Getting the Grant! - Part II of Field Experience Trilogy
In Part I of my update on my internship with Économusée British Columbia Artisans at Work, I shared that we had applied for a Knowledge Synthesis Grant, which is a new funding program offered by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Our applicant team is headed by Dr...
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SLM student at the World Tourism Organization
SLM Field Experience – Gordon ClarkAs part of the MA SLM program at VIU students have an opportunity to gain field experience. I am privileged to be completing my field experience as an intern with the Sustainable Development of Tourism Program at the World Tourism Organization. I am pleased to...
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Jake Skinner's Field Experience 2nd Blog Post
Hello blogger community,Since my last/first blog post lots has happened on my field experience frontier. Where to start? Well how about I start with the official project end? About a month ago my Pender Islands community inventory project was cancelled by the Southern Gulf Islands Economic...
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SLM Field Experience - Student Reports Back
In April of this year, I started a summer-long internship with Économusée British Columbia, an initiative of the not-for-profit Société de développement économique de la Colombie Britannique (SDE). Subsidized by the federal program Young Canada Works, positions like these help Canadian students...
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ATLAS Africa Conference - African Tourism in Global Society: Central or Peripheral
Tourism educators and researchers from all corners of the globe gathered in Kigali, Rwanda from June 3 - 5 for the 8th ATLAS Africa conference. Delegates presented on a wide variety of topics from community-based tourism and sustainable livelihoods to religious pilgrimages and global...
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WLC contributes substantially to the Island Studies Conference
By Nicole VaugeoisLast week, students, visiting scholars and faculty from the World Leisure Center of Excellence made tremendous contributions to the first Island Studies Conference held on Gabriola Island, BC. In total, we had two faculty, Dr. Nicole Vaugeois and Dr. Pete Parker attend and present...
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Monica Reflects on her Island Studies Conference Experience, May 2013
This weekend, I attended my first conference as a presenter. It was nerve-wracking, exciting, and fun, and what a good feeling to get to that last slide and know that you did it and people actually seemed like they got something out of it! The conference was entitled Island Studies: WestCoast...
Read MoreSLM Grad Student Jake Skinner's Field Experience as a Community Researcher on the Pender Islands
Hello y'all,This is my first field experience share, to my fellow classmates, faculty, employer and the engaged public. As part of our program we are required to gain out-of-academia experience in the field which we one day hope to work in. I have the privilege to share that as part of this...
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BSC Conference Program & Call for Papers
The Fresh Outlook Foundation is hosting its 6th Building SustainAble Communities conference November 25th to 28th in Kelowna. Please save room in your calendar and your budget for this highly acclaimed and hugely popular event that last year drew 600 delegates from 80 communities!In keeping with...
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Vancouver Island University and the World Leisure Centre of Excellence acknowledge and thank the Snuneymuxw, Quw’utsun, Tla’amin, Snaw-naw-as and Qualicum First Nation on whose traditional lands we research and share knowledge.
2018 WLCE International Field School
Gold River Tourism Strategic Plan
Recreation Prescription Project - VIU CREATE Conference 2019
2018 WLCE International Field School - Brazil
Vancouver Learning Lab with Visiting Scholar Dr. Marco Bevolo
Ghana Research & Study Tour 2019
World VIU Points - Visiting Scholar Dr. Daniel Theriaut
Impact Sustainability Travel & Tourism 2019
Ghana Research & Study Tour 2019
Visiting Scholar Dr. Kelly Bricker and MASLM students and faculty
2018 WLCE International Field School - Brazil
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PechaKucha Night and VIUWLCE's 10th Anniversary
MASLM Cohort 2019
B250 VIU Faculty of Management
Vancouver Learning Lab
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