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This study examines the identities, feelings of group belonging and accents of British Columbia (BC) French immersion high school students. Through a mixed methodology, web-surveys and recorded in-…

Over the past two decades, there has been tremendous growth in winter backcountry recreation, challenging the traditional ways in which recreationists are understood, characterized, and communicated…

This paper presents a phenomenology of artistic painting as an anticipatory process. I propose that the artist seeks to establish a state of equilibrium in a model of self-awareness expressed and…

In this article I initiate an inquiry into the artistic act and its relation to self-expression in an age of computational virtuality, a time when subjectivity is being subsumed by ubiquity and its…

Recent work in immersive analytics suggests benefits for systems that support work across both 2D and 3D data visualizations, i.e., cross-virtuality analytics systems. Here, I introduce HybridAxes,…

This dissertation draws connections between non-Indigenous settlement in BC and urban renewal by conducting an interdisciplinary critical place analysis of the neighbourhood of Strathcona from the…

Counter-Clouds (CCs) is a sculptural exploration of the cultural phenomenon of "rolling coal" or "coal rolling" in contemporary North America. This technique of counter-protest…

This research paper explores Indigenous health and wellbeing, the importance of Indigenous health sovereignty, and the impact of historical pandemics and the COVID-19 pandemic on Indigenous peoples…

For about two decades, many studies have shown the effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) as an alternative intervention for pain reduction in patients with acute and chronic pain. One of the possible…

In this paper we document the development of the Climate, Land, Energy, and Water systems (CLEWs) Global open modelling tool. With CLEWs Global, we seek to increase the accessibility of multi-…

Join lawyer, civil rights activist, politician, and former Minister of Health Canada, Ujjal Dosanjh, as he launches his new novel The Past is Never Dead.
This book launch, co-presented by SFU…

Bruce Mutsvairo, Professor of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, and a 2023 SFU CERi researcher-in-residence, sits down with Am Johal to discuss his journey from journalism into…

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Ali Kazimi, director and winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts.
Ali shares with Am how he got…

On this episode of Below the Radar, Angela Aujla, visual artist and Professor of Sociology at Georgian College, sits down with Am Johal.
Angela shares her career transition into the visual…

In this thesis, I explore legged agility with a primary focus on controlling external ground reaction forces produced by our legs. I conduct empirical studies and develop models to understand how we…

It is known that the James-Stein estimation method outperforms the Maximum Likelihood Estimation method when we estimate a p−dimension independently distributed random variable with p ≥ 3. In this…

Background: Admissions of older adults to long-term care (LTC) homes are occurring at more advanced ages with complex care needs, resulting in shorter lengths of stay before death and increased…

Helicat Canada (HCC)'s government issued tenures stretch over the lands and waters of almost every Indigenous community in British Columbia. As a sector in a unique position of caring for, being…

This week on Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Ryan Tacata, Assistant Professor of Performance at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts.
Together, Am and Ryan discuss his…

On this episode of Below the Radar, Charlotte Gill, author of the books Ladykiller and Eating Dirt, sits down with Am Johal to explore her latest book, Almost Brown, which shares her experience…