Academic Appetizer Hour with Green College Leading Scholars
Coach House, Green College, UBC
Tuesday, January 30, 5-6:00 pm, with reception to follow
Green College Leading Scholars Program
Bite-sized research presentations by recently appointed UBC Faculty Members across disciplines. Faculty presentations in this first session by the 2023-25 Leading Scholars Program cohort include:
Exploring, Creating and (Maybe) Experiencing Justice and Belonging in Higher Education
Laura Yvonne Bulk, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
I am a daughter, friend, cousin, tante; I am a Dutch settler to W̱SÁNEĆ territory. I am also a first-generation university student, a disabled scholar, and an occupational therapy educator. As an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the new site located in Surrey, I have the opportunity to engage in educational leadership activities. My work focuses on promoting justice (right relationship) in academia, interprofessional education and in distributed health professions education specifically. I am particularly interested in the power of creative techniques and solidarity in anti-ableism, decolonization, and other equity-focussed work.
Burning Questions: Timber Structures and the Fire Safety Paradigm
Felix Wiesner, Wood Science
I am a fire safety engineering researcher, meaning on good days I get to burn things for a living. My research focuses on fire safety in engineered timber buildings. I explore the complex relationship between fire dynamics and structural fire capacity, i.e., how long will a structure last in a fire where the structure itself is made of fuel. My research can be both restrictive or enabling and I explicitly try to build bespoke experimental configurations to obtain data that can be used in performance-based engineering models in lieu of standardised testing.
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January 30, 2024
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Coach House
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd