Art & Cultural Studies
Title: Undercurrents: Queer Readings in Hong Kong Culture
Description: A study of queer cultural politics in contemporary Hong Kong.
Researcher: Helen Hok-Sze Leung
Title: Kiran Bedi: Changing India from the Inside
Description: A video documentary on India’s Kiran Bedi, Joint Commissioner of Police Training, who tempers traditional police training with inner development through yoga and meditation.
Researcher: Jacqueline Levitin
Title: Documenting the Beginnings of Canadian Feature Filmmaking - A Pilot Project
Description: Research on the first films of two of Canada's foremost early (and feminist) filmmakers, Mireille Dansereau and Larry Kent.
Researcher: Jacqueline Levitin
Title: Video/dance/music collaboration
Description: Creation of a video background for the dance by choreographer, Jennifer Mascall, and composer, Michael Vincent.
Researcher: Jacqueline Levitin
Title: untitled
Description: experimental video documentary on my family's history in Manchuria and the Jews of China.
Researcher: Jacqueline Levitin
History
Title: Female War Resisters in Canada: the Vietnam Years
Description: Personal and political reasons for the immigration of American women to Canada during anti-vietnam social protests.
Researcher: Lara Campbell
Title: Respectable Citizens: Gender and Family in the Great Depression
Description: Book manuscript on gender, work and welfare state formation in the 1930's.
Researcher: Lara Campbell
Title: Female Journalists in France after Le Fronde (the first feminist daily in the world), 1906-1954
Description: What happened to the journalists who started their careers in Le Fronde after it folded in 1906. Beginning by focusing on the three who became foreign correspondents for the mainstream Parisian press, followed by a look at those who became political reporters on Parisian and provincial newspapers.
Researcher: Mary Lynn Stewart
International
Title: Canadian Women and the New American Empire: NAFTA and Social Justice
Description: An examination of the implications of NAFTA for women and social justice policy issues in Canada.
Researcher: M.G.Cohen
Title: Reconfiguring Gender on the Semi-Periphery
Description: This is an edited book based on the research of the Globalism project involving people from Canada, Mexico, Australia & Norway.
Researcher: M.G. Cohen
Title: Continental Electricity Designs through US Regulatory Imperialism
Description: This is a book project that examines the integration of the North American electricity market under U.S. regulatory control.
Researcher: M.G. Cohen
Public Policy
Title: Prisoners' rights and penal abolition: A focus on the work of Claire Culhane.
Researcher: Brian Burtch
Title: Lifelong learning and mature students: barriers to higher education.
Researcher: Brian Burtch
Title: Economic Security Project
Description: Examines public policy changes in B.C., their implications for vulnerable populations, and alternative approaches to meet economic security needs.
Researcher: M.G. Cohen
Title: Child Labour and Training Wages Study
Description: This examines the effect of recent employment standards change in B.C. on children and youths.
Researcher: M.G. Cohen
Title: Home Support Delivery Systems: Changing Impacts on Workers, Clients and Families
Description: This study examines the impact of health care restructuring on home support delivery in B.C.
Researcher: Arlene Tigar McLaren
Title: Through a Gender Lens: Exploring the Intersections between Elderly Women Immigrants, Health and Policy in Metropolis Vancouver
Description: This study explores the experiences of elderly South Asian women who were sponsored to Canada by their families.
Researcher: Arlene Tigar McLaren
Title: Homecare for Homeless HIV+
Description: A study of health services and continuity of care issues for marginally housed HIV+ people.
Researcher: Cindy Patton
Title: Transnational Migration and the Commodification of Im/migrant Female Labourers in Canada
Description: An investigation of the processes of various forms of commodification of im/migrant women workers in Canada.
Researcher: Habiba Zaman
Title: Asian Immigrants in BC
Description: To document the recent changes in Labour Market Policies and how these changes affect immigrants in terms of wages, working conditions, job-security, access to housing, transport and so on.
Researcher: Habiba Zaman
Natural/Applied
Science
Title: Environmental Health Literacy
Description: Community-based participatory action research on alternative paradigms of environmental health in rural villages in Nova Scotia and British Columbia.
Researcher: Marilyn MacDonald
Title: Conceiving Creativity
Description: Feminist Science Studies of major interactions between science and religion in the development of Western conceptualizations about creativity.
Researcher: Marilyn MacDonald
Title: Environmental Numeracy
Description: Examines the bioepistemological construction of numeracy, particularly in relation to the statistical basis of human mindedness.
Researcher: Marilyn MacDonald
Title: Global Science/Women's Health
Description: A study of how particular scientific facts are applied in specific national and local contexts.
Researcher: Cindy Patton
Title: The Understanding Lipids Study
Description: A study of the clinician-patient community, with emphasis on patients’ understanding of their HIV-related metabolic disorder.
Researcher: Cindy Patton
Space
Title: Traffic Safety and its Social Implications
Description: This study is creating an interdisciplinary environment to generate new knowledge and innovative policy development in the area of traffic safety.
Researcher: Arlene Tigar McLaren
Title: Mapping Integration and Belonging in Greater Vancouver Over Time: Comparing East Vancouver and the Tri-Cities
Description: This research examines the experiences of immigrant families over a five year period who settled in an inner-city and an outer suburb of Vancouver.
Researcher: Arlene Tigar McLaren
Title: Risk Behaviour in Adventure Racing
Description: A study of how racers understand and try to cope with risk in the wilderness environment.
Researcher: Cindy Patton
Title: The stairways project
Description: A study of placement and use of stairways in Vancouver’s downtown core, with proposals for workplace interventions to increase stairway use to offset exercise lost to sedentary jobs.
Researcher: Cindy Patton
Graduate Students' Thesis
Thesis Title: Gender and International Development; race, class and gender relations, immigration studies and management of social enterprises.
Researcher: Syeda Bukhari
Description: Violence against Women in Mexico and Community Responses to it.
Researcher: Silke Frischmuth
Thesis Title: Stitching Up the Natural.
Researcher: Patricia Garner
Thesis Title:”Excavating the Unfathomable” Tracking Elusive Asexual Texts, and Asexuality’s Emergence as a Paradoxical Sexual Orientaion.
Researcher: Jessica Haddon
Thesis Title: Domestic Work as Precarious Work in China.
Researcher: Xinying Hu
Thesis Title:
Focusing on Reality TV: An Exploration of Women's Participatory Media Culture.
Researcher: Natasha Patterson
Thesis Title: Mapping the Discourse of Makeover Culture and Contemporary Feminism.
Researcher: Beth Pentney
Thesis Title: Historical and contemporary manifestations of feminist theatre in burlesque and cabaret performances.
Researcher: Mary Shearman.
Description: Social and Cultural Health Studies.
Researcher: Joy Walcott-Francis
Masters Students
Thesis Title: Evaluating Poverty Strategies in the Global Political Economy: Case Studies from Bangladesh, Bolivia, and India.
Researcher: Mignon Alphonso
Thesis Title: Impact of Globalization on Women from a Transnational Feminist Perspective.
Researcher: Karen Eggerman
Thesis Title:
Iranian Immigrant Women in Canada: Economic Security Among Iranian Immigrant Lone Mothers.
Researcher: Giti Eghbal Kalvir
Thesis Title: The Consumption of Cosmetics in Iran after the Islamic Revolution.
Researcher: Maryam Kiani
Thesis Title: (Un)veiling the Veiled Subject.
Researcher: Rahela Nayebzadah
Thesis Title: Adolescent Mothers’ Narratives on Food and Their Bodies: Distinct Anxieties at the Crossroads of Youth and Maternal Obligations.
Researcher: Cara Ng