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Narratives in adolescent immigration : understanding barriers in self-identity development
(2013-08-07)This thesis examines immigrants' acculturation with a specific focus on adolescents and the development of their self-identity overtime as immigrants in Canada. Adolescence is already a period of change and transition; ... -
Narratives of gender and identity of young men : education, family and community in a northern BC single industry town
(2019-03-28)This research is aimed at understanding how masculinities are developed in five males who grew up in a small northern BC community. Using narratives and autoethnography, this research shows that the community, family and ... -
Narratives of nature : television's storyline and preschool viewers' accounts
(2012-02-27)Preschool children grow up in a media-saturated environment, easily accessing a variety of technologies, including television. This study investigated the environmental content in both the television programming for ... -
Narratives of successful collaborations between alternative media and women's groups
(2013-08-02)Despite the existing fragmentation amongst social change agents serving women on Vancouver's downtown east side, they are seeking fresh and innovative ways to work together to communicate their social change needs and to ... -
Native and exotic tree leaves contributions to formation of different soil organic matter pools
(2018-03-07)Deforestation around the world contributes to climate change and soil quality loss. The Atlantic Forest in Brazil has been deforested by 93%. Leaf litter from 16 native trees to the Atlantic Forest and Eucalyptus was ... -
Natural history survey results on Royal Roads lands (Victoria Natural History Society)
(2015-01-27)During the last 15 months, Victoria Natural History Society's Green Spaces Project (GSP) volunteers contributed about 1,135 hours to conduct a detailed survey of, and to map the ecological and other natural aspects of ... -
Nature buddies : students leading students in a nature inquiry
(2018-11-01)This case study explores how a weekly, interdisciplinary, school-based Nature Buddies program influences grade seven students’ ideas about leadership, kindergarten students’ response to place- based learning and teachers’ ... -
Nature through the lens the phenomenological experience of photography with nature
(2018-02-06)This thesis explores the question, “What is the phenomenological experience of photography with nature?” Upon observing patrons at a regional park who appeared to be experiencing nature through their cameras, I became ... -
Navigating the waters : exploring the roles of provincial water NGOs in decision-making
(2014-03-06)The principles of adaptive water governance blends many of the components of adaptive and comanagement, specifically iterative and social learning to foster adaptation and collective action. While many of the principles ... -
Negative numbers in simple arithmetic
(Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2010)Are negative numbers processed differently than positive numbers in arithmetic problems? In two experiments, adults (N = 66) solved standard addition and subtraction problems such as 3 + 4 and 7 – 4 and recasted versions ... -
Netflix or news? An examination of young Canadians’ appetite to pay for online journalism
(2020-03-16)This thesis explores factors that influence the willingness to pay (WTP) of young Canadian adults for digital journalistic/news content using the uses and gratifications (U&G) approach. U&G is a user-centred theory of ... -
Network structure, diversity, and proactive resilience building: A response to Tompkins and Adger
(Ecology and Society, 2005)Although community social networks can build resilience, and thus, aid adaptation to unexpected environmental change (Tomkins and Adger 2004), not all social networks are created equal. Networks composed of a diversity of ... -
The new archivists: Social media, memory and history
(ACS Canadian Journal for Social Research Special Issue on Technology, Memory and History, 2018)In a time of growing populism around the world and here in Canada, many are wondering: if we forget our world history, are we doomed to repeat it? This provocative question may be increasingly relevant. In a recent Leger ... -
New In the Wheat City : a photovoice exploration of new residents’ relationship with community and place
(2021-02-02)For communities like Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, that are affected by shrinking birth rates and young Canadians flocking to urban centres, the city’s growth is directly linked to immigration, including the settlement, ... -
New models of journalism in Alberta and British Columbia : changing the metajournalistic discourse of community news
(2021-06-25)For decades, the Canadian news media industry has been eroded by a myriad of factors including media conglomeration, the changing digital landscape, and declining advertising revenue—a situation which has only been exacerbated ... -
New-media social networks, issue networks, and policy communities : getting and using power
(2010-09-16)This PAR project used applied communications to get and use power to influence public policy. Informed by social and policy network theories, the method used Facebook as an organizing tool to create and position a recreation ... -
Next Steps to Win the War
(War Heritage Research Initiative, 2018-02-03)In August 1943, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill held a weeklong conference that ultimately changed the direction of the Second World War. Together with the host, Canadian ... -
NGO program efficacy and outcomes in Eastern Nepal
(2017-06-22)The author is concerned with the question of success and its measurement regarding NGO projects in Nepal and the actual project state versus projected outcomes, and how the impact of evolving conditions and contexts affect ... -
‘No Canadian experience’ barrier : a participatory approach to examining the barrier’s affect on new immigrants
(2010-06-22)New immigrants to Canada, specifically those of non-Western origin, frequently experience the phenomenon of the ‘no Canadian work experience’ employment barrier. This paper is based on information gathered in a focus group ... -
No doggy bag please : Chinese attitudes on food waste
(2015-08-12)As an emerging economy, food waste has become a hot topic in China within the last two years because of increasing appetites and shrinking landfills. Although there are an increasing number of studies on food waste in ...
