World VIU Points with Dr. Kajsa Åberg - December 10th
VIU's World Leisure Centre of Excellence is pleased to welcome Dr. Kajsa Åberg, Regional Development Organization of Västerbotten, northern Sweden. She is joining the MASLM program in December as a visiting scholar and is the invited speaker for the next World VIU Points to be held online on December 10th, 7:00 - 8:15 am PST.
Dr. Åberg's presentation is titled "Innovations in Destination Development in Small Regional Cities – The Case for Umeå, in northern Sweden".
Worldviews, paradigms, and positionality – Why so confusing and why so important? - Graduate Research Workshop
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Check out the next Graduate Research Workshop and consider joining in!
Title: Worldviews, paradigms, and positionality - Why so confusing and why so important?
New Call for Case Studies Submissions
Dr. Suzanne de la Barre receives the International Engagement Award
Community Engagement and Your Research - Graduate Research Workshop
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Check out the next Graduate Research Workshop and consider joining in!
Title: Community Engagement and Your Research
Speaker: Tanis Dagert - Community Liaison and Knowledge Mobilization Officer
Meet-up with Tanis Dagert, Community Liaison and Knowledge Mobilization Officer to learn about opportunities and best practices to engage with community and share your knowledge.
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 3rd, 12:00-12:45 pm PDT
Conversations on Sustainability with Dr. Aggie Weighill
Conversations on Sustainability with Dr. Aggie Weighill: The purpose of these conversations is to introduce viewers to diverse individuals working in leisure and to learn more about what they do and how that links to sustainability. Guests will not always focus specifically on sustainability but they will be asked to reflect on how their efforts work towards making the world better for people, the planet, and sometimes profits!
Three Kinds of Lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics - Graduate Research Workshop
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Title: Three Kinds of Lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics -Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
In this workshop, Farhad will review some of the most common (purposeful or non-purposeful) misusage of numerical data. This session will help graduate students to identify the most common misrepresentation of data and avoid making these mistakes in their research report.
Speaker: Dr. Farhad Moghimehfar
Introducing Dr. Stacie Chappell
Dr. Stacie Chappell
MA SLM Students awarded the British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
Congratulations to MA Sustainable Leisure Management students Monir Shahzeidi and Lliam Broderick, recipients of the British Columbia Graduate Scholarship. Each student was awarded $15,000 to assist with their graduate research. The students will share their knowledge with the VIU community during Research Week, and we look forward to learning more about their research and path as emerging leisure scholars.
Thematic Analysis - Graduate Research Workshop
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Check out the next Graduate Research Workshop and consider joining in!
Title: Thematic Analysis
In this session, students will be able to answer the questions: What is a research theme? How do I develop themes from the data I have collected? And how do I establish methodological integrity with such a ‘subjective’ analytic approach?
Speaker: Dr. Garrett Stone