We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to the 2026 Summer SoTL Seed Program cohort on embarking on a reflective journey to research and evaluate diverse pedagogical practices.
Full SoTL Seed Projects
- Bavisha Kalyan – Putting the Action in the Classroom: Working with students to co-create participatory pedagogies
- Elizabeth Trudel – Redesigning a first-year engineering laboratory course to promote inquiry, reflection, and evidence-based reasoning when faced with open ended problem.
- Farzaneh Farhang Mehr – Designing for Sustained Cognitive Engagement and Participation in Large-Enrollment Engineering Materials Classrooms
- Jennifer Brown – Teaching Science Communication Design Through Learning Theory in PHAR 480 (Pharmaceutical Topics and Communication Seminar IV)
- Jon Beasley-Murray – Contract Grading: Motivation and Quality in an Era of Anxiety and AI
- Katie Fitzpatrick – Between Peer and Expert: The Student Journal Editor and the Culture of Undergraduate Writing
- Kemi Ola – Exploring Students’ Design Beliefs and Thinking Skills in a Project-Based Course
- Scott Covey – Understanding Career Readiness in Students of Molecular Biosciences
Limited Support Seed Projects
- Casey Keulen: Belonging, Confidence, and Embodied Experience: A Phenomenological Study of Women in Manufacturing Engineering in Pursuit of Improved Program Design
- Jason Min: Engagement and Action for Indigenous Cultural Safety at Burnaby Hospital Pharmacy
- Moberley Luger: Linguistic Justice and Belonging in the UBC Classroom
- Lexis Ly: Making meaning of complexity: Using reflection to assess systems thinking, relevant course components, and transferable learning in One Welfare education
- Yilin Pan: Teaching responsive AI use in research