Venue: Multipurpose Room, Ponderosa Commons Oak House 2012
All welcome. Light refreshments will be provided.
This event will take place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam people.
LLED Research Seminar Series presents:
Research with Impact: Conversations with Public Scholars
What does it mean to be a public scholar? We all like the ideas of community engagement, social impact, public dialogue, and collaboration – but how do we prioritize these in our work, amidst many other pressing demands of academia? Join this interdisciplinary panel of PhD students/candidates/alumni to discuss some of the possibilities and challenges of public scholarship, and to hear about their ideas and experiences in reimagining academia in the service of transformation and social justice.
Natalia Balyasnikova is a graduate of the Department of Language and Literacy Education and a UBC Public Scholar. Since defending her dissertation, Dr. Balyasnikova has been working as an Education Specialist at Justice Education Society of BC, heading the development and evaluation of large scale professional development programs in the justice sector.
Harini Rajagopal is a PhD candidate in Language and Literacy Education and a UBC Public Scholar. Her research explores ways to value what young English language learners bring to elementary school. Using child-centered, collaborative, and creative learning opportunities, she hopes to engage with pedagogies in more human ways, communicate good ideas, and facilitate meaningful action.
A UBC Public Scholar, Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability. Through community-led projects, she explores arts-based approaches to facilitate reimaginings of ‘H2O’ beyond a resource, to uncover emotional and symbolic aspects of people’s connections to water, both shedding light on experiences of water insecurity, and highlighting critical pathways for more inclusive water governance.
Neila Miled is a PhD Candidate in the department of Educational Studies, a Killam Scholar, a Liu scholar and UBC Public Scholar. Her research engages with transnational feminism, postcolonial/decolonial theory, critical ethnography and photovoice to explore the socio-political and cultural contexts of education in relation to immigrants and refugee youth.