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Scholarly Sharing Initiative

What is the Scholarly Sharing Initiative?

Meetings of the Scholarly Sharing Initiative have been running since 2011, and are a unique venue where faculty, students, and interested others gather together to share, discuss, present, and receive feedback on their current scholarly work in a welcoming and supportive environment. The initiative is supported by the UFV Office of Research Services and the College of Arts.

We aim to hold one session per month. Typically, two faculty members (often from different departments) present at each session, though this can vary and round table discussions with more participants can be accommodated as well, with each discussing a current research project or other scholarly work for about 10-15 minutes, leaving ample time for friendly discussion and cross-talk.

The SSI is a valuable and unique space for cross-disciplinary conversation at UFV, an opportunity to receive supportive feedback in an informal academic environment, and a chance for folks to learn about the range and quality of interesting work going on at the university.

The continued success of the SSI’s modest aims depends on the continued support of people like you stepping forward to participate, both as presenters and audience. Please let us know if you are willing to help us put together another set of engaging panels this academic year! Even if you cannot present, you can support our initiative by attending panels, inviting, or suggesting us to colleagues, and bringing students along as well.

Past Presentations

Learn more about the past presentations at the SSI.

  • Robert Harding (School of Social Work): "Canadian News Discourse about the Petroleum Industry: Corporate Media Framing compared with Indigenous Media Framing"
  • Amy Tang (English): “Interwar British Fiction and the Aesthetics of Energy Infrastructure”
  • Ghizlane Laghzaoui (Modern Languages): “Students' evaluation of teaching”
  • Heather McAlpine (English), Ron Sweeney (English), and Jessica Wind (Communications): “Riverdale: A Forthcoming Book with Pep!”
  • Kim Norman (Communications): "Sights on Sites: The Risks Associated with Mis/Disinformation Online and an Exploration of Pedagogical Strategies for Mitigating Them”
  • Dana Landry (Communications): “Colouring with Pencil: How I learned to write and teach”

  • Noah Schwartz (Political Science): “On Target - Unpacking the influence of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA)”
  • Shelley Canning (Director, UFV Centre for Education & Research on Ageing) and Dr. Candace Couse (School of Creative Arts): “Perceptions & Projections of Children's Understandings of Ageing and Dementia”
  • Ceilidh Hart (English): “The Canadian City Poet and the Civic Voice”
  • Sumin Fang (Communications): “Why users participate in crowdsourcing communities via mobile fitness app: Implications from a qualitative study”

  • Ian Rocksborough-Smith (History) and Olivia Daniel (UFV student), "The KKK and White Supremacy in Abbotsford: A History Waiting to be Written"
  • Stanislav Vysotsky (Criminology), “Understanding Antifa: The Organization and Strategy of Militant Antifascism”
  • Gloria Borrows (Communications), "Can You Really Do it Face to Face?: Face-to-face Grading, Student Learning, and Faculty Wellbeing”
  • Candy Ho (College of Arts), “Connecting students with people who care(er): Faculty as career influencers”
  • Michelle LaFlamme (English) and Anna Griffith (Theatre), "Embodying Race, Space, and Place"
  • Edward Akuffo (Political Science): "Beyond Peacekeeping Operations: A Study of Canada's Support for Security Governance in West Africa"

  • RAN Forum “So You Want to Be an Ally?”

Panellists: Dr. Jacqueline Nolte, Shirley Hardman, and Dr. Rita Atake. Moderator: Dr. Adrienne Chan. The Scholarly Sharing Initiative is in solidarity with the Race and Anti-Racism Network and supports this forum.

  • Shelley Liebembuk (School of Creative Arts, Theatre), “Remote Acting Pedagogy: Exploring Embodiment in the Virtual Classroom”
  • Wayne Henry (Philosophy), “Corporations, Globalization, and Ethics”

  • Alyson Seale, “Ableism in the workplace”
  • Mai Anh Doan, “Financial communication in the age of fintech”
  • Marcella LaFever, “Indigenous stories as evidence: Possibilities for Tuhiwai-Smith’s 25 Indigenous Projects as an analysis framework”
  • Sara Davidson, “Reflections on potlatch as pedagogy”
  • Marie-Gérald Jean, “Let There Be Light: Visual Representation of Electricity in the Late Nineteenth- Century”
  • Jamie Bernal-Boyzo, “Narco sects: A new form of religion in Mexico”
  • Molleen Shilliday, “The Language and Purpose of Mourning in Canadian Dystopian Novels”

  • Molleen Shilliday, “The Language and Purpose of Mourning in Canadian Dystopian Novels”
  • Alan Cameron, “Zamyatin's We, Dystopia in the USSR”
  • Prabhjot Parmar, “Grieving Mothers, Lonely Beloveds, “loose women”: Gendering India and the Great War'
  • Anastasia Anderson, “Philosophy for Children and the Aims of Education”
  • Rajnish Dhawan, “The Massacre at Amritsar-Jallianwala Bagh 1919”

  • Sharanjit Sandhra & Satwinder Bains, “Postcards from the margin: an investigation into racism on campus – a project by the Race and Anti-Racism Network at UFV”
  • Sven van de Wetering, “Teaching critical thinking from a psychological perspective”
  • Molleen Shilliday, “Traumatic memory and the empathetic reader in contemporary Canadian literature”
  • Rita Atake, “Epistemological diversity and online learning - moving from theory to practice” Nadeane Trowse, “Sharing the topicality”
  • Jill Bain, “Art and religion in medieval Italy”
  • John Pitcher, “Opera and affect”

  • Shirley Hardman, “The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reconciliation, and lndigenization”
  • Michelle La Flamme, “SOMA TEXT - making sense of multiracial embodiment in contemporary Canadian literature, drama, and popular culture”
  • Ceilidh Hart, “Reading the City, the Classroom, and the Community in Sachiko Murakami's Rebuild'
  • Alex Wetmore and Rachel Bodnariuc, “Barometric Pleasures: Meteorology, technology, and emotion in the 1700s”
  • Gabriel Murray, “Computational Linguistics for Real and Imagined Conversations”

  • Shirley Hardman, “The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reconciliation, and lndigenization”
  • Michelle La Flamme, “SOMA TEXT - making sense of multiracial embodiment in contemporary Canadian literature, drama, and popular culture”
  • Ceilidh Hart, “Reading the City, the Classroom, and the Community in Sachiko Murakami's Rebuild'
  • Alex Wetmore and Rachel Bodnariuc, “Barometric Pleasures: Meteorology, technology, and emotion in the 1700s”
  • Gabriel Murray, “Computational Linguistics for Real and Imagined Conversations”