13 episodes

A podcast from the Library at UBC Okanagan featuring faculty and researchers critically discussing their work.

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A podcast from the Library at UBC Okanagan featuring faculty and researchers critically discussing their work.

    Poetry and pollinators: Engaging the community through art

    Poetry and pollinators: Engaging the community through art

    Nancy Holmes, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Studies, discusses the community-engaged art projects that she has worked on including Border Free Bees, a project to raise awareness about the native bee population in the Okanagan.

    • 29 min
    Water in our everyday lives: The sensory storytelling project

    Water in our everyday lives: The sensory storytelling project

    Fiona McDonald, assistant professor, Community, Culture and Global Studies discusses the sensory storytelling project and sound portraits of water, an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and community-based project exploring the perceptions of water in our everyday lives.

    • 18 min
    Faith and relationships: Novel reflections

    Faith and relationships: Novel reflections

    Alison Conway, Professor, English and Gender and Women Studies at UBC Okanagan explores how issues of interfaith marriage can be understood and contemporized through the 18th century novel.

    • 26 min
    Dressing resistance: Gender, fashion, and culture

    Dressing resistance: Gender, fashion, and culture

    Ilya Parkins, Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies discusses issues of gender and resistance expressed through fashion.

    • 33 min
    Beyond Pedagogies: Open Access and Open Education Resources

    Beyond Pedagogies: Open Access and Open Education Resources

    Susan Crichton, Associate Professor and Associate Dean at UBC Okanagan's Faculty of Education and Director of the Innovative Learning Centre, shares her thoughts on the need for open education resources and the role of universities in the open access movement.

    • 41 min
    Participatory Action Research: Knowledge Sharing Between the Academy and Indigenous Populations

    Participatory Action Research: Knowledge Sharing Between the Academy and Indigenous Populations

    Mike Evans, Professor and Associate Dean (Research, Graduate, and Post-Doctoral Studies) with the Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences explores issues of knowledge sharing, open access, and research outputs when working with indigenous communities.

    • 38 min