In this lecture Ranjit Dhari, Lecturer for the UBC School of Nursing, reflects on a recent oral history project on Public Health Nursing in the Lower Mainland. The event took place on March 9, 2016.
Abstract
In a study of influences affecting public health nurses’ capacity to engage in health promotion work, public health nurses expressed a strong interest in preservation of their professional history. An oral history project was initiated in collaboration with the UBC Library and Archives to retain the history of public health nursing in BC Lower Mainland. Using a team approach, we conducted a series of oral history interviews with former public health nurses. This lecture highlights the process of oral history and the team approach of bringing public health nurses, faculty, students, and volunteers together as a way of engaging with nursing history and building capacity. Through interviews we gain knowledge on the evolving PHN role and scope of practice in BC from nurses who experienced changes in practice first hand and often took a lead in implementing new practice initiatives.
Speaker bio
Ranjit Dhari, MSN is a Lecturer for the UBC School of Nursing. Passionate about Public Health Nursing, she worked for VCH as a Public Health Nurse for 29 years. She received her BSN in 1980 from the University of Manitoba and her MSN from UBC in 2013. Her Master’s Thesis is titled “An Exploration of Factors Influencing Public Health Nurses’ Capacity to Engage in Health Promotion.”
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Allender, J. A., Warner, K. D., & Rector, C. L. (2014). Community & public health nursing: Promoting the public’s health (8th ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters KluwerHealth/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. [Available at Woodward Library – WY108 .C734 2014]
Amdam, R. (2011). Planning in health promotion work: An empowerment model. Abingdon, Oxon;New York;: Routledge. [Available at Woodward Library – WA541.GA1 A497 2011]
Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2016). Public health nursing: Population-centered health care in the community (9th ed.). St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier.
News travels fast online. However, so do rumours, shocking photos, veiled advertisements and outright lies. With the rise of social media and citizen journalism, we’ve never had so many messages, from so many sources, available at our fingertips. However, it has become clear in recent years that news shared online comes with serious risks due to its lack of objectivity and its emphasis on speed and volume over fact. Public shaming is one expression of this modern reality, as well as increasing sponsored and promotional content blurring the lines of news and advertisement. Given the absence of context and abundance of competing voices online, how do we know who and what to trust? Can we see past the click-bait headlines and advertorials, and continue to be informed about the world around us? Is there a place for objective journalism anymore?
This event took place on March 9, 2016.
Moderator
Dan Burritt, BA’04 – Host of CBC Vancouver News Saturday and Sunday
Panelists
Valerie Casselton, BA’77 – Associate Editor, Integrated Projects for PNG
Farhan Mohamed – Editor-in-Chief and a partner of Vancity Buzz
Paul Watson – Best-selling Writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
Steve Woodward – Sessional Instructor, UBC School of Journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
Dan Burritt is the host and producer of CBC Vancouver News. Burritt joined CBC British Columbia in 2012, covering local stories in the Surrey and Vancouver bureaus.
He has reported on a wide range of breaking stories in the region including the Lower Mainland gang wars in 2008/09, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and the Haida Gwaii earthquake of 2012. He has an extensive background in election coverage, covering both provincial and federal elections since 2008. He travelled across the province for CBC’s special coverage of the 2014 provincial election and is regularly in Victoria to report on the B.C. Legislature.
Prior to CBC, Burritt spent six and a half years as a radio anchor and reporter. His last post in radio was as lead political reporter, driving special coverage of the B.C. Liberal and NDP leadership campaigns for news radio networks. He was awarded the “Broadcast Performer of Tomorrow” award by the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters in 2010.
Born and raised in the Lower Mainland, Burritt holds degrees from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). He counts running alongside the 2010 Olympic torch, zip-lining across downtown Vancouver and interviewing animals among his favourite reporting memories.
Valerie Casselton, BA’77
Valerie Casselton is the Associate Editor, Integrated Projects for PNG, with responsibilities for both The Vancouver Sun and The Province. She is responsible for special series, publications and projects that promote audience engagement on all of the four platforms on which the newsrooms publish, both online and in-paper.
As a senior editor, Valerie works with the management team of The Vancouver Sun on daily news gathering and initiatives related to the strategic goals of PNG and Postmedia. She has helped transform the newspaper into a multi-media newsroom operating around the clock, seven days a week and publishing one of the fastest-growing news websites in Canada.
Valerie Casselton has served on the alumni UBC Board of Directors since 2013. She also serves currently on the Alumni Achievement Awards Committee and the Trek advisory committee and has been a UBC mentor and tri-mentor for more than 10 years.
Valerie is the Past Chair of the Langara College Journalism School Advisory Board, Past Chair of the Pacific Press Credit Union/Pacific Paper Industry Credit Union, and Past Chair of the GVFHC. She has been on the boards of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (now the Canadian Association of Journalists), The American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, and The Vancouver Biennale.
A UBC graduate with a BA (hons) in English, Valerie also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Carleton University, and a CHRP designation (Certified Human Resources Professional).
Farhan Mohamed is the Editor-in-Chief and a partner of Vancity Buzz, holding a BBA from CapU. He was brought on during Vancity Buzz’s grassroots stage, controlling day-to-day operations of the company and creating content. For most of his life, Farhan has volunteered and taken leadership roles with a number of different organizations that contribute to society on both a local and global scale. He has a strong passion for building relationships and creating communities through the use of technology. Before joining Vancity Buzz in 2012, Farhan got a taste of media by working at The Vancouver Sun & Province. Since then, his passion has been to change the way people consume news, harnessing the expanse of Vancity Buzz’s unfulfilled potential and turning the site into the dynamic, informative, multifaceted digital news source it has become. Today, Farhan leads the Editorial arm of Vancity Buzz, which has skyrocketed readership by over 15 times since he began, along with Calgary Buzz, the company’s 2015 expansion.
Paul Watson is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of two books, including the best-selling memoir Where War Lives. He spent most of more than a quarter century in journalism as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and the Toronto Star. Paul resigned as The Star’s multi-media Arctic Correspondent after the newspaper tried to kill a story detailing how the Conservative government used the search for Sir John Franklin’s missing 19th century ships to push a political agenda. He is currently writing Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition to be published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and W.W. Norton internationally. Paul is also the subject of an award-winning two-man play, The Body of an American, staged at New York’s Cherry Lane Theater from February 10 to March 20.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Woodward has joined the UBC Graduate School of Journalism for the academic year 2015-2016. Woodward brings to the school more than three decades of experience as an editor and reporter for major metropolitan daily newspapers in the U.S., with a track record in pioneering new approaches to journalism. He comes to the University of British Columbia from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, where he taught journalism, transmedia, communication ethics, and media and culture for two years.
Steve has an M.A. from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.
He began his career at The Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Mo. He was part of the newspaper’s team that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Local Reporting on the 1981 Hyatt Regency Hotel skywalks collapse that killed 113 people.
He went on to spend 20 years at The Oregonian as an editor and reporter. During his time there, he won a National Headliner Award for coverage of the Enron scandal and several awards for his coverage of the first Roman Catholic archdiocese bankruptcy in the wake of priest sex-abuse scandals. The U.S. Small Business Administration named him Oregon’s Journalist of the Year for his coverage of the Y2K computer crisis.
Steve left the newspaper industry in 2008 to turn his attention to new forms of digital storytelling and to journalism education as an entrepreneur and instructor.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Anderson, C. W. (2015). Up and out: Journalism, social media, and historical sensibility. Social Media + Society, 1(1) doi:10.1177/2056305115578674 [Link]
Curiel, E. (2015). The credibility of social media in journalism. Transinformacao, 27(2), 165-171. doi:10.1590/0103-37862015000200006 [Link]
Jallow, A. Y. (2015). The emerging of global journalism and social media. Global Media Journal, 13(25), 1. [Link]
What does it mean to be influential? While some people possess a natural talent to make themselves heard, for others it is a skill that requires years to perfect. However, it’s critical to develop this ability as it can mean the difference between achieving one’s goals and failing to mobilize the support or resources one requires. Hear from a panel of business and community leaders who have leveraged their mastery of the art of influence to achieve impressive results.
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This event took place on February 10, Wednesday 2016, 6:30-9:00pm in the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre.
Moderator
Andrew Chang – Host of CBC Vancouver News at 6 o’clock
Andrew Chang joined CBC News Vancouver as host in the summer of 2014, shortly after returning from Sochi as part of CBC’s broadcast team. He has also spent time in the host chair for other network shows such as CBC Radio One’s The Current, CBC News’ The National and CBC News Now.
Prior to coming to Vancouver, he spent a successful decade with CBC Montreal most recently as co-host of CBC Montreal’s supper-time newscast. He covered a number of memorable moments in Montreal’s history such as Montreal’s 2011 federal election night special, which saw the unprecedented rise of the NDP in the province, and the resulting collapse of the Bloc Québécois; the 2012 election-night assassination attempt of Pauline Marois and he was also the first, among local English television networks, to tell Montrealers about the assassination of mafia godfather Niccolo Rizzuto Senior.
Andrew worked previously as one of CBC’s chief staff reporters, covering breaking news at both the local and network level: from the Dawson College shootings, to the collapse of the de la Concorde overpass in Laval, to a month-long stint on the Parti Québécois campaign bus during the 2008 provincial election. During this time, Andrew was also working as a video journalist — interviewing various news-makers, writing and reporting, shooting and editing video. With a camera over his shoulder, Andrew spent years producing both news-length and feature-length reports.
On weekends, it’s a different story — when he is not being the doting father to his daughter, he spends his time snowboarding, hiking, and indulging in one of his many other passions: music.
As CEO of the Vancouver YWCA, Janet Austin has overall responsibility for one of BC’s largest and most diversified non-profit organizations, offering services for 60,000 people annually in more than 30 locations throughout Metro Vancouver. The YWCA is an entrepreneurial non-profit, with more than 63% of annual revenues self-generated through related business activities – including a 155 room YWCA Hotel and a state-of-the-art, downtown-based Health and Wellness Centre – and fundraising.
The Vancouver YWCA provides a network of services for women and their families including early learning and care for children, permanent and transition housing, and support services for single moms. The organization also offers employment services for women and men, mentorship, leadership development, and school-based programming for youth.
Janet is a recipient of numerous awards including the Business in Vancouver Influential Woman in Business Award and the Vancouver Board of Trade Community Leadership Award, among many others. She was named to the WXN list of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2008 and the Vancouver Power 50 in 2014.
Shayne Ramsay was recently listed in Vancouver Magazine’s 50 most powerful people in Vancouver; the magazine stated “When you’re CEO of the provincial agency responsible for creating social housing in one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets, you’re in the thick of one of the thorniest public-policy issues in the province.”
Since May 2000, Shayne has been the CEO of BC Housing. He was responsible for setting up the Homeowner Protection Office in 1998 and also served as its first CEO. The Homeowner Protection Office has been a branch of BC Housing since April 2010.
Prior to becoming the CEO, Shayne was the Director of Development Services for BC Housing, and the Director of Housing Policy and Program Development with the former Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing in B.C.
In addition to his work as CEO, Shayne serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Crown Corporation Employer’s Association, an agency that represents human resource issues for the provincial crown corporations in British Columbia. He is also Chair of Housing Partnership Canada, a peer network and business collaboration of social housing leaders committed to innovation.
Shayne has a graduate degree in urban planning from the University of Toronto.
Bob Rennie
Bob Rennie is founder of Rennie Marketing Systems, whose recognized leadership for envisioning new and innovative strategies in development risk management and marketing real estate has led to landmark projects such as restructuring the Olympic Village and Woodward’s – in Canada’s poorest postal code. Also known for having built a world renowned collection of contemporary art, Bob chairs the North American Acquisitions Committee at Tate Modern, is a member of the Tate International Council, serves as trustee for the Art Institute of Chicago and is the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond and Golden Jubilee awards, the Order of BC and a doctorate from Emily Carr University. He renovated and restored Wing Sang, the oldest structure in Chinatown, to include a privately funded museum space with regular exhibitions of works from Rennie Collection. All exhibitions are open to the public with free admission two days a week.
Having started her career in television working for an MMA fight show and other various creative agencies as an editor, Lisa von Sturmer realized that she wanted to spend her life doing something positive that had a tangible impact on the community. In 2010, she quit her successful editing career, founded Growing City and never looked back.
Now an award-winning entrepreneur, Lisa has founded and co-founded two companies in the past 3 years. An active advocate for youth entrepreneurship, Lisa is a Canadian Delegate for the G20 Youth Entrepreneurship Summit where delegates from each G20 nation come together in tandem with the G20 to discuss policies governments can implement to encourage entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment.
She also spends time speaking to youth groups and students on how to create businesses they love and shares the lessons she’s learned along the way and wrote Pitching to Win, a workbook designed to help those looking to pitch on Dragons’ Den or Shark Tank create deal-worthy pitches.
Lisa is also passionate about volunteering – and has made it a part of her company’s operations. Each month Growing City donates time, service or compost to a different local organization or charity. Under her direction, the company has grown over 100% in the past year and she is excited to continue bringing composting and recycling across the country!
She is a member of the 2012 Forum for Women Entrepreneurs prestigious e-Series program, and was recently accepted into the exclusive Entrepreneur’s Organization Accelerator program.
Lisa has won the 2012 Canadian Youth Business Foundation’s National Best Green Business award and 2010 Small Business BC’s Best Business Concept award
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Fojt, M., NBER Working Papers, & EU BookShop. (2011). entrepreneurship Emerald Group Publishing Limited. [Link]
Minniti, M. (2007). Entrepreneurship: The engine of growth. Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers. [Available at David Lam Library – HB615 .E636 2007]
Open education is a hot topic on post secondary campuses these days. This year UBC saw the #textbookbroke campaign led by the Alma Mater society – advocating for the use of open textbooks and open practices in the classroom to reduce costs for students; the adoption of open textbooks and resources in large multi section physics and math courses; and the continuing development of open teaching practices with Wikipedia projects and student produced, openly published content.
How do we engage students with open educational practices that go beyond making their work public to making it re-usable or available for others to build on? Why is open education important to students and to what extent can it enrich the teaching and learning environment?
Join us on March 10th from 1:30-3:00pm for a panel discussion highlighting open courses, projects and initiatives from UBC and beyond.
Lighting Talks: Each speaker will present for 8 minutes and respond to questions for 5 minutes. This will be followed by a broad panel discussion about open practice.
Event Details
When: March 10, 2016 | 1:30-3:00pm Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, seminar room 2.22 A/B – map
Registration required
At this time we require everyone – UBC affiliated or otherwise – to register for the CTLT events system. If you already have a CWL please sign in. However, if you do not have a campus-wide login, then please register for a BASIC cwl account (you will see basic as the bottom option on the 3rd screen)
Panelists:
Christina Hendricks: Senior Instructor Philosophy
Jenna Omassi: VP Academic & University Affairs
Arthur Gil Green Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Geography, BC Campus Faculty Fellow
Derek Turner Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Geography
Rajiv Jhangiani, Psychology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Leah Keshet, Mathematics Professor
Eric Cytrynbaum, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics
The prediction for most Indigenous languages has been extinction. However, many Indigenous languages are still with us today, including some presumed to be gone. This means that someone somewhere has imagined a future for these languages, for current language users, and for future audiences. But, as with ideas of “success,” not all Indigenous language futures are unfolding in identical ways and not all paths lead to the same end or even to their own intended end. This talk is a reflection on the various efforts that have been imagined and implemented in order to predict and project a future for the Kaska (Dene/Athabaskan) language and some of the unexpected possible futures that have emerged along the way.
This event took place on March 2, 2016 in the First Nations Longhouse.
Speaker Biography
Barbra A. Meek is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Comanche citizen. Her research focuses on representations and performances of American Indian languages and speech, practically and theoretically. Much of her scholarship has focused on language endangerment and revitalization, having worked with First Nations in the Yukon Territory, Canada, on various aboriginal language projects since 1998. Her book, We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community (2010, University of Arizona Press) details this research and offers a socially grounded model for language revitalization. She continues to work with Kaska language teachers and advocates in their efforts to envision a future for the Kaska language. Her current book project is an edited volume with Paul Kroskrity on Native American publics and linguistic futures under contract with Routledge.
“Future Speakers” highlights both the struggles and the successes of Indigenous language revitalization and looks to a future where these languages are not only spoken, but thrive. The Museum of Anthropology, the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program, the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Anthropology present a new lecture series supported by the Dean of Arts, and in partnership with the First Nations House of Learning and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, to spark a conversation about the futures of Indigenous languages in the 21st century.
Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement (SAGE) Vancouver presents the 14th Annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium: Transformation through Indigenous Research and Knowledge
The University and Community have shaped each other for some time now. This year the Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium (IGSS) explores transformation through Indigenous Research and Knowledge by thinking about how research interacts with community and how community shapes research.
Graduate students involved in Indigenous research will share aspects of their research in presentation and poster sessions.
Event details
When: March 4, Friday 2016; 5-8pm | March 5, Saturday 2016; 8:15am-3:30pm Where: First Nations Longhouse, UBC – 1985 West Mall. Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 – View Map
6:30 – 7:00 p: Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of SAGE (Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement)
7:00 – 8:00 pm: Social – Open mic, share talent, songs, dance, story
March 5
8:15 am – 9:00 am: Cultural Ceremony
9:00 am – 9:30 am: Registration; Continental Breakfast
9:30 am – 10:00 am: Welcoming; Witnesses
10:00 am – 11:00 am: Community Panel with respondent Dr. Palmater
11:00 am – 11:15 am: Break
11:15 am – 12:30 pm: Session 1
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch; Poster Sessions
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Session 2
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Closing; Witnesses
Light Breakfast and Lunch Provided
Hosted by the IGSS Planning Committee & SAGE
Sponsors: Simon Fraser University; UBC Faculty of Education’s Indigenous Education Institute of Canada; and SAGE (Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement)
Dugan O’Neil, Compute Canada Chief Science Officer, and Chuck Humphrey, Director of Portage, will talk about collaborative initiatives for research data management and what they mean to various stakeholder communities, including, researchers, funding agencies, libraries, research service offices, ethics boards, IT units, and others. This is an opportunity to learn about developments in research data management services and infrastructure across Canada and to discuss current work, future directions, and opportunities at UBC. There will be plenty of time for a good discussion.
This event took place on March 1, 2016.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Wilson, J. A. J., Martinez-Uribe, L., Fraser, M. A., & Jeffreys, P. (2011). An institutional approach to developing research data management infrastructure. International Journal of Digital Curation, 6(2), 274-287. doi:10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.203 [Link]
Entrepreneurs at companies like Slack and Hootsuite have put Vancouver’s $23 billion high tech industry on the map. But building the economy of tomorrow—not to mention a utopian, Star Trek future—means taking a step beyond the digital. We need fundamental leaps in computing power, clean energy, and smart materials.
Now a new set of innovators and disruptors are setting up shop in Vancouver, looking to harness the extremes of physics to build tomorrow’s technologies.
Join us as we chat with leaders at Vancouver quantum computing start-up D-Wave, magnetized target fusion pioneer GeneralFusion, and UBC’s world-renowned Quantum Matter Institute. These local, award-winning teams are on the long path in pursuit of game-changing solutions—warpdrive, transporters and holo-decks might be closer than we think.
This event took place on February 3, Wednesday 2016, 6:30-9:00pm at Roundhouse Community Arts Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver BC.
Moderator
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson is a reporter for CBC News in Vancouver. She specializes in science and environment stories, from E. coli and isotopes to carbon offsets and killer whales. As a general assignment news reporter, she’s also covered kidnappings, earthquakes, and has won a RTDNA award for her live reports from the Stanley Cup Riot.
Before she became a storyteller, Lisa thought she was going to be a scientist. She graduated from UBC with an Honours degree in biology after pipetting stickleback DNA, counting kelp, and watching fish mating dances.
She returned to UBC for her master’s in journalism, focusing on science and risk communications. She still takes interest in things that many journalists hate, including animal carcasses and math.
Panelists
Vern Brownell
President and CEO D-Wave Burnaby-headquartered D-Wave is a world leader in superconducting quantum computers—computers that hold the potential to solve some of the world’s more difficult problems. Its systems are being used by Lockheed-Martin, Google and NASA. Co-founded by UBC alumni Geordie Rose, D-Wave has been granted over 110 US patents.
Dr. Michel Laberge Founder, President and Chief Scientist General Fusion Inc.
Founded by UBC graduate Michel Laberge, GeneralFusion has emerged as a global leader in magnetized target fusion. The Vancouver company is working to develop a reactor that compresses magnetically-confined plasma to fusion conditions—in pursuit of clean, cheap energy.
Dr. Jenny Hoffman Professor, Physics & Astronomy-UBC UBC Quantum Matter Institute
Researchers at UBC’s QMI are pushing the boundaries of materials research, investigating the fundamental mysteries of super conduction, nano-structures, magnetism, and even more exotic phenomena. Questions being asked at the QMI hold the potential to revolutionize electronics, telecommunications, energy, and next-generation computing.
Dr. Jonathan Bagger
Director TRIUMF
TRIUMF is Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and accelerator-based science. It brings together technical, engineering, and administrative staff; university researchers and students; private-sector collaborators and licensees; international collaborators; and publicly funded agencies supporting basic research in Canada’s interests. TRIUMF connects Canada to the global science and technology community, and as a bridge between the academic and private sectors, drives Canada’s innovation engine with collaborative and joint projects. TRIUMF’s mission is: To make discoveries that address the most compelling questions in particle physics, nuclear physics, nuclear medicine, and materials science; to act as Canada’s steward for the advancement of particle accelerators and detection technologies; and to transfer knowledge, train highly skilled personnel, and commercialize research for the economic, social, environmental, and health benefit of all Canadians.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Haroche, S., DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books, & OpenEdition Books. (2013). Quantum physics. Paris: Collège de France. [Link]