2020 was like no other鈥攁nd the UVic community kept doing what we do best. Here are just a few of the many stories that helped shape a year of news.
Nursing PhD candidate Meaghan Brown puts managed alcohol program experience and research into practice and policy.
Ashley Charleson, a member of the sh铆sh谩lh Nation near Sechelt, BC, prefers to learn online and says UVic鈥檚 Indigenous Community Development and Governance program was her ideal
starting point.
The physical convocation ceremony for UVic鈥檚 2020 nursing graduates will have to wait鈥攖hey鈥檙e already playing key roles in community health. Sydney Hofmeyr is one of them, joining
Island Health.
Two UVic researchers named top 25 "Storytellers" in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's annual competition. They show Canadians the impact of their research in
just three minutes.
An interview about recent UVic research that argues for a fundamental shift in how government treats Indigenous rights and knowledge.聽
Scott Kouri walks the convocation stage for the third time in 10 years in November 2019 and odds are he will embrace his grand finish as he would a new beginning.
The Palliative Outreach Resource Team is built upon lessons learned from a three-year study led by UVic palliative care researcher Kelli Stajduhar, lead investigator of the Equity
in Palliative Approaches to Care program.
Canada鈥檚 National Dementia Strategy, the long-awaited blueprint for finding a cure and for reshaping policy, was released last week.
When the BC government began opening overdose prevention sites (OPS) across the province two years ago, it was an unprecedented response to the overdose crisis. Unlike supervised
consumption sites (SCS), which were subject to lengthy (and often onerous) approval processes, OPS were rolled out quickly and led by community members on the front lines of the public-health
emergency.
Sabrina Curtis graduates this spring with an online Graduate Diploma in Evaluation through the School of Public Administration. As the director of planning and evaluation for the
Columbia Basin Trust. Curtis is applying her learning directly to her complex work of measuring the performance of many diverse community programs and strategic initiatives supported by the
trust.
Three members of the UVic community are recognized as campus leaders in the second annual Provost鈥檚 Advocacy and Activism awards, acknowledging individuals who address systemic or
institutionalized barriers, as champions for others. Recipients include Karen Lithgow, Hannah Charnock and Bruce Wallace.