Apprendre à tout âge les sciences est devenu indispensable. Une culture générale scientifique ouvre à la compréhension de grands enjeux sociétaux. L’esprit critique développé par la réflexion scientifique est un outil crucial à l’exercice raisonné de nos droits et devoirs citoyens. Mais d’après les derniers résultats des études PISA, seuls 8% des élèves de 15 […]

This project will consider how impacts on Aboriginal and Treaty rights have been addressed in Environmental Impact Assessments and other regulatory processes in BC and Alberta. The impacts being assessed include destruction of areas important for hunting, fishing, trapping, or spiritual purposes, as well as prohibitions to accessing these and other types of important areas. […]

La rémunération des dirigeants d’entreprise constitue un enjeu de gouvernance de premier plan. Ainsi, la plupart des conseils d’administration nord-américains sont dotés d’un comité de rémunération. L’ampleur des sommes en jeu ainsi que l’influence potentielle des incitatifs mis en place sur les décisions des dirigeants sous-tendent ces préoccupations. Toutefois, la rémunération des dirigeants est également […]

Next-generation genomic sequencing (NGS) technologies developed in research are becoming cheap and efficient enough to be used to inform patient care. Yet, the transition of NGS technologies in the clinic is not without hurdles. Indeed, the data produced by NGS machines is large (which poses storage issues) extremely diverse and complex (interpretation issues) shared by […]

Due to the increase in class sizes, many Canadian teachers and parents have been concerned about the loss of individualized lessons to the average Canadian student. Chinese schools however, have been dealing with large volumes of students for a longer period of time. In investigating the methodologies of the average Chinese teacher within their classroom, […]

This research project is aiming to find out whether or not China’s culture has an impact upon its standardized testing and examination system in comparison it the Canadian counterpart, EQAO. The research will be conducted through first hand observation in local Chinese schools which will provide evidence to the research questions provided. The findings will […]

At the moment, BC has no comprehensive climate change curriculum in high schools, and educators lack coordinated materials to support its teaching. In an effort to narrow this gap, the Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP) at the Faculty of Forestry, UBC partnered with the Delta School District, to develop an educational and compelling videogame […]

Experiences in early childhood are fundamental determinants of lifelong well-being. In this project, we will give voice to Aboriginal families and caregivers on what they believe is important to the well being of their young children. A methodology adopted from social psychology, called ‘echo’ enables the values and beliefs of the population of interest to […]

The proposed study will involve development and use of a survey tool to solicit responses from grade 6-9 youth across the province, and in-depth analysis of these data. The intern will help pilot the survey tool and make any necessary revisions to the tool prior to implementation. Upon launch of the tool, the intern will […]

The proposed project will investigate the rise of grassroots resistance to industrial development in rural India. Research centres around a memorandum of understanding (MOU) negotiated in 2005 between the Government of Odisha (a coastal state in north-east India) and Pohang Steel Company of South Korea (POSCO) to construct the largest integrated steel plant in South […]

While the term “reciprocal learning” intuitively suggests two or more parties learning from each other with a sense of mutuality, understanding and respect; the concept, when promoted in a multi-year, multi-stakeholders collaborative studies of Chinese and Canadian school education, became less straightforward, leading to various research puzzles, intricacies and consequences. My research aims to understand […]

This research project will explore how Chinese culture utilizes dramatic elements in various content/subject areas and how these theatric/artistic components compare with Canadian school curriculum standards. In Canada, students are required to obtain a minimum number of arts credits for successful completion of school requirements. This research will investigate how theatre is used in the […]