ACER VIU - Climate Cafe
Awareness of Climate change through Education and Research invites you to join them on Wednesday, December 3 at 6pm for a showing of DISRUPTION.Synopsis:‘When it comes to climate change, why do we do so little when we know so much?’Through a relentless investigation to find the answer, Disruption ...
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Innovation Infusion Series: David Weaver
Dr. David Weaver is visiting Vancouver Island University from the 3rd to the 16th of December and will be delivering a public Innovation Infusion Talk on Thursday December 11, 2014 from 1:30PM to 3:00PM. In Dr Weaver's words, the talk will 'explore the need for a protected area visitor management...
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Innovation Infusion Series: Jerome F. Singleton
Jerome F. Singleton, PhD, CTRS is a professor in the Recreation and Leisure studies department in the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Recreation honours degree then completed his Masters of Science...
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Visiting Scholars for 2014/2015
Dr. Kiran ShindeBharati Vidyapeeth University, Indiavisited VIU September 16-28, 2014Dr. Kiran A. Shinde works as Principal of Bharati Vidyapeeth University College of Architecture, Pune, India. He holds a Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia and has obtained two Masters Degrees: one in Urban...
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Resilient Cities 2015 Call for Contributions
Resilient Cities 2015 Call for Contributions is now openICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, and the City of Bonn, are pleased to announce the next edition in the Resilient Cities congress series - the annual global forum on urban resilience:...
Read MoreInterested in learning about sustainability while traveling on Vancouver Island?
This year, the WLCE at VIU is pleased to announce that we are expanding our education mandate by offering a new "Sustainability Learning Series" in the Vancouver Island region. Today’s sustainability challenges require individuals, organizations and communities to “think outside the box” and have...
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New research assistants hired
The Centre is pleased to announce three new Grad students that are joining us to move forward the work in the development of the Centre. We could not accomplish the work that we do without them so thank you to the VIU Work Opportunities for funding these important positions.Caleigh EllisMy research...
Read MoreOverwhelmed? Read Brigid Schulte's new book and bring leisure into your life
By Nicole Vaugeois“As I began to think more about leisure time, I realized that I kept putting it off, like I was waiting to reach some tipping point: If I could just finish picking all the weeds, chopping the invasive bamboo, cleaning out the crayons and shark teeth and math papers and toys and...
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St.Eustatius Sustainable Conference - Tourism Development in the Community
By Nicole VaugeoisDeveloping tourism in small island developing states has been the subject of much academic research over the past 20 years. When thinking about tourism in the Caribbean, it likely conjures up images of large cruise ships, all-inclusive resorts and mass tourism. Indeed these...
Read MoreCommunicating sustainability with Illustrations - free webinar by the Natural Step
Communicating Sustainability with Illustrations and Visuals (Free Webinar)Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 11:30am to 12:30pmCan we make the world sustainable by using only the left brain (text, numbers, linear and analytical thinking)? How do we engage the right brain effectively (intuition,...
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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
PechaKucha Night Nanaimo Vol.8
PechaKucha Night and VIUWLCE's 10th Anniversary
MASLM Cohort 2019
B250 VIU Faculty of Management
Vancouver Learning Lab
PechaKucha Night Nanaimo Vol.9 - Putting Leisure on the Map