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SSHRC FUNDS A REMARKABLE WOMAN
Dr. Virginie Magnat was recently awarded a substantial SSHRC Research/Creation Grant that will fund further activities around her work studying the role of women in the life and the work of famed Polish experimental theatre director Jerzy Grotowski.
 In 2008 Magnat, Assistant Professor, Performance, Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies, was the recipient of a SSHRC Standard Research Grant for her project "Meetings With Remarkable Women"—funding which paved the way for Magnat's new project "Tu es la fille de quelqu'un/You are Someone's Daughter: Cross-Cultural and trans-generational transmission processes among women in the Grotowski diaspora."
Magnat's 2009 Research/Creation Grant funding—$125,793.00—will bring seven women together for an unprecedented month-long laboratory of creative research hosted by the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland, in connection with the “Year of Grotowski” (2009).
interdisciplinary projects receive funding
The Martha Piper Research Fund, established by President Stephen Toope at his installation in 2006, provides $250,000.00 annually for seed funding for collaborative research projects, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary international activities. Each year two competitions limited to five recipients, provide successful awardees a maximum $25,000.00 grant.
Two UBC Okanagan faculty members are among the successful applicants in the spring competition: Dr. Ramon Lawrence, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, and Dr. James Rochlin, Professor, Political Science.
 Dr. Lawrence's project, Reducing Water Consumption for Irrigation using a Wireless Soil Moisture Sensor Network, is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Dr. David Scott, Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Their research will result in the development of a sensor architecture useful in many domains, as well as the opportunity to develop systems and approaches for reducing water consumption in the Okanagan and around the world.
The Martha Piper Research Fund seeks to strengthen UBC research by supporting the creation of teams of talented researchers in two or more disciplines, as well as to establish new international links.
Dr. Rochlin's project, Strengthening local capacity to track potential environmental and health impacts of petroleum production: A Canadian-Ecuador research collaboration, launches an initial case study aimed at empowering an indigenous community in Ecuador through the provision of skills to measure petroleum-related contaminants in drinking water, and to create databases regarding community illnesses and information linked to sustainable development.
The project's originality entails a unique multi-disciplinary team, multi-institutional frameworks, and the creation of networks between global researchers and an Amazonian community that link academic pursuits to concrete issues of development.
5 faculty awarded sshrc funding
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada recently announced the results of the Standard Research Grant competition, which seeks to “support research and develop excellence in research activities in the social sciences and humanities”. UBC Okanagan is proud to acknowledge five faculty members who were awarded the grants.
Below are excerpts from the recipients successful applications. Congratulations!
Rachelle Hole, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health and Social Development, for “Road to inclusion or increased risk? Home Sharing and people with intellectual disabilities”. Rachelle received $128,320.00 for her study which looks at Home Sharing programs as a growing residential option for adults with developmental disabilities. |
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David Jefferess, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, for “The figure of the human and the legacy of race: global identity in the age of empire”. Dr. Jefferess received $62,680.00 for his project that examines the way the figure of the human and the ideal of a human community provide an ethical rationale for globalization, specifically in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Marianne Legault, Assistant Professor: Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, for “Sapho, tribade, et autres indociles: images et trophes saphiques en France, 1600-1799". Marianne received $49,918.00 to conduct her study, which examines cultural constructions of the lesbian in the French imagination. It explores how both medical and visual representations of the lesbian inform literary constructions.
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Ilya Parkins, Assistant Professor, Irving K Barber School Unit 1, for “Femininity and Temporality in Modern Fashion Designer Life Writing”. Ilya received $29,750.00 to ascertain how femininity structured popular discourses of modernity, using the life writing of designers to investigate the ways that concepts of femininity underwrote the fashion industry by invoking contradictory temporal logics of ‘the modern’ and ‘the classic’ upon which the industry depended.
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Roger Shiner, Adjunct & Visiting Professor, Irving K Barber School Unit 6, for “The Criminalization of Corporate Wrongdoing”. Roger received $67,466.00 to develop adequate theory for the criminalization of corporate wrongdoing in order to develop policy that will encourage and endorse the propriety of policymakers and legislators policing this wrongdoing to do so more severely.
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internal grant Committee elected
On April 14, 2009 the Office of the Provost announced the results of the recent UBC Okanagan Research Grant Program committee election. The committee will consist of the following members:
Continuing their two year term until 2010:
Dr. Robin Dods, Barber School of Arts & Sciences
Solomon Tesfarmariam, School of Engineering
Dr. Gary Pearson, Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies
Dr. Margaret Reeves, Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies
Newly appointed or elected until 2011:
Dr. Jacques Verville, Faculty of Management
Dr. Ilya Parkins, Barber School of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Rebecca Tyson, Barber School of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Sylvie Desjardin, Barber School of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Gordon Binsted, Faculty of Health & Social Development
Dr. Donna Kurtz, Faculty of Health & Social Development
The committee is responsible for selecting recipients of UBC Okanagan's seven internal grant programs, which provide seed funding to assist faculty and students in preparing applications for external funding, or for attending conferences, producing manuscripts, journals or productions from research findings.
internal research grants awarded
The results have been announced for two recent UBC Okanagan Internal Research Grant competitions.
Publication Grant recipients include: Dr. Adam Jones, Associate Professor, Barber School of Arts & Sciences, for his work: "Evoking Genocide: Scholars and activists describe the works that shaped their lives." and Dr. Suzanne Gott, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Creative & Critical Studies, for her work: "Contemporary African Fashion".
Travel Grant recipients include: Dr. Michael Russello, Assistant Professor, Barber School of Arts & Sciences for his project, "Revealing Cryptic Diversity in Species At Risk" and Dr. Patricia Tomic, Associate Professor, Barber School of Arts & Sciences for her project, "Pontificia Universidada Catolica do Rio de Janeiro".
grad students to showcase ubc research
The UBC Okanagan Internal Grant Program will fund five graduate students' travel to international and national conferences in upcoming months. The successful recipients, listed below, will present papers on topics ranging from species conservation to communications systems.
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Student Recipient
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Conference Attending
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Stephanie Kirk, supervised by Dr. Michael Russello |
NSA 81st Annual Meeting “The Pacific
Northwest is a Changing Environment” –
University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
Lydia Gurley, supervised by Dr. Stephen McNeil |
92nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and
Exhibition – Hamilton, Ontario |
Philippe Henry supervised by Dr. Michael Russello |
Evolution 2009 – University of Idaho,
Moscow, Idaho |
Elinor McGrath supervised by Dr. Craig Nichol |
2009 Joint Assembly – Toronto, Ontario |
Mingbo Niu supervised by Dr. Jonathan Holzman |
IEEE Communications Society – Desden,
Germany |
Health Safety & Environment (HSE) Dive Safety Program
Interested in using diving as a tool for research? This program manages the diving certification of faculty, staff and students engaged in research projects requiring scientific diving.
Date: May 30th – June 6th, 2009 (varied morning, afternoon, evening sessions)
Cost: $275 (plus tax) for dry suit, other rentals, and cost of medical exam
To Register: Contact Shelley Kayfish, Manager, Health, Safety and Environment at 807-8621
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