Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating Blake Smith, a doctoral student in Art Education under the supervision of Donal O’Donoghue, who has recently been accepted as a Liu Scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Issues here at UBC. She is the first art education student to join the Liu Scholar program.
The Liu Scholar program is “a new and unique program to bring together exceptional PhD students from across UBC to facilitate issue-based research on global issues and strengthen global networks.” The Liu Institute currently supports three main areas of research: sustainability, security, and social justice with a “particular interest in emerging issues that affect large groups of people in different places and need concerted action and new knowledge to find solutions.” Blake’s work in art education is situated in the social justice research area with a current emphasis on photography, public and reparative pedagogies, community engagement, and storytellings of difficult memory.
Here are two links if you’d like to know more:
http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/scholar_program.htm
http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/
Hearty congratulations, Blake!
Best, Peter
Peter Grimmett
Professor and Head, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy