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Successful thesis defenses in LLED
LLED is proud to announce the successful defenses of three PhD students. Laura Nimmon defended her dissertation titled, “Meaning Making within Social Activity Domain of Health Maintenance: Role of Social Networks” on September 22. Her supervisor is Dr. Victoria Purcell-Gates. Amanda Wager defended her dissertation titled, “Applied Drama as Engaging Pedagogy: Critical Multimodal Literacies […]
Dr. Theresa Rogers appointed Associate Dean, Faculty & Program Development with G+PS
LLED is happy to announce that Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies has appointed Dr. Theresa Rogers to the position of Associate Dean, Faculty and Program Development, effective September 1, 2014. The portfolio for which Dr. Rogers is assuming a leadership role focuses on promoting and developing opportunities for UBC graduate programs and faculty to achieve excellence in […]
HSS Research Dissemination Grant Awardees
LLED heartily congratulates Drs. Monique Bournot-Trites and Ryuko Kubota on being awarded the 2014 HSS Research Dissemination Grant. Well done Monique and Ryuko.
Welcome Dr. Anthony Paré
LLED is happy to welcome Dr. Anthony Paré as Department head. (pictured right to left: Dean Blye Frank, Dr. Anthony Paré, Dr. Wendy Carr) Photo credit: TEO UBC
African Storybook Project highlighted on UBC NOW
The African Storybook Project was recently highlighted on UBC NOW, a website that emphasises important and interesting work coming out of the university. Congratulations to everyone who is contributing to the project.
Dr. Angel Lin lecture
LLED’s Noted Summer Scholar, Dr. Angel Lin, visiting from the University of Hong Kong, recently gave a public lecture, titled “Towards Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies from the Ground Up” If you were unable to attend, you can watch the lecture on the UBC Education Research YouTube page.