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UBC Community Engagement
by UBC Community Engagement
Community engagement is about the power of relationships. The UBC Community Engagement podcast features conversations with community and UBC members about their innovative and collaborative community-university partnerships. In this podcast, we learn about the people behind these projects and their unique journeys to create a more just and equitable future.We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.
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After the Rupture: Positioning BC and Canada in a Changing Global Trade Landscape
For decades, the Canada-US relationship was of two nations bound by an intertwined economic fabric. Now, as the 2026 review of CUSMA looms and global protectionism becomes a new global standard, the strands may be fraying to a breaking point. On March 19, 2026, a panel of leading experts from the...
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Stories of partnership: How Community Veterinary Outreach and UBC are leveraging the bond between people and their pets to improve health access in the DTES
In Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES), Community Veterinary Outreach, a national charity, is working with UBC researchers and students to reduce barriers to health care by allowing people to access support for themselves alongside their trusted animal companions. Research shows that pets offer...
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Stories of Partnership: How the Nuxalk Nation Is Working with UBC's Museum of Anthropology to Host the First-Ever Exhibit of Their People
In partnership with the Nuxalk Nation, the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia is presenting Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun—the world's first dedicated exhibition of the Nuxalk. The exhibit features over 60 historic treasures from MOA's...
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UBC Okanagan Students and a Peachland Conservation Group are Using Bats and Bugs to Build Community Conservation
In Peachland British Columbia, a local conservation group is turning the night sky into a classroom, inviting students and community members to study bats, insects, and the vital ecosystems they share. Peachland’s Bat Education and Ecological Protection Society, better known as BEEPS, leads the...
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UBC Partnering in Research Conference: Community-Engaged Research Ask Me Anything
What does community-engaged research look like in practice, and how can researchers navigate the complexities that arise from community involvement? In this special "Ask Me Anything" session, recorded live at the 2025 UBC Partnering in Research Conference, our speakers tackle these questions and...
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UBC Partnering in Research Conference + Stories of Partnership: Be The Change Earth Alliance, False Creek Friends and UBC Sustainability Hub
How can community-university partnerships sustain meaningful work amid funding shortages, organizational transitions, or shifting priorities? Recorded live at the 2025 UBC Partnering in Research Conference, find out in this joint instalment of Challenges in Partnered Research and Stories of...
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UBC Partnering in Research Conference: Reciprocal Storytelling in Community-Based and Indigenous-Led Research
Storytelling is powerful—but in research involving Indigenous and other historically, persistently, and systemically marginalized communities, it carries profound ethical responsibilities. Recorded live at the 2025 UBC Partnering in Research Conference, this episode explores storytelling in...
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Stories of Partnership: Central Okanagan Food Bank and UBC Okanagan's Faculty of Management
We are excited to share the fourth episode of our Stories of Partnership podcast series, produced in collaboration between UBC Okanagan's and UBC Vancouver's offices of Community Engagement. This session was recorded virtually in November 2024, as part of the UBC Community Engagement Network. Our...
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Achieving Sustainability in Engaged Research
From navigating logistical hurdles to addressing ethical considerations and maintaining strong, reciprocal partnerships, how can community-university collaborations balance the desire to serve communities with the need to sustain ongoing research activities? In this episode, we speak with Dr.…
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The Power of Storytelling in Collaborative Research
Explore how storytelling—through comics, podcasts, and apps—can be a powerful tool for engaging audiences, securing research funding, and delivering impactful messages. Our guests include Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam, an expert in graphic storytelling from UBC’s Department of Central, Eastern, and...
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Challenges in Partnered Research: Should I Start a Non-Profit?
In our latest episode of “Challenges in Partnered Research,” a Q&A series by Partnering in Research, we aim to learn from researchers who realized their research and implementation goals had grown beyond academia and how they decided a non-profit organization could advance their policy-relevant...
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Stories of Partnership: Kelowna Museums and UBC Okanagan Library
We are excited to share the second episode of our Stories of Partnership series—recorded live in front of an audience on October 2, 2024, in Kelowna, BC. In this episode, we feature an inspiring partnership between Kelowna Museums and the UBC Okanagan Library. Together, they’ve launched projects...
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Lingít: a Love Language for Community — Children of the Taku Society and UBCO Partner to Document Language Reclamation and Resilience
Indigenous language in B.C. is facing a critical state of emergency, largely due to historical Canadian government policies aimed at assimilating Indigenous peoples into English-speaking, non- Indigenous society. However, located in northern B.C., the Children of the Taku, a non-profit society...
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Challenges in Partnered Research: Moura Quayle, Associate Provost, UBC Vancouver
For our latest episode, we’re excited to bring you a conversation between two influential voices at UBC: Professor Moura Quayle, the Associate Provost at UBC Vancouver and Adriaan de Jager, UBC’s Associate Vice-President of Government Relations and Community Engagement. Moura Quayle has a long…
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From Oral Tradition to Comics: Homalco First Nation Partner with UBC and Education Without Borders to Create Graphic Novel Based on the Stories of their Elders
A partnership between the Homalco First Nation, UBC's Comic Studies Cluster, and Education Without Borders is bringing together a team of Indigenous graphic artists to create a series of short comics based on archival recordings of Elders from the Homalco First Nation. Captured in the early…
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Stories of Partnership: A Conversation with AMSSA & UBC's Centre for Migration Studies
"Stories of Partnership" is a Q&A series by the Community Engagement Network (CEN) that is dedicated to shining a light on examples of reciprocal community-university partnerships. These Q&As are meant to center the experiences of community partners and foster a culture of continuous learning...
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Meet the CEN: A Conversation with UBC’s Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement
UBC’s new Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement — also known as ACRE —is an incredible initiative that is working to centre the voices, experiences, and expertise of Asian Canadian communities, both within the university and, crucially, beyond it. ACRE's approach to research…
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Breathing Life Back into Their Language: A Collaborative ʔayʔaǰuθəm E-dictionary Project
Today, fewer than 47 native speakers of ʔayʔaǰuθəm remain, all of whom are over the age of 60. To help preserve their traditional language, four sister nations—Klahoose, Tla'amin, Homalco, and K'ómoks—are working alongside researchers from UBC and the University of Alberta to develop an…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Community engagement is about the power of relationships. The UBC Community Engagement podcast features conversations with community and UBC members about their innovative and collaborative community-university partnerships. In this podcast, we learn about the people behind these projects and their unique journeys to create a more just and equitable future.We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.
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