We are pleased to celebrate the following graduate students whose dissertations and theses demonstrate excellence, originality, and innovation in research.
Their work advances knowledge within their fields and beyond, reflecting the depth and breadth of scholarship across the Faculty of Education.
🏆 The Faculty of Education PhD Dissertation Prize
Award recipient: Dr. Lee Iskander
Supervisors: Drs. Harper Keenan and Leyton Schnellert
Award recipient: Dr. Alexandra Ruddy
Supervisor: Dr. Laurie Ford
🏆 The Faculty of Education MA Thesis Prize
Award recipient: Arushi Goswami
Supervisor: Dr. Mona Gleason
🏆 The Ted Aoki Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation in Curriculum Studies
Award recipient: Dr. Kieran Forde
Supervisor: Dr. Jillianne Code
Learn more on our website via the link in bio.
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We are proud to recognize graduate students Kay Anderson and Aidan Comeau for their teaching excellence and exceptional contributions to student learning.
This award celebrates teaching assistants who bring subject expertise, innovation, and a strong commitment to ethical and inclusive education to their classrooms.
Learn more by visiting our website via the link in bio.
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Drs. Derek Gladwin and Kedrick James at a book launch event at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México, to talk about their new book, "Becoming Ecological: Navigating Language and Meaning for Our Planet's Future"
Moderator: Dr. Rubén Ahumada Lazo
Host: Dra. Claudia I. García Rubio
Becoming Ecological: Navigating Language and Meaning for Our Planet's Future was born out of the recognition that we’re living through cascading ecological, political, and cultural crises — what many are now calling the polycrisis: climate breakdown, species extinction, democratic erosion, extractive economies, and rising anxiety about the future. We’re all witnessing it unfold every day, moment by moment.
But rather than writing another book cataloguing everything that’s broken, what’s rupturing and unravelling, through endless parades of graphs, warnings, and despair, we wanted to try something else.
So we asked: what if the way forward isn’t only through technology and politics, but through language and meaning?
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Join us on May 12th for a public talk: "Empowering nurses to ensure safe medication management among older patients in homecare – a qualitative study using art-based methods", by Astrid Skogseth, PhD Candidate from Nord University.
Date: May 12, 2026
Time: 1PM – 2PM
Location: Multipurpose Room, Ponderosa Commons North, PCN 2012
All are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP by Thursday, May 7 at noon.
More info at lled.educ.ubc.ca/
💻It’s not just about screen time.
Cyberbullying isn’t just a tech problem—it’s about relationships, power and how harm unfolds in connected spaces, according to research by Dr. Johanna Sam.
For many young people, digital spaces are essential for connection. Restriction alone can reduce support and increase mistrust.
💭What matters more: trust, communication, and skill-building.
“The most protective thing an adult can offer isn’t a parental control setting. It’s building a relationship in which a young person feels safe enough to say that something is wrong.”
Read more at the link in bio.
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This week, we gathered to honour and celebrate faculty members retiring from our Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
To these dedicated scholars, educators and valued colleagues – we thank you. Your contributions have shaped generations of learners, advanced knowledge and enriched the field of education and our broader community in lasting ways.
We wish you all the very best in this next chapter.
• Dr. Mary Bryson, Professor
• Dr. Penney Clark, Professor
• Dr. Patricia (Patsy) Duff, Professor
• Dr. Mark Edwards, Lecturer
• Meredith Fenton, Lecturer
• Rob Johnson, Associate Professor
• Rob Langill, Lecturer
• Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta, Professor
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🎨 Research co-led by Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm invited children of queer and trans parents to draw their families—and what emerged was striking: their understanding of family is expansive, nuanced and grounded in care and connection.
🏳️🌈 By listening to children’s experiences, we gain important insight into how schools and communities can better recognize and celebrate what family means to them.
👉 Read more at the link in bio.
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Join us on May 1st for this LLED public talk with Gretchen Schiller, Professor from the University of Grenoble Alpes, France. Her talk is titled: "Anatomies of Practice: Arts-based Research"
📅 Friday, May 1
🕒 2 PM
📍 Multipurpose Room, PCN 2012
All are welcome.
Talk and discussion about Research-creation and Arts-based approaches to research. Professor Schiller will share projects from the Performance Lab and share innovative ways of integrating the arts within multiple research contexts. She will discuss her recent work Listening to Performance entitled Speakers in Sneakers, introduce the community to the Performascope as well as discuss the internationalisation of the ResCam community.
Please join us to congratulate all the faculty members who were celebrated at the 2026 inaugural Faculty Wellbeing Champions Recognition Event on April 7, 2026!
A number of LLED community members were present that day at the event, recognized for their important role in supporting student wellbeing within teaching and learning environments.
We are so proud to have you in our department!
Join us on April 28 for this LLED public talk with Ricardo Montt from University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.
📅 Tuesday, April 28
🕒 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
📍 Multipurpose Room, PCN 2012
All are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided.
Please RSVP by April 24, 9am: lled.educ.ubc.ca/
Young people display the ability to rationally critique complicated normative ideas being spread through digital health technologies, yet remain deeply influenced by powerful affective forces (Camacho-Miñano, 2022). For example, they might know what is “wrong” with the ideal fit bodies on social media but still want to look like them. To address this problem, the DigitalHealthEdu project aims to co-create with young people critical pedagogies on digital health moving them beyond the cognitive-discursive thinking through affective propositions focused on using the arts and movements as a way to open new possibilities of being and doing.
