Open textbooks are innovating and disrupting the traditional model of textbook publication. In celebrating Open Access Week, SFU Library was delighted to bring together a range of perspectives on open textbooks. Students spend roughly $1,000 per year on textbooks, and are increasingly advocating...
Humans are hardwired as problem-solvers. Professional education, in particular, enables us to solve complex problems. Even decades ago, we could safely send a crew to the moon and back. A moon-bound project is a very challenging and complex problem, but it is a tame one. The problem is clearly...
We will be presenting a poster board for research that examines how the children’s television show “Jessie” portrays ethnic minorities. We conducted a latent content analysis to uncover the portrayal of ethnic minorities in the show. We will focus on the subliminal racial content that is being...
gangs, intervention, gang violence, problem-oriented policing, gang suppression
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Gang violence poses a significant concern for the police and the public. In response, in 2008 policing agencies in British Columbia introduced Restaurant Watch, a targeted strategy aiming to deter unwanted gang-involved patrons from attending participating restaurants. In response to a lack of...
In this chapter we will be looking at primary sources that deal specifically with human interaction with non-human entities – in particular, gods and spirits. You might initially categorise this as religious history, or even the history of religion and, to a certain extent, you would be right....
In Canada the laws around euthanasia are outdated and no longer fit the needs of Canadian citizens. Since there are other countries that have legalized different types of euthanasia, it is time for Canadians to have the right to die with dignity too. This paper will address other models of...
As undergraduate students, the fear and uncertainty of our future and career comes full swing. Anxiety seeped its way into my mind during my first year of university. I knew that given the criminal justice systems impact on my family, a career in criminology was not going to be an easy task, but...
The prison-industrial complex is a term used to refer to the rapid expansion of the prison population, specifically in privatized correctional institutions. This term acknowledges the fact that sentencing and incarceration have become tools for generating profit for the correctional corporations...
Researcher Profile of Dr Stephen Peplow, a faculty member in the School of Business at KPU whose research interests are in geographical information systems (GIS), statistics and agent-based modeling.
Kathrin Arcari is a KPU student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Counselling who has a keen interest in education abroad and human interaction. While travelling the world and promoting human rights advocacy, Kathrin has been given the opportunity to develop her research.
Visual Media Workshop, digital visual literacy, data visualization, digital media
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Katie Warfield, Aaron Goodman and Chad Skelton are members of the Visual Media Workshop, a research hub recently launched at KPU to publish cutting-edge research, lead community and student workshops, and work with world-renowned academics. The three members are interested in three main...
dementia research, Scotland, dementia care, home care, Canada
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Research Infographics - Faculty of Health and Faculty of Arts. Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) researchers/instructors Carol Hansen, Judith DeGroot and Sharon Leitch travelled to Scotland to learn about its national strategic dementia plan and review current research.
Research Infographics - Faculty of Health. Principal investigator Arleigh Bell, an instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), with five researchers from the United States carried out a study to identify which debriefing practices work best for health students.
creative writing, Canadian poetry, student magazines
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Connor Doyle is a poet and prose writer who recently graduated from KPU with a double major in Creative Writing and English Literature. Actively engaged in the writing community, Connor is the co-founder and managing editor for Pulp magazine, a magazine operated and owned by KPU students for...
