Presented at the DC Research Café (May 14, 2020). Nicole Moen presents global health education research, first by highlighting a cycle of neglect within the Malawian health system, and how it has negatively affected the government’s ability to plan…

The fourth in a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban…

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

The sixth in a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban…

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

Tells the story of Dr. Ralph Arrowsmith, a mid-20th century psychiatrist with a life-long connection to Coquitlam's Riverview Hospital [formerly Essendale asylum], a mental institution that opened in 1913 and closed in 2011. Dr. Arrowsmith, who…

How we act together. Group Agency and Collective Responsibility Workshop (University of Gothenburg) and workshop on Normativity and Reasoning (NYU, Abu Dhabi).

What do we owe each other when we act together? According to normativists about collective action, quite a bit. They contend that collective action inherently involves a special normative status amongst participants, which may include obligations to…

Presented at the DC Research Café (May 14, 2020). Peter Wilkins presents the Douglas College Dementia Comics project which explores the potential of comics to enhance the impact of dementia care research. I Know How This Ends is the second volume in…

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

The SFU Urban Studies Program joins Douglas College and the City of New Westminster in co-sponsoring two public forums on urban challenges. The fentanyl crisis is new, but the opioid crisis is not. Join a frank discussion of how fentanyl fits within…

Presented at the Research Café on March 3, 2023.

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

An interview with nurse Kathleen Clayton Grootendorst, who reflects on her time working at Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C. Bedlam combines never before seen archival film and photography with present day super 8 footage of the historic Asylum…

An interview with nurse Norma McMurdo, who reflects on her time working at Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C. from 1949 to 1951. Includes compassionate memories of lesbian patients who were not mentally ill. Part One of the Riverview Hospital…

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

The SFU Urban Studies Program joins Douglas College and the City of New Westminster in co-sponsoring two public forums on urban challenges. Taking a hard look at the political, historical and social roots of the homelessness crisis in Canada and the…

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

Presented at the Research Café on March 3, 2023.

COVID-19 has created both challenges and opportunities for the way we plan cities. The 2020 Declaration for Resilience in Canadian Cities states that the “COVID-19 pandemic provides a once-in-a-lifetime responsibility to accelerate the change we…

Presented at the Research Café on March 3, 2023.

Part of a series of forums that Douglas College is hosting in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forums is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to…

The Educator series (2 videos) examines how to implement reconciliation and the TRC in the classroom and practice.

The Educator series (2 videos) examines how to implement reconciliation and TRC in classroom and practice.

A Douglas College forum hosted in partnership with SFU and the City of New Westminster. The goal of these forum is to provide an occasion for frank discussion on important issues facing urban and suburban communities, to both inform and learn from…

This video was presented at the 20th National and 12th Triennial International Child and Youth Care Conference (2018) on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish Peoples (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada). Conference Title:…

A reflection by Dr. Robert Lake on his experiences of elitism in Academia over a 20-year career, and a critical assessment of the ultra-competitive environment of higher education and its impacts on mental health and happiness.

This short video documents a match of Tug of Logic (an Internet-mediated audience response system enabling reasoning together through logically-structured social feedback) that was played by Canadian high school students in the context of the 2023…