THE VOICES OF SPARK
DEAN’S NOTE
Welcome to SPARK—kicking off the Summer: ANOTHER BUSY YEAR—I THINK WE HAVE NOW ACCEPTED THAT BUSY IS OUR NORMAL STATE HERE AT HUMBER. Many new projects are underway that will hopefully increase your participation in research in September. This was a great year for conference submissions for Humber’s Office of Research & Innovation (ORI)! We were successful in our submission to CARA (see report inside), STHLE/SoTL (coming in September) and the Academy of Management (AoM)—also reported in September. We were successful in our professional development workshop where we are presenting the work of our Global Polytechnic Alliance (Steve Henry and Henk Root from Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand and Thomas Iskov and Niels Bjerre Tange from VIA in Denmark). All of our colleagues will be joining us in Boston in August. We were also successful in our submission to the Teaching and Learning conference on our “Butterfly Effect” project done last summer. Results will be available in the September issue of SPARK.
International Research Bootcamp We are hard at work at developing our first International Research Bootcamp scheduled following the Global Summer School—July 24 to 28. We have almost 50 participants from a variety of countries, including the UK, Spain, Kenya, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Bhutan. Our colleagues from Otago Polytechnic will be joining Lisa Anketell, Sharon McIntyre, Anju Kakkar and myself to deliver our pilot Research Bootcamp.
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JUNE 2023
