Awarded Grants

We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to the SoTL Dissemination Fund Grantees on sharing their SoTL work with the broader community!

  • Reconceptualizing Open Pedagogy in the Post-Pandemic Classroom to Meet Transformative Goals
    Oral Robinson | Faculty of Arts | Sociology
    Conference presentation at XX International Sociology Association World Congress of Sociology
  • Program-Level Assessment
    Alireza Bagherzadeh | Faculty of Applied Science | Chemical and Biological Engineering
    Conference presentation at Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference (CEEA 2023)
  • Choice-based Personalization in MOOCs: Impact on Activity and Perceived Value
    Sara Harris | Faculty of Science | Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
    Publication in International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Transmediating Race and Senses through Subtitling in Japanese Language Classroom
    Saori Hoshi | Faculty of Arts |Asian Studies
    Conference presentation at Uncommon Senses IV conference
  • The use of bonus marks as an incentive to encourage independent learning
    Jason Min | Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Conference presentation at Canadian Pharmacy Education and Research Conference
  • Requiring mobile devices in the classroom: the use of web-based polling does not lead to increased levels of distraction
    Georg Rieger | Faculty of Science | Physics/Astronomy
    Publication in Journal of STEM Education Research
  • Thinking and writing like a scientist: Affirmation of student identities through functional approaches to academic literacies for emergent multilinguals
    Won Kim | Vantage College
    Conference presentation at Japanese Association for College English Teaching (JACET)
  • Linguistic Diversity and Inclusive Multiple Choice Assessment: Implications for Teaching First Year Sociology Courses
    Katherine Lyon | Faculty of Arts | Sociology
    Conference presentation at XX ISA World Congress of Sociology (Sociological Teaching section session)
  • Multiple presentations: An Open CS1 Learning Platform to Promote and Incentivize Deliberate Practice; JUnit++: Simplifying Unit Testing for Autograding in an Open Learning Platform; Using Open Technology to Bring Computational Thinking Activities to the Outdoors
    Bowen Hui | UBCO Science | Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics
    Conference presentation at The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
  • Using senior undergraduate students as coaches in an introductory chemical engineering design course
    Roza Vaez Ghaemi | Faculty of Applied Science | Chemical and Biological Engineering
    Conference presentation at Canadian Engineering Education Asscociation (CEEA-ACEG) 2023
  • Therapeutic use of self as relational pedagogy: Student and educator perspectives
    Katie Lee Bunting | Faculty of Medicine | Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
    Conference presentation at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Enhancing Student Learning and Engagement in a Large Enrolment Food Microbiology Course
    Patricia Hingston | LFS | Food Science
    Conference presentation at IFT FIRST (Institute of Food Technologists Annual Scientific Meeting and Expo)
  • Proposed Metrics for Summarizing Student Evaluation of Teaching Data from Balanced Likert Scale Surveys
    Leah Macfadyen | Education | Language and Literacy
    Cogent Education
  • CREATE’ing improvements in first-year students’ science efficacy via an online introductory course experience
    Blaire Steinwand | Science | Zoology
    Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education
  • The transition between engineering education and practice: Insights from a sabbatical working in engineering industry
    Jonathan Verrett | Applied Science | Chemical and Biological Engineering
    Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering 2023 Conference

  • Assessment for Learning in the Virtual Russian Language Classroom
    Veta Chitnev | Faculty of Arts | CENES
    Conference presentation at the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
  • The Sentence as Itself: Vivifying Grammar in Writing Classrooms
    Bronwen Tate | Faculty of Arts | Creative Writing
    Conference presentation at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
  • A Novel Instructional Media for Accessible Teaching and Education (ANIMATE)
    Alex Tang | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science | Office of Experiential Education
    Poster presentation at the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada (AFPC) Canadian Pharmacy Education and Research Conference
  • Utilizing Near-Peer Teaching in a Pharmacy Community Service Learning Course
    Tristan Lai | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science | Office of Experiential Education
    Poster presentation at the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada (AFPC) Canadian Pharmacy Education and Research Conference
  • Circles of Learning: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Health Professional Education Programs (HPEPs)
    Tal Jarus | Faculty of Medicine | OSOT
    Presentation at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education
  • Transitioning Students from Class to Practice – A Review of Institutional Practice Skills Course in Entry- to-Practice PharmD Program
    Kayla Fang | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science | Office of Experiential Education
    Poster presentation at the Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada (AFPC) Canadian Pharmacy Education and Research Conference
  • Emotion(ality) and Emotive Writing: A SoTL Study into the Impacts in/on the Middle East Studies Classroom
    Pheroze Unwalla | Faculty of Arts | History and Middle East Studies
    Presentation and Roundtable at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting
  • Integrating intercultural perspective into all levels of language courses (in Covid times and beyond)
    Luisa Canuto | Faculty of Arts | French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
    Presentation at the Canadian Association of Italian Studies
  • Collaborative Online International Projects to Develop Intercultural Competency
    Luisa Canuto | Faculty of Arts | French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
    Presentation at the American Association for Teachers of Italian
  • Survey data analysis of engagement and self-efficacy in a concurrent hybrid modality
    Suborna Shekhor Ahmed | Faculty of Forestry | Forest Resource Management
    Presentation at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada
  • Development of a data science CURE in microbiology using publicly available microbiome datasets
    Evelyn Sun | Faculty of Science | Microbiology & Immunology
    Publication in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Creating equitable and inclusive first-year biology, chemistry, and physics courses
    Jaclyn Stewart | Faculty of Science | Chemistry
    Presentation at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference 2022

  • The role of pragmatic instruction in L2 interactional competence: Learners’ use of Japanese interactional particles ne, yo, and yone in spontaneous conversation
    Saori Hoshi | Faculty of Arts | Asian Studies
    Versions of the work presented at 3 conferences: Second Language Research Forum; 17th International Pragmatics Conference; American Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Virtual Conference
  • Facilitating Peer Learning & Mentorship through Liberating Structures
    Oral Robinson | Faculty of Arts | Sociology
    Taylor Institute 2021 Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
  • Exploring the Value of Student Work in Co-Creation in Teaching and Learning
    Tim Huh | Sauder School of Business
    Production and Operations Management Society POMS 31st Online Conference
  • Decolonizing a Classroom with International Students from Asia
    Ayaka Yoshimizu | Faculty of Arts | Asian Studies
    Conference presentation at the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education Annual Conference & Exhibition
  • Optimal Assessment Weighting: A Backwards Approach
    Jonathan Graves | Faculty of Arts| School of Economics
    Conference presentation at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Promoting Inclusion in Online Learning: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic a Multi-Institutional Study
    Silvia Bartolic | Faculty of Arts | Sociology
    Conference presentation at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

  • Designing a laboratory course that reduces stress, increases confidence, and encourages beneficial behaviours related to primary scientific literature use
    Marcia Graves | Faculty of Science | Department of Microbiology and Immunology
    Presentation at SABER West
  • Students as Emerging Artists in Society
    Christine D’Onofrio | Faculty of Arts | Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
    Presentation at Lilly Conference: Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning
  • Integrating Online Daily Clinical Assessments in Canadian Dental Hygiene Education
    Susan Schmitz | Faculty of Dentistry | Oral Biological and Medical Sciences
    Poster presentation at the American Dental Educators Association (ADEA) Annual Session & Exhibition
  • A Three-Party Case Study: Exploring the Value of Student Work in Co-Creation in Teaching and Learning
    Woonghee Tim Huh | Sauder School of Business
    Presentation at Production and Operations Management (POM) Society Annual Conference 2020 [Conference postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic]
  • Community of Practice: A pedagogy to foster professional engagement in an analysis course in Social Work
    Antoine Coulombe | Faculty of Arts | School of Social Work
    Workshop  at 31e congrès de l’Association internationale de pédagogie universitaire sur le thème : Redéfinir l’expérience d’enseignement et d’apprentissage | Osons l’avenir [Conference postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic]
  • Is it feasible to allow hundreds of inexperienced undergraduate students to contribute to curation projects at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, with benefits to everyone involved?
    Bridgette Clarkston | Faculty of Science | Botany
    Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference [Conference postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic]
  • Facilitating Peer Learning & Mentorship through Liberating Structures
    Oral Robinson | Faculty of Arts | Department of Sociology
    Workshop at University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching [Conference postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic]
  • Humanizing Patient Case Scenarios Using the Humanities
    Marion Pearson | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Presentation at Canadian Pharmacy Education and Research Conference [Conference postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic]
  • Food Science Curriculum Renewal: Scaffolding Student Learning and Enhancing Industry Preparedness
    Patricia Hingston | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
    Poster presentation at Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting
  • Development of a peer-reviewed open-access undergraduate research journal
    David Oliver | Faculty of Science | Microbiology and Immunology
    Publication in Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education
  • Exploratory Factor Analysis of a survey on group-exam experiences
    Joss Ives | Faculty of Science | Physics and Astronomy
    Presentation at the American Association of Physics Teachers Conference
  • Towards an equity competency model for sustainable food systems education programs
    Will Valley | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
    Publication in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
  • Educational resources and curriculum on lactation for health undergraduate students: A scoping review
    Suzanne Campbell | Faculty of Applied Science | School of Nursing
    Publication in Journal of Human Lactation

  • Experiential Engagement with New International Students: Turning Public Spaces into Learning Spaces through Augmented Reality Walking Tours
    Siobhan McPhee | Faculty of Arts| Geography
    Conference presentation at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference
  • Multisource feedback of interprofessional competencies: how communication and collaboration are viewed across health disciplines
    Kerry Wilbur | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Conference Presentation at The Canadian Conference on Medical Education
  • Assessing Dental Hygiene Students’ Readiness for Interprofessional Learning
    Zul Kanji | Faculty of Dentistry | Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences
    Conference presentation at the American Dental Education Association Annual Session & Exhibition
  • The Impact of PHarmacy Students as Educators (PHASE) and a Simulated Teaching Environment in an Entry-to-Practice PharmD Program at UBC
    Tony Seet | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Conference presentation at The Canadian Conference on Medical Education
  • OnTask: A Learning Analytics Tool to Provide Personalized Feedback to Increase Student Motivation and Success
    Sandra Brown | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
    Conference Presentation at the Mount Royal Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Small changes, big gains: a curriculum-wide study of teaching practices and student learning in undergraduate biology
    Patricia Schulte | Faculty of Science| Zoology
    Publication in PLOS – One
  • Japanese Cinema: De-centering film studies and visual literacy pedagogy
    Colleen Laird | Faculty of Arts| Department of Asian Studies
    Conference Presentation at Japan and the World – The world Japan International Symposium, 2019
  • Beyond Care Providers: A “LEAP” into A Leadership Course with Professionalism as the Overarching Ethos
    Patricia Gerber | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Academy for Professionalism in Health Care 7th Annual Meeting
  • Fostering civic engagement and global citizenship through an optional experiential learning assignment in an upper-year elective course: Students’ perspectives up to five years after course completion
    Candice Rideout | Faculty of Land and Food Systems | Food, Nutrition and Health program
    Conference presentation at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Annual Conference
  • Reducing Classroom Anxiety Through a Student-Generated Model of Participation
    Kristen Walker | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
    Conference presentation at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Investigating the Effects of Reducing Linguistic Complexity on EAL Student Comprehension in First-year Undergraduate Assessments
    Daniel Riccardi and Jennifer Lightfoot | UBC Vantage College
    Conference presentation at the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes
  • Pedagogy and Evaluation of Experiential Learning
    Suzie Lavalle | Faculty of Forestry
    Ecological Society of America Annual General Meeting; Louisville, Kentucky, USA
  • Introductory Soils Courses: A Frontier of Soil Science Education in Canada & Augmented Reality Brings the Role of Topography in Soil Formation to Life
    Maja Krzic | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
    2019 International Soils Meeting – “Soils Across Latitudes”; San Diego, California, USA
    2019 Canadian Network for Innovation in Education; Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Against the odds: Experiences of Canadian Medical Learners with Disabilities
    Tal Jarus | Faculty of Medicine | Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
    Canadian Conference on Medical Education; Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
  • Plagiarism Revisited: A Culture- and Genre-Sensitive Approach to Academic “Dishonesty”
    Suzanne James | Faculty pf Arts | English Language & Literatures
    College English Association Conference; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  • Validity and Reliability of a Concept Test to Measure Students’ Abilities to Qualitatively Rank Acid and Base Strength
    Jackie Stewart | Faculty of Science | Chemistry
    Spring 2019 ACS National Meeting & Exposition; Orlando, Florida, USA
  • Quantitative Arts: Improving Student Attitudes Towards Quantitative Research Methods
    Silvia Bartolic | Faculty of Arts | Sociology
    Lily Conference: Teaching for Active and Engaged Learning; Anaheim, California, USA
  • Toward a Digital Pedagogy in the Creative Writing Workshop
    John Vigna | Faculty of Arts | Creative Writing
    European Association of Creative Writing Programmes; Barcelona, Spain
  • Critical Geographies of Education: Why bother with Educational Technologies?
    Siobhan McPhee | Faculty of Arts | Geography
    Annual American Geographers Conference; Washington DC, USA
  • An Analysis of Curriculum and Pedagogy Through a Consideration of Outdoor Learning Perceptions and Practices in UBC Education Courses – Initial Patterns
    Hartley Banack | Faculty of Education | Curriculum & Pedagogy
    Physical and Health Education National Conference; Montreal, QC, Canada