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CER Storyteller Event with Dr. Jeannette Armstrong – Nov. 27, 2025

Community Engaged Research (CER) Storyteller Series with Dr. Jeannette Armstrong Thursday, Nov. 27 11:30 to 12:30 talk, in person (ARTS 368), and via Zoom 12:30 to 1:30 post-talk lunch, in person To register: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9vHuLB0sBeFnj3U Please join us for the next CER Storyteller event featuring Dr. Jeannette Armstrong in conversation with Dr. Christine Schreyer! Photo credit: […]

Starting a Conversation with Lindsay DuPré: Indigenous Knowledge and Changing Environments

Wednesday, October 22 12:00 to 1:00 pm In person in Arts 368, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna Via Zoom, please e-mail: icer.ok@ubc.ca for the link Adaptation to change is central to an Indigenous ontology. Indigenous Knowledges have never been passive, rather they are active, dynamic, and have supported Indigenous societies to meet the challenges of changing environments […]

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, […]