Researcher Profile – Tom Letcher-Nicholls

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 Tom Letcher-Nicholls who is joining the FEELed Lab to work on his PhD thesis about place-based ways of rethinking literary methodology and method. 1.Can you tell… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Tom Letcher-Nicholls

Researcher Profile – Julia Jung

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 Julia Jung who is joining the FEELed Lab to work on deir PhD thesis linking polyamory and transdisciplinary collaborations in ocean science and marine conservation. Julia… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Julia Jung

Turning Over

A couple of years ago I read Turning: Lessons from Berlin’s Lakes by Jessica J. Lee. This beautifully crafted environmental memoir also taught me about the seasonal turning of lakes: the colder and warmer parts of the lake switch places, and a lake’s appearance changes too – a murkier summertime lake all of a sudden… Continue reading Turning Over

Tasting Climate Change

How can tasting burnt toast help us taste wildfire, as part of climate change? Photo Credit: Jenny Moon

This FEELed Note showcases the work of FEELed Lab Research Associate and former UBC Okanagan SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Alex Berry.   How does climate change taste? This is an inquiry that Alex Berry explored with a class of education students last Spring, as part of a research project investigating sensory pedagogies for relating to place… Continue reading Tasting Climate Change

Researchers in the FEELed! ALECC 2024

Screenshot from my presentation “Migration, Research Mobility, and Place: Learning from Water in the Contemporary Academy”, including a photo of Woodhaven National Park taken at the FEELed Lab, a photo of myself at Okanagan Lake, and an excerpt from The Syilx Water Declaration.

This FEELed Note is the first post from Tom Letcher-Nicholls, a PhD student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program in Sustainability. His research focuses on the responsibilities, relations, and obligations of researchers on unceded territories From the 19th-22nd of June, with the support of the FEELed Lab, I attended the 2024 biennial conference of the Association… Continue reading Researchers in the FEELed! ALECC 2024

Access and Inclusion Zine-making Workshop at ALECC Conference

The zines created during the workshop.

This FEELed Note is from 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. Hello fellow FEELers! Our team has been hard at work on the Access and Inclusion project, planning, thinking, and learning about how we can be… Continue reading Access and Inclusion Zine-making Workshop at ALECC Conference

Feeling Planty?

In May as part of our Biodiversities of Gender project, FEELed Lab Research Affiliates Michael V Smith and Erin Scott offered a writing and performance workshop called Plant Pizzazz! (from page to stage) which used plants as a springboard for gender exploration. Participants researched and wrote plant-based monologues (“I am the pasqueflower” and “I am… Continue reading Feeling Planty?

FEELing Solidarity

The FEELed Lab reaffirms our support of the People’s University at UBCO and joins faculty, staff and organizations across Canada who have expressed their support, solidarity, and admiration for students’ calls to boycot, divest and impose sanctions against institutions and corporations supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We reaffirm the students’ right to peaceful assembly… Continue reading FEELing Solidarity

Storytelling, at the Periphery

In early April, the FEELed Lab had the welcome opportunity to co-convene the next installation of the Storyteller’s Series run by UBCO’s Institute for Community Engaged Research. This session featured Cree scholar and UBCO Associate Professor Shawn Wilson, discussing his influential work on Research is Ceremony – what it is grounded in, and how and… Continue reading Storytelling, at the Periphery