.com.

Other Activity 2013 Extreme Science Show

Canadian Journal of Physics, 91,126 (2013).

The theory of an induced-energy polarized vacuum (which I had previously proposed as an alternative explanation to the observations attributed to dark matter) is used to generate a theoretical rotational curve for the Galaxy (Milky Way). The theoretical curve generated is found to be in good agreement with observations. For the baryonic mass distribution and baryonic Tully-Fisher relationship that is used, the theoretical orbital velocity at the Sun's location is found to be (235 Âą15) km s-1. The Galactic rotational velocity is then found to slowly fall from this value as it asymptotically approaches the value of (192 Âą15) km s-1. This article is available at www.raypenner.com.

Article "Induced-energy polarization of the vacuum and the rotational curves of spiral galaxies" Canadian Journal Physics, 91, 610 (2013). The theory of an induced-energy polarized vacuum was now used to determine the rotational curves for modeled galaxies whose baryonic mass distribution parameters are the median values of three classes of spiral galaxies. From the theoretical curves, it is found that the bulge contribution plays a dominant role in determining the behavior of the rotational curves in the inner regions, i.e. within 3 disc scale lengths. For the outer regions, the theoretical rotational curves for all the galaxies behave similarly as they slowly fall to the asymptotic value, as determined by the baryonic TullyFaculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

The 5th annual Extreme Science show was presented in May 2013. The show is designed to get children and the local community excited about science in addition to raising funds for LED Africa (www.ledafrica.org). Four shows were presented at the VIU theatre to local school classes and one show was presented to the general public. This year we also presented a show at the Cowichan theatre in Duncan. All 6 shows were sold out with a total attendance of 2200. Ray Penner, who organizes the show, was joined on stage by Deborah Hearn, Gregory Arkos, Jim Slater and Owen Peer from the Physics department; Sandra Patrick and Peter Diamente from the Chemistry department; and Patrick Ng from the Mathematics department.

Further information regarding the shows is available at www.raypenner.com.

Project LED Africa (Malawi secondary school project) The Malawi secondary school project continues.

The project provides solar-powered classroom lighting systems to rural secondary schools in Malawi. These lighting systems provide regular reading and study time in the evening for the students. In 2013, lighting systems were installed at a further 3 schools, bringing the total for the project to 19 schools. In addition $14,000 worth of math and science textbooks were purchased for these same schools. For further information please go to www.ledafrica.org.

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Science and Technology Administration Dr. Greg Crawford Article "Observed and modeled currents from the Tohoku-oki, Japan and other recent tsunamis in northern California" Admire, A. R., et al. (2014), Pure Applied Geophysics, doi: 10.1007/s00024-14-0797-8.

We deployed a Nortek Aquadopp 600 kHz 2D acoustic Doppler current profiler with a 1-min sampling interval in Humboldt Bay, CA. The instrument recorded tsunamis produced by the Chile earthquake on February 27, 2010 and the Japan earthquake on March 11, 2011. The 2010 tsunami currents persisted in the bay for approximately 30 h with peak amplitudes of 0.35 m/s. The 2011 tsunami signal lasted for over 40 h with a peak amplitude of 0.84 m/s. In Crescent City, currents for the first 3.5 h of the 2011 Japan tsunami were estimated using security camera video footage from the Harbour Master. Currents reached a velocity of 4.5 m/s and six cycles exceeded 3 m/s during this period.

Measured currents both in Humboldt Bay and Crescent City were compared to calculated velocities from the Method of Splitting Tsunamis (MOST) numerical model.

Academic Collaborators: Amanda R. Admire, Dept. of Geology, Humboldt State University; Lori A. Dengler, Dept. of Geology, Humboldt State UniversityBurak U. Uslu, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationJose C. Borrero, Dept. Civil an Article "Poleward propagating subinertial alongshore surface currents off the U.S. west coast" Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Kim, S. Y., et al. (2013), Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118, 6791 (8211)6806. doi:10.1002/jgrc.20400. The network comprising 61 high-frequency radar systems along the U.S. West Coast (USWC) provides a unique, high-resolution, and broad-scale view of ocean surface circulation. Subinertial alongshore surface currents show poleward propagating signals that are consistent with historical in-situ observations off the USWC and can be possibly interpreted as coastally trapped waves (CTWs).

These signals in the slow mode are partly observed in southern California, which may result from scattering and reflection of higher mode CTWs due to curvature of shoreline and bathymetry near Point Conception, California.

However, considering the order of the phase speed in the slow mode, the poleward propagating signals may be attributed to alongshore advection or pressure-driven flows.

A statistical regression of coastal winds at National Data Buoy Center buoys partitions locally and remotely wind-forced components, isolates footprints of the equatorward propagating storm events in winter, and shows the poleward propagating signals year-round.

Academic Collaborators: Sung Yong Kim, Korea Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, Korea; Eric Terrill, University of California San Diego, USA; Bruce Cornuelle, University of California San Diego, USA; Burton H. Jones, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Conference Presentation "Managing Organizational Change" Presented at the British Columbia Deans of Arts and Sciences Fall Meeting, Victoria, B.C., October 17, 2013.

Conference Presentation

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"Observed and Modeled Tsunami Current Velocities on California's North Coast"

Member, University of Victoria Social Justice Studies Community Advisory Council

Presented at the 26th International Tsunami Symposium, Gocek, Turkey, September 25-28, 2013.

The aims of the of the Social Justice Studies Program are to provide students with a thorough understanding of the range of ways in which scholars, researchers and activists address and engage with issues surrounding social injustices and initiatives promoting social justice in the contemporary world. The program also helps advance UVic's vision, which includes "employing our core strengths to benefit our external communities", "promoting civic engagement and global citizenship" and valuing "equal rights and dignity of all persons" (UVic Strategic Plan).

Academic Collaborators: Amanda R. Admire, Humboldt State University, USA; Lori A. Dengler, Humboldt State University, USA; Burak U. Uslu, NOAA - Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, USA; Jose C. Borrero, University of Southern California, USA; Dougal Greer, eCoast Ltd., New Zealand; Rick I Wilson, california Geological Survey, USA; Jose Montoya, Humboldt State University, USA Other Activity "Fisheries, Aquaculture, Science and Technology at Vancouver Island University, Canada"

Conference Presentation Dutch Immigrant Identity as Reflected in Home Artifacts

Invited presentation to the Faculty of Fisheries, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, March 10, 2014.

Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies (CAANS). Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Victoria, BC, June 2, 2013.

Professional Service

Other Activity

"Observing and Modeling Currents, Waves, Mixing, and Tsunamis: Adventures in Physical Oceanography"

Undergraduate internship supervision

Invited presentation to the Faculty of Fisheries, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, March 10, 2014.

Faculty of Social Sciences Anthropology Helene Demers Board/Committee Work Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

1. Angela McDiarmid, Cowichan Social Planning Intern. Primary project: Cowichan Valley Street Survival Guide and comprehensive literature review. 2. Jessica Margetts, Cowichan Green Community. Primary project: Organizational history and development of Cowichan Green Community Impact Assessment Tool.3. Jenny Voller, Cowichan Green Community (in progress). Primary projects: coding data obtained from Anth 211 Cowichan Green Community Impact Assessment.4. Jacqueline Mays, Cowichan Green Community (in progress). Primary projects: Kin Park Community Gardens Vancouver Island University | 79

mentorship and research and development of promotional material for school tours. 5. Felicia Jorgensen, Cowichan Intercultural Society (in progress). Primary project: digitizing existing cookbook and gathering recipes and stories for the new addition.

Academic Collaborators: VIU Department of Art and DesignCowichan Campus Student Affairs

Community Collaborators: Joy Emmanual, Director Cowichan Social Planning; Vanessa Goodall, Cowichan Green Community Food Security Coordinator; Heather Kaye, Cowichan Green Community Kin Park Urban Farm Youth Advisor; Emma Koch, Cowichan Intercultural Society Community Relationships Coordinator

Professional Service

Production/Performance Assisting Child Soldiers in Eastern Congo Co-organizer of a public lecture by Laurel Borisenko, Unicef Humanitarian Aid Worker, at the Cowichan Campus. This public lecture was jointly sponsored by the Cowichan Intercultural Society and the VIU Department of Anthropology. Laurel shared her experiences as a child-protection consultant in Eastern Congo.

Community Collaborators: Catherine Johnson, Cowichan Intercultural Society Production/Performance Sleeping Bag: Art, Homeless and the Public Gaze Co-organizer of two public lectures to coincide with the installation of four temporal sculptures

by Victoria artist, Tyler Hodgins. The public lectures were hosted on the Cowichan and Nanaimo Campus. Two temporal ice sculptures were installed in each city. The Sleeping Bag project seeks to draw the public gaze to a public problem through ephemeral sculptural interventions.

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Community Collaborators: Canada Council for the Arts

Objects We Bring from Our Homeland Workshop provided for the Cowichan Intercultural Society Immigrant Women's Group. A collaborative exploration of the relationship between objects, cultural identity, and personal and family stories. These objects not only remind us of our homeland, but by using them or displaying them they also help to create a new "home".

Community Collaborators: Cowichan Valley Intercultural Society.

Professional Service Selection Committee, Anthropology Department Selection Committee to replace a regular fulltime faculty member who specializes in Northwest Coast Archeology.

Research Project Cowichan Green Community-Impact Assessment Project Project Coordination and student Internship supervision. Along with Cowichan Campus Anthropology 211 students, we worked in collaboration with the Cowichan Green Community (CGC) to carry out a communityimpact assessment. The goal of this innovative campus/community initiative was the codevelopment and application of an evaluation tool for analyzing existing food-based security initiatives and exploring possible future Vancouver Island University | 80

initiatives in the Cowichan Region. The project provided meaningful experiential learning as well as empowered students to "make a difference" and engage in research that serves their community and promotes citizenship. Two students, Tamu Huff and Pamela Jack, collaborated on a promotional video for the Cowichan Green Community Edible Farm and Garden Tour www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2XopedSGTM Academic Collaborators: Jessica Margetts, Anthropology Department Internship Program student; Jenny Voller, Anthropology Department Internship Program student; and Vanessa Goodall, Cowichan Green Community Food Security Coordinator

Community Collaborators: Cowichan Valley Museum and Archives; Coast Salish Employment and Training Society

Dr. Paul Ewonus Research Project Zooarchaeological analysis: Kosapsom site Conducted a Zooarchaeological analysis of the Kosapsom site, Victoria, BC. Academic Collaborators: Dr. Quentin Mackie, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria; Rebecca Wigen, Senior Lab Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria

Community Collaborators: Cowichan Green Community

Community Collaborators: Songhees First Nation

Research Project

Dr. Lynette Harper

Hul'q'umi'num' voices: Reclaiming the Language of Canoe Culture

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Co-investigator SSHRC Partnership Grant. The team of Hul'q'umi'num' knowledge holders and researchers will document the language of canoe culture and develop a variety of resources to be used by teachers and coaches in their efforts to integrate the use of the language into canoe club activities. An overarching goal of the project is to support a fun, interactive, and culturallyauthentic approach for youth to connect with their Coast Salish heritage.

Academic Collaborators: Donna Gerdts, Simon Fraser University (award holder); Ruby Peter, Elder and linguist, Cowichan Tribes; Dolores Louie, Elder-in-residence, Vancouver Island University; Thomas Hukari, University of Victoria; Siomonn Pulla, Royal Roads University; Sonya Bird

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"Performing Identity / Diasporic Encounters" Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance and Identity. Eds. Caitlin McDonald and Barbara Sellers-Young McFarland:London, 2013. On Canada's west coast, a large and active bellydance community has grown and thrived distinct from Middle Eastern ethnic communities. Orientalist fantasies and Egyptian stylings regularly appear onstage alongside western tribal and other ethnic bellydance fusions. These performances do not challenge popular media stereotypes about the Middle East; they comfortably coexist with ideologies linking veiled Arab women with oppressed victims of patriarchy and war. So how do Arab women immigrants and their descendants experience and negotiate issues of identity and representation in the bellydance community? Do they resist or reinscribe notions of difference, authenticity, traditionalism, Vancouver Island University | 81

contemporaneity? Ethnographic interviews reveal tensions experienced by Arab women dancers as they negotiate their social identities and locations within west coast bellydance and ethnic communities, and develop strategies for their creative practices.

Conference Presentation "Belly dance fact and fiction" Oriental Performing Arts Society Annual Showcase. Invited lecture-seminar that examined the myths of belly dance and provided empirical evidence and academic arguments that support, or more often refute, hegemonic discourses.

Topics included: Is bellydance an ancient ritual of childbirth, a dance of seduction, a global phenomenon? What does it have to do with gypsies, Arabs, Turks, tribes, and feminists? Is Orientalism a good or a bad thing?

Other Activity "Tale of two exhibits"

Public Lecture Presented a talk "Lions, Hyenas and Sabertooths, Oh My! Carnivores as Selective Agents: Implications for early hominin behaviour" for the Vancouver Island University Science and Technology Lecture Series. The talk addressed how large carnivores in the early Pleistocene acted as the selective agents responsible for the evolution of behaviour in early Homo and Homo erectus.

Community Based Education Public Lecture Presented a public talk for the Achaeological Society of of British Columbia - Nanaimo Branch at the Nanaimo District Museum on burial analysis at the site of Kenan Tepe, Turkey. The talk was focused on the changing burial patterns at Kenan Tepe and how these reflected how individuals and communities negotiated the relationships between the living and the dead.

Guest speaker, ANTH 470 Museology University of Hawaii-Hilo An invited lecture, "Tale of two exhibits" was prepared to complement the class curriculum. Students and teacher were engaged in discussion comparing collaborative exhibition practices and politics in Canada's Northwest Territories with those of Arizona's Ak-Chin Centre.

Academic Collaborators: Bradley Parker, Associate Professor, History, University of Utah

Other Publication

Completion of PhD On April 23rd in Anthropology from Binghamton University.

Research Project Carnivorans as Selective Agents: Implications for the Evolution of early Homo and Homo erectus behaviour

"1001 Likes" A regular column sharing and evaluating resources about the Middle East, dance and music for Sahda, monthly newsletter of B.C.'s Middle Eastern Dance Association.

David Hopwood

Geography Dr. Don Alexander Community Based Education 8th Annual Urban Issues Film Festival

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I co-organized the 8th edition of the Film Festival co-sponsored by the Department of Geography, the Mid-Island chapter of the Planning Institute of BC, the Geographic Students' Union, Solutions, and the New City Institute. The festival involves showing a variety of longer and shorter films on urban issues with a loose theme. This year, we looked at water and energy issues. Attendance is usually about half students and faculty and half community members.

"A Tale of Three Universities: Water, Energy, and Sustainability"

Academic Collaborators: The Geographic Students' Union and Solutions: A Network for Sustainability.

Presentation with Dr. Christine Krumrey at the Ecocity World Summit, Nantes, France, 27 September 2013. It focused on the similarities and differences between the experiences at Southeast False Creek/ Olympic Village and Dockside Green in Victoria in terms of governance -- i.e. stakeholder participation in the planning process and post-construction stewardship.

Community Collaborators: The Mid-Island chapter of the Planning Institute of B.C.and the New City Institute.

Community Based Education Save Linley Valley West Society (SLVWS) and the New City Institute Board member of Save Linley Valley West Society (SLVWS) and the New City Institute.

Was involved in the activities of these organizations, and also encouraged students to do projects related to Linley Valley -- in particular, for instance, a short film on Linley Valley as an assignment for a media arts class, and a GIS practicum for a student in the ADGISA program who did a mapping exercise of the Valley. Also communicated with city officials about the importance of the Valley ecosystem, offered my expertise to SLVWS, and took students on field trips into the Valley as a teaching exercise.

Community Collaborators: Other members of the Save Linley West Society and the New City Institute.

Conference Presentation

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This presentation was co-presented with fourthyear student, Pamela Jack at the Avenues for Action conference on sustainability, which was held at VIU on March 15, 2014.

Conference Presentation "Governing Sustainable Communities: The British Columbia Experience"

Academic Collaborators: The session consisted of academics, practitioners, and other experts and involved extensive discussion after the presentations.

Curriculum Development Master's of Community Planning Worked under the leadership of Dr. Pam Shaw to develop a Master's of Community Planning program at VIU that will focus on: --Small city and town planning --Community design (and GIS) --Rural/urban interface planning --First Nations planning (regional focus) --Sustainable economy and tourism; and --Emerging issuesHeld an all-day meeting On May 12th with a Degree Quality Assurance Board (DQAB) team assigned to evaluate the proposed program and are awaiting the results of their report.

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planning programs in B.C. and with the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP), which sets the standards for all planning programs in Canada.

Community Collaborators: We have consulted with students wishing to go into the program once it's up and running, and have involved practitioners to get their views on program content and design.

VIU on March 15, 2014. It was co-sponsored by Solutions: A Network for Sustainability, Awareness of Climate change through Education and Research (ACER), and the Campus Food Movement.

Research Project The Challenge of Sustainable Universities: A Comparison of Sustainability Initiatives and Approaches

Other Activity Gardens Aflame: Garry Oak Meadows of BC's South Coast Organized a presentation by Maleea Acker, graduate student at the University of Victoria and author/poet on the subject of managing the dwindling Garry Oak ecosystems on Vancouver Island and the challenges involved, as part of the Science and Technology Lecture Series.

Academic Collaborators: Wendy Simms of Biology and the Dean of Science and Technology.

Professional Service Administrative and Service Activity Have served as the chair of the Geography Department since January 2014, have an ongoing membership on the Educational Standards Committee, have served on the Social Sciences Strategic Planning Committee from September to May, and am just winding up my membership on the Scholarship Committee.

Academic Collaborators: Other faculty members.

Professional Service Conference organizing team One of the organizers for the Avenues for Action conference on sustainability, which was held at Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

A research report undertaken with Pamela Jack, Work Opportunity student for the last two years, that focuses on the relative performance and aspirations of three universities in BC: VIU, Royal Roads, and University of Northern British Columbia. The report is currently undergoing final revisions and will be released to the university community.

Academic Collaborators: Pamela Jack, graduating student in Global Studies.We received assistance from those with expertise in sustainability issues at VIU and at the other institutions that were part of the study.

Dr. Alan Gilchrist Community Based Education Careers in Geography Invited lecture for Geography 12 class, Nanaimo District Secondary School (SD68), May 2014.

Curriculum Development Master of Geographical Information Systems Applications (MGISA) Helped develop the proposal with faculty from the Advanced Diploma in GIS Applications Program, and coordinated through the curricula process at VIU as Chair of the Geography Department.

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Graduate Student Thesis Supervision "Assessing the Value of Green Infrastructure Networks to Manage Peak Flows and Support Community Resilience to Climate Change" Metherall, C., Master of Science in Environment and Management Program, Royal Roads University.

Other Activity "The Origin and Evolution of Mountains" Invited lecture for Podium of Life Ski Academy, Mt. Washington, February 2014.

Professional Service Member, Technical Advisory Committee Member Drinking Water and Watershed Protection Technical Advisory Committee, representing the academic community in watercentric planning for the Regional District of Nanaimo.

Research Project A Soil Moisture Balance for Vancouver Island Soil moisture varies on an annual cycle in response to the supply of water by rain and loss of water by evaporation. On Vancouver Island, soil moisture typically drops in the summer during periods of hot, dry weather and irrigation is often required for gardens to flourish and agricultural crops to be successful. In the future it is predicted that the Island climate will change in response to global warming caused by the human production of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Summers in coastal BC will likely become longer, hotter and dryer than at present. This is of concern as summer soil moisture levels are likely to drop even lower, due to decreased supply and increased evaporation, and drought conditions could Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

become more common with an increased need for crop irrigation. The proposed research will assess the likelihood of this possibility, and will help water managers to predict the future impact of climate change on water needs for irrigation.

This project is being undertaken as part of an assisted leave granted from January to June 2014.

Workshop "Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Education, Thematic Mapping and Error in GIS" As part of a Government of Canada CIDAfunded project to develop a "Ukrainian Spatial Data Infrastructure Training Program", these workshops were given to Ukrainian faculty from Kiev in May 2014 to prepare them to deliver this program.

Dr. Jeff Lewis Project Awareness of Climate Change through Education and Research (ACER) A public outreach initiative led by an interdisciplinary group of dedicated undergraduate students under the guidance of faculty at Vancouver Island University. Funding supports the development and delivery of hands-on activities, educational materials and an interactive presentation to over 14000 students and members of the general public throughout coastal BC. In addition to reviewing the physical basis of climate change, the program introduces concepts of risk assessment and provides the starting point for discussions on technical, sociological and political solutions. The presentation and associated activities develop scientific and numerical literacy with an emphasis on Earth observation, data evaluation, visualization and critical thinking. This project directly engages Canada's youth in the process Vancouver Island University | 85

of scholarship, knowledge mobilization and social change. The Awareness of Climate change through Education and Research project is supported by NSERC (PromoScience), SSHRC (Public Outreach-Environment), and TD Friends of the Environment.

Dr. Janina Hornosty

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Erik Krogh, Chemistry

In BrontĂŤ Studies, Vol. 39 No. 2, April 2014, 130-40. In "'Let me have its bowels then': Violence, Sacrificial Structure, and Anne BrontĂŤ's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," Maggie Berg creates a useful frame in which to examine aspects of the violence that haunts The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and especially Helen Huntingdon's past. Berg's main theoretical touchstone is Derrida's "carno-phallogocentric" paradigm, and she correctly argues that "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...elaborate[s] the psycho-social mechanisms by which men maintain this order, and the costs to its victims". However, her employment of Bronte's descriptions of narrator Gilbert Markham is unjustifiably selective.

Determined to peg Gilbert as unremittingly part of the carno-phallogocentric brotherhood by which Helen is victimized, Berg misses the ways in which the novel is structured to reveal his transcendence of the values to which he was born. Berg sets her carno-phallogocentric sniffer dogs running through the story, but they tree exactly the wrong man.

GIS Program Brad Maguire Conference Presentation "Development of an enhanced viewshed technique for forested areas using LiDAR data" King, T., and B. Maguire (2014). Presented at ESRI User Conference, Victoria, B.C., April 8, 2014. Viewshed analysis does not work well in forested environments because it is designed for 2D analysis of land surface visibility, and thus overestimates visibility in forested environments. This presentation examines using a Digital Surface Model (DSM), constructed from LiDAR data, that better estimates distances because it includes features such as trees and buildings. The DSM was created from class two, three, four and six LiDAR points (ground, low vegetation, middle vegetation and buildings, respectively) and was combined with a tree model to enable detailed forest visibility analysis. The resulting model (developed entirely using tools available within ArcGIS) provides a more realistic representation of viewable areas in the forest and corresponds closely with visible boundaries defined using a laser rangefinder.

Academic Collaborators: Tyler King, B.A., Student, Advanced Diploma in GIS Applications Program, VIU

Liberal Studies Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Article "Let's Not Have its Bowels Quite so Quickly, Then: a Response to Maggie Berg"

Liberal Studies Dr. Lisa MacLean Exhibition A Responsive Landscape A juried selection of artwork by contemporary artists using their practices to respond to the landscape, as well as artwork exploring how the landscape is responding to humans. The exhibition was part of the annual Harmony Arts Festival, an open-air celebration of the arts along the West Vancouver Ambleside waterfront.

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Visitors enjoy street performances, art exhibitions, artist talks and demonstrations, concerts, the Art Market, family-oriented activities and unique culinary experiences. The festival attracts over 100,000 local and international visitors and receives extensive media attention.

adults) whose purpose was to share awareness of the many aspects of residential school experiences and to foster an environment that supports survivors, their families and our community in a journey of healing. A third workshop was offered at the end of May.

Exhibition

Community Collaborators: Tillicum Lelum, School District 68

Art Afloat: A Celebration of Creativity

Dr. Carolyn Swanson

Ladner Float Home, BC. Exhibited videos and paintings in this group show of eleven Lower Mainland artists.

Article

Exhibition

"Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well." In Teaching Philosophy, 37, 1 (March 2014): 126-130.

Precarious Balance An Exhibition of Photographic Art by Wendy D, Tehya MacKenzie, and Lisa MacLean. Three person exhibition at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery in Vancouver, BC. Contributed works that were part of a series of infrared photographs entitled Urban Pastoral, which focus on Vancouver's seaside landscapes as they confront climate change.

Philosophy and Religious Studies Dr. Robert Pepper-Smith

Book Review

Other Activity Philosophy Speaker Series Brought in guest speakers to discuss such topics as living closer to nature, jury nullification, and language and community.

Workshop So, what is philosophy anyway?

Conducted workshops introducing high school students to the field of philosophy.

Other Activity "Justice and the Law: Jury Nullification" Facilitated a presentation at VIU by Dr. Gary Bauslaugh on jury nullification.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Carolyn Swanson Workshop Reconciliation Dialogue Workshop Helped to organize two reconciliation dialogue workshops (one for high school studnets, one for Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Political Studies Dr. Alexander Netherton Board/Committee Work Chair BC Political Science Articulation Committee, May 2012 to 2014. The chair of the articulation committees coordinates amongst the departments and institutions teaching political science within British Columbia's postVancouver Island University | 87

secondary institutions and represents them within the British Columbia Council on Administrations and Transfer (BCCAT).

Conference Presentation "Manitoba Hydro and the Emergence of the Modern Provincial State" Presented at the Annual Conference of the Praire Political Science Association, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, September 24, 2011. The paper draws upon literature on statebuilding and Canadian political economy to illustrate how the prolonged process of bringing together Manitoba's principal electrical utilities under provincial public ownership was a key element of what the paper terms "constructing the modern provincial state." Other literature tends to look at these processes in terms of federalism, or building provincial administrative and political capacities in the debate about the nature of Canadian federalism. This paper concentrates on the politics of taking power from private actors and leading municipalities to vest it in a new provincial hydro, and the intended and implicit mandate and role for the utility within the province. One key question is, whose interests would be served or ignored by the new state structure? The data used in the paper is drawn largely from primary sources.

Conference Presentation "MegaProjects: Ideological Prisms, Coalitions, Venues, and Outcomes" Presented to the Institute for Coastal Research Symposium - Pipelines, Coalmines, People and Fish!, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Nov 23, 2012. The presentation draws upon recent literature on reflexive modernization and mega-projects to map out the competing ideological discourse concerning the series of pipeline and other mega projects that are part of restructuring BC's integration in the national and Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

global political economy. Attention is placed on the political coalitions emerging behind different discourse, the political venues on which they were expressed and the matrix of likely outcomes emanating from each.

Dr. Mark Williams Conference Presentation "Negotiating Global Governance and Nationalism in Indonesia during the Yudhoyono Years, 2004-2014" Presented at the Presented at the Canadian Political Science Association/ International Studies AssociationCanada section on International Relations Workshop, Varieties of Global Governance Arrangements and their Impact on ResourceRich Developing Countries, held in St. Catharines, May 2014.

Conference Presentation The "Berkeley Mafia" and the Politics of Development in Indonesia: Ideology and the Co-Opting of a Tradition Presented at the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development, Development Architecture, held in St. Catharines, May 2014.

Psychology Dr. Caroline Burnley Professional Service Organized a Presentation on Confidentiality in Research Organized a presentation by Russel Ogden, M.A. for the Faculty of Social Sciences. Russel Ogden, the first researcher in Canada to be Vancouver Island University | 88

subpoenaed to reveal the identities of his research participants, presented a talk on Confidentiality in Research. The presentation was attended by members of the Faculty of Social Sciences, VIU's Research Ethics Board, VIU's Board of Governors and Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT).

a comprehensive review of resilience theory as well as theoretical and methodological approaches (both quantitative and qualitative) to investigate the phenomenon across cultures and contexts.

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Board/Committee Work

Western Resilience Network Conference

Chair, VIU Research Ethics Board

Planned and hosted the 1st conference of The Western Resilience Network in May 2014 with Ruth Kirson, co-director of the Resilience Research Lab, in collaboration with members of the Resilience Research Lab. The conference, held at Vancouver Island University, brought together resilience researchers and professionals working in the area of resilience. The keynote speaker was Dr. Micheal Ungar. The purpose of the conference was to allow networking in order that attendees have opportunities for crossfertilization of ideas, professional collaborations/partnerships and the sharing of resources.

Chair of the VIU Research Ethics Board (REB), which reviews all research at Vancouver Island University involving human participants. The board, manager and chair provide education and liaison to the university community regarding research ethics in general and on many projects specifically. The board members continue to develop their expertise in research ethics and remain current in their knowledge of the latest Tri-Council Policy Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research. The Chair and Manager of the VIU REB attended the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards conference and annual general meeting in Montreal, April, 2014.

The presentations and workshops were valuable as was the opportunity to network with other REB members from institutions across Canada.

Research Project Co-supervision of a Senior Research Project Caroline Burnley and Ruth Kirson, cosupervised a senior research project, Internalized Homophobia Resolution in Young Gay and Bisexual Men: A Mixed-Methods Study of Resilience by senior Psychology student and Resilience Research Lab member, Daniel Elleker.

Workshop Researching Resilience Workshop Attended the Researching Resilience Workshop at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

This workshop brought together researchers from around the world. The workshop presented Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Ruth Kirson

Project Organizer, Western Resilience Network Conference Planned and hosted the 1st conference of The Western Resilience Network in May, 2014 with Caroline Burnley, co-director of the Resilience Research Lab, in collaboration with members of the Resilience Research Lab. The conference, held at Vancouver Island University, brought together resilience researchers and professionals working in the area of resilience. The keynote speaker was Dr. Micheal Ungar from the Dalhousie University. Panel members included Dr. Judith Kulig from the University of Vancouver Island University | 89

Lethbridge, April de Voy from the Reaching In Reaching Out Program and Tania Smethurst, researcher with the Red Cross. The purpose of the conference was to allow networking in order that attendees have opportunities for crossfertilization of ideas, professional collaborations/partnerships and the sharing of resources.

the 75th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association. The next phase of this project involves determining sedendary individuals' perceptions of physical activity. The students are currently interviewing participants for this phase of the research.

Research Project

Gillian Anderson

Internalized Homophobia Resolution in Young Gay and Bisexual Men: A Mixed-Methods Study of Resilience

Board/Committee Work

Co-supervised with Caroline Burnley. A senior research project by Psychology student and Resilience Research Lab member, Daniel Elleker.

Deborah Matheson Board/Committee Work Planning Committee Served on the planning committe for the annual conference of the Society of Behavioural Medicine.

Professional Service Award Adjudicator Served as an award adjudicator for the Health Psychology Division of the Canadian Psychological Association.

Project Perceptions of Physical Activity Supervising a project in which students in the Behavioural Medicine Lab continue to investigate perceptions of physical activity.

They have completed an interview study with triathletes and will be presenting their results at Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Sociology

Member, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) Member, CRIAW Research Committee Chapter "'Doing it All...and Making it Look Easy': Yummy Mummies, Mompreneurs and the North American Neoliberal Crises of Home" In Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism.

Edited by Melinda Vandenbeld Giles. Demeter Press: Toronto, 2014. A chapter that critically explores the intensification of motherwork under neoliberalism, especially the reconciliation of mothering and the realities of the "new economy" through the pursuit of selfemployment and or "mompreneurial" homebased work Academic Collaborators: Joseph Moore, University Professor, Department of Sociology, Vancouver Island University Conference Presentation "Mothering, 'Mompreneurship' and Precarious Work" Paper presented at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Annual Meetings, Brock University, St. Catherine's, ON, May 25-30, Vancouver Island University | 90

2014. Contextualized within the sociological literatures on gender, work and motherhood, this working paper explores the popular appeal, but often unsettling realities characteristic of a relatively new type of gendered selfemployment or what has been termed "mompreneurship".

Other Activity "The Sociology of Home" A three-minute joint presentation at the Celebration of Research Excellence and Knowledge Transfer Event (CREATE) Celebration of Research Ceremony and Scholarship Slam. With Dr. Joseph Moore (Sociology) and Dr. Laura Suski (Sociology, Liberal Studies and Global Studies).

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Joseph Moore (Sociology) and Dr. Laura Suski (Sociology, Liberal Studies and Global Studies) Other Activity Research Associate, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)

physical, cultural and social spaces we inhabit and live our day-to-day lives.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Jospeh Moore and Dr. Laura Suski Other Publication "Feminist Resistance in the GTA:Stories of Feminist Struggle, Resistance and Success During the Harris Years (1995-2001)" PhD Dissertation. Dept. of Sociology, McMaster University A primary goal of this research project was to provide a rich and dynamicsociological account of women's organizing and feminist resistance that emergedin Ontario during the Harris years (Mike Harris, Conservative Party Premier of Ontario, c.1995-2001). This dissertation tells the stories offeminist organizing in neoliberal times and reveals the challenges, strategiesand successes experienced by a diverse group of feminists and women'sorganizations.

Professional Service Member, Canadian Sociological Association (CSA)

Appointed to a three-year term as a Research Associate with CRIAW, the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 20122015.

Member, Family Research Cluster; Member, Feminist Research Cluster

Other Activity

The Sociology of Home

Sociology of Home I and Sociology of Home II

Developing an edited collection that intends to highlight both the material and cultural construction of home. With Dr. Jospeh Moore and Dr. Laura Suski.

Co-organizer of two conference sessions held as part of the of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Annual Meetings, Brock University, St. Catherine's, ON, May 25-30, 2014. These sessions included papers broadly related to "The Sociology of Home"; those Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Project

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Jospeh Moore and Dr. Laura Suski

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Community Based Education

Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario

Establishing International Field School Project Visited London in the UK as preparation for a VIU Field School to be held in May-June 2015.

Met with representatives of the City University of London.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Dawn Thompson, Professor, English Department, VIU.

Dr Sylvie Lafrenière Article "Dans quelle langue officielle s'expose-t-on aux médias en milieu minoritaire canadien?"

In La vie dans une langue officielle minoritaire au Canada. Rodrigue Landry (ed). With Bernier, Christiane and Simon Laflamme (2014), pp. 173-194. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval.

Academic Collaborators: Christiane Bernier, Sociology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, OntarioSimon Laflamme, Sociology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario Article "Exposition aux médias en milieu minoritaire au Canada. Une comparaison entre FrancoOntariens et Anglo-Québécois" In Language and Territory: Studies in Language Planning. Ali Reguigui and Julie Boissonneault (eds). With Bernier, Christiane, and Simon Laflamme (2014), pp. 195-222. Sudbury, Ontario: Human Sciences Monograph Series 14.

Academic Collaborators: Christiane Bernier, Sociology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario; Simon Laflamme, Sociology

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The Stepping Out project The purpose of this directed study was to allow the students to gain practical research experience through participation in the analysis of interview material. The course was structured around weekly group-work meetings in which students analyzed and discussed interview material. This interview material was collected during the summer of 2013 by Sylvie Lafrenière and Lisa Marie Barron (graduate of VIU) from participants of the Stepping Out Program offered through the Nanaimo Women's Resource Centre.

This research group was established as interdisciplinary by design in order to bring different disciplines to the table, and to provide students with valuable practical research experience.The students presented some of their results at CREATE 2014 edition.

Academic Collaborators: Lisa Marie Barron, MA student, University of Victoria; Alex Ionson (Sociology); Courtney Leveille (Psychology); Myra Noviello (Social Work); Laura Valentich (Sociology); Jessie Weninger (Criminology) Research Project Barriers associated with access to resources for women in the sex trade: A case study of participants of the Nanaimo Women's Resource Centre's Stepping Out program The goal of this study is to gain a better understanding of how programs in the community, such as the Stepping Out program, may more effectively serve the needs of women who are currently or were previously involved in the sex trade. More specifically, the goals are a) to gain an understanding of how local programs, such as the Stepping Out program, can be of Vancouver Island University | 92

assistance to women in the sex trade; b) identify barriers experienced by this group of women when attempting to access programs and resources; c) gain a deeper understanding of the experiences of women in Nanaimo's sex trade and their access to programs and resources.

Academic Collaborators: Lisa Marie Barron, MA student at the University of Victoria

Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town Conference Presentation "Blending our Practice: Using Online and Faceto-Face Methods to Engage Faculty in a OneYear Professional Development Program"

Community Collaborators: Nanaimo Women's Resource Centre

Educational Developers Caucus 2014, hosted by Bow Valley College and the University of Calgary, February 2014.

Provost and Vice-President Academic

Academic Collaborators: Kathleen Bortolin, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Specialist, Vancouver Island University

Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning

Conference Presentation

Michael Paskevicius Chapter Framework to Understand Postgraduate Students' Adaptation of Academics' Teaching Materials as Open Educational Resources In Open Educational Resources and Social Networks: Co-Learning and Professional Development. Okada, A. Ed. Scholio Educational Research and Publishing, London, 2014. This chapter addresses a way of responding to one of the key challenges of Open Educational Resources (OER) contribution, namely academics' lack of time to re-purpose teaching materials originally intended for campus-based face-to-face lectures as standalone OER. It describes how masters' students, tutors and interns at the University of Cape Town have been engaged to support the innovative practice of adapting academics' existing teaching materials into OER. Academic Collaborators: Cheryl HodgkinsonWilliams, Associate Professor, Centre for Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

"Pedagogical Design of Learning Technologies in the Classroom: New and Emerging Tools for Faculty and Student Learning" At Educational Developers Caucus, hosted by Bow Valley College and the University of Calgary, February 2014.

Academic Collaborators: Carl Butterworth, Manager Learning Technologies, Vancouver Island University

Community Based Research Institute Dr. Robin June Hood Community Based Education Professional advisor Provided professional support to emerging First Nations Ventures and on community development to Clayoquot Sound Communities.

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At CU2014 International Conference on Community University Engagement. Academic Mentor for a day-long workshop, The Arts of Engagement, on using the arts for community university engagement.

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Crystal Tremblay, UBC, UNESCO; Dr. Sarah Weibe, University of Victoria, Environmental Studies and ISICUEUNESCO Chair in HE and Community Based Research and Social Responsibility Community Collaborators: Graduate students from several universities Conference Presentation Turning the World Around - the Social Capital of a Community Choir CU2014 International Conference on Community University Engagement.Copresented with Shivon Robinsong on the transformational story of the Gettin Higher Choir, highlighting its role as a social incubation hub for both local and international social enterprises, including community development initiatives in Mozambique and BC. Community Collaborators: Shivon Robinsong, Co Director - The Gettin' Higher Choir Other Activity

Choral presentation Organized the choral performance at the Opening of the 2014 CUVic Beyond Engagement Conference with Carey Newman unveiling the Witness Blanket.

Community Collaborators: The Gettin Higher Choir; Carey Newman, Artist, carver.

Professional Service International Peace Initiative - El Salvador Visited several communities in northern El Salvador as a follow up to a climate justice project between Canada and El Salvador. As an international witness to the massacres (Rio Sumpul and others) during the civil war, I made presentations about the role of the international witness and the power of photography during a 10-day trip to Chalatenango.

Community Collaborators: Staff from Centro Bartolome de las Casa, San Salvador.Nikki Sanchez, MA student, Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria.

Workshop "Storytelling - The Power of Story for Healing, Resilience and Meaning Making"

Academic Collaborators: Maeve Lydon, ISICUE, University of Victoria.

Presented as part of the networking workshop series that was hosted by the Centre for Healthy Aging in Parksville/Qualicum. In this workshop, I presented the results of a Service Canada Project, and told how the training helped to create safe places for seniors to rediscover nature and access their own wisdom as well as reimagine themselves as important resources for individual and community healing and resilience.

Community Collaborators: Dr. Briony Penn Anne Parkinson

Academic Collaborators: Dr. Lynne McFadgeon

Hosted Visiting Scholars Hosted Sophie Duncan, from the National Coordinating Centre on Engagement, UK and Anne Lindsay from Engage Ireland (Gallway) to meet BC Community Based Research scholars.

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Community Collaborators: Margo McLoughlin, MA.

Library Administration Jean Blackburn Article "Putting a Sacred Cow Out to Pasture: Assessing the Removal of Fines and Reduction of Barriers at a Small Academic Library" (In press). Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2014.04.003 At the beginning of the 2012/13 academic year, Vancouver Island University library removed most fines and made other loans changes to improve access to physical collections. One year later, the changes were assessed using circulation data and staff interviews. The removal of fines had no significant effect on borrower return rates and circulation numbers, but did win significant goodwill among users.

Library staff believe the changes to be positive.

With Kathleen Reed, Assessment and Data Librarian and Dan Sifton, Library Automation and Technical Services Coordinator, VIU Library.

Academic Collaborators: Kathleen Reed, Assessment and Data Librarian, VIU Library; Dan Sifton, Library Automation and Technical Services Coordinator, VIU Library

Jean Blackburn Board/Committee Work Member, Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Member of the Content Development Task Group (CDTG), composed of five academic librarians from across Canada and representing Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

diverse institutional sizes and mandates, which is tasked to develop a standardized process and set of criteria to solicit and evaluate new content (as well as to evaluate current licenses) for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network consortium. http://crkn.ca/sites/crkn.ca/files/site/content_dev elopment_task_group_tor_2013-07-25.pdf Academic Collaborators: Charlotte Innerd, Head, Collections and Acquisitions, Wilfrid Laurier University Library; Christine Hiller, Project Coordinator, Consortial Purchasing, CREPUQ; Andrew Waller, Collection Development Librarian, University of Calgary Library; Weijing Yuan, Digital Collections Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries Community Collaborators: Clare Appavoo, Executive Director, CRKN;Monica Ward, Senior Content and Licensing Officer, CRKN; Sabina Pagnotto, IDSE Project Analyst, CRKN Board/Committee Work Member, Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) Member, Collections Committee, a standing committee of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries. www.coppul.ca/collections Board/Committee Work Member, Electronic Health Library of British Columbia (e-HLbc) The Electronic Health Library of British Columbia is a library consortium composed of 24 publically-funded post-secondary institutions, the six provincial health authorities, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and three provincial ministries. Member of the Steering Committee, which is charged with determining the strategic direction and initiatives of the Vancouver Island University | 95

consortium.http://ehlbc.ca/aboutus/governance/steering-committee

"The Promise and Perils of Evidence-based Collection Management"

Conference Presentation

Presented at the BC Library Conference 2014, in Vancouver, April 2014.The theory and tools to make evidence-based collections decisions offer great promise, but how does the real world measure up? What perils might be lurking there as well? Using evidence to make decisions about managing library collections can lead us down some surprising paths. What happens when the evidence directs us to uncomfortable or unpopular conclusions? How do we proceed when traditionally "must have" resources or librarian favorites are not supported by the data?

Do we stick to the evidence and navigate the challenging community questions that will arise?

Public and academic library perspectives on these questions include discussion of e-resource rationalization and patron driven acquisition projects at Vancouver Island University and how Okanagan Regional and other public libraries are working to incorporate evidence into their collection management practices. http://bclc2014.sched.org/event/191b6723f1a9ff 2ad785edd371c57bfa#

"Culling the Herd in Hard Times: Implementing an Evidence-Based 'Big Deal' Cancellation Support Tool at Vancouver Island University" Poster, Canadian Library Association 2014 National Conference and Trade Show, Victoria, May 2014. With Kathleen Reed and Dana McFarland, Librarians, VIU. Facing fiscal restraint, VIU librarians recognized the need for an evidence-based tool to support decisionmaking regarding cancellation of major package deals and resources. Librarians must be able to decide with confidence and to justify our decisions to renew or cut resources to ourselves and the wider institutional community. To assist in this process, VIU librarians recently designed and implemented a collections rubric that examines factors beyond traditional usage metrics and price. Previous to the implementation of the rubric, collections decisions were based on commonly-used, generic factors and were not formally situated in a broader information context. This made it difficult for librarians to get a holistic picture of collection development and to make thoroughly informed, well-documented decisions regarding specific resources and their relation to greater objectives. http://hdl.handle.net/10613/1059http://cla.pwwe bhost.com/conference/2014/poster_sessions.php Academic Collaborators: Kathleen Reed, Assessment and Data Librarian, VIU Library; Dana McFarland, e-Resources Librarian, VIU Library

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Community Collaborators: Barbara Jo May, Adult Collections Librarian, Okanagan Regional Library Workshop "Lose Money, Win Friends: A Review of Fines and Loans at the VIU Library" Presentation and QandA session for Camosun College Library staff, June 2013.For decades, staff at the Vancouver Island University Library accepted the relationship between punitive fine policies and the timely return of physical items.

But finally we asked ourselves "why do we continue to have overdue fines at our library?"

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overdue items. And too often, we found ourselves fighting with our users over fines rather than helping them access the information they need. Could we reduce barriers to accessing our physical collections, and redefine our relationship with our users? We embarked on a review of systems and procedures related to loans and overdue policies that ultimately led us to abolish both past and future fines and significantly loosen borrowing restrictions. At the same time, we maintained non-financial incentives to ensure the timely return of library materials. This review liberated our users and us from traditional policies that had outlived their usefulness.

Jennifer Brownlow Conference Presentation "A Sampling of Post-Secondary Integrated Information Literacy Programs (IILP) in BC"

Dana McFarland Board/Committee Work Member, "AskAway" Emerging Technologies Committee For BC Electronic Library Network. Committee monitors technologies for collaborative delivery of online reference and related services and advises the "AskAway" Advisory Committee on feasibility of technologies.

Board/Committee Work Member, CLOCKSS North American Advisory Council The Council advises the CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) Board of Directors on matters relating to policies and practice of digital preservation and archiving.

Board/Committee Work

Contributed to a Pecha Kucha presentation at the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) International Conference, University of Rome, Rome, Italy, June 4-7, 2013. Presenter was Jennifer Sigalet, Public Services Librarian at Okanagan College.

Jennifer Brownlow (not at conference) submitted information for VIU, to complement submissions from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Okanagan College, and the University of the Fraser Valley. Common issues and best practices in this growing area of academic libraries were highlighted.

Member, COPPUL Digital Curation and Preservation Working Group Supports Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) strategic objectives to investigate and increase awareness of digitization needs and preservation strategies among member libraries.

Board/Committee Work Member, COPPUL Digital Preservation and Curation Working Group

Academic Collaborators: Colleen Bell, Information Literacy and Web Services Librarian, University of the Fraser Valley ; and Mirela Djokic, Public Services Librarian with Sigrid Kargut, AV Collection and Instruction Librarian, both of Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

One day meeting to form policy recommendations in the management of collective digital preservation resources, focussing on the COPPUL Private LOCKSS Network (PLN). This activity supports the COPPUL Strategic Directions Framework item "Digital and Electronic Collections (8211) we

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will work collectivelyon (8230) Digitization and digital preservation."

Board/Committee Work Member, VIU Hiring Committees Committee member for hirings: Learning Commons Librarian; IT Technical Support Representative; University Librarian Board/Committee Work Member, VIU Planning and Priorities Working Groups Working group to address Academic Plan items #1, 3, 4 on information technology competencies.- Working group to address Academic Plan item #2 on Student Learning, Engagement and Success.

Conference Presentation "Culling the Herd in Hard Times: Implementing an Evidence-Based 'Big Deal' Cancellation Support Tool at Vancouver Island University Library" 7th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference, Saskatoon, July 17, 2013. Along with VIU librarians Jean Blackburn and Kathleen Reed, we designed and implemented a collections rubric that examines factors beyond traditional usage metrics and price. Prior to the implementation of the rubric, collections decisions were based on commonlyused, generic factors and were not formally situated in a broader information context. With the new rubric, all librarians are able to quickly evaluate the relative performance of products and their contributions to a cohesive collections strategy.

Conference Presentation "Culling the Herd in Hard Times: Implementing an Evidence-Based 'Big Deal' Cancellation Support Tool at Vancouver Island University" Canadian Library Association 2014 National Conference. Victoria, BC, May 28 - 31, 2014.

Consequent to a series of tightening postsecondary budgets in British Columbia, Vancouver Island University librarians recognized the need for an evidence-based tool to support decision-making regarding cancellation of major package deals and resources. Librarians must be able to decide with confidence and to justify our decisions to renew or cut resources to ourselves and the wider institutional community. To assist in this process, VIU librarians recently designed and implemented a collections rubric that examines factors beyond traditional usage metrics and price. Previous to the implementation of the rubric, collections decisions were based on commonly-used, generic factors and were not formally situated in a broader information context. This made it difficult for librarians to get a holistic picture of collection development and to make thoroughly informed, welldocumented decisions regarding specific resources and their relation to greater objectives.

Academic Collaborators: Jean Blackburn; Kathleen Reed Conference Presentation "Indicators of Research Impact: Altmetrics in the Merge Lane" Roads to Research Presentation Series, Royal Roads University, Victoria, December 2013.

With Rosie Croft, Royal Roads University and Kathleen Reed, Vancouver Island University.

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Academic Collaborators: Rosie Croft, Royal Roads University; Kathleen Reed, Vancouver Island University Conference Presentation

Presented at the University of Victoria, March 5, 2014. Showcase of research activities of COPPUL librarians and libraries. With Rosie Croft, Royal Roads University and Kathleen Reed, Vancouver Island University.

"Interrogating Impact: Managing scholarly profile for influence in and beyond the academy"

Academic Collaborators: Rosie Croft, Royal Roads University; Kathleen Reed, Vancouver Island University

Presented at Interrogating Access: Current and Future Directions for Scholarly Research and Communications in Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, February 2014. With Rosie Croft, Royal Roads University and Kathleen Reed, Vancouver Island University.

Altmetrics offers scholars who are embracing innovation in scholarly communication - such as open access or non-traditional publishing - value that traditional metrics do not. Knowledge mobilization and accountability are increasingly prominent features of the scholarly landscape; scholars need to understand and strategically manage indicators of impact. The emerging scene challenges libraries to assist scholars, practitioners and students to engage with an evolving environment in which much may be gained or forfeited depending on how reputation is curated.To assist scholars in this new environment, more needs to be known about how they are or are not engaging with emerging tools available to them. Our qualitative study based on interviews with scholars from RRU and VIU contributes to understanding how work of scholars might be enhanced by expert library services related to altmetrics.

Conference Presentation

Academic Collaborators: Rosie Croft, Royal Roads University; Kathleen Reed, Vancouver Island University Conference Presentation "Librarians and Research: Case Study Panel"

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"Scholar Profile and Alternative Metrics" Presented at LUNCH AND LEARN Series about research at Vancouver Island University, March 2014.

Academic Collaborators: Kathleen Reed, Vancouver Island University; Rosie Croft, Royal Roads University Other Activity Mini-Conference: Exploring Interdisciplinarity in Teaching: Next Steps @ VIU Attendee and member of organizing group. One day event to support interdisciplinarity at VIU through building a community of practice.

Professional Service Member, VIU Faculty Association Stewards Committee Professional Service Mentor, BC Library Association Participated as a mentor in the BCLA (British Columbia Library Association) Mentorship Program. The purpose of the program is to connect and empower members by fostering positive relationships in the library community.

The program encourages sharing, and it aims to promote leadership and commitment to the profession.

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Promotion Review Panel (External)

"Putting a Sacred Cow Out to Pasture: Assessing the Removal of Fines and Barriers at a Small Academic Library"

External reviewer for a Librarian promotion application for Ryerson University Library.

Journal article (peer-reviewed) in Journal of Academic Librarianship (In press).

Professional Service

Research Project An Exploration of Perceptions and Use of Altmetrics among Scholar-Practitioners and Graduate Students With Kathleen Reed, Vancouver Island University and Rosie Croft, Royal Roads University. An exploration of the use of openaccess and proprietary online tools by scholarpractitioners and graduate students to establish, grow, and measure academic influence. What issues do scholars and graduate students who are also practitioners face when trying to establish, grow, and/or measure a scholarly presence on the web? How do scholars and graduate students who are also practitioners negotiate issues related to profile on the web? How might academic librarians assist scholar-practitioners to create and manage online reputation using traditional and emerging tools for measuring influence?

Academic Collaborators: Kathleen Reed, Vancouver Island University; Rosie Croft, Royal Roads University

Kathleen Reed

Academic Collaborators: Jean Blackburn, User Experience and Collections Coordinator, and Daniel Sifton, Automation and Technical Services Coordinator, Library Administration, VIU Board/Committee Work Member, Faculty and Staff Travel and Study Aboard Grant Committee Board/Committee Work Member, Return on Investment Task Group Return on Investment Task Group is a working group supporting the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries' (COPPUL) goal of demonstrating the value of the library to the university.

Board/Committee Work Member, VIU Faculty Association Professional and Scholarly Development Committee Board/Committee Work Member, VIU Positive Space Alliance Steering Committee

Article Chapter "Follow-Up Study on Free Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Service Demonstrates Customer Satisfaction and Generates Improvements."

Evidence summary (peer-reviewed) in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 8 (3).

Article Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

"Isis: Mapping the Geospatial and Topical Distribution of the History of Science Journal" In K. Borner and D. E. Polley (Eds). Visual Insights: A Practical Guide to Making Sense of Data (260-265). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Invited book chapter based on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) group project.

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Academic Collaborators: David E. Hubbard, Science and Engineering Librarian, Library Administration, Texas AandM University; Anouk Lang, Lecturer, Department of English, University of Strathclyde; Anelise Hanson Shrout, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Davidson College; Lyndsay D. Troyer, PhD Candidate, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University Conference Presentation "Interrogating Impact: Managing Scholarly Profile for Influence In and Beyond the Academy" Conference presentation (peer-reviewed). At Interrogating Access: Current and Future Directions for Scholarly Research and Communications in Canada, Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, ON, February 2014.

"Indicators of Scholarly Impact: Altmetrics in the Merge Lane" Public presentation at Roads to Research, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, 11 December 2013.

Academic Collaborators: Rosie Croft, University Librarian, Royal Roads University; Dana McFarland, eResources Librarian, Vancouver Island University Other Activity "Insights into Influence: Scholar-Practitioner Profile in the Academy and Community."

Public presentation at Lunch and Learn About Research at VIU Series, Nanaimo, BC. 11 March 2014.

Other Activity

Academic Collaborators: Rosie Croft, University Librarian, Royal Roads University; Dana McFarland, eResources Librarian, Vancouver Island University

"Situating Ourselves on Shifting Ground, or How Changing Research Methods Change Literary Studies"

Conference Presentation

Presentation at the Arts and Humanities Colloquium, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC, 28 March 2014.

"Putting a Sacred Cow Out to Pasture: Assessing the Effect of Removing Fines and Reducing Barriers at an Academic Library" Conference presentation (peer-reviewed) at Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference (EBLIP7) in Saskatoon, SK, July 2013. [Tied for 2nd place, Peoples' Choice Presentation Award] Academic Collaborators: Jean Blackburn, User Experience and Collections Coordinator, and Daniel Sifton, Automation and Technical Services Coordinator, Library Administration, VIU Other Activity Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Academic Collaborators: Dawn Thompson, Professor, Department of English, VIU; ENGL 480 Students, Spring 2014, VIU Other Publication "Culling the Herd in Hard Times: Implementing an Evidence-Based 'Big Deal' Cancellation Support Tool at Vancouver Island University" Poster (referred) at Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP7), Saskatoon, SK,17 July 2013. [2nd place, Peoples' Choice Poster Award] Academic Collaborators: Jean Blackburn, User Experience and Collections Coordinator, and Vancouver Island University | 101

Dana McFarland, eResources Librarian, Library Administration, VIU Other Publication "Culling the Herd in Hard Times: Implementing an Evidence-Based 'Big Deal' Cancellation Support Tool at Vancouver Island University" Poster (refereed) at the Canadian Library Association Conference, Victoria, BC, 30 May 2014.

Academic Collaborators: Jean Blackburn, User Experience and Collections Coordinator, and Dana McFarland, eResources Librarian, Library Administration, VIU

Office of the Provost Dr. Steve Lane Community Based Education Community Lecture Spoke on the popular Shakespearean comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream at a community lecture, in cooperation with North Island College. The talk was initiated by Drew Burke, an alumnus of VIU who is now teaching parttime for NIC on the West Coast of the Island (in Ucluelet and Tofino). The initial invitation was to talk to a first-year English literature class, but it then was turned into a community event, open to anyone in Tofino and the surrounding area.

The lecture introduced the audience to features of Shakespeare's times and theatre, and spoke on the play as well.

Community Collaborators: North Island College; Tofino Botanical Gardens Community Based Education Cultural Dislocation: An Indigenous Reading of Wordsworth's Michael Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

This academic year's Lunch and Learn series was kicked off with this presentation, which suggested one way we can better understand the William Wordsworth poem Michael is to relate it to some of the features that identify indigenous values, in particular that of close association with, and a high value placed on, the land. The talk drew faculty, staff, students, and community members, and the discussion that followed made clearer the connections of the poem to present-day realities, as well as suggesting further directions for exploration and critical analysis.

Community Based Education Guest Lecture Invited by Professor Sandra Hagan to speak to the theme of the "Sensation Novel" for her Victorian literature course ENGL 384. An important historical context for this genre is the previous flourishing of the "Gothic Novel," which was the topic of this lecture.

Writing Centre Dr. John Hill Book Unmanned: Drone warfare and Global Security Pluto/Between The Lines: London/Toronto, 2014. The authors of this book asked the McLuhanite question of what large-scale difference is made by the new technology of the military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or drone.

They argue that the lessened risk attached to its use lowers the threshold to the use of military force, allowing the application of such militaryscale violence against individuals, rather than states, in a development they term nano-war.

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University; Instructor, Department of Political Studies, Vancouver Island University.

Student Affairs Campus Career Centre Micki McCartney Conference Presentation "Sequencing and Sandwiching Feedback for Maximum Learning" University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching. With Dr. Nicole Vaugeois, VIU, May 13, 2014. Capstone courses are often used as a strategy to provide learners with the opportunity to integrate prior knowledge before completing a program. At the same time, Postsecondary institutions are becoming more aware of the need to prepare learners to successfully transition into the world of work, post-graduation. With this in mind, this session introduced a successful experiment at Vancouver Island University where a Faculty member and the Campus Career Centre collaborated to design and evaluate learning in a capstone course.

Academic Collaborators: Micki McCartney, M.A. Campus Career Centre/Student Affairs; Nicole Vaugeois, Ph.D Faculty of Management

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Research Centres, Institutes and Laboratory Activities Awareness of Climate change through Education and Research viuacer.org Faculty Advisors Drs. Erik Krogh and Jeff Lewis Project Coordinator Larissa Richards Project Overview

business. They share a common belief that finding sustainable solutions to the issue of climate change requires a deeper public understanding of the causes and implications of climate change. To date, ACER has presented to over 14,000 students, educators, and members of the general public across B.C. and beyond.

Activity Presentations: ACER offers a variety of presentations that can be tailored for different audiences. Presentations include PowerPoint, hands-on activities, and interactive web applications. Our cornerstone presentation “The Science of Climate Change” is designed to complement the Science 10 curriculum. This year, ACER presented the following: “The Science of Climate Change” for Science 10

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Raise awareness of the science and implications of climate change through interactive presentations, hands-on activities, and public discourse Promote educational and engagement opportunities for secondary and postsecondary students Inform public policy and support evidence-based decision making

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Presented to 16 classrooms at 7 high schools across Vancouver Island.

Presenters: Andrew Mostad, Connie Graham, Dana Short, Larissa Richards, Jamie Anderson, Linda Bracken, Edward Bracken, Lorelei Andrews “The Science of Climate Change” for Geography 211 Presented to the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sections of Geography 211 at VIU. Presenters: Andrew Mostad, Dana Short “Understanding Climate Change: Causes and Global Impacts” Presented at Island Health Annual Conference in Campbell River.

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“Climate Change and Water”

Science and Technology Lecture Series

Presented at Oceanside Middle School.

ACER, and the Applied Environmental Research Laboratories (AERL), hosted Dr. Julie Saxton from the Planning, Policy, and Environmental Department of Metro Vancouver for her Science and Technology Lecture Series talk “Caring for the Air – Air Quality Monitoring in the Lower Fraser Valley. ACER members had the pleasure of attending a meet and greet with Dr. Saxton to discuss public outreach and communication strategies.

Presenters: Andrew Mostad, Connie Graham, Larissa Richards Public Events ACER has participated in numerous community events across Vancouver Island, including: Ocean’s Day in Port Hardy, Community4Climate in Duncan, Grandkids University at VIU, and the Avenues for Action conference at VIU. At these events, ACER activities included experiments demonstrating Marine Acidification and the Greenhouse Effect.

Volunteers: Andrew Mostad, Connie Graham, Larissa Richards, Linda Bracken, Edward Bracken, M (Tess) Letourneau, Kate Hall, Kim Quant

Applied Environmental Research Laboratory (AERL) web.viu.ca/aerl/ Directors Drs. Chris Gill and Erik Krogh

Conferences

Members

ACER attended “Communicating Climate Science: A Workshop for Chemists” hosted by the Puget Sound Section of the American Chemistry Society in Seattle. The workshop featured ACER collaborator Peter Mahaffy (King’s University, Edmonton, AB), and focused on improving the effectiveness of climate change communication between chemists and non-chemists.

Undergraduate Students: Dana Short, Zach Yim, Greg Vandergrift, Hannah McSorley, Cody Thompson, M (Tess) Letourneau, Larissa Richards, Michael Nemeth, Luke Barbour, Jesse Janzen, Griffin Fisk, Vinicius Matheus del Corso (Brazil), Mathias Baltes (Germany)

Attendees: Dana Short, Kyle Duncan, Larissa Richards Poster Series ACER produced a series of educational posters targeting specific topics in climate change including: “The Greenhouse Effect”, “Ocean Acidification”, “Sea Level Rise”, and “Albedo”.

They are available for free download at viuacer.org/posters.

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Graduate Students: Kyle Duncan (AERL, University of Victoria), Nick Davey (AERL, University of Victoria), Morten Martinsen (AERL, Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Martin Angelstad (AERL, Simon Fraser University), Dane Letourneau (AERL, University of Victoria).

Research Collaborators: Dr. Ryan Bell, Vancouver Island University (AERL, Postdoctoral Fellow); Dr. Tom Fyles, University of Victoria; Dr. Max Bothwell, Environment Canada; Dr. Chris Simpson, University of Washington, USA; Dr. Isobel Simpson, University of California – Irvine, USA; Dr. Vancouver Island University | 105

Donald Blake, University of California – Irvine, USA; Dr. Dietrich Volmer, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany; Dr. Oyvind Mikkelsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; Dr. Christian Collin-Hansen, Statoil ASA, TPD RD, Trondheim, Norway; Dr. Tim Short, SRI International, St Petersburg, FL, USA; Dr. Michael Schluter, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; Rick Ferguson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans; Warren Warttig, Interfor Additional Vancouver Island University Faculty Affiliates: Dr. Duane Friesen, Chemistry; Dr. Todd Barsby, Chemistry; Dr. David GaumontGuay, Biology; Dr. Helen Gurney-Smith, Centre for Shellfish Research; Dr. Jeff Lewis, Geography Centre/Institute Overview Applied Environmental Research Laboratories (AERL) – The AERL is an internationally recognized research facility, which conducts pure and applied research in analytical mass spectrometry and environmental chemistry. Lead by faculty members Chris Gill and Erik Krogh, the group develops new and improved strategies for the measurement of chemical determinants of environmental and human health. The focus of this work is to enable ‘real-time’ analysis in ‘real-world’ samples that is both regionally relevant and globally significant. The AERL team develops mass spectrometry based techniques to carry out in-situ chemical analysis in complex environmental samples, including air, surface and underwater applications.

Applying these techniques to provide spatially and temporally resolved chemical measurements positions this work on the leading edge of bringing high precision chemical measurements to the sample rather than bringing grab samples to the lab. The central innovation in this research and development work is the use of semipermeable membrane interfaces that directly Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

introduce real-world samples to mass spectrometers without the need for sample handling, clean-up or chromatography. Some recent projects receiving attention include: the development of new membrane sampling interfaces for the rapid screening of metabolites/contaminants including pharmaceuticals and personal care products, insitu reaction monitoring of chemical kinetics in the treatment of drinking and wastewaters, underwater mass spectrometry for marine applications, and on-site field measurements of air and water pollutants using mobile mass spectrometry for real-time, continuous monitoring applications. This work is supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Team Discovery Grant and involves collaborations with regional, national and international partners in academia, government agencies and the private sector. The facility supports the training of a wide spectrum of highly qualified personnel spanning the range from undergraduate students to post-doctoral research fellows.

Alexandro Malaspina Research Centre web.viu.ca/black/amrc/index.htm Director Dr. John Black Members Associated Scholars: Dr. Ana María Donat, Modern Languages, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Oscar Clemotte Silvero, Philosophy, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Erik Liddell, Eastern Kentucky University, USA Honorary Associates: Dr. Robin Fisher, Mount Royal University (retd.); Dr. Barry Gough, Professor Emeritus, Wilfrid Laurier University; Vancouver Island University | 106

Robin Inglis, Director, North Vancouver Museum (retd.); Ian Johnston, Liberal Studies and English, Vancouver Island University (retd.); Dr. Russell McNeil, Liberal Studies and Physics, Vancouver Island University (retd.); Josie Osborne, Clayoquot Biosphere Trust.

Overview The Alexandro Malaspina Research Centre at Vancouver Island University has continued its research and outreach activities on a number of fronts, though in a quieter way than in recent years. The Centre has completed its move to its new location. This year’s Malaspina Lecturer was Prof. Robin Fisher of Mount Royal University.

Centre Research Projects General Theses on Physics: The only work published by Alexandro Malaspina during his lifetime consists of an axiomatization in Latin of the metaphysical basis of Newtonian physics.

John Black’s work on its translation into English has been interrupted by his appointment as Dean of Social Sciences.

Related Projects Translation and Web Publication of Source Documents: The project of translating, among other documents, the letters of Alexandro Malaspina and historical newspaper articles about him and his expedition, for publication on the Centre’s website, continues. New facsimiles continue to be provided by Australian private scholar Robert King.

Public Events and Other Activity Malaspina Lecture: The 2013 Malaspina Lecturer was Prof. Robin Fisher, retiring VicePresident Academic at Mount Royal University and author of Contact and Conflict: IndianEuropean Relations in British Columbia, 17741890. The Lecture itself, “Vancouver's Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Coastline: Putting the Northwest on the Map” took place on October 17. Prof. Fisher discussed the implications of George Vancouver's visit to local waters in 1792.

Brain Electrophysiology and Neuropsychology Lab Director Dr. Tony Robertson Members Students: Juliana Rico Villarias; University of Victoria Collaborators: Dustin van Gerven (University of Victoria graduate student); Dr. Ron Skelton, UVic Psychology Department; Dr. Philip Zeman, Applied Brain and Vision Sciences Overview The Brain Electrophysiology and Neuropsychology Lab, housed in VIU’s Psychology Department, consists of microcomputer-based apparatus for stimulus presentation and EEG, EMG and behavioural response recording and analysis.

Research Projects Student Senior Research Project by Juliana Rico: N400 to Semantically Anomalous Words Presented in Code-mixed Format in Native English Speakers Learning Spanish as a Second Language.

Continued collaborative research with Dr. Ron Skelton, (University of Victoria) and Dustin van Gerven (University of Victoria graduate student): Use of Spatial and Nonspatial Strategies in Virtual Navigation Tasks; Place Learning in a Virtual Morris Water Maze.

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Student Research Apprenticeship Training in Sensory Evoked Potential (EP) and Cognitive Event-Related Potential (ERP) Recording (Supervisor Dr. Tony Robertson): An activity involving research methodology training and applications for Justin Cuppen (VIU student) in sensory evoked potential and cognitive event related potential recording occurred in the Brain Electrophysiology and Neuropsychology Lab. Laboratory Development: The laboratory continued development of computer-controlled stimulus presentation procedures for electrophysiological response recording (collaboration with Owen Peer, VIU) and adapting infrared video-based eye-tracker for stationary and dynamic visual stimuli (collaboration with Dr. Philip Zeman, Applied Brain and Vision Sciences, Victoria, BC).

Centre for Healthy Aging and Community-Engaged Scholarship (VIU Parksville) www.cha.viu.ca Project Manager Dr. Lynne MacFadgen Research Assistant Heidi Abbott Associated Research Scholars/Community Partners: Nine members of the Faculty of Health and Human Services, and 15 members of the Oceanside Healthy Living Association (part of the Centre’s Membership and Administrative Structure; names available upon request).

Undergraduate Student Researchers: Tosh Reed, BSN, Monique Hendricks, Psych., Janet Oxler, PHED; and Krista Knight, Jana Farkasova, Lindsay Weitman, Brittany Mullin, Dental Hygiene Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Background Information: The Centre for Healthy Aging and Community-Engaged Scholarship was formally approved1 on January 23, 2013 to build our capacity for identifying and responding to regional needs and opportunities associated with an aging population. It addresses specific VIU Regional Action Plan recommendations for strategic partnership-building and community engagement in Parksville-Qualicum Beach. The Centre is ideally-situated in the middle of the Qualicum Local Health Area-69 which includes the two ‘oldest’ municipalities in British Columbia2. The Centre’s mandate is to promote excellence in healthy aging research, education and practice. The emphasis is on building community-university partnerships to engage in community-based research, to develop specialized education options, and to translate existing aging research into actions that can lead to optimal health and wellness for older adults.

Summary of Research and Scholarly Activity: A summary of the main achievements of the Centre in its first year of operation (Jan 23, 2013-Jan 31, 2014) are outlined in the 2013 Annual Report. Significant highlights include: hosting a joint Open House to celebrate the formal launch of the Centre and the 20th Anniversary of Elder College; coordinating program planning for the proposed Graduate Gerontology Diploma Program with faculty from Health and Human Services and Social 1

The Centre for Healthy Aging and CommunityEngaged Scholarship was approved as an Outreach Centre in accordance with VIU’s Research Centres and Institutes Policy 31.11, under the academic direction and sponsorship of the Faculty of Health and Human Services.

2 The Qualicum Local Health Area-69 incorporates the two municipalities of Parksville and Qualicum Beach and four electoral areas of the Nanaimo Regional District, with a geographic area that stretches from Nanoose Bay, Errington/Coombs to Deep Bay/Bowser, and a total population of 45,291 (2011 Census).

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Sciences; collaborating with Professional Development and Training to develop an interprofessional aging-practice series; delivering 11 community-university presentations to exchange current practice-based knowledge and information (featuring VIU faculty and student presenters at several Research Networking Luncheons/Cafes, such as: “Oral Health Refresher for Caregivers of the Elderly” presented by four Dental Hygiene students); supervising a Student Intern for a Physical Education Applied Field Placement (PHED 473) to explore intergenerational program options for International Active Aging Week events; completing project management and developing community health planning priorities for the Oceanside IMPACTS Seniors’ Integrated Care Project, funded by the Union of BC Municipalities; managing the community consultation process for the GPforMe Attachment Initiative of the Oceanside Division of Family Practice to improve community resident access to family physicians in our region; and contributing to the development of the Community Health Network for Oceanside, sponsored by the Vancouver Island Health Authority/Island Health

Centre for Healthy Communities Research sites.viu.ca/ocphr/ Director Dr Jennifer Mullett Members Community Research Coordinator: Sarah Fletcher, PhD © Project Coordinator: Kix Citton Research Assistants: Sarah Poole and Farah Somani Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Community Research Assistants: Letitia Titian Rampanen, Tofino; Keenan Jules, Port Alberni; and Raven Hartley, Victoria Overview The Centre supports and conducts community based action research that aims to improve health outcomes and alleviate health disparities.

Health is defined broadly as physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being. A website with photos, newsletters and resources highlights our research projects (see link below).

Normal days of operation for the Centre are Monday and Tuesday with special events days added.

Presentations Our First Nations community research assistants Keenan Jules, Raven Hartley, and Letitia Rampanen with occasional help from Mitch Touchie have presented their digital stories to over 400 people to date and taught others how to make digital stories in various communities on Vancouver Island. They have presented in schools, at conferences, to health workers and at a 3 day meeting for community development workers.

Awards Five stories created by the youth and representing the research project “Prevention and Preservation” were highlighted at the International Aboriginal Film Festival where the youth were honoured for their work in preserving Aboriginal culture.

Workshops A two day workshop was held at the Cowichan Cultural Centre. Elders illustrated cultural practices, food gathering and preparation and healthy living and worked with the Aboriginal youth to create digital stories. Some of these stories are now available for viewing at: Vancouver Island University | 109

http://sites.viu.ca/ocphr/projects/prevention-andpreservation-digital-harvest-stories.

Research Projects and Funding A two year research project that engages Aboriginal youth and elders in creating digital stories of cultural knowledge about healthy living was funded for $145,000 by the Vancouver Foundation and is coming to conclusion this year. The project is called “Preservation and Prevention�.

The Centre and community partners received $25,000 in funding from CIHR for a dissemination grant. This grant covers the cost of travel for the youth in the above project to give presentations and will support a large gathering in the fall at VIU. The Society for Organized Services in Parksville in collaboration with the Centre submitted a proposal to the federal government to examine the services for the homeless. Funding of $80,000 was received and the project began June 1, 2013 to synthesize local knowledge and published data to determine best practices in supporting the homeless and preventing homelessness in rural settings. Recent VIU grad and Centre research assistant, Sarah Poole was hired as coordinator. The project (and Sarah) was so successful the Regional District has agreed to provide funding for 2014-2015.

With collaborators SD 69, VIHA, BLT, MCFD, SOS, and First Nations organizations we received a $10,000 convening grant from the Community Action Initiative to design a proposal to create innovative services and community activities to support families and youth suffering from substance use or mental illness. A full proposal for $200,000 was submitted to the CAI with the Building Learning Together (BLT) society as lead. Results will be announced in July, 2014.

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Most recently the Centre collaborated with Pam Shaw, Erik Krogh, and Grant Murray, the co-leads on a grant received from CFI to examine the historical effect of declining traditional food sources, e.g. clams, arid oysters due to red tide, on the health of First Nations and the rise in incidence of diabetes arid other chronic diseases that are related to diet.

The Centre will receive $69,000 to buy equipment and a van to create a mobile media lab to enable Elders and youth to create digital stories of these effects.

Research Activity Committees Rural Health Research Network, VIU representative Community Based Research Canada, Steering Committee CIHR Review Committee Vancouver Foundation Review Committee Presentations and Conferences The community research assistants (Aboriginal youth) have made presentations to educational/academic institutions: Gold River, Tofino; York University, UK (by Skype); Ahousaht, Port Alberni, Victoria, and more. The researchers presented at CUExpo Newfoundland and Victoria.

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Associated Research Scholars: Dr. Jenny Horn, Honorary Research Associate, Vancouver Island University Community Based Collaborators: Nanaimo: Social Innovation Lab creation team: Jeannine Bouquist and Marc Dinelle – Min. of Social Development and Innovation, Signy MaddenUnited Way and The Design Nerds plus numerous other NGO’s.

Alphonse, entitled “Respectful Research: Its Meaning in Practice” 2. May 2014: Hosted Sophie Duncan (Deputy Director) from the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement www.publicengagement.ac.uk/ in Bristol UK on a West Coast engagement tour.

Cowichan Community Partners: Social Planning Cowichan, Cowichan Tribes (and numerous other community partners) – Building the Village Initiative. Board Meets Board, Cowichan Watershed Society, Transition Cowichan.

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Vancouver Island University Student Researchers: Jacqueline Mays, Kelan Deigh.

2. VICRA Network: The five universities and colleges on Vancouver Island established the Vancouver Island Community Research Alliance (VICRA) in 2009 to collaborate in building capacity for community-based research to address issues of concern to the communities on Vancouver Island. A food literacy research project was initiated in 2013 with Dr. Jenny Horn and Celia White and Dr. Hood participating on behalf of VIU.

CBRI facilitates community-based research and engagement opportunities for students, community organizations, government, businesses and faculty. The Institute responds to inquiries from the community to collaborate with VIU to develop research, capacity building and engagement initiatives. These communitycampus collaborations allow community groups to focus on research that is meaningful to local communities and provides students with opportunities for hands-on experience in interdisciplinary research. The CBRI supports research that is collaborative, community based, and innovative.

1. Responded to 102 requests from a variety of community organizations and government agencies for engagement activities and/or community-based research involvement.

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3. Continued the communications series researched and written by students entitled, Community-Based Research Matters. This series profiled the work of the Campus Food Movement and Vancouver Island food-related research undertaken by Dr. Jenny Horn and VICRA. In partnership with Marilyn Assaf, VIU Communications.

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1. Dr. Lewis Williams, Associate Professor, Health, University of Southern Queensland and Director of the Koru International Network (KIN) http://kinincommon.com/; This scholar presented as part of the Indigenous Research Seminars with Danielle Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

1. November 19, 2013 Robin June Hood and Margot McLaughlin presented a workshop at the Parksville/Qualicum Campus entitled “Storytelling - The Power of Storytelling for Healing, Resilience and Meaning Making.”

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2. The CBRI co-sponsored a Lunch and Learn series with the Research Office, and the Institute for Coastal Research offering 17 lunch workshops profiling the work of VIU researchers.

3. The CBRI co-sponsored a workshop series with the Research Office entitled, Respectful Research that presented the work of the following pairs of indigenous researchers; Danielle Alphonse and Dr. Lewis Williams, Dr. Lorna Williams and Geraldine Manson, and Dr. Sandrina de Finney and Florence James.

4. Represented VIU at the May 2014 Beyond Engagement Global University Engagement Conference; organized several workshop sessions, networking meetings for Community Based Research Canada, VICRA and the Global Network and was a mentor for the Arts of Engagement day.

5. Developed and coordinated a Community of Practice at VIU with Kathleen Bordolin, CIEL for faculty and staff on community- university engagement.

Consultations and Network Development 1. April 2013 participated in PhD research consultation on community campus engagement with Ceri Davies (PhD candidate), UK. 2. Represented VIU at two VICRA meetings to coordinate the Vancouver Island campus/community-based alliance.

3. Coordinated the VIU’s participation in the Royal Roads University hosted session on social innovation presented by Frances Westley of the University of Waterloo.

4. Represented VIU at a meeting of the emerging BC Community-Based Research and Learning Network hosted by Dr. Leslie Brown and Dr. Budd Hall, University of Victoria at Simon Fraser University.

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5. Represented VIU at CU Expo in Cornerbrook Newfoundland.

Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Group web.viu.ca/richardlane/ResearchGro ups.html Director Dr. Richard J. Lane Members Researchers: Dr. Sally Carpentier, English, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Ian Whitehouse, English, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Emile Fromet de Rosnay, University of Victoria; Dr. Stephen Ross, University of Victoria; Dr. Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria; Dr. Ray Siemens, University of Victoria; Dr. Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria Vancouver Island University Student Researchers: Deanna McGillivray; Katelyn Beale Explanation of Group: The aim of this group is to work as a nationally and/or internationally networked think-tank, investigating the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research models and methodologies that are currently being applied within the humanities, with a focus on Canadian cultural, theoretical, literarycritical and digital humanities approaches.

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in relation to current and projected research results within the humanities.

Dr. Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair in Coastal Resource Management

Research and Scholarly Activity: the topic of investigation throughout the year was the Big Humanities: Digital Infrastructure, Innovation and Economies in the Arts and Humanities. Dr. Lane contracted a peer reviewed book with Routledge US and UK called The Big Humanities: Digital Humanities/Digital Laboratories, and also worked with a team of academics from The University of British Columbia and The University of Victoria on a digital humanities edited essay collection which is currently in its early planning stages. The Group partnered with community members at a meeting hosted by the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce to discuss building a school for entrepreneurial social innovation in Nanaimo, working closely with community social innovation leader Brian Fillmore. At the Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities’ culminating symposium at VIU Cowichan, a discussion session involving researchers from The University of Victoria and VIU was held to generate planning feedback on the new “Critical Digital Humanities Group” to be sponsored by the Humanities Interdisciplinarity Research Group and codirected by UVic and VIU project partners; student research assistant Deanna McGillivray minuted this session and wrote a report on the topic.

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Student Researchers: activities included minuting a research symposium discussion and being involved in project planning.

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Researchers: Dr. Linda D’Anna, Postdoctoral Fellow; Janice Johnson, MA Student; Dr. Pat MacDonald, Postdoctoral Fellow; Michele Patterson, Program Lead, Aquatic Foods Initiative/ICR Program Manager; Dr. Carleigh Randall, Postdoctoral Fellow; Kelsey Wolff, MBA Student/Mitacs Intern Fellows: Jamie Alley, Victoria, BC (An exploration of Governance and Institutional Barriers to Economic Development in the BC Seafood Sector: Advice and Recommendations for VIU); Marlene Atleo, Winnipeg, Manitoba (Hin-Qu’-aas: Intergenerational and Intercultural knowledge transmission for community resource sustainability; Jordan Benner, Vancouver, BC (Integrating communities into ecosystem-based management); Rachelle Beveridge, Victoria, BC (Local eulachon management, seafood security and wellbeing); Kathryn Tebbutt, Victoria, BC (The socio-cultural meaning of seaweed to a First Nations community); Allison Witter, Victoria, BC (Community supported fisheries and sustainable seafood harvesting in BC).

Visiting Scholars: Keith Chaulk, Labrador Institute of Memorial University; Aerin Jacob, PhD Candidate McGill University; Rebecca Martone, Ecosystem Health Initiative, Centre for Ocean Solutions, Monterey, California, USA; Joy Sammy, Calgary, Alberta.

Mandate The Institute for Coastal Research at Vancouver Island University is made up of a team of people working to further understanding of the cultural, economic, environmental and social dynamics of the B.C. coast through collaborative research, creative exploration, dialogue, engagement and education. In doing so, we try to help guide Vancouver Island University | 113

human activities to bring the greatest good to coastal communities and ecosystems.

Research Projects and Programs Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction: A fiveyear project, co-funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the International Development Research Council (IDRC), which examines the linkages between conservation activities and poverty in and around protected areas in Ghana, Tanzania and Canada. Research is conducted through four linked streams of inquiry: distribution of costs and benefits, human wildlife interaction, governance, and knowledge mobilization.

Social-Ecological Resilience in Baynes Sound: This project examines local perspectives on the Baynes Sound environment and communities in order to 1) characterize how people in various stakeholder groups know and value the Baynes Sound social-ecological system, 2) understand what resilience and well-being mean for local stakeholders, 3) assess the perceived and documented mechanisms by which shellfish aquaculture promotes or erodes resilience and well-being in the sound, and 4) understand how aquaculture may act as an agent of change in the region.

Aquatic Foods Initiative: The Aquatic Foods Initiative is developing strategies that will increase the economic, cultural, social and ecological values of BC’s aquatic food resources. Our primary research focus is in seafood governance through an SSHRC funded research project entitled: “Capturing community values in marine resource management: New Tools for New Times”. This one-year project adopts a case study approach to develop a framework to identify and characterize information about underlying values in BC's seafood sector, contributing to better understanding, collaboration, problem solving Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

and conflict resolution in coastal and marine planning; and leading to improved community well-being and ecosystem health.

A Governance Assessment Framework for Landscape-Level Ecosystem-Based Management: The purpose of the proposed research development project is to test and refine a framework for assessment of governance systems for landscape-level ecosystem-based management. Governance at the landscape level tends to be more challenging and complex than it is for individual protected areas. As a result, there is likely to be great diversity of interests and values and the potential for conflict over those diverse interests and values. This project involves testing a draft version of an assessment framework for the evaluation of governance systems for landscape-level ecosystem-based management in four locations in Canada, Kenya and Tanzania.

Human Dimensions of Marine Ecosystems (Japan, Canada): Within the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Section on Human Dimensions of Marine Systems; the goal of this project is to identify the relationships between sustainable human communities and productive marine ecosystems in the North Pacific, under the concept of fishery social-ecological systems. More specifically, considering the global changes in climate and human social and economic conditions, the project is expected to determine: (a) how do marine ecosystems support human well-being; and (b) how do human communities support sustainable and productive marine ecosystems.

Exploring Distinct Indigenous Knowledge Systems to Inform Fisheries Governance and Management on Canada’s Coasts: Led by Dalhousie University, this research project examines three characteristics of knowledge systems: the valuation, ownership and control of Vancouver Island University | 114

knowledge. It aims to identify the commonalities and differences in indigenous knowledge systems (IKSs) in 4 distinct indigenous coastal communities in Canada (Tla-o-qui-aht, BC, Pangnirtung, NU, Nipissing, ON and Eskasoni, NS) and to understand the western knowledge system underpinning governmental decision making processes. The acquired knowledge will serve to highlight the challenges and opportunities available to both indigenous (First Nations and Inuit) and non-indigenous decision makers and users to enhance fisheries governance in Canada.

North Vancouver Island Marine Area Planning Process (MaPP): Participated (in partnership with VIU’s Centre for Shellfish Research as advisory member (shellfish) in BC Provincial Government-Nanwakolas Nation planning process. MaPP is an initiative designed to plan for marine uses and conservation on BC’s North Pacific Coast. A completed plan for North Vancouver Island is now available and can be viewed at: http://mappocean.org/.

Dialogue Events “Bring your LUNCH AND LEARN about research at VIU”: Bi-monthly seminar series featuring professional and personal research done by VIU faculty and staff. The 2013-2014 series hosted 16 events attended by about 300 VIU faculty, staff and students. This series was co-hosted by the Research and Scholarly Activity Office, the World Leisure Centre and the Community Based Research Institute.

Traditional seafoods of coastal aboriginal communities in the North Pacific: Insight into food social and ceremonial uses at Snuneymux’w First Nation in Nanaimo, BC: One day pre-conference workshop in conjunction with the North Pacific Marine Science Organization. Co-convened with Peter Ross (DFO) and local community members.

Recently Completed Reports MacDonald, P. (2013). Capturing social values in ocean management and planning: New tools for new times. Summary for Participants.

Available at: sites.viu.ca/icr/files/2012/06/Value-StudyParticipant-Summary.pdf D’Anna, L., and Murray, G. (2013). Baynes Sound opinion survey on shellfish aquaculture.

Findings. Available at: www2.viu.ca/icr/files/2012/06/Baynes-SoundOpinion-Survey-on-Shellfish-AquacultureReport-20130927.pdf Wolff, K; Murray, G., and Patterson, M. (2014).

Have you eaten any fish today? Available at: sites.viu.ca/icr/files/2012/06/Final-Report-HaveYou-Eaten-Any-Fish-Today-Feb-25_2014.pdf Murray, G., D’Anna, L., MacDonald, P., and Patterson, M. (2014). Navigating change: Wellbeing, values and the management of marine social-ecological systems. PICES Press, 22,1. P 15-19. Available at: www.pices.int/publications/pices_press/volume2 2/v22-n1/pp_15-19_S-HD.pdf Recent Presentations Disabling Dichotomies in Food Security Discourse (Food Connections 2013: Growing Capacity for a Food Secure Vancouver Island) October 2013 (Michele Patterson) It’s about zombies, not vampires: Advancing social science research to address the real issues facing aquaculture in Canada (BC Salmon Farmers Association “After Cohen” workshop).

May 2014 (Michele Patterson)

Institute for Practical Philosophy records.viu.ca/www/ipp/ipp.htm Director

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awareness of the many aspects of residential school experiences, to foster an environment that supports survivors, their families and our community in a journey of healing. Due to the overwhelming success of the first two workshops (one for high school students, the second for adults) a third workshop is to be offered at the end of May. The Institute has also continued its publishing programme and will issue a 4th edition of its Cases in Health Care Ethics in the Fall of 2014.

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Literary Theory Research Group

Syed Raza

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Researchers Dr. Robert Pepper-Smith, Dr. Carolyn Swanson Associated Research Scholars Dr. Janice Porteous Honorary Research Associate

Founded by Bob Lane, the Institute promotes innovative ways of exploring contemporary social and political problems. The Institute has, for example, hosted a conference on B.C.’ s new health care consent and representation agreement legislation, offered an upper level course in health care ethics at NRGH, developed a clinical case consultation workshop and hosted several symposia on such topics as genetically modified foods, environmental ethics and social and political issues in Latin America. The Institute also publishes a chapbook series on a number of topics including health care ethics and effective social responses to crime.

In 2013-14 the Institute developed its website tracking the growing social demand that pension plans invest ethically. The Institute also continued to publish its newsletter entitled Canada Pension Alert: What Are Your Pension Funds Up To? canadapensionalert.wordpress.com/author/canad apensionalert/ In March 2014, the Institute hosted a talk by Dr. Gary Bauslaugh entitled Justice and the Law: a talk on Jury Nullification. Also in March, the Institute along with community partners helped to organize two reconciliation dialogue workshops whose purpose was to share Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Director Dr. Richard J. Lane Co-Director Emily Marroquin, University of British Columbia Members Researchers: Dr. John Hill, Writing Centre, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Sally Carpentier, English, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Ian Whitehouse, English, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Emile Fromet de Rosnay, University of Victoria; Dr. Stephen Ross, University of Victoria Vancouver Island University Student Researchers: Deanna McGillivray; Brian Hitchings; Laura-Lee Bowers Explanation of Group: The Group explores high level literary theory and related discourses (such as continental philosophy, ethics, psychoanalytical theory, etc), within the context of humanistic research and scholarly activity.

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Advanced Studies in the Humanities at VIU, which involves hosting visiting speakers, research seminars, and a culminating symposium at VIU or a special memberorganized panel at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English conference, at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Science.

Research and Scholarly Activity: The Group examined the topic of Heidegger in the Digital Age - Being and Time, Technology and Humanism, with focus on Heidegger’s essay "The Question Concerning Technology" and his major work of phenomenology, Being and Time.

Two research seminars were held on the topics of advanced text encoding and on the development of research questions for the Group; a culminating symposium was held at VIU Cowichan, titled the Many Masks/Masques of Heidegger: Technology, Poeisis and Humanism.

Visiting lectures were given by Dr. Emile Fromet de Rosnay, University of Victoria; Dr. Paula Johanson, University of Victoria, Dr. Aaron Mauro, Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory, University of Victoria, and Emily Marroquin, University of British Columbia.

Student Researchers: attended the Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities seminars and visiting speaker series; contributed to research seminar discussions.

Media Research Lab www.mediastudies.viu.ca/coursesite /mrl/ Director Doug Stetar

Doug Stetar, Alanna Williams, Marianne Van der Zon, Robin Davies, Kevin Mazutinec, Daniel Burgoyne Student Researchers Denisa Krausova (student manager), Caitlin Norman (associate manager), Katelyn Neily, Felix Naud, Brent Pretty Brief explanation of research centre: The Media Research Lab provides expertise, assistance, and infrastructure to support research scholarship projects involving digital media. Core activities include: training and supervising undergraduate research through the student research assistant program; supporting targeted faculty scholarship in digital media; demonstrating digital media research; creating alternative video media, including recording significant cultural events on campus and in the community (filmUnit); seeking partnerships and funding for projects; researching best practices for emerging new media distribution and use.

The Media Research Lab examines how to integrate digital media more fully into institutional practices, through demonstrations, workshops, exhibits, and supported pilot projects. For example, the Film Unit explores the protocols and standards for creating an institutional digital archive.

During the 2013-2014 academic year the MRL was involved in a major strategic planning process that involved students, faculty and community members. The MRL strategic planning process worked intensively with students to explore how the Lab can strengthen and expand undergraduate student scholarship opportunities. The final strategic plan will be presented to the MRL advisory committee for approval in June, and unveiled publicly in August.

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Ongoing scholarly projects include: What is Education? - ongoing longitudinal video history project dedicated to documenting the evolving attitudes towards education held by members of the VIU community and the general population; Arts and Humanities Colloquium DVD series ongoing production of DVD video archives of the Arts and Humanities Colloquium series (13 produced to date); Semester – a feature length documentary exploring the lives of 3-5 new university students as they navigate their way through their first semester - currently in preproduction (production scheduled for fall, 2014); A Day in the Life of VIU - project to document a typical day in the life of VIU, currently in development (production scheduled for fall 2015).

Undergraduate student scholarship has been a large focus for the MRL this year. Student Research Assistants have fulfilled a number of media production roles including: researcher, producer, director, cinematographer, sound designer, camera operator and production assistant. Student scholars have been deeply involved in all aspects of the listed projects including development and planning.

MeTA Digital Humanities Lab meta.viu.ca/lab/ Director/Principal Investigator Dr. Richard J. Lane Co-Director/Co-Investigator Dr. Daniel Burgoyne Members Researchers: Dr. Anna Atkinson, English, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Terri Doughty, English, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Sally Carpentier, English, Vancouver Island Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

University; Dr. Ian Whitehouse, English, Vancouver Island University; Sasha Koerbler, Music, Vancouver Island University.

Student Researchers: Brian Hitchings; Deanna McGillivray; Bryan Keddy; Maria Bassett; Elizabeth Nicol; Darcie Smith; Katelyn Beale.

Programmer: Shaun Wong, University of Victoria.

Post-Doctoral Advisor: Dr. Aaron Mauro, University of Victoria.

The MeTA Digital Humanities Lab is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (Leaders Opportunity Fund), the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund, and VIU’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The main aim of the lab is to develop an online database application called the Media Text Assemblage (MeTA). This project aims to use media text clusters to study the graphic and historical dimensions of the publication and reception of Canadian and other literatures.

Research and Scholarly Activity: Carpentier and Beale completed phase one of their text encoded (TEI) Douglas Treaties project, which involved community collaboration with indigenous Chiefs, visiting the BC Archives, and refining TEI XML for cultural documents. Atkinson began work with a digital hypertext edition of Plymouth Plantation, working with TEI and the Logos digitized text collection. A new member of the lab, Sasha Koerbler, developed research that focuses on various types of metrical irregularity that permeate the musical content of Claude Debussy’ songs. Her two-fold project consists of a comparative analysis of a) the French prosody as originally written in the selected poems and then set to music by Debussy, and 2) music recordings of these songs, including Debussy’s own performances recorded on piano rolls. Burgoyne, Keddy, and Bassett digitally photographed Chapters 1-4 of Vancouver Island University | 118

Book 4 and Appendix 4 of Volume 2 of James Cook’s third voyage, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, in VIU’s Special Collections. A total of 102 pages, including illustrations and tables, were photographed. Burgoyne and Keddy further developed the digital edition of this section of Cook’s voyage by appending the digital facsimiles to the TEI document, refining and expanding the use of XML IDs in the document, and developing new techniques for representing the graphic surface of the text.

Burgoyne and Smith researched a range of problems and questions presented during encoding of the text that involve Nuu-ChahNulth, the contact between Cook and Nuu-ChahNulth, colonialist discourse (as it impacts the representation of contact), and different versions of Cook’s report of this contact. Burgoyne and Bassett produced parallel samples of the graphic surface of six editions of James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder: Harper (1888), McClelland (1969), Carleton (1986), One World (2009), and Broadview (2011). Additional research by Burgoyne included producing samples of two poems from John Newlove’s The Night the Dog Smiled, and initiating an experimental TEI edition of L. M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon based upon the 1923 first Canadian edition of the book. Lane and Hitchings worked on a coding project to explore ways of interacting with the graphical surface of texts using two computer languages, Processing and Python. The resulting code was utilized on iPad minis, with the longer term aim of developing a mobile research environment for text analysis projects. Lane, McGillivray and Nicol initiated the preliminary phase of the In Flanders Fields Text Encoding project, digitizing an extensive sample set of publication instances of In Flanders Fields, beginning with the first anonymous publication of the poem in the magazine Punch (1915). These digitized samples were then tagged in TEI using grouping Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

tags to explore how the graphical surface can contribute to the meaning of the poem. The project also involves developing an innovative approach to analytical tagging. Lane and McGillivray digitized four separate editions of Rebecca West’s First World War novella called The Return of the Soldier (1918), including the first British edition, the first American serialized edition, the first American book edition, and a play edition. Using TEI and some DH software called Versioning Machine, textual variants were analysed across these editions. Lane also developed some new narratological analytical tags in TEI for analysing narrative structures, and for remediating texts in 3D environments.

A team of MeTA DH Lab researchers and research assistants attended the 2013 Digital Humanities Summer Institute, The University of Victoria (June 5-10), taking courses on: Transcribing and Describing Primary Sources in TEI; Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application; Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities; and Cultural Codes and Protocols for Indigenous Digital Heritage Management.

Student Researchers: activities include archival and research library visits; archival quality scanning and digital photography; computer programming; text encoding using TEI standards; database work; field testing new software and research frameworks; research seminars and meetings; delivering research papers and presentations. McGillivray and Bassett also delivered two TEI training sessions at VIU for MeTA DH Lab members and research assistants.

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Members Undergraduate Psychology Student Researchers: Pheona Cessford, Melanie Digney, Lisa Vu, Daniel Elleker, Chelsea McLean, Becky Wagner Honorary Research Associates: Jean King, Amy Moyer

The Canadian Letters and Images Project www.canadianletters.ca Director Dr. Stephen Davies

The Resilience Research Lab (RRL) in the Psychology Department provides ongoing educational opportunities for faculty and students in the area of resilience. Students are provided with volunteer and paid research opportunities. The RRL consults with various local non-profit associations and governmental organizations that provide services for youth and have partnered on local, international and crossdisciplinary research projects. In addition the Lab presents its research at local, national and international conferences.

This year the RRL planned and hosted a conference of the Western Resilience Network which was held in May, 2014 at VIU. The conference assembled researchers, administrators, and practitioners from across Western Canada to contribute to an interdisciplinary dialogue on resilience. The keynote speaker was Dr. Michael Ungar from the Resilience Research Centre, Dalhousie University; panelists included Dr. Judith Kulig from the University of Lethbridge, April de Voy, from the Reaching In Reaching Out program, and Tania Smethurst, independent researcher with the Canadian Red Cross.

Student, Daniel Elleker, completed a senior research project on “Internalized Homophobia Resolution in Young Gay and Bisexual Men: A Mixed Methods Study of Resilience”. This work was supported by the RRL members. He presented this research at the VIU CREATE event and received an honourable mention for his presentation.

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Patron His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnson. C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D., Governor General of Canada Members Dr. Tim Cook, Canadian War Museum; Dr. Michael Bliss, CM, FRSC; Dr. Jack Granatstein, OC, FRSC Student Research Assistants: Paige Fehr, Kitty Kanhoffen, Cheryl Wieler, Becky Taylor, Virginia Fournier Project Overview The Canadian Letters and Images Project is an online archive of the Canadian war experience from all periods of Canada’s past. Begun in the summer of 2000, it is the largest online archive of primary materials in Canada relating to Canada’s war experience. Since its inception, the project has located, borrowed, and electronically preserved more than 15,000 letters, as well as thousands of photographs, numerous diaries, and countless miscellaneous materials connected to the Canadian war experience.

This year the project has collaborated on a book by the CBC, BC Almanac about BC in WWI, and was chosen by the CBC to receive the net proceeds from that publication. Given the unique nature of the project’s holdings we have been supplying materials to mark the war centenary to institutions such the National Vancouver Island University | 120

Gallery, The Canadian War Museum, and the Carriere Wellington Museum in France. The project was granted vice-regal patronage by the Governor General, signifying the importance of the project’s materials for Canadians. He is the third Governor General to support the project in this manner. This year the project surpassed three hundred World War One collections brought online.

The World Leisure Centre of Excellence in Sustainability and Innovation www.worldleisureviu.org/ Co-Directors Dr. Nicole Vaugeois and Joanne Schroeder As of September 15th 2009, a partnership was created between the World Leisure Organization (WLO) and Vancouver Island University (VIU) to establish a Centre of Excellence with a focus on innovation and sustainability in leisure management. “The World Leisure Center of Excellence (WLCE) in Sustainable Leisure Management brings together established and emerging scholars from around the globe to share innovative ideas, engage in dialogue and collaborate in research and teaching.”

The core themes of the Center include: 1. Sustainability: Questioning the relationship between leisure and sustainability, determining the level of sustainability of the leisure industry, and inviting and monitoring new models and approaches to enhance sustainability.

2. Innovation: Rethinking the systems and structures that have evolved across the globe, creating a culture of innovation where new ideas emerge and flourish, and measuring the impact of innovation on sustainability efforts.

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The work of the Center includes: 1. Creation of a network of scholars from academic, government, non-government and community to form a community of practice that engages in dialogue on sustainability and innovation in leisure; 2. Collaborative scholarship on sustainability and innovation in leisure including research projects, learn abroad opportunities, and interactive media; 3. Delivery of a Master degree in Sustainable Leisure Management at Vancouver Island University, where emerging scholars learn about the core thematic areas of the Center while engaging in dialogue with partners within the network.

In the fall, the World Leisure Committee (WLC), also comprised of Dr. Grant Murray, Dr. Suzanne de la Barre and Dr. Ken Hammer developed an annual plan of activity for the Center. This year, with SSHRC funding support, the Center hired three research assistants, Monica Shore, Justine Powell and Liane O’Keefe – graduate students in the MA Sustainable Leisure Management (SLM) program.

There are currently three World Leisure Centres of Excellence: Vancouver Island University, Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona, USA and NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in Breda, Netherlands. Dr. Dave Twynam and Joanne Schroeder travelling to Breda in the fall to meet with the other Centres of Excellence to plan for collaborations and prepare for a field school to be offered in conjunction with the World Leisure Congress in Mobile, Alabama 2014. Our first inaugural WLCE field school called Building a Livable City through Leisure: A Global Perspective has currently five VIU students registered to participate with four faculty joining them, Dr. Vancouver Island University | 121

Pete Parker, Dr. Aggie Weighill, Dr. Nicole Vaugeois, Joanne Schroeder as well as Faculty of Management Dean, Dr. Dave Twynam.

Together we will promote the center through an exhibit table at the Congress and both faculty and students will be delivering numerous presentations.

New to the World Leisure board of directors as of January 2014, Joanne Schroeder will be representing VIU and the Centre of Excellence at the Mobile congress. This is a three year term and we look forward to the contribution VIU can provide at the board level.

Together the WLC enhanced its multi author blog (wlceviu.blogspot.ca/) adding content on a regular basis to profile the activity of the Center and create a presence within the International Community. The Center continued for a second year a series of “Innovation Infusion” events throughout the fall and spring to bring together students, faculty, the regional community and the VIU community on the core themes of the Center. The Center hosted six visiting scholars this year, Dr. Neil Carr from the University of Otego, New Zealand, who taught with Dr. Pete Parker, Dr. Katherine King from the University of Bournemouth, England who taught a case studies course with Dr. Nicole Vaugeois, Dr. Sam Lankford, University of Northern Iowa, USA who taught with Dr. Rick Rollins, Dr. Stephen Wearing, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia who taught with Dr. Suzanne de la Barre, and Dr. Geoffrey Godbey, Penn State University, USA who taught with Dr. Grant Murray.

Our sixth visiting scholar was Olaf Ernst from our partner Centre of Excellence University, NHTV Breda in the Netherlands. Due to his length of stay Olaf was able to teach in both the graduate and undergraduate levels, engage in research in the area of commercial gentrification, he was very involved in the Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Nanaimo entrepreneurial community and worked to support Centre initiatives.

VIU@Cowichan Innovation Lab Members Researchers: Dr. Richard J. Lane, English, Vancouver Island University; Dr. Ian Whitehouse, English, Vancouver Island University; Sally Carpentier, English, Vancouver Island University; George Farris, Information Technology Services, Vancouver Island University; Kenneth Plumbly, Information Technology Services, Vancouver Island University; Steve Cheung, Math, Vancouver Island University.

Student Researchers: Katelyn Beale and Mary Dawn MacWatt The VIU@Cowichan Innovation Lab is an interdisciplinary: interprofessional, intraeduational space of exploration—or space of potential—that facilitates (1) accelerated technology and product innovation/fabrication through research and development, (2) knowledge commercialization and mobilization with the community, (3) student-centered small business incubation, and (4) productive, practical dialogue between digital and social innovation models and processes. The Lab provides highly proactive “productive partnerships among education, business, industry, government and communities” (VIU Academic Plan 6). The Lab functions through intercampus, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional collaboration, with specific focus upon enhancing collaboration between trades and academic activities and areas.

Research and Scholarly Activity: The VIU@Cowichan Innovation Lab’s primary work this year has focused on building capacity within our community. The Language Vancouver Island University | 122

Revitalization and Mastery project is multidimensional, consisting of data collection, software exploration, and fabrication and construction projects. It has also sponsored numerous workshops in learning contemporary software programs to facilitate the advancement of the language revitalization project with Elders from both Penelakut and Cowichan (Whitehouse, Carpentier and student researchers Beale and McWatt). The Lab has also sponsored Eliza Garner’s participatory theatre in a local elementary school where she provided three workshops in areas in which the student body is facing challenges. The response has been immediate and positive, leading to a proposal that will see these sessions grow into a year-long work in the school. George Farris’ work on the fabrication and creation of drones continues, as he explores the potential for prosthetics using the 3D Printer. Ken Plumbly continues to work on the dissemination of knowledge through guiding workshops on 3D animation and 3D printing. Steve Cheung’s work has taken on many iterations and is currently focused on the creation of tablet computing to enhance the “flipped classroom” experience. In Richard Lane’s work on the Interoperability Project, the goal is to examine the barriers to interoperability that may be present for early stage innovators in a digital innovation lab, and to develop, as a way of reducing or minimizing these barriers, two interrelated approaches to interoperability: an app that offers easy and quick access to software interoperability solutions and a fabricated device that will serve as an interoperability hub for rapidly connecting machines, such as robots, controllers, and various output devices. As well, this year, the Lab will be sponsoring a total of eight participants to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute to be held in June 2014 at UVic.

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VIUFA Leaves Taken in Fiscal 2013-2014 Greg Bush Music The Suite Sound of Jazz The purpose of my leave is to compose two suites for a jazz orchestra. The “Vancouver Island Suite” and the “Portrait of Five Jazz Masters” will each be 45 minutes in length composed for a jazz orchestra of 17 musicians.

The “Vancouver Island Suite” will pay musical respect to the folk music of the aboriginal people and first settlers of the island. Influenced by the folk melodies and rhythms of First Nations people, Italian and Spanish dance music (to remember Alessandro Malaspina), and the exotic sounds of Asia, my original compositions will blend these influences in a jazz style that will be uniquely Canadian.

“A Portrait of Five Jazz Masters” will pay homage to five important jazz musicians and/or composers, who have inspired, influenced, and in some cases mentored me.

There will be a period of researching and analysing sound recordings and scores that will lead to the longer creative period when the music will be composed.

This project is the logical next step in my role as a composer and teacher. I have in the past put on concerts of original music but with this project I will be exploring new musical forms.

Vancouver Island is home to a vibrant arts community that includes music of many genres.

This will be an opportunity to further promote jazz music in our community.

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Linda Byrnes Bachelor of Science in Nursing Using Advanced Integrative Energy Healing Modalities to Prevent or Lessen the Impact of Work Related Trauma in Nurses After completing a certificate for Integrative Energy Healing (IEH) in June 2009 it became increasingly evident to me that I needed to do further study in IEH focusing on the effects of work related stress/trauma in nurses. To this end I enrolled in the Advanced Integrative Energy Healing Certificate Program through Langara College. An assisted leave would allow me to complete the outstanding course work, ongoing practice hours and internship that is required for this certificate.

The courses that I will be taking are in relation to Somatic Trauma and Integrated Therapeutic Qigong. These courses will entail extensive ongoing practice hours. My internship will be a pilot study looking at “Using Advanced Integrative Energy Healing Modalities to Prevent or Lessen the Impact of Work Related Trauma in Nurses.”

Current literature states that nurses have one of the highest sick time usages of any occupation in Canada and British Columbia. In 2010, the cost to the Canadian health care system for nurses’ absenteeism due to illness or disability was $758.1 million (Informetica Ltd., 2011). The literature indicates a clear link between workrelated stress/trauma and sick time (Shields and Wilkins, 2006; Leka and Jain, 2010). “Although the healthcare sub-sector is only 10% of the provincial workforce, 40% of all province-wide Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) Claims due to ‘violence’ arise out of the healthcare subsector.” (Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in BC, 2008, p. 3) Nurses have the highest number of chronic Vancouver Island University | 124

health conditions for all employed individuals in Canada. (Shields and Wilkins, 2006)

Dr. Paige Fisher Education Enhancing Literacy Outcomes and Learner Confidence Through Place-Based Education Dr. Paige Fisher has been engaged in various practical and research-oriented activities in support of the transformation of educational approaches in British Columbia. Her work is centred upon a concern for the emotional and intellectual well-being of learners within education systems and the impacts of teachers’ assessment and evaluation practices on those learners. Of particular concern is the well-being of Aboriginal learners within British Columbia schools. In her work with undergraduate students, she is seeking to transform the assessment practices of emergent and practicing teachers. Her teacher education work is intimately connected with the practical realities of students and teachers in schools. In addition, she has created a provincial literacy initiative that combines teacher-oriented collaborative inquiry with current best practices in the area of formative assessment and the design of effective learning environments. It is hoped that this work will contribute to the enhancement of the educational experience for learners across the school system.

Dr. Alan Gilchrist Geography Soil Moisture Balance for Vancouver Island Water is vital to the survival of life on Earth.

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agricultural food crops, which sometimes require irrigation during periods of drought.

There is a growing appreciation by scientists, consumers and policy makers that water supplies are finite. Water needs to be actively managed to ensure that there are sufficient supplies to support human consumption and population growth without negatively impacting natural ecosystems.

Soil moisture varies on an annual cycle in response to the supply of water by rain and loss of water by evaporation. On Vancouver Island soil moisture typically drops in the summer during periods of hot, dry weather and irrigation is often required for gardens to flourish and agricultural crops to be successful. In the future it is predicted that the Island climate will change in response to global warming caused by the human production of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Summers in coastal BC will likely become longer, hotter and dryer than at present. This is of concern as summer soil moisture levels are likely to drop even lower, due to decreased supply and increased evaporation, and drought conditions could become more common with an increased need for crop irrigation. The proposed research will assess the likelihood of this possibility, and will help water managers to predict the future impact of climate change on water needs for irrigation.

Dr. Chris Gill Chemistry HRMS/CI - MIMS for Real World Chemical Measurements The use of the sensitive, selective and real-time chemical measurement technique, Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (MIMS), will be redefined. In addition, selected applications for the rapid/real-time measurement of important determinants of human and environmental health Vancouver Island University | 125

will be developed. Our research group, the Applied Environmental Research Laboratories (AERL), has pioneered many new methods and applications for this cutting edge technology.

We are acknowledged leaders in the MIMS field, with a strong track record of community, provincial, federal and internationally funded pure and applied research projects. This work has enabled the research training of well over 100 VIU undergraduate students over the last decade, giving them targeted training and a competitive edge when entering the workforce.

The science to be conducted through funding this proposed release has important national and international significance.

During the proposed leave, three significant areas of activity will be conducted by the applicant: i) substantial experimental laboratory research and development, ii) peer reviewed research publication and conference session organization and iii) application for external research grants. This leave will entail exchanges and research to be conducted between Vancouver Island University (VIU), Université Paris-Sud (France) and Saarland University (Germany). An active network of internal and external collaborations will be re-enforced by this work. The professional development gained through this leave is invaluable, strengthening our core research capacity at VIU. This will result in continued opportunities for student training and employment through independent research projects (Chem 490, Biol 491), workop positions, summer research assistantships and opportunities for NSERC-USRA student awards.

Dr. Michael Govorov Geography Enhancing Post-graduate Teaching and Learning in the Area of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at VIU Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

I currently teach in the Advanced Diploma in GIS Applications (ADGISA), which is a postgraduate program, highly innovative and based on rapidly-changing technologies. At the same time, a proposal for a new Master’s of Geographic Information Systems Applications (MGISA) program was approved and included in the list of VIU Three-Year Priorities for New and Expanded Programs www.viu.ca/upa/KeyDocuments/ProgramPlanni ng/3-YearPlanWeb.pdf.

I am proposing that I use an assisted professional leave to enhance my knowledge and skills in instruction methodologies and curriculum design for the online delivery of Master’s programs in GIS. During this leave I will be visiting leading Universities in Europe which are offering Master’s certification in GIS online. I will be working closely with local professors delivering some components of their existing programs as a guest lecturer, and will apply experience gained in this area to the development and establishment of the MGISA at VIU. This assisted professional leave represents an opportunity to increase international contacts, to gain experience with current teaching and learning methods and technologies in GIS for distance post-graduate education, and to internationalize existing ADGISA curriculum.

One outcome of my leave will be a paper or manual of “best practices” in instruction, methodologies and programme design for online delivery of a post-graduate program in GIS. In addition, the contacts during my assisted professional leave may lead to cooperation agreements for the joint delivery of GIS-based courses at VIU and the Universities in Europe.

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Dissertation Research: The Application of Attention and Attribution Theory to Product Placement

Environmental Mass Spectrometry: Real-time assessments and the study of dynamic chemical processes in air and water

In August of 2011, I started a Doctoral program in Media Psychology through Fielding Graduate University; a distance program out of Santa Barbara. The program is the only one if its kind in North America and is taught by faculty well respected as leaders in their field from across North America. This cross disciplinary program includes faculty from Psychology, Communications Theory, Digital Media Theory and Production, Research Design and Methodology and Organization Behavior and Development.

This assisted leave is to provide the applicant time to carry out research and scholarly activity related to the development and application of high precision chemical measurements for direct in-field environmental assessments and process monitoring. The leave will support both scholarly writing and experimental work, including the preparation of technical reports, manuscripts for peer-reviewed publication and the preparation of research grants. Research activities include design improvements of novel semi-permeable membrane interfaces and the adaption of ionization strategies to improve the analytical response characteristics of membrane introduction mass spectrometry. Additional activities include travel for the purpose of attending field trials, participation at international conferences and interactions with students and faculty both here and abroad.

Membrane introduction mass spectrometry is a sensitive, direct measurement strategy for continuously monitoring chemical constituents in complex samples. Recent progress in our group, has included adapting this technique to a mobile platform enabling real-time, in-situ chemical analysis that is time and location stamped enabling geospatial chemical mapping for applications in environmental assessments and adaptive sampling in both air and water.

Furthermore, we are employing this approach to study the dynamics of environmentally significant processes including the formation/degradation of chemical contaminants in natural and wastewaters. This work is regionally relevant and significant globally as chemical determinants of human and environmental health have become a strategic priority world-wide. The requested leave will support the development of new science and provide additional training and learning

Dissertation Research: The approved topic area for dissertation research focuses on the application of attention and attribution theory to the concept of product placement in order to narrow down the understanding of the true value of individual product placements within the film industry. The ultimate goal is to create a valuation equation for individual product placements.

Recent history within the marketing industry shows a decline in traditional marketing avenues and an uptake in what is considered nontraditional marketing channels such as product placement. In reality, product placement is an industry dating back more than 100 years however, the focus on its application and success has primarily occurred in the past 25 years. There is still very little definitive research on this subject and a useable valuation equation would be a major contribution to this field.

Dr. Erik Krogh Chemistry

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opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.

Dr. Hui (Joy) Liu Economics Two Research Projects in the Area of Industrial Organization for the Economy of United Arab Emirates The first research project examines the impact of business founders’ and employees’ general and specific human capital on the performance (sales and survival) of new firms in the United Arab Emirates. It uses regression analysis to compare the performance of firms founded by owners with different education level, different managerial and industry-specific experience. It also studies the impact of employees’ human capital.

The second research project examines how industry turbulence (defined below) in entry and exit varies across industries in the United Arab Emirates and why some industries experience higher levels of turbulence than others. It uses panel data regression technique to study the determinants of turbulence in high growth and declining industries, as there exits more turbulence in these industries.

whole body of Canadian literature reconstructing the writers’ lineages, yet literary scholarship has been slow to recognize genealogy as a subject of import. Given that genealogy reconstructs identity and that Canadian scholars have been engaged for decades in debate over identity, this omission is surprising. Building on the premise that the rhetoric of the family reinforces that of the nation, an analysis of genealogy in literature can provide a rationale for understanding the nation’s evolving identity. My thesis will address the question: if, as one Marketing study suggests, genealogists are redrawing the cultural map through reconstructing family lineages, how is Canadian literature responding? During this leave, I will develop a bibliography on genealogy in Canadian Literature and a website for disseminating this work widely. Because genealogy is an enormously popular pastime, digital access will draw attention to Vancouver Island University. I will also write a journallength article, as one chapter of a future book to be outlined during this leave. Preliminary research already suggests a second and third topic for exploration: (1) challenges to single lineages and (2) the significance of naming. This research will provide a foundation for future work on genealogy and life writing. To share research with students, I will develop an upperlevel course in Narrative Studies and/or Canadian Literature. This course may appeal to students from several disciplines, and with modification will lend itself to cross-listing and/or interdisciplinary teaching.

Dr. Jeannie Martin

Craig McGuigan

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Counselling

Lines of Blood and Ink: Genealogy in Canadian Literature In step with the current explosion of popular interest in genealogy, or family history, is a Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Aboriginal Young Men with University Degrees: The Grounds for Success Though university participation in Canada has increased significantly in the last 25 years, Male Aboriginal learners have been left behind. A Vancouver Island University | 128

range of studies have been undertaken that identify the economic, social and cultural forces that contribute to the relative lack of achievement of aboriginal students at all educational levels. The factors associated with poor achievement have been well defined and are associated with poor educational quality, poverty and cultural marginalization.

Rather than researching those factors that limit enrolment, I propose to study the factors that have contributed to the success of the minority of aboriginal young men who have completed an undergraduate degree. Rather than speculating on reasons for their absence, I intend to achieve a fuller understanding of the significance of their presence and success. Employing Appreciative Inquiry and Grounded Theory I intend to uncover capacities, achievements, personal influences, assets, high point moments, lived values and traditions underlying their success.

Inductive research methods will permit theories and explanations to emerge from the reports of successful male aboriginal students. The methods involve attitudes of openness that permits the views and experiences of research participants to be engaged without the distortions of the prior assumptions of preexisting theories.

A totally ordered set is a set of elements, any two of which can be compared; that is if x and y are two distinct elements, then either x < y or y < x.

A partially ordered set, or poset, is a set such that two distinct elements may be comparable or incomparable (i.e., it is possible for x and y to be such that neither x < y nor y < x). A partially ordered set can be represented pictorially by a set of points or nodes, each node representing an element, and a downward line connects two nodes x and y if x > y. The picture below illustrates a partially ordered set P of four elements, where d is the greatest and a is the least.

An ideal of a poset is a subset of its elements such that if x is in the set, and y < x, then y must also be in the set. I am interested in developing algorithms to generate all the ideals of a given poset. By this, I mean designing a computer program that has as its input an encoding of a poset, and for which the output is a listing of all the ideals of that poset. As an example, a listing for the poset below is {}, {a},{a,b},{a,c},{a,b,c},{a,b,c,d}.

Computing Science

Algorithms to generate the complete set of ideals have abundant applications in optimization contexts, such as scheduling, reliability testing, and line balancing. Because the number of ideals can be exponential in the size of the poset, we seek algorithms that are extremely efficient â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in fact, algorithms that take on average a constant amount of time per ideal generated. No algorithm can do better; several known algorithms approach but do not reach this goal.

The question is, can such an algorithm exist?

My research will be directed towards producing such an algorithm, or presenting algorithms that are more efficient that currently known algorithms for ideal generation.

Efficient Generation of the Ideals of a Poset

Dr. Cheryl Warsh

It seems self-evident that uncovering the means by which some learners succeed can guide the development of supportive measures that permit others to succeed. In undertaking this doctoral dissertation project I intend to identify dispositions, professional practices and institutional policies that contribute to young male aboriginal Canadians' undergraduate degree completion.

Dr. Gara Pruesse

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History

Dr. Jane Watson

The Kelsey Project: Dr. Frances Kelsey, Thalidomide, and Challenges to Foetal Health

Biology

Traditional knowledge in every culture has included advice, prescriptions and proscriptions regarding nutrition and behaviour to protect a pregnant woman and her foetus. Fifty years ago, the foetus’ fragility and the toxicity of some substances ingested by pregnant women were publicly highlighted through the Thalidomide tragedy.

The catalyst for this public awareness was a British Columbian who is not widely known, but whose work had international ramifications. Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, born in Cobble Hill, Vancouver Island, is a physician and scientist who began working at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Washington, D.C. Her first portfolio was an application from a German pharmaceutical firm to allow a new sedative, Thalidomide, into the United States. Although she was a junior staff member, and there was considerable pressure put upon her to permit the drug’s entry, Kelsey and her team rejected the application, saving countless American babies’ lives from the severe deformities and other birth defects suffered by Canadian and European infants whose mothers were prescribed Thalidomide.

The Thalidomide case led to the establishment of new, more stringent protocols for the acceptance of new drugs, and to the popular recognition of the dangers pharmaceuticals and other substances can pose to pregnant women and their fetuses.

Kelp forests, sea otters, whales and diving; a year of academic exploration, research and writing For the last 16 years I have shared my enthusiasm for marine biology and marine conservation through the classes I teach and by involving students in research. During my time at VIU I have maintained a small research program but have struggled to balance teaching, field research, service, working with colleagues and students, disseminating research results and contributing in the field of marine conservation.

My leave proposal addresses this issue of balance. A full year’s leave will allow me to write up and submit for publication the results of past research projects, extend my field work season, and travel to New Zealand and Alaska to work with colleagues. Finally, I plan to satisfy one of my long-term goals and explore the feasibility of developing a scientific diving program for VIU (under the auspices of the Canadian Association of Underwater Science), a program that would allow students and faculty to develop and hone their skills as underwater scientists. My proposed leave will further my growth as a marine scientist and teacher, and will add to the reputation of Vancouver Island University as a teaching and research institution.

The Kelsey Papers have been deposited in the Library of Congress in Washington, which I will consult. Dr. Kelsey is 96 years old, living near Washington, and I hope to interview her and other FDA colleagues for this research.

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Internal Research Grants Research Fund Dr. Eric Demers Biology $2,635 Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology to Study the Nesting Behaviour of Tree Swallows Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology allows the unique identification of individuals and automated recording of the presence of tagged birds at fixed locations such as nest boxes. Tree Swallows are familiar birds in coastal British Columbia, but their abundance has declined in the last 40 years due to unknown causes. Since they readily accept nest boxes, Tree Swallows represent an ideal candidate species for the use of RFID technology. The main objective of this project will be to develop RFID capability to study the nesting behaviour of Tree Swallows at Buttertubs West Marsh in Nanaimo. The technology will be used to better understand the connections between adult nesting behaviour, and weather, food availability and nestling growth and survival. This research will use innovative technology to address important ecological and conservation questions, while fostering new interdepartmental and external collaborations and providing students with a significant experiential learning opportunity.

Dr. Lev Idels Mathematics $3,900 Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Global Dynamics of the Cancer-Free Equilibrium for Pathological Angiogenesis with Delays and Adaptive Treatment We study three different types of angiogenesis models with non-constant and unbounded delays, under either continuous or impulse therapy that eradicates tumor cells and suppresses angiogenesis. These highly nonlinear non-autonomous models give rise to challenging problems, and a systematic study presented in this project will therefore provide solutions to most interesting open problems. My novel approach reduces stability analysis of a broad class of systems with high-order nonlinearities to special classes of weakly nonlinear systems. This project will also highlight how delays in combination with other system structures and parameters influence system dynamics.

Dr. Caroline Josefsson Biology $4,000 Development of a paternity test to evaluate the rate of hybridization between domesticated carrot (Daucus carota var. sativus) and Queen Anneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lace (Daucus carota var. carota) in locally produced carrot seeds A molecular method for determining parentage of carrot seeds will be developed. Locally, domestic carrot seed production is challenged by unwanted cross-pollination from the wild species Queen Anneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lace. Hybrid and purebreeding seed cannot be distinguished visually and farmers must plant and grow out seeds in order to determine the rate of hybridity in a given batch of seeds. A molecular paternity test would provide a rapid screening method that can help inform farmers of effective methods for Vancouver Island University | 131

preventing cross-pollination and maintaining purebreeding lines.

Dr. David Robinson Recreation and Tourism

support for agricultural cooperatives can be critically important since it equips communities to confront and deal with socio-economic and environmental change, and to create community resilience.

Dr. Cheryl Warsh

$1,000 Strengthening Livelihood Security in SmallScale Farming Communities: The Heart Of Gold Costa Rica Rural Community Empowerment Project The focus of this paper is to describe a bestpractice undergraduate research-involved case study of the Heart of Gold Rural Community Empowerment Project (HG) that has demonstrated significant gains in social and economic capital over the last ten years. The HG is an international community-university research alliance between the Farm and Agrotourism Association of Los Santos (FAALS) cooperative in Costa Rica and Vancouver Island University (VIU) in Canada that uses cooperative inquiry methods for effective sharing of local knowledge, and knowledge exchange and mobilization to meet small-scale farming community needs. Overall the project focuses on strengthening small-scale farming livelihood security through innovative diversification of farm product (direct-trade organic-in-the shade coffee), and agro- and eco-tourism business development that helps to stabilize small-scale farming economies. More specifically, the project seeks to create new modalities of research collaborations involving organizations not often associated with research on international development; to influence policy and practice through researchers sharing knowledge with community associations about development challenges; and, to im- prove learning capacity by creating educational platforms for identifying solutions to livelihood threats. The provision of planning and research Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

History $4,000 The Kelsey Papers The Kelsey Project is a biography of a Vancouver Island-born icon of American public health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientist, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, who prevented the admission of the sedative Thalidomide onto the American market. This study will focus on the challenges of the female scientific pioneer, as well as on her later career at the Food and Drug Administration, with the goal of reclaiming Frances Kelseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place in Canadian medical, scientific and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. The Kelsey Papers, which I have begun uploading from the Library of Congress, will be the basis for my book, as well as a permanent addition to the research holdings at Vancouver Island University.

Dr. Jane Watson Biology $3,000 The effects of changing climate on kelp forests off of Vancouver lsland.

This research examines the response of kelp forests, off Vancouver Island, to climate change.

In the first part tree kelp (Pterygophora californica), which lives up to 21 years, will be measured and aged to determine growth rate.

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Pterygophora have changed since the same sites were sampled in 1989. In the second part of this research two sites will be established and sampled as part of a global research network designed to examine how kelp forest ecosystem respond to changing climate.

Capacity Building Grants Dr. Caroline Burnley Psychology $2,000 Co-Investigator: Ruth Kirson Building Capacity of the Resilience Research Lab Ruth Kirson and Caroline Burnley started the Resilience Research Lab in the Department of Psychology in 2006. The Resilience Research Lab has achieved a number of significant accomplishments and will continue to build on this foundation. These accomplishments include: providing ongoing educational opportunities for faculty and students in the area of resilience, providing volunteer and paid opportunities for student researchers, supporting student projects, which are the basis of their senior projects and presenting at national and international conferences. We have built a community advisory board with people who work with youth, made connections with various local associations that provide services for youth and hosted an international scholar. In addition, we have organized and moderated two symposiums on resilience at two national conferences.

Over the last few years, we have made concerted efforts to expand the capacity of the Resilience Research Lab by forging greater connections with other researchers from a variety of Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

disciplines and from the community. One of our goals is to create greater capacity through the development of a Western Resilience Network.

Initial steps toward this network so far have included meetings within the local VIU community, and discussions at community meetings and conferences. We have been working toward a Western Resilience Network event which would take place in May 2014.

One of the purposes of this event is to bring together researchers and people from a variety of disciplines in order to address current issues in resilience and identify potential research gaps and needs.

The following objectives for applying for this funding include: 1. facilitating the costs of hosting this meeting of the Western Resilience Network which would bring potential research partners together.

2. hiring an assistant to collect and create a repository of resilience-related resources (derived from the Network), which would be linked to our lab website, to facilitate the sharing of materials.

Dr. Jeff Lewis Geography $2,000 Co-Investigator: Dr. Erik Krogh Public Education and Dissemination of Climate Change Implications and Solutions This project contributes to the public outreach initiative known as the Awareness of Climate change through Education and Research (ACER) and furthers the objective of engaging VIU students in public dissemination, empowering them to become agents for social and political change.

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Specifically, this grant will support us in building capacity to reach out to an interdisciplinary group of faculty, students and members of the general public.

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threats. The provision of planning and research support for agricultural cooperatives can be critically important since it equips communities to confront and deal with socio-economic and environmental change, and to create community resilience.

Recreation and Tourism

Dr. Cheryl Warsh

$750

History

Strengthening Livelihood Security in SmallScale Farming Communities: The Heart Of Gold Costa Rica Rural Community Empowerment Project

$1,000

The Heart of Gold Rural Community Empowerment Project (HG) is a best-practice undergraduate research-involved case study that has demonstrated significant gains in social and economic capital over the last eleven years. The HG is an international community-university research alliance between the Farm and Agrotourism Association of Los Santos (FAALS) cooperative in Costa Rica and Vancouver Island University (VIU) in Canada that uses cooperative inquiry methods for effective sharing of local knowledge, and knowledge exchange and mobilization to meet small-scale farming community needs. Overall the project focuses on strengthening small-scale farming livelihood security through innovative diversification of farm product (direct-trade organic-in-the shade coffee), and agro- and eco-tourism business development that helps to stabilize small-scale farming economies. More specifically, the project seeks to create new modalities of research collaborations involving organizations not often associated with research on international development; to influence policy and practice through researchers sharing knowledge with community associations about development challenges; and, to im- prove learning capacity by creating educational platforms for identifying solutions to livelihood Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

Frances Oldham Kelsey Papers: From the Library of Congress to Vancouver Island University Library Frances Oldham Kelsey, MD, PhD, and winner of the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor, became famous in the early 1960s when she and her research team at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), refused to allow Thalidomide, a new and popular sedative and specific for morning sickness, developed in German laboratories, onto the American market.

In so doing, the FDA prevented potentially thousands of babies being born with severe birth defects, as had occurred in Europe, Canada, and other parts of the world. The Thalidomide tragedy led to the reform of the American drug approval system, the growth of patients’ and consumers’ advocacy groups, and increased vigilance in pre-natal care. It also made Dr. Kelsey a public figure sought by media, scientific organizations, and individual citizens for appearances and opinions.

In July 2013, supported by my VIURAC grant, I travelled to Washington, D.C. to visit some of Dr. Kelsey’s former colleagues at the FDA, who generously provided me with many primary documents. I then spent 10 days beginning to upload the very substantial Frances Oldham Kelsey Papers which were deposited at the Library of Congress by Dr. Kelsey upon her Vancouver Island University | 134

retirement from the FDA, and subsequently by her daughters. Given the fact that Dr. Kelsey worked for a government agency from 1960 to 2005, that all of her activities had to be papered, and that she was, by nature, a packrat, it is not difficult to understand that the collection is incredibly rich, and dauntingly dense. The Finding Aid, of which I have attached the first two pages to this application, lists 12,000 items.

Some items are Congressional reports, academic theses and articles, and personal items ranging from letters from long-lost friends (some of whom lived in Nanaimo or nearby) to birthday cards to invitations to be a guest on network television shows in both the U.S. and Canada.

interdisciplinary work with health researchers and others both on campus and externally, and the development of external grant applications.

I hired a very able Ph.D. candidate from American University to continue the uploading of the documents, and she has been working, intermittedly, on it since July. The VIURAC grant and my PD allowance covered some of her work, but I have been paying her personally for the last few months. She has uploaded perhaps 20 percent of the collection. At this end, I have a Work-op student who is printing the documents, which are uploaded to Dropbox in Washington, and which I then transfer to an external hard drive. Over the summer I have experienced a steep learning curve in terms of how to handle extremely large data collections through my laptops (translation: I crashed two computers), and thankfully the excellent and patient IT experts have guided me through the process.

When this project is completed, I will have recreated the 35 boxes from the Library of Congress collection, as well as having scans of all of the documents.

This collection is so rich that not only will I be able to complete my biography of Dr. Kelsey with it, I could develop a research-based course around the various topics, and invite external doctoral candidates, post-doctoral fellows and other academic researchers to use the materials as well. There are also many possibilities for Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

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BCGEU Long Term Assisted Professional Development Leaves Name

Description

Leave Granted

Liz Astill

Work with faculty at University of Colima, Mexico with respect to CLIL methodology and adapting their curriculum from Spanish for English instruction

10 weeks

Martin Barnett

Research baking techniques and educational practices in Western Europe

13 weeks

Mark Dutchuk

Mobile Web Development course through Udacity

7 weeks

Linda Neilson

Completion of coursework for MSc

13 weeks

Carol Ramey

Complete Provincial Instructor Diploma program

14 weeks

Sally Vinden

PhD SFU - comprehensive exam and perform research in the theory and practice of teaching and learning

7.5 weeks

BCGEU Professional Development Group Funding Name

Events Funded

Amount Awarded

Martin Barnett

Congress 2013

$500

Faculty and Staff Travel and Study Abroad Grants Name

Description

Amount Awarded

Peter Briscoe

To explore the undertaking of a Mediterranean Wine Journey field school (Greece and Italy) tracing historic wine trade routes.

$2,000

Heather Burke

Travel to Honolulu to attend the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education in order to inform my work in Indigenous Recruitment at VIU.

$500

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Dr. Chris Gill

Travel to Saarbrucken, German to develop chemistry student exchange linkages between VIU and Saarland University.

$2,000

Dr. Tim Goater

Travel to Cambridge, England to attend the British Society for Parasitology Annual Meeting to help launch and increase international exposure of my new parasitology textbook.

$500

Ken Harper

Travel to Belize to arrange a field school, investigate the source of many pastry ingredients, and understand the ideas of sustainable food production.

$1,500

Dr. Jerry Hinbest

Develop and firm up plans for an international, interdisciplinary field school experience for students in London, England 2015.

$2,000

Sharon Hobenshield

To travel with the President and a VIU Elder-in-Residence to attend the 3rd annual meeting of the Canada-Mexico Round Table Aboriginal/Indigenous Higher Education.

$650

Dr. Jenny Horn

Travel to Turin, Italy to attend 'Terra Madre' with Slow Food Canada to deepen understanding of how local food production and processing can contribute to global food system reform.

$2,350

Florence James

To travel with the President, A VIU Elder-in-Residence to attend the 3rd annual meeting of the Canada-Mexico Round Table Aboriginal/Indigenous Higher Education.

$650

Neil MacMillan

Research and preparatory activities for proposed field school with a theme, Business in the European Union. This will provide international business exposure to BBA students.

$2,000

Leanne Rose

To embark on an exploratory trip to Belize to build international relationships and identify opportunities for Child and Youth Care/Home Support students to engage in a field school and/or practica placements.

$2,500

Dr. Pamela Shaw

Travel to Dubai, UAE to research and establish the necessary connections to host a field school focused on urban design/architecture in Spring 2015.

$2,500

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Dr. Dawn Thompson

Concretize planning for a field school in London, England in order to create an interdisciplinary and international experience for students in 2015.

$2,000

Sally Vinden

Planning and preparation activities to design a Cosmetology field school in England. The field school will be based in Milton Keynes and surrounding area with a 3day visit to Salon International in London.

$2,000

Dr. Jane Watson

I will visit the University of Auckland and Leigh Marine Labs to investigate student research opportunities and work with scientists studying southern hemisphere kelp forests.

$2,500

Faculty and Staff Travel and Conference Proceedings Funding Awarded Name

Conference, Workshop or Colloquia

Amount Awarded

Malena Acosta

Best Teacher Summer Institute

$630

Denise Andersen

Canadian Association of Continuing Care Educators (CACCE) Conference

$360

Gillian Anderson

Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), Annual Meetings

$630

Sylvie Arnold

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference

$400

Dr. Duane Barker

Aquaculture 2014

$630

Jean Blackburn

BC Library Conference

$360

Matthew Bowes

BC Protected Area Research Forum

$400

Peter Briscoe

Canadian Congress on Leisure Research

$630

Heather Burke

World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education

$630

Dr. Carolyn Burnley

Researching Resilience Workshop

$630

Michelle Daoust

UCSD Centre for Mindfulness, Professional Training

$560

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Institute Dr. Suzanne de le Barre

International Congress of Artic Social Sciences

$450

Deborah Denhoff

Canadian Association of Continuing Care Educators (CACCE) Conference

$360

Terry Doughty

Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS) Conference

$400

Eiko Eby

Association For Applied Sports Psychology Annual Conference

$630

Joanne Falvai

Educating Justice

$630

Dr. Paige Fisher

International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement

$640

Jacqueline Foster

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference

$400

Dr. Chris Gill

29th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry

$320

Dr. Chris Gill

62nd American Society For Mass Spectrometry Conference

$630

Dr. Tim Goater

British Society for Parasitology Annual Meeting

$720

Janet Hebron

Canadian Association of Continuing Care Educators (CACCE) Conference

$720

Dr. Sandra Hagan

Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS) Conference

$400

Dr. Keith Harrison

International Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film

$720

Mandy Hayre

Operation: DENT-ID X” DVI

$320

Rosemary Holley

Operation: DENT-ID X” DVI

$320

Dr. Joy Hui

The Second Critical Studies in Accounting and Finance Conference (SCSAFC)

$640

Danielle Hyde

Every Woman

$450

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Patricia Ilagan

Nacada Annual Conference

$630

Maggie Kennedy

20th Canadian Conference on Global Health

$320

Dr. Jessie Key

97th National Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference

$360

Ruth Kirson

Researching Resilience Workshop

$630

Dr. Erik Krogh

EnviroAnalysis 2013

$560

Dr. Erik Krogh

97th National Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference

$360

Dr. Sylvie Lafrenière

Summer Institute 2014: Exploring Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) Data

$630

Brenda Lane

24th Annual Medical Surgical Nurses Conference

$630

Dr. Guy Le Masurier

American Alliance for Health Physical Education And Dance

$630

Lisa Lewis

Adult Basic Education Association of British Columbia (ABEABC) Conference 2014

$360

Diana Littlejohn

Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Annual conference and committee week

$630

April Lum

Computer Using Educators of British Columbia (CUEBC) Conference 2013

$320

Dr. Cynthia Masson

Slayage Conference on the Whendonverses

$630

Barbara Metcalf

Comprehensive Instructor Workshop in Medical Simulation

$630

Kathleen Matheson

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference

$400

Dr. Joseph Moore

Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), Annual Meetings

$630

Heather Pastro

British Columbia Art Teacher's Association Annual Conference

$320

Heather Pastro

National Art Education Association Annual Conference

$630

Michael Pelletier

French Cooking Symposium

$630

Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

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Dr. Alexander Pevec

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Systems Conferences

$630

Dr. Gara Pruesse

Association for Computing Machinery(ACM)/Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

$400

Dr. Gara Pruesse

Graph Algorithms Workshop

$630

Dana Pynn

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference

$400

Kathleen Reed

Library Assessment Conference

$450

Lynn Redford

Applied Suicide Prevention and Skills Training

$320

David Robinson

Los Santos Regional Community Development Workshops 2014

$720

Dr. Tim Stokes

Annual Geological Society of America Meeting

$360

Dr. Laura Suski

Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth

$720

Dr. Sharon Wahl

Congress 2014 of the Humanities and Social Sciences

$630

Dr. Jane Watson

Western Society of Naturalists

$560

Dr. Alexandra Weissfloch

2014 Biennial Conference on Chemistry Education

$630

Dr. Mark Williams

Canadian Political Science Association/International Studies Association-Canada section on International Relations Workshop

$630

Anne Woods

Canadian Association of Continuing Care Educators (CACCE) Conference

$360

Tricia Young

English as a Second Language (ESL) Provincial Special Association (PSA) Conference

$320

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Name

Description

Amount Awarded

Patrick Konkin

(team members: Terri Spronk, Louise, Stern, Anne Spilker, Sheila Sauter and others) To build on the work done on the Cultural Sensitivity Project in Child AND Youth Care, by internationalizing the curriculum in the Social Work (SW) program. Allows us to meet goals of increasing cultural awareness and competencies in SW students.

$8,200

Research and Scholarly Activity Funding Awarded Name

Description

Amount Awarded

Gillian Anderson

For preparation of scholarly journal article and conference paper based on doctoral dissertation; to facilitate the sharing and evaluation of research results; to contribute to scholarly and professional development and to build capacity for future publication of research results.

Release Section

Eliza Gardiner

Participant at the Theatre for Living Skills Transfer Workshop, Vancouver, BC.

$818

Dr. Chris Gill

For VIU-based research with membrane introduction mass spectrometry. Proposing to spend several months in Germany and France to develop new research collaborations, to contribute to education of international students, to help formalize institutional research linkages with VIU.

$1,000

Dr. Jessie Key

Presenter at 97th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Vancouver, BC.

$900

Sasha Koerbler

Participant at the Society for Music Theory: 2013 Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.

$1,200

Dr. Richard Lane

To research a contracted peer-reviewed book The Big Humanities: Digital Humanities/Digital Laboratories feeding his role as Principal Investigator of VIUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MeTA Digital Humanities Lab and Co-Director of the Innovation Lab @ Cowichan Project. It will partly form the basis for a new digital humanities course to be offered within the

Release Section

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English degree.

Deborah Matheson

For preparation of the 5th ed of The Psychology of Health and Health Care: A Canadian perspective; to do analysis, preparation, and presentation of research data; to initiate a review paper on age-related stereotypes; and to collaborate on a Physical Literacy Project with Pacific Sport.

Release Section

David Robinson

The Heart of Gold Project - an international communityuniversity solidarity partnership between the Farm and Agro-tourism Association of Los Santos (FAALS) cooperative in Cost Rica and professors and students from VIU planning programs.

$1,000

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Research and Scholarly Activity Committees/Boards (2013/2014) Animal Care Dr. Liz Gillis Chair Lars Apland Coordinator Brian Godfrey (Community Representative) Colin Bartlett (Community Representative) Devon Casagrande (Student Representative) Alexandria Wilschut (Student Representative) Carl Butterworth Daniel Fox Dr. Tim Goater Dr. Erick Groot Dr. Helen Gurney-Smith Henrik Kreiberg Susan Sanders, D.V.M. Kim Sharpe Administration: ZoĂŤ Nash Affiliation: Advisory to the President British Columbia Government Employee Union (BCGEU) Group Professional Development Gary Doolin Chair Rosemary Holley Christine Mitchell Charlene Stewart Affiliation: B.C. Government and Service Employees Union, Local 702

BCGEU Professional Development Leave

Michael L. Warsh Corp.

Committee

Stu Seifert Chair Kathleen Matheson Charlotte Sheldrake Affiliation: B.C. Government and Service Employees Union, Local 702

Dr. Cheryl Warsh Chair Dr. Paige Fisher Dr. Liz Gillis Dr. Richard Lane Deborah Matheson Administration: Kathryn Jepson

Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Awards Selection Mary Anne Moloney Chair Leigh Blaney Dr. Rosemarie Ganassin Dr. Ann Holroyd Dr. Roisin Mulligan (ex officio) Dr. Melanie O'Neill Administration and Research Awards Facilitator: Kathryn Jepson Faculty and Staff Travel and Study Abroad Dr. Graham Pike Chair Shelagh Cronkite Maurice Gallant Sheila Grieve Audrey Hansen Christine Mitchell Kathleen Reed Meg Savory Mackenzie Sillem Internationalization Grant

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Awards Selection Dr. David Gaumont-Guay Chair (on leave) Dr. Sarah Dudas (on leave) Dr. Stefanie Duff Dr. Duane Friesen Dr. Helen Gurney-Smith Dr. Erik Krogh Dr. Jeff Lewis Dr. Jacobus Swarts Administration and Research Awards Facilitator: Kathryn Jepson Research and Scholarly Activity Dr. John Black Chair Dr. John Anderson Dr. Philip Dauk Dr. Johan Latulippe Dr. Frances Sprout Alanna Williams Administration: Deanna McNaught

Dr. Graham Pike Chair Audrey Hansen Christine Mitchell Meg Savory Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

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Research Ethics Board

Student Travel and Research

VIU Research Awards

Ruth Kirson Chair Lars Apland Research Ethics Officer (ex officio) Jaqueline Gaudet (Community Representative) Jim Shabbits (Community Representative) Ryan Butler (Student Representative) Daniel Elleker (Student Representative) Dr. John Lepage Dr. Martin Martens Mary Anne Moloney Robert Pepper-Smith Dr. Mary Ann Richards Susan Sanders, D.V.M. Dr. Laura Suski Dr. Aggie Weighill Alanna Williams Administration: Zoë Nash Affiliation: Advisory to the President

Leif Rasmussen Chair Dr. Ann Holroyd Dr. Sylvie Lafrenière Dr. David Livingstone Katya MacDonald (VIUSU Representative) Dr. Katherine Pepper Susan Sanders, D.V.M. Administration: Kathryn Jepson Affiliation: Advisory to the Provost and Vice-President Academic Travel and Conference Proceedings

Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa Chair (ex officio) Dr. Steve Lane (ex officio) Dr. Guy Le Masurier Dr. Jerome Lesemann Dr. Jeff Lewis Dr. Roisin Mulligan (ex officio) Dr. Janice Porteous Leif Rasmussen Bettina Ruhstein (ex officio) Administration: Lyn Johnson Affiliation: Advisory to the Provost and Vice-President Academic

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Scholarship Selection

Marie Scoretz Chair Rick Bevis Sheila Grieve Dr. John Lepage Dr. Melanie O’Neill Ray Penner Dr. David Robinson Dr. Carol Stuart Dr. Dave Twynam (ex officio, PVPA designate) Administration: Lyn Johnson Affiliation: VIU Faculty Association

Dr. Aggie Weighill Chair Dr. Clay Armstrong Dr. Mark Blackell Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa (ex officio) Dr. Ross MacKay Dr. Louis Stern Dr. Sharon Wahl Administration and Research Awards Facilitator: Kathryn Jepson Affiliation: Advisory to the Provost and Vice-President Academic

Dr. Alex Pevec Chair Gary Doolin Robert Willis Sally Vinden VIU Faculty Association (VIUFA) Leave

Faculty - Research & Scholarly Activity 2013-14

VIUFA Professional and Scholarly Development Alanna Williams Chair Dr. Clay Armstrong Suki Dhillon Dr. Sandra Hagan Ellen McCluskey Dr. Alexander Pevec Kathleen Reed Dr. Carolyn Swanson Alison Taplay

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