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Research and Creative Activity 2021 Student Feedback Form June 22, 2023 - 4:06pm

Thanks for providing us feedback about the student experience with research and creative activity here at VIU. The results will be used by my office for planning and for service delivery in the future. The form will take between 5-10 minutes to complete, but may take shorter or longer depending on your answers. At the end you will be invited to submit your name for a VIU Hoodie draw. The link will take you to another form where you can enter your contact information. Your name and contact info will not be associated with your responses submitted on this form.
Faculty Presentation: Traditional Life in the Foot Prints of our Ancestors January 18, 2023 - 2:54pm

Come listen to VIU Faculty Elder in Residence Geraldine Manson during our first Lunch and Learn of the Fall 2021 semester!
Canada Research Chair Renewal Process and Timeline December 15, 2022 - 1:59pm

VIU supports the renewal of chair holders where the research remains aligned with the research priorities in the strategic research plan. The following outlines the process used to support the renewal process. This document is intended to support the renewal process for CRC’s at Vancouver Island University. Learn more about the renewal of chairs in the Canada Research Chairs program
Workshop: Infographics September 24, 2021 - 4:11pm

This workshop will overview how to format both print and virtual formats for infographics. Infographics are a great way to present items using graphics and minimal text. We will create an infographic using PowerPoint, save it as a pdf, upload it to a virtual platform, and add interactive pieces for an online presentation format. Come prepared for an intense hour of poster making fun!
Workshop: Short Presentations September 24, 2021 - 1:14pm

This workshop will overview best practices and give advice on short presentation styles such as SLAMs and Pecha-Kuchas. Available for all members of the VIU community.
Student Workshop - How to apply for a CGS-M September 24, 2021 - 1:05pm

Scholarships for graduate students undertaking research either in health, natural sciences, engineering, social sciences or humanities. HIGHLY recommended for students to attend. Available for those pursuing graduate work at VIU or for VIU students intending to go elsewhere. 

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://viu.zoom.us/j/65046988060?pwd=bitiSk5ReTJ0RFFwc2tiMzhnZXBaQT09

Password: CGS-M$$

Meeting ID: 650 4698 8060
Student Workshop - How to apply for VIU's REACH Award September 24, 2021 - 12:38pm

Working on a cool new project? Consider applying for a REACH Award! 

More info on the Award can be found here: https://research.viu.ca/viu-reach-award
Apply for Student Conference Funding! September 8, 2021 - 10:18am

Interested in going to a conference this semester? Maybe you attended a workshop over the summer? VIU has funding available to help pay for these extra-curricular learning activities! Come out to the workshop to learn about what activities are covered and how to apply for the funding. Email Kendra.Stiwich@viu.ca for more info!
Research and Partnership Projects January 10, 2023 - 10:32am

2019 - 2021

Mitacs Connectedness Project, Aboriginal Early Childhood Development (AECD) Vancouver Island University (VIU),  Mitacs ($7000)

  • Principle Investigator: D. Alphonse

Toddler Development Instrument (TDI) with Nisga Nation Project, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Co-investigator: D. Alphonse
Faculty Resources December 16, 2022 - 4:16pm

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Thesis Resources March 8, 2023 - 10:44am
Events March 20, 2025 - 12:08pm

The Office of Graduate Studies will be hosting or promoting a number of events for our graduate community. See more details in the listings below which fall generally under these three categories:

Breakfast Club: Join us for VIU's Graduate Student Breakfast Club with events happening in September and January! A continental breakfast will be service with coffee and tea. We will include a short workshop to make sure your belly and mind is full when you leave! Workshops will cover academic, professional or mental health and well-being topics.
Biosphere Reserves & Local Governments: Exploring Ways to Work Together August 3, 2021 - 10:45am

“I work for the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region Research Institute” is a sentence I have said many times over the last year. Most frequently this statement is followed by the question “What’s the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region?” I also asked this the first time I heard of the MABR, but I chalked up my lack of awareness to the fact I grew up about 7,500 km east of the MABR in London, UK. Though it turns out that even some people who were born and raised in the Region, don’t realise the internationally recognised importance of the place they call home.
Playing for change July 27, 2021 - 12:15pm

I have had the opportunity to work for MABRRI as a research assistant for the past year, with most of my work focused around community planning. But the odd day, I get a change up from my routine and get to try something new! On July 6th, I had the chance to participate in The World’s Future Social Simulation with six other MABRRI Research Assistants. I have always been passionate about sustainability and the SDGs, and this simulation was an excellent opportunity to dive right in. 
Promoting the Nanaimo Trail Survey to Mountain Bikers July 21, 2021 - 8:26am

Most evenings you can find us on the trails looking to chat with anyone riding a mountain bike. One of the projects us Research Assistants (RAs) at MABRRI are working on this summer is implementing the Nanaimo Trail Survey in person. The Trail Survey is in collaboration with Matt Bowes, a Geography and Global Studies professor at VIU, and the Nanaimo Mountain Bike Club. The goal of this survey is to get observations and perspectives of mountain biking in Nanaimo by talking with people riding the trails.
Safeguarding your research December 5, 2024 - 2:42pm

Canada’s move towards open and collaborative research has increasingly meant that our world-class research has become the target of espionage and foreign interference activities which pose threats to research security as well as to national security, economic competitiveness, and prosperity. The work of safeguarding research conducted in Canada requires a coordinated effort by all actors in the research enterprise including government, universities and researchers.
The Role of Environment on Pacific Oyster Resilience June 17, 2021 - 10:40am

This project is investigating how specific marine environments (deep-water versus intertidal) may shape the resilience/susceptibility of the Pacific oyster to various drivers of summer mortality.  Bags of oysters have been deployed in deep-water sites and inter-tidal sites across Baynes Sound to test the use of the intertidal zone as a mechanism to promote physiological resilience and/or offer refuge from summer mortality.  
Selective Breeding Program January 6, 2022 - 10:08am

In British Columbia, many shellfish hatcheries are currently struggling with annual mortality events, typically occurring in the summer months, that have nearly bankrupted some companies and have forced others to permanently close their facilities. These mortalities are attributed to an array of causes, such as increased occurrence and severity of marine heat waves, infectious bacteria, viruses, ocean acidification, and climate change.
VIU Grad Discovers Two-Million-Year-Old Skull while Attending Field School in South Africa June 15, 2021 - 11:33am

Good discovered the fossil, one of the best-preserved Paranthropus robustus specimens known to science, while she was attending the Drimolen Field School of Palaeoanthropology and Geoarchaeology in 2018. The excavation site was at the Drimolen Palaeocave System within the Cradle of Humankind, located northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.