Congratulations to Marny Point on receiving UBC’s 2023 Alumni Builder Award!
The Alumni Builder Award recognize a cross-section of alumni representing both campuses who have significantly contributed to the university and enriched the lives of others, and in doing so, have supported alumni UBC’s mission of realizing the promise of a global community with a shared ambition for a better world and an exceptional UBC. Since 2017, Marny […]
Dr. Derek Gladwin on CBC show “What on Earth”
Dr. Derek Gladwin was recently featured, along with collaborator Dr. Naoko Ellis from UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering, on the CBC show What on Earth hosted by Laura Lynch. The show discusses topics relating to climate change solutions. Derek’s segment features his work on Climate Storytelling: Revolutionizing Climate Education in Universities. In the show, they […]
2022 Graduate Student Endowed Awards Winners
The award winners of the 2022 Graduate Student Endowed Awards competition has been announced, and we are excited to see LLED being well-represented! Congratulations to our graduate students on a job well done! Dean of Education Scholarship Anastasia Zhuravleva (LLED) Serikbolsyn Tastanbek (LLED) Donald and Ellen Poulter Scholarship Asma Afreen (LLED) Joseph Katz Memorial Scholarship […]
LLED winter holiday party recap
Thank you to everyone, students, faculty, and staff, who came to attend the 2022 LLED Winter Holiday Party on Friday, December 9th. It was wonderful to see everyone in person again. We would like to specially thank Alya Zhukova, Nori Stevens, Bimalka Lokugamage, Maliha Jannat and our graduate peer adviors, PhD candidates Danielle Kim, Serikbolsyn […]
Congratulations to Dr. Leah Macfadyen and Dr. Marianne McTavish
Congratulations to Drs. Leah Macfadyen and Marianne McTavish on being the recipients of the 2022 The Language and Literacy Educational Leadership Award (LLELA)! The LLELA has been created through the generosity of an anonymous donor to recognize excellence among Educational Leadership faculty in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British […]
Congratulations to Dmitri Detwyler on successfully defending his doctoral dissertation
Please join us in congratulating Dmitri Detwyler on having successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on July 29th and completing all PhD graduation requirements. The title of his dissertation is: “Pandemic transformations and settler discourse stabilities in Canadian English-language teacher identity”.