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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

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 […]

2025 ICER student CER award applications are now open!

In recognition of ICER’s commitment to supporting students involved in community engaged research, we are providing three $1000 awards 2025. The awards offer financial support to current UBC Okanagan graduate, or in exceptional circumstances, undergraduate, students. The recipients should be actively involved in community engaged research projects or activities and have a community partner. The purpose […]

Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) Introductions and Updates 

The Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) is located on the third floor of the ARTS building in Arts 368 (UBC Okanagan campus).   Effective July 1, Dr. Christine Schreyer assumed the director’s role from Dr. Jon Corbett. Many of you know Dr. Christine Schreyer through her work with the Nsyilxcn Language Fluency program. You can […]

Nov.6 – Elements of Community Engaged Research: Co-Writing and Collaboration

Nov.6 – Elements of Community Engaged Research: Co-Writing and Collaboration

Wednesday, November 6 1:00 to 2:00 pm PST Arts 368 In-person (max 20 registrants) Via Zoom Please register by clicking here. Join Amanda Brobbel, Senior Manager, Writing & Language Learning Services. Centre for Scholarly Communication, and Robin Metcalfe, PhD Candidate in IGS – Community Engagement, Social Change, and Equity, who will lead a workshop on […]

Oct. 16, 2024 – Join us for the next ICER Storyteller’s series with Dr. Rachelle Hole!

Oct. 16, 2024 – Join us for the next ICER Storyteller’s series with Dr. Rachelle Hole!

You’re invited to the next I-CER Storyteller Series featuring Dr. Rachelle Hole in conversation with ICER director, Dr. Christine Schreyer. Wednesday, Oct. 16 Talk will be 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, and lunch from 12:30 to 1:30 pm Via Zoom and In-person in Arts 368 NB Lunch will be provided, and in-person registration is limited […]

Sept. 11, 2024 – Drop by our Open House

Sept. 11, 2024 – Drop by our Open House

You’re invited to join us on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 for our Open House! We invite new and continuing students, staff, faculty, community partners and alumni to drop by and catch up with each other. This is also an opportunity to chat with Dr. Christine Schreyer – ICER’s Director. Christine was appointed on July 1, […]

We’re hiring! Join our team as a CER Podcaster and Video Editor!

Job Title: Community Engaged Research Podcaster and Video Editor   NB: This is an Undergraduate Research Assistant role (upper-level undergraduate preferred) Application Deadline: Sept. 6, 2024  Interviews: Sept. 10 & 11, 2024  Job Description:   Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) unites researchers from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Anthropology, Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, Economics, […]

Motion to endorse the Joint Statement on Canadian Universities and Palestine

Faculty members within the Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) are issuing the following statement against scholasticide in Palestine. The statement does not represent the views of UBC, or any of its departments or other constituent units and the faculty members issuing this statement recognize that there are or may be dissenting viewpoints within the […]

Feb.29 – Starting the Conversation: My community-based research journey: Exploring the impacts of climate change using participatory mapping at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Please join Sierra Lammi for the next Starting the Conversation! Tuesday, March 19 12 noon to 1:00 pm (PDT) In-person in Arts 368 Online via Zoom (please e-mail icer.ok@ubc.ca for the link) Abstract: My research uses participatory mapping processes as a tool for UBCO students to share and understand one another’s experiences with climate change, […]