grants

Dear Colleagues, Dr. Kerry Renwick recently joined the UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) Sustainability Fellowship Program and received a USI Interdisciplinary Education two-year grant. She will work with Dr. Silvia Bartolic, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, on a curriculum protect to create a new certificate program on Sustainability and Family. The UBC Sustainability Initiative 2021 fellows’ cohort includes 14 faculty members who are leading seven interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum projects. Congratulations Kerry and best wishes with your curriculum project! Best, Samson. Dr. Samson Nashon, EdD Department Head & Professor of Science Education

Colleagues, Please join me in congratulating Drs. Stephen Petrina, Sandrine Han, and Postdoctoral Researcher Jennifer Zhao, for their successful MITACS Accelerate application. The team was funded $165,000 for their project titled “Case Study Scenarios and Videos for Intercultural Competence Acquisition.” Well done Steve, Sandrine and Jennifer and best wishes launching your project! Best, Samson. Dr. Samson Nashon, EdD Department Head & Professor of Science Education

Colleagues, Please join me in congratulating the STEM 2020 Conference (July 9 – 11, 2020) Organizing Team for their successful grant application to the Research Infrastructure Support Service (RISS) Fund. The team was recently awarded $8,250 for “STEM 2020 Conference: Postdoctoral Research Associate for Advance Assistance with Proceedings.” Well done: co-Chairs David Anderson and Marina Milner-Bolotin, and members Hartley Banack, Jillianne Code, Samson Nashon, Cynthia Nichol, Stephen Petrina, & Sandra Scott. See http://stem2020.ubc.ca Best, Samson. Dr. Samson Nashon, EdD Department Head & Professor of Science Education

Colleagues, Please join me in congratulating Dr. Penney Clark and Dr. Lindsay Gibson for being successful co-applicants in a pan-Canadian research project entitled “Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future” that has been awarded a seven-year,  $2.5 million SSHRC Partnership Grant. Led by former UBC EDCP PhD student Dr. Carla Peck (University of Alberta), this collaborative research project brings together 27 Canadian researchers, 17 university partners, and 31 partners from Canadian educational and history organizations to investigate “the potential for history to help students engage with key challenges facing Canadian society today and in the future.” The 48 partner organizations have contributed an […]

Colleagues, Join me in congratulating Dr. Anne Phelan and her Co-Applicants including Dr. Bill Pinar on being awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant of $24,060 to support a two-day symposium in October 2017 entitled Reconceptualizing Teacher Education Worldwide: A Canadian Contribution to a Global Challenge.  Applicant: Dr. Anne Phelan, EDCP Co-Applicants: Dr. William Pinar, EDCP; Dr. Ruth Kane, University of Ottawa; Dr. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa Title: Reconceptualizing Teacher Education Worldwide: A Canadian Contribution to a Global Challenge  Amount: $26,060 | 1 year Well done Anne and team! Best wishes, Samson Samson Nashon Department Head & Professor of Science Education    

Colleagues, A cluster of professors led by Stephen Sheppard (Forestry) and includes Rita Irwin (Education), Jiaying Zhao (Psychology), Maged Senbel (Community & Regional Planning), David Fracchia (Centre for Digital Media), Alan Kingstone (Psychology), Aleksandra Dulic (UBCO Creative & Critical Studies), Stephen Petrina (Education), and Stephanie Cheng (Community & Regional Planning) have been awarded a grant for Catalyzing Research Clusters from the Office of the Vice President Research & International: “Social mobilization on climate change using digital tools” ($50,000 for one year starting at the end of September 2016).” A heartily congratulations to Rita and Steve, not only for receiving the grant, […]

Congratulations to Dr. Penney Clark and Dr. Susan Gerofsky for securing research funding from the University of Sydney and a Canadian-German flagship partnership between UBC and Freie Universität respectively. University of Sydney International Program Development Fund Applicants: Drs. M. Anderson, K. Freebody and C. Smyth, U Sydney Co-Applicants: Dr. George Belliveau, LLED; Dr. Penney Clark, EDCP Embodying historical consciousness: Drama and history in schools $12,440 UBC-Freie Universität of Berlin Joint Research Strategic Partnership Initiative Applicants: Dr. Susan Gerofsky, EDCP; Dr. Uwe Gellert, Freie Universität Proposal for short-term research collaboration stay of Dr. Gerofsky at FU Berlin $2,900

Please join me in congratulating Susan Gerofsky, whose PLAYbook cross-faculty, community-engaged project has won a CST Inspired Learning grant <http://learningproject.cst.org>. The PLAYbook team, consisting of Susan Gerofsky, Kris Fox, a landscape architect, and Mariana Brussoni, an assistant professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine) is an interdisciplinary collaboration of UBC researchers and students working in close partnership with the Vancouver School Board and parents, teachers and kids at schools. Each team member has a passion for creating dynamic outdoor public spaces that promote health and educational experiences for children and improve the social and ecological wellbeing of communities. Their user-friendly, locally-adapted, menu-based PLAYbook of […]