August 09, 2021 | Digest No. 263

Strengthening Grant Applications with Knowledge User Engagement: Considerations for CIHR, MSFHR and Beyond Webinar

Many grant competitions, including the CIHR Project Grant and most Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research opportunities, now require or strongly encourage engagement of knowledge users in grant applications and research project plans. Knowledge users vary based on context, but typically include community members, patients and families with lived experience of a health issue, health care providers, and health system administrators as active partners in the research process.

The BC SUPPORT Unit Fraser Centre specializes in engaging these knowledge user groups for health research, and has expertise in building engagement and knowledge translation plans into grant applications. This webinar will offer tools to help you strengthen your approach to engagement and effectively communicate that approach to review committees.

Please join us on Wednesday August 18^th from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM at https://bcahsn.zoom.us/j/65660219131. Contact Brittney Schichter, Research Navigator, at blapietr@sfu.ca for more information.

Study Hall @ Home

Are you feeling isolated working alone in this remote learning environment? Is it more difficult than ever to stay focused and motivated? Are your best time management efforts being put to the test? 

Study Hall @ Home will provide you with a dedicated time and space to work in a supported environment alongside other students.

Students are welcome to join other students in a supportive virtual space during these dedicated study times (more times expected for the Fall term):

Mondays 6-8pm
Thursdays 11am-1pm

During the sessions, Writing & Learning Peer Educators, and Science & Math Peer Tutors are on hand to introduce a new study and learning tip and to provide academic support and referrals at students' request. Students may register for upcoming sessions here.

BPK 343 Criminal Record Check

A friendly reminder:

As you may already know, the Criminal Record Check - done via Student Services at SFU and the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General  - is coded as a prerequisite for BPK 343, which cannot be waived by law.  Processing the CRC should take 10 business days, but it has been taking a lot longer lately.  

If there is no determination of risk: you will automatically be forwarded an electronic copy of your clearance letter. The Criminal Records Check is valid for 5 years unless there is a break in studies at SFU.  As well as receiving a clearance letter, the clearance will be coded on your record, so is valid for other courses such as BPK 482.

Since this document is valid for 5 yrs. there is no need to wait until you plan to enroll in BPK 343.  If this course is required for your KIN major and concentration, get this done asap.  If you plan to enroll in BPK 343 for the upcoming Spring 2022 term, why not get this done now!  The system will be open for Spring 2022 course enrollment in November.  Getting this done soon will help if the processing times remain longer than usual.

If the enrollments in BPK 343 are low in the Fall due to delays with the CRC, then the #'s in this course could be high in the Spring. So delaying in getting your CRC done may mean that the course fills before you get to enroll.  Then that delays taking the course until the Summer.

Best,

Sophie Dunbar | Undergraduate Advisor

Academic Resource Links

*  Exchange Students Covid-19
refer here for more information.

* Remote Study & Work
https://www.sfu.ca/itservices/remote-study-work-resources.html

* Comprehensive Student Support
http://www.sfu.ca/students/support.html (Grades, Withdrawals, Advising, student services, International Students, Available Resources, Financial, Co-op and more)

Fall 2021 Courses - Seats Available

• CA 241 Creative Coding Lab (3)
  Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30 AM – 11:20 AM (GCA 2345, GOLDCORP)
  Instructor: Arne Eigenfeldt
  Prerequisite: CA 143 or permission of instructor.
  Please contact eigenfel@sfu.ca for permission to enroll.

• CMPT 115 - Exploring Computing Science
  The course is intended for students studying in a disciplines outside of Computing Science, and is an approved breadth-science course.
  
  
• GSWS 100-3 Sex Talk:  Introduction to Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Studies (B-Hum) | Leung
  GSWS 100 introduces students to major contemporary issues in sexuality studies through an exploration of how sex is portrayed, talked about, and evaluated in different media and cultural contexts. Topics covered include: an overview of sexuality theories; media culture and sexualization; social media and the public/private boundaries of sex; sex on screen; sexual identity in media; sexual identity and consumer culture; trans media and non-binary language of gender; technology and the future of sex.
  No prerequisites!
  
  
• GSWS 101-3 Gender Talk (B-Soc) | Patterson (Surrey)
  Should sex work be legalized? Is pornography sexist? How is gender and sexuality portrayed in popular culture? If you are interested in the ways we live as gendered beings in Canadian society, then GSWS 101 will be of interest to you.
  No prerequisites!
  
  
• GSWS 333-4 Environment, Colonization, and Global Capitalist Dispossession | Salimjan
  This course takes a feminist geographic and decolonizing approach to critique the practices of place-making, social control, and settler colonial dispossession in the border regions of the People’s Republic of China, as well as the complicities of global capitalism resulting from resource depletion, environmental crises, and human rights abuses. We examine how place is not neutral but is a social construction imbued in power relations of imperial conquest, racial and gender imagination, official and banal nationalism.
  
  
• GSWS 433-4 Gender, Violence, Resistance | Marchbank (Surrey)
  This seminar-based course provides a gendered analysis of violence and resistance to violence. It ranges from a gendered understanding of political states through to individual experiences, institutional situations and militarized aspects. We will address violence and resistance through feminist perspectives and use theories from critical studies of masculinity to come to an interdisciplinary understanding of the course themes.
  Students who do not meet the prerequisites can email gswsmgr@sfu.ca to ask about a waiver.
  
  
• INDG 111 D100 – Introduction to Participatory Indigenous Research Methods
  Wed 1:30-2:20pm, Fri 12:30-2:20pm
  Burnaby campus, SWH 9095
  PREREQ: INDG (or FNST) 101 or 201W
  Students in need of prerequisite waivers are encouraged to contact the respective course instructor (contact info in the link above)
  
  
• INDG 222 D100 – Special Topics in Indigenous Studies: Introduction to Public Policy
  Thu 2:30-5:20pm
  Burnaby campus, BLU 9655
  PREREQ: INDG (or FNST) 101
  Students in need of prerequisite waivers are encouraged to contact the respective course instructor (contact info in the link above)
  
  
• IS 105 D100 Around the World through Film
  IS 105 explores how contemporary economic, and political challenges shape and reflect the aspirations and struggles of ordinary people in countries around the world. Using both fiction and documentary film as a way of grounding ourselves in the material worlds outside of North America the class will consider specific sites of global interconnection. Non-IS students can use this course towards their B-Soc or B-Hum requirements.

Opportunity for BPK 498 (Directed Study - Experiential) in Clinical Pedorthics

Dr. Dave Clarke (BPK Faculty member) and Dr. Michael Ryan, a certified pedorthist, Head of Product, Brand and Innovation at The Kintec Group, and Adjunct Professor in BPK, are offering a co-supervised directed study (BPK 498) in clinical pedorthics for the Fall 2021 term. The goal of the course is for the student to learn the process of clinical research in the field of pedorthics. The principal responsibility of the student will be to assist with a study that evaluates the success of a novel proprietary insole design intended for patients with knee osteoarthritis, and to prepare a research report on the findings. Details here.

Eligibility and how to apply:

• Eligibility rules for BPK 498 apply: http://www.sfu.ca/students/calendar/courses/bpk/498.html (includes a minimum of 75 credits, 3.0 GPA, and BPK 304W as a prerequisite).
• No prior experience working with insoles or injury monitoring skills are needed.

To apply, please email BOTH Dr. Michael Ryan (mryan@kintec.net) and Dr. Dave Clarke (dcclarke@sfu.ca) the following materials:

• a cover letter stating your interest, commitment, and highlights of your qualifications.
• an up-to-date advising transcript
• an up-to-date resume/CV
• the names and contacts of up to three references, at least one from an academic setting and one from a community-based employment or volunteer setting.

CLICK HERE for full detail

Motivational Interviewing - Level 1

Motivational Interviewing - Level 1 (via Zoom) Hosted by Alberta Kinesiology Association.

Starts: 11 Sep 2021 @ 9:00am MDT
Ends: 12 Sep 2021 @ 4:00pm MDT

Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be provided with a Level 1 certificate in Motivational Interviewing.

What is Motivational Interviewing?
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based, client-centred directive therapeutic approach that elicits behavioural change by assisting clients identify and resolve ambivalence about attitudes and ideas. MI has been used in a variety of clinical settings and has been applied to various health conditions. MI is effective in reducing maladaptive behaviours such as alcohol abuse, drug addiction, and smoking and in promoting healthy behaviour change such as weight loss, medication adherence, increasing physical activity, and return to work. The applicability of MI across a variety of issues, its brief and specific interactions, and practical use in combination with other active treatment methods has intrigued many health care practitioners and led to explorations of the utility of MI in other areas of health care practice.

Motivational Interviewing Course Description:

This two-day workshop uses a combination of active learning, group work, and practice activities to develop basic skills in how to identify and address ambivalence and reduce discord with clients using the fundamental processes of MI. This workshop will encourage participants to consider how the evidence-based client-centred approach of MI can be applied in their practice.

Registration closes September 9, 2021 @ 11:59pm (MST)

CLICK HERE for details and registration