Date(s): Tuesday, March 10
Time: 11:30 am - 2:30 pm
Location: : Abbotsford Campus

UFV Faculty MicroLectures

Road Runner café, Building A, Abbotsford campus

Get inspired! Want to find out about what UFV faculty are up to in their research? Learn about more than a dozen topics in under an hour. Pick up some interesting tidbits from some of UFV’s best minds.

Each researcher takes the stage for a maximum of two minutes and speaks about the exciting findings and implications of their research:

Cherie Enns, Geography — Urban Policy and Food Systems in Nairobi
Satwinder Bains, Indo-Canadian Studies — A Space for Female Agency: Giddha Dancers in the Diaspora
Emilio Landolfi, Kinesiology & Physical Education — An Investigation of a Mandatory Daily Physical Activity Program for Grade 10 to 12 Students in the Fraser Valley
Michelle Riedlinger, Communications —Why Engage? A Framing Approach to the Knowledge Mobilisation Efforts Of Researchers
Ian Rocksborough-Smith, History —”…[I]n for the Study of Negro History”: Black Public History Activism and Civil Rights in Cold War Chicago, 1942–72
Cory Beshara, Chemistry —Molecular Recognition
Yvon Dandurand, Criminology & Criminal Justice — Preventing Violence Against Children
David Harper, Kinesiology & Physical Education — Health Benefits of a Ketogenic Diet
Lesley Jessiman, Psychology — Intergenerational Conversations: Accommodating the “presumed” Needs of the Older Adult.
Robert Harding, Social Work & Human Services — Canadian news discourse about poverty: Who gets a speaking part in the conversation?
Geof Spurling, History — Land Struggles in the Colonial Andes
Ding Lu, Economics — Measuring Productivity with Environmental Effects
Garry Fehr, Geography — Developing sustainable food systems in Chandigarh, Nairobi and the Fraser Valley
Jason Thomas, Chemistry — DNAzymes: catalysts made out of DNA
Leonne Beebe, Upgrading & University Preparation — Researching Your Practice: The Benefits of Using Guided Reflective Writing with Upgrading Students
Edward Akuffo, Political Science — Africa’s Geopolitical Space and Canada’s Multilateral Security Strategy from Chrétien to Harper
Scott Sheffield, History — Indigenous Veterans of the Second World War and Veterans Benefits: Comparing Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States