How would you like to know more about invasive knotweed, flipped mathematics, intentional mental illness, queer ecology, and censorship of soldiers in one hour or less?
UFV is presenting microlectures by faculty members Nov. 13 at 11 a.m. in the Roadrunner lounge in Building A of the Abbotsford campus.
Come find out what UFV faculty are up to in their research and learn about more than a dozen topics in under an hour. Each researcher takes the stage for a maximum of two minutes and speaks about findings and implications of their research.
List of speakers:
• Jim Daems English
Queer Ecology? — William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation
• Darrell Fox Social work and human services
Power relations and specific advocacy approaches in family group conferencing with children and young people
• Sharon Gillies Biology
Invasive knotweeds: The Godzilla of Plants
• Aleksandra Idzior Visual arts/arts history
War and photography: Teresa Zarnower's response to a catastrophe
• Marcella LaFever Communications
Undergraduate research at a teaching-intensive university: the relationship of gender and year of study to student motivations
• Judy Larsen Upgrading and university preparation
Student autonomy in a flipped mathematics classroom
• Seonaigh MacPherson Adult education
Integration, achievement, or sustainability? Interpretations of diversity education in Canada, the U.S.A., and India
• Linda Pardy Communications
Higher learning and radical integration: connecting disciplines and helping students juggle it all
• Prabhjot Parmar English/SCMS
The letter that never reached: Censorship and Indian soldier in France during the Great War
• Peter Raabe Philosophy
Intentional mental illness
See www.ufv.ca/research/news-and-events/microlecture-series/ for more information.