In this newsletter:

• Winter Sessional Opportunitites
• Dr. Kathy Snow Delivers the Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies Annual Lecture
• Call for UPEI Internal Research Grants and SSHRC Explore Research Grants
• Hurrahs!!!

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WINTER SESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

The Faculty of Education has a number of sessional opportunities available for the Winter 2021 semester. You can find the posting here.

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DR. KATHY SNOW DELIVERS THE FULBRIGHT CANADA CHAIR IN ARCTIC STUDIES ANNUAL LECTURE

Dr. Kathy Snow, 2019-2020 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies and faculty member in Education, recently developed a panel presentation for the 2020 University of Washington Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies annual lecture. The presentation, titled “Profiles of Perseverance and Success in Inuit Education: Focus Nunatsiavut,” used a collaborative format and invited participants from across Canada and the United states joined in a dialogue about Inuit education. You can view the presentation here.

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CALL FOR UPEI INTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS AND SSHRC EXPLORE RESEARCH GRANTS

The IRG and SERG competitions provide research grants of up to $5000 for a one-year term to support stand-alone projects through the funding of fully developed research proposals.

Eligible Applicants: Tenured, Tenure Track, Term and Sessional UPEI Faculty in Arts, Business, Education, Nursing, Science, or Sustainable Design Engineering, and Librarians, who are employed by UPEI at the time of application and for the duration of the award.  A professor emeritus or adjunct professor may apply as co-applicant with an eligible tenure/tenure-track UPEI faculty member. 

Program guidelines and application forms can be found here.  The competition deadline is 04-Dec-2020.

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HURRAHS!!!

Dr. Linuyan Guo-Brennan has shared news on two recent publications. With Charlene Vanleeuwen, Mary MacPhee and Michael Guo-Brennan, “Community-Based Learning for International Graduate Students, was published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. (You can read the article here). As well, the article “Understanding the context of community-based learning in Kenya: Sociocultural, diversity and linguistic issues”, which was co-written with Charlene VanLeeuwen and Lori Weeks, was published in the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. (You can read the abstract here). Congratulations to all involved in these projects!

A new book on International Education as Public Policy in Canada is now available from McGill-Queen’s University Press. Edited by Merli Tamtik, Roopa Desai Trilokekor and Glen Jones, this book “provides a comprehensive analysis of international education policy in Canada, tracing the complex history of when, how, and why it emerged as a policy area of strategic importance.” Another reviewer, Michael Owen of Brock University, wrote:  “Engaging a wide range of policy theories and taking historical, federal, regional/provincial, intersectoral, and multi-actor perspectives, International Education as Public Policy in Canada provides a comprehensive look at Canada’s broader policy context. The book is a serious advance in state-of-the-art research on Canadian international education, and the authors tell the Canadian story of international education as policy as a highly nuanced narrative.” The chapter related to Prince Edward Island was written by our colleague Dr. Tim Goddard. (Congratulations, Tim!)