VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY
2020 Research Award Recipients
VIU launched the annual Provost’s Awards for Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity in 2018 to publicly recognize the efforts by VIU faculty to support the University’s core commitment to excellence and community engagement.
The Provost Award Recipients for Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity are: Undergraduate Research Mentor Dr. Linda Shea | Faculty of Health and Human Services Shea has been teaching in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program since 1997. She is passionate about creating learning spaces that promote self-knowing, curiosity and critical inquiry as foundations for excellence in clinical practice and scholarship. Shea believes that a strong foundation in critical inquiry will equip students to engage their curiosity, follow their passions and creatively respond to emerging trends in health care through scholarship and practice.
Graduate Research Mentor Award Mary O'Neill | Faculty of Education O’Neill has been a member of VIU's Faculty of Education since 1991. She currently serves as Program Coordinator for the department’s Online Learning & Teaching Graduate Diploma and acts as the liaison for program graduates laddering into the Master’s of Education – Leadership Degree. She has supervised numerous graduate student major projects and has been a key innovator in online teaching both at the post-secondary level, as well as at the K-12 level through her mentorship.
Early Career Research Excellence Award Dr. Jasmine Janes | Faculty of Science and Technology Janes, a Biology Professor, is a recipient of collaborative research grants from the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Genome BC to study novel tools to prevent diseases in oysters. Her research combines ecological, molecular and genomic approaches, to answer fundamental questions in evolutionary ecology. Most recently, Janes was awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant to study the co-evolutionary interactions between fungi, orchids and insect pollinators.
Dr. Lindsay McCunn | Faculty of Social Sciences McCunn is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of VIU’s Environmental Psychology Research Lab. She chairs the environmental psychology section of the Canadian Psychological Association and is an Associate Editor of the premier journal in her field — the Journal of Environmental Psychology. She is also the Commissioning Editor of the journal Cities and Health. Her research in applied psychology has been published in a number of interdisciplinary journals.
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