WHEN: Wednesday, November 25, 2:30 – 4:00 PM
WHERE: ICER Room, ART 368, UBCO Campus
WHAT: A few years ago, a headline for an article in The Conversation read, “Academics can change the world – if they stop talking only to their peers.” Access to knowledge and to the insights of current research is an important and multifaceted issue. One way to provide access to research and knowledge is through open access academic publications, but knowledge mobilization is also about using new and innovative ways to communicate research in order to co-create and share knowledge with a wider audience. When more people have access to research, it impacts policies and community plans, and overall, the way people live their lives on a daily
basis. For those involved in community-engaged research, knowledge mobilization is even more important since our research is often an answer to a problem or question a community has, and is done in collaboration with community members.
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Workshop Facilitators
Joanne Carey (she/her/hers) is the Research Administrator for the Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER), UBC Okanagan. While managing the day-to-day operations of ICER, she also supports students, community partners and researchers with various projects, grants, editing, knowledge mobilization activities and event planning. She has worked in project management; qualitative research; grant administration, evaluation and writing; as well as non-profit management for twenty years. She has a MA (Sociology) from Memorial University, a BA (Sociology) from UBC, and a diploma in Writing & Publishing from Okanagan College. She was born and raised on the unceded and traditional territories of Syilx Okanagan Nation, and continues to benefit from the nation’s stewardship of these lands.
Christine Schreyer (she/her/hers) is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, where she teaches a range of courses in linguistic anthropology. Her research focuses on language revitalization and documentation, in Canada and in Papua New Guinea, as well as the relationship between endangered language communities and created language communities. She has conducted research with the Na’vi speech community (from the movie Avatar) and she is the creator of the Kryptonian language from Man of Steel (2013). Recently, she was co-producer of the documentary film Kala Language Project: Kala Walo Nuã about her community-based work with Kala speakers. She is also an executive producer for the documentary film Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues, which will be completed in 2016.
In person event. No registration needed. Bring a friend!
This workshop is part of our “Skilling up for People and Planet!” Series which is a collaboration between The FEELed Lab, Storying Otherwise: A Hub for Creative Ethnographic Writing, The UBC Centre for Climate Justice, and The Institute for Community Engaged Research.
All FEELed Lab events strive to be feminist, anticolonial, antiracist, queer and accessible spaces.
