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This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Administrator Julia Jung. Recently I found myself tracing ammonite fossils on a rocky beach in Lyme Regis, UK. Bathed in a surprisingly strong April sun, I kept moving from ammonite to ammonite, trying to find the ones who have left remnants prominent enoug to show up on… Continue reading Tracing Learnings across Communities

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Meghan Reyda-Molnar, who is joining the FEELed Lab as a research assistant and affiliate for our FEELers Summer camp and is currently doing her MFA at… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Meghan Reyda-Molnar

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Research Affiliate Susan Reid, who is currently undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship at UBCO. It is pretty incredible to think that one year of my postdoctoral fellowship with UBC’s Faculty of Critical and Creative Studies has unfurled. This post offers some research reflections and notes about the felt-field… Continue reading Postdoctoral Field Notes

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Administrator Julia Jung. Knowledge mobilization is the process of transforming academic research into more tangible community benefits. This includes thinking about who is potentially affected by the research, the most accessible formats for engagement, and the timing of engagement activities (Research Impact Canada). As part of a… Continue reading Updating our Knowledge Mobilization Strategy: Leaving Instagram

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Research Associate Erin Delfs, as part of our support to syilx-led climate justice. On April 9th, a small group of folx[1] from IndigenEYEZ, the UBC Centre for Climate Justice (CCJ), and UBC Okanagan (UBCO) gathered at the FEEled Lab on unceded[2] syilx[3] territory with three key intentions:… Continue reading IndigenEYEZ, UBCO, and the UBC Centre for Climate Justice connecting towards sustainable futures: Workshop Reflections

The FEELed Lab gathers and unfurls on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territories of the syilx people. These lands were never ceded. We encourage you (if you haven’t already) to read the statement by the Syilx Okanagan Chiefs reaffirming unceded syilx Okanagan land as an historical truth and reality. The FEELed Lab stands in solidarity.… Continue reading This is Unceded Land: Making Connections

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Member Emma Carey, a Master’s student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Sustainability program, who is also working on the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project. All photos by project member Jenica Frisque. Thank you to everyone who joined us at our access storytelling workshop on… Continue reading Access is Entwined with Relationship-Building: A Workshop

Lily Packo (she/her) is an Indigenous undergraduate student in her third year of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. She is passionate about exploring the connections between culture, environment, art and sustainability, with a focus on how these intersections support Indigenous conservation efforts and sovereignty. Her studies center on understanding how traditional… Continue reading Cultural Resilience and Innovation: Building a Better Future with Indigenous and Afrofuturism 

Lily Packo (she/her) is an Indigenous undergraduate student in her third year of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. She is passionate about exploring the connections between culture, environment, art and sustainability, with a focus on how these intersections support Indigenous conservation efforts and sovereignty. Her studies center on understanding how traditional… Continue reading Reimagining Campus Life: Integrating Solarpunk Principles for a Sustainable Future

This blog post was written by Julia Jung, the FEELed Lab Administrator. Last semester, we came up with a set of current lab practices using the rich pictures method described in this FEELed Note. Building onto that, we held another workshop using a storytelling method at the FEELed lab last Saturday, March 15. We wanted… Continue reading What do we actually mean? Diving deeper into our lab values using Storytelling