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The catastrophic wildfires experienced in Western Canada and the United States over the past few years are one of the most visible aspects of climate change’s effect on forests, but there are other indicators that aren’t as publicized, says Bill Beese, a Vancouver Island University (VIU) Forestry Professor and Forest Ecologist.

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This new grant provides up to $25,000 to supports research projects in specific areas where the Ministry of Health has deemed research is urgently needed and not well enough covered by existing programs of research identified in the province as part of their recent Research and Knowledge Mobilization Strategy. Applications to this program must address one or more of the below priorities:
1)     The effectiveness of social distancing on different communities
2)     Protecting and strengthening youth and child health during the pandemic
3)     Mental health in virtual care

The site provides direction on how on-campus and field research activity can resume in phases, to be implemented when circumstances related to COVID-19 in BC will allow the gradual lifting of activity restrictions.

The process outlined is sufficiently general that it can be followed throughout the coming months, with the evolving stages of lifting activity restrictions by the Provincial Health Officer (PHO) and associated with the provincial four phase plan for re-opening the economy.

Platform studies explores the explosive proliferation of Internet organizations such as Facebook and what it means for social, cultural, political and economic life today. This new field of inquiry has largely focused on the platformization of Euro-American and Asian lifeworlds while often ignoring especially indigenous voices and experiences. We challenge Platform Studies to be more inclusive accounting for experiences such as those that we encountered during our ethnography of digital transformations in Solomon Islands.

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