Research

CHASI researcher unearths Canadian WWI internment history

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Dr. Sarah Beaulieu examines an artefact

Over 100 years ago, Anne Sadelain’s father was imprisoned at a First World War internment camp in B.C.’s Monashee Mountains. Today, UFV’s CHASI research centre releases a documentary telling her story, and the story of an archaeologist uncovering the history of the Monashee camp. Dr. Sarah Beaulieu, a Community Health and Social Innovation hub Faculty … Read more

Surviving and Thriving in a COVID-19 Remote Learning Context: A Survey of Post-Secondary Students and Instructors in Ontario

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Photo of a young person sitting at their open laptop, studying a book with a pen resting on their keyboard.

CHASI Faculty Associate Dr. Karun Karki recently completed a report on remote learning in Ontario during COVID-19, which was funded by eCampusOnatio, and has generously agreed to share the widely applicable findings with us. His co-authors for the report are Anna Markov, MSW; Rachel Yavnai, MSW; Ginette Lafrenière, MA, MSW, PhD; and Michael Woodford, MSW, … Read more

Report: UFV student experiences of COVID-19

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Cover of report reading "UFV Student Experiences with Travel, Health and COVID-19"

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Dr. Cindy Jardine, in partnership with CHASI and UFV’s South Asian Studies Institute, has released a report titled “UFV COVID-19 Student Experiences with Travel, Health, and COVID-19.” The report summarizes the responses given by nearly 1,500 UFV students who participated in a survey issued in April 2020, at the outset … Read more

New Report: The Utility of Physician Referred Outdoor Physical Activity for South Asian Women

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The first page of a report titled "the utility of physician referred outdoor physical activity for South Asian women."

A new report by UFV’s Dr. Iris Lesser and Ms. Navdeep Rai, BKin, The Utility of Physician Referred Outdoor Physical Activity for South Asian Women, examines how outdoor group-based physical activity—recommended by a physician and carried out with other South Asian women—may be an opportunity to improve physical activity in a community that reports low … Read more