The Okanagan Climate Justice Research Award is now Open
Announcing the New Okanagan CER Climate Justice Award UBCO’s Principal’s Research Chair in Communities, Justice, and Sustainability, the Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) and UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice are piloting a new award initiative in the 2025/2026 academic year. This award is intended to respond to UBC’s core academic focus of supporting resilient […]
The ICER Student CER Award Applications are Open
ICER Student CER Award In recognition of ICER’s commitment to supporting students involved in community engaged research, we are providing two $1,000 awards 2026. The awards offer financial support to current UBC Okanagan graduate students, or in exceptional circumstances, undergraduate students. The recipients should be actively involved in community engaged research projects or activities and […]
Starting a Conversation with Nassim Zand Disari – Listening with Iranian women in exile: politics of everyday practices of belonging
Everyone is welcome to join us for the next Starting the Conversation! These talks are informal gatherings where a speaker shares some aspect of their community engaged research, as a way to engage with others interested in learning from their experience. We’re delighted to welcome Nassim Zand Disari as the next speaker! Tuesday, Dec. […]
Starting a Conversation with Stephenie Kendricks: Unintended Consequences – A Podcast Centred Open Source Curriculum Featuring Heroes and Sheroes Working on Environmental Health and Environmental Justice Protections
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 12:00 to 1:00 pm Arts 368 – In Person Via Zoom – email icer.ok@ubc.ca for the link Abstract Environmental justice (EJ) and environmental health (EH) studies are poorly represented in postsecondary education. Various governmental and NGO organizations support the importance of EJ/EH education. Learning about EH and EJ lifts students’ knowledge […]
Starting a Conversation with Savannah Kosteniuk – Imaginative Intimacies: Black and Indigenous Relations and Place-making on the Prairies
Wednesday, Sept. 17 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm Arts 368 – in person For the Zoom link, please e-mail: icer.ok@ubc.ca Black and Indigenous communities play a key role in resisting systemic violence and imagining tangible and just futures beyond current conditions, yet the nuances of Black and Indigenous intercommunal relations, especially on the so-called Canadian […]
We’re hiring Community Engaged Research Data Management Outreach Assistant!
Community Engaged Research Data Management Outreach Assistant NB: This is an Undergraduate Research Assistant role (upper-level undergraduate preferred) Application Deadline: Sept. 5, 2025 Interviews: Sept. 10 & 11, 2025 Job Description: The Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) unites researchers from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Anthropology, Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, Economics, Education, […]
Mar.26 – Starting the Conversation with Bonny Lynn Donovan
Please join Bonny Lynn Donovan for her Starting the Conversation talk: Visiting with the tmxʷulaxʷ: Indigenous ecocultural literacy in the early learning years Wednesday, March 26 12:00 to 1:00 pm Arts 368, In-person Via Zoom, please e-mail: Icer.ok@ubc.ca Bonny Lynn’s qualitative study addresses ecological sustainability through Indigenous language reclamation and the intergenerational transfer of traditional […]
Mar.12 – CER Storyteller Series with Dr. John Wagner
Join us on Wednesday, March 12 for a conversation between Dr. John Wagner, and ICER director, Dr. Christine Schreyer! 11:00 am to 12:00: Storyteller conversation 12:00 to 1:00: Pizza lunch for in person attendees John Wagner John is an environmental anthropologist situated on the UBC Okanagan campus. He has been studying water governance issues in […]
Feb. 5 – Starting a Conversation with Denica Bleau: Indigenous Land-based Program Framework for Criminalization and Institutionalization
Please join Denica Bleau for the next Starting the Conversation! Wednesday, Feb. 5 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, PST Arts 368 in person Zoom: please email icer.ok@ubc.ca for the link Indigenous Land-based Program Framework for Criminalization and Institutionalization Imprisonment within Canada has been used as early as 1849 to exercise control over Indigenous populations and extinguish […]
Jan. 29 – Starting a Conversation with Dante Carter: Nanâtawihowin (Healing & Finding Place) through Economic Self-Determination
Please join Dante Carter for the next Starting the Conversation! Nanâtawihowin (Healing & Finding Place) through Economic Self-Determination Wed. Jan. 29, 2025 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, PST 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm CST Arts 368, or via Zoom (email: icer.ok@ubc.ca for the link) Everyone is welcome! Nanâtawihowin (Healing & Finding Place) through Economic […]
