Using drone deliveries to enhance health care in rural, remote and Indigenous communities
A UBC partnership that uses drones to deliver medical supplies could make health care more accessible to isolated communities across Canada Imagine you’re in a life-threatening car accident in a rural community. You need blood, but the community has none. It’s cut off from additional medical help by a mountain range, forest or body of […]
Older adults with cancer need coordinated and specialized health services
Older adults with cancer face significant challenges in accessing and navigating health care in B.C. due to limited language skills, financial capacity and health conditions, as well as systemic discrimination related to age, ethnicity or language. That’s the key finding from a new project led by UBC nursing assistant professor Dr. Kristen Haase, in collaboration […]
UBC Library project explores Indigenous perspectives in open education resource development
UBC librarians are embarking on a new collaborative research project that aims to address a fundamental problem in how open educational practices approach Indigenous Knowledges, and instead replicate colonial concepts of ownership and knowledge transfer. The research project, titled Foregrounding Indigenous Perspectives: Community and Collaborator Affinities and Conflicts in Open Education, recently received a grant […]
Technology may help eliminate health inequities for people in rural communities
As the new year arrives, many people resolve to take better care of their health. But, as UBCO researchers have determined, the road to improved health isn’t always smooth for people who live in small and rural communities. “Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, poor mental health and obesity are higher in rural and remote areas than […]
UBC deepens collaboration with the University of Stuttgart in science, technology and innovation
UBC is expanding collaboration with the University of Stuttgart in science, technology and innovation, and in joint clean energy research supporting the new Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance, signed by Chancellor Scholz and Prime Minister Trudeau in August 2022. Visiting UBC from the University of Stuttgart, Professor Peter Middendorf, Vice-Rector for Knowledge and Technology Transfer, met with […]
2022 Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund awards 47 community partners
The Office of Community Engagement has awarded over $70,000 to support community-university collaboration and relationship building. The Partnership Recognition & Exploration (PRE) fund empowers community partners to build reciprocal relationships with UBC students, faculty, and staff. Since 2017, the fund has invested more than $450,000 in 289 community-university partnerships, with approximately 50% of funding going […]
Shaping Indigenous curriculum at LFS
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UBC Library digitizes William Shakespeare’s First Folio
UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections. The process to digitize the First Folio took more than a year to facilitate due to the Folio’s age and fragility. The First Folio […]
Experts gather at UBC Sauder conference to showcase how Behavioural Insights can spur long-term change in behaviour
BIG Difference BC convened in November 2022 for a milestone fifth conference, continuing its legacy of bringing together scholars and business leaders to explore how human psychology, cognitive science and interventions driven by Behavioural Insights (BI) can inform better policy decisions. It put a spotlight on how BI can drive positive change—from addressing large systemic […]
Establishing a more meaningful approach to field research in global communities
Any Western researcher who had conducted field studies overseas is likely familiar with the terms “parachute science” or “colonial science.” Both terms being interchangeable, they are defined as researchers coming into communities to conduct their work without appropriately acknowledging the importance of local expertise. UBC Faculty of Forestry PhD candidate Alida O’Connor, who joined the […]