Stories
Public Engagement at Robson Square: UBC and the Ismaili Centre, Vancouver host public dialogue on settler colonialism, identity, and migration
We spoke to the students, faculty, staff, and community partners that worked together to create this community-university event.
How Universities are Supporting the Not-For-Profit Sector
Learn about the different resources universities can offer community partners and how to access them.
Students partner with Punjabi Market Collective to showcase revitalization efforts
Learn how UBC students are taking their learning beyond the classroom and supporting community partners.
Partner Funding Illustrates Scope and Diversity of UBC-Community Engagement
Community-led collaboration between Heiltsuk Nation, UBC’s Faculty of Forestry and School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), Builders Without Borders and FP Innovations builds sustainable, healthy, culturally appropriate housing.
Exploring Culture and Community Through Stories of Chinese Canadian Gardens
UBC students teamed up to create Garden Stories, a project to learn about the stories of Chinese Canadian’s relationships to plants, food, and gardening.
Lhoosk’uz Dené village taps into clean water after a 20-year wait
After decades of relying on bottled water, the village now has a steady supply of clean drinking water straight out of the tap, thanks to a new water treatment plant crafted to their unique needs.
A Path to Cultural Safety
Determined to change the healthcare system to better support Indigenous people, Dr. Kurtz continues to have the honour of working with, learning from and walking alongside Shuswap Elder Jessie Nyberg.
Journey to Reconciliation
How two Syilx Elders are sharing the truth on the path to reconciliation. “You cannot have reconciliation before you know the truth.”
Bridging gaps in community health care
“When we start graduating more Indigenous health-care professionals, people start to see themselves in their care team.” Dr. Willow Thickson
Student Profile: Research to Make Research More Accessible
Alina McKay describes how her UBC Learning Exchange experience informed her post-graduate work and contributed to the MRAi project.
Keep Calm and B.A.R.K. On
The B.A.R.K. program brings together university students, trained therapy dogs and handlers in an effort to reduce stress, combat homesickness and foster interpersonal connections.
Expressions of Reconciliation
Designed to help faculty and staff become better allies in the healing journey of reconciliation, the workshop consisted of four days of Indigenous education and self-reflection.
Supporting pets and their people in the DTES
One Health Clinics, offered in partnership between UBC and Community Veterinary Outreach, provide essential health services to pet owners experiencing homelessness in Vancouver, while preparing future UBC grads for careers in public health.
Photo Gallery: Snapshots Of Resilience
How do you move forward after being released from prison? That’s the question at the heart of a community-based research project that had been meeting at the UBC Learning Exchange for four years before COVID-19 restrictions and has recently released a powerful photography project.
Student Profile: Connecting with Chinese seniors helped shift her academic focus
Yanice Guo explains how her work in the English Conversation Program also made her feel more connected in Vancouver.
Through our eyes, with our voices: How students and faculty are creating space to heal and be proud of their Asian identities
Four faculty members are interviewed about how racism impacts them and how they are making the learning space a transformative one.
Made-in-the-DTES software tool provides paths to citizenship and confidence
More than an app: How a made-in-the-DTES software tool called Linkvan provided paths to citizenship and confidence.
Celebrating 10 years of health mentors at UBC Health
The UBC Interprofessional Health Mentors Program has reached a milestone, as 2021 marks 10 years of the program’s success in providing students with opportunities to learn from patient educators.
Synapses: Conjuring the future
An exciting new multimedia collaboration between Professor Bob Pritchard and Turning Point Ensemble imagines one possible future for humanity — and points to another for classical music performance.
Nisga’a Scholar Launches UBC’s New Centre For Indigenous Fisheries
Q&A with Indigenous fisheries scientist, conservation biologist, and Nisga’a Nation member, Dr. Andrea Reid.
Combatting Social Isolation During COVID-19
As part of a new initiative, Connecting with Compassion, UBC faculty and students are looking to technology to help families stay connected with their loved ones and combat the social isolation being felt by seniors living in long-term care homes across B.C.
UBC Learning Exchange Marks 20 Years In The Downtown Eastside
In celebration of the centre’s 20th anniversary, the Learning Exchange spoke with six community and university partners on how they influence and are influenced by their connections with the Learning Exchange, the many ways they interact with the centre and each other, and their hopes for the Learning Exchange’s next 20 years.
Community-based Research In Action At The UBC Learning Exchange
Thinking about a research project related to the Downtown Eastside? You might want to talk to Dr. Heather Holroyd.
UBC Team Launches Art Initiative To Promote Mental Health Of Men In Prison
UBC school of nursing professor Helen Brown and her team deliver “art and reciprocity kits” to people disproportionately impacted by the Canadian criminal justice system
Geering Up For A Changing World
As B.C. schools closed to in-person classes in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, a UBC Applied Science-based education organization worked quickly to bring its STEM-themed programs to online platforms for homebound kids and teens
Allard Law’s Indigenous Community Legal Clinic Goes Virtual
Located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the ICLC provides free legal services to the Indigenous community throughout the province
How can an obscure medieval play make a meaningful contribution to present-day Vancouver?
A recent partnership, funded in part by CUES, between Bard on the Beach and researchers from UBC holds the answer.Read more
Building Trust in Communities
Community engagement is about building trust between communities. This summer we sat down with Kate Hodgson and Kathleen Leahy to learn firsthand from their years of experience… Key Learnings There is a general and positive shift among researchers who are moving from saying ‘we’re going to fix all your social problems’ to ‘what can we […]
Aboriginal Women’s Intervention Program Benefits Indigenous Women Experiencing Violence
UBC nursing professor and her colleagues evaluate culturally safe intervention program for Indigenous women who have left abusive partners.
SALA Students Address The Arbutus Greenway
Environmental design students share their ideas with City of Vancouver reviewers
Project Seahorse Plays A Major Role In Helping Thailand Suspend Seahorse Exports
UBC’s Project Seahorse worked to develop the first ever global trade agreement regulations on export of marine fish.
Listen, Speak, See, Feel: Boosting Language Learning Through Ultrasound
eNunciate, a UBC-developed web-based biovisual tool, uses ultrasound technology with W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation to help reclaim their language.
Red Fox Youth Get Active With UBC Kinesiology
Learn how youth participants in the Red Fox Youth Leadership program explored different neighbourhoods on foot in a collaboration with UBC kinesiology students, and learned how to catch Pokemon and find hidden geocaches.
SmartMom Program Texts Prenatal Info to New Moms
Wall Solutions Supports digital prenatal education project
NITEP Coordinators Work With Aboriginal Educators
NITEP teacher education program honours diverse Aboriginal traditions and philosophies
Awakening The Spirit: Revitalization Of Canoeing In Musqueam
Musqueam and UBC Social Work, Education and Forestry work together to revitalize traditional knowledge.
UBC Partners With Industry For Capstone Projects
External partners work with Engineering students to provide solutions for real people
Community-Based Science In Micronesia
Training helps Ulithi community members sustain successful management of their reefs into the future.
Humanitarian Endeavour Underway In Dadaab Refugee Camps With UBC Education And Moi University
Residents of Dadaab refugee camp in NE Kenya gain university diploma in secondary teacher education.
Partnering for Food Security
Listen in to insights from a conversation with Will Valley, Instructor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and Colin Dring, Executive Director of Richmond Food Security Society, who share their learnings about the process of building a relationship between faculty and community organizations. Partnerships like this, supported by UBC’s Centre for Community Engaged […]
First STAR Project: A Collaboration (UBCO)
First STAR Project: A Collaboration Between UBC, Helios Technologies, and Imperial College
Creating Community Partnerships
A lot of time and effort goes into building community partnerships. To learn from faculty and community partners who take on this work, we sat down with Carol Anne Russell of Pioneer House and Leeann Donnelly of UBC Faculty of Dentistry. UBC Dentistry has partnered with Pioneer House (of Pioneer Community Living Association) to develop […]
The University of British Columbia and St’át’imc First Nations partner to study salmon migration
For thousands of years, the St’át’imc First Nations around Lillooet, BC have benefitted from an abundant salmon resource on the Seton River. The Seton River watershed supports two populations of sockeye salmon as well as coho, Chinook, and pink salmon. However, hydroelectric development in the 1950’s saw the Seton Dam constructed on the Seton River. […]
UBC MD Students And Their Teddy Bears Build Healthy Communities
UBC MD students and their teddy bears build healthy communities
Refugee Teacher Education
Professors Samson Nashon and Rita Irwin work to develop a Teacher Education Program in Daadab Refugee Camp