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Please note, due to spacing/COVID restrictions there is a limit on the number of tickets available through Eventbrite so I would encourage any interested students to register as soon as possible. The Eventbrite link is: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bc-cancer-victoria-career-path-open-house-tickets-506650985737.

The Barriers Canadian University Students Experience When Accessing Mental Healthcare  

 

Research Volunteers Needed  

 

Researchers from the Department of Health, Aging, and Society at McMaster University are looking for volunteers who are current undergraduate students at any Canadian university who would like to share about their mental health throughout their undergraduate career. 

   

You would be asked to fill out a 10–15-minute survey asking personal questions regarding your mental health, experience using mental health resources through the university (if at all), and any barriers you may have experienced in caring for your mental well-being. You will also be asked some demographic questions (i.e., to identify your age, race, gender, etc.). The study will take place through the online platform, Lime Survey.  

  

You can access the survey by clicking on the following link:  https://surveys.mcmaster.ca/limesurvey/index.php/822155?lang=en

 

You will be presented with a Letter of Information followed by a consent button before the survey begins. For the full details of the study, please click on the link above!  

 

For more information about this study please contact:   

Florencia Saposnik – Student Principal Investigator  

Department of Health, Aging, and Society  

saposnif@mcmaster.ca  

 

This study has been reviewed by and received ethics clearance from the McMaster Research Ethics Board.  

 

Applications are now open for Students in community: Engaging meaningfully (a joint initiative of the University of Victoria’s Community-Engaged Learning Office and Research Partnerships and Knowledge Mobilization).

Graduate and upper-level undergraduate students doing curricular community-engaged research and projects January to April 2023 may be eligible to apply to receive $1075 and be a part of a cohort with other community-engaged student researchers.

Applications will be accepted from now until January 9, 2023 or until all program spaces are filled, whichever is sooner.

Learn more about the Engaging Meaningfully initiative!

All questions about the initiative can be directed to communityprojects1@uvic.ca.

The UVic Society for Students with a Disability is looking forward to offering our peer support groups again next semester! These groups are a chance for disabled students to come together to share support and resources, as well as to build community. We have five groups that cover the topics of autism, chronic pain, invisible disabilities, learning disabilities, and mental health.

Interested students may sign up here:
https://bit.ly/SSDPSGWinter

We will poll students who sign up before January 10th to choose a time for each group, and registration will stay open until the groups begin in late January or early February. If we have space, we will continue to sign up students past that date, but some groups do fill up quickly.

Students in ES 407 are working on a social change project, with the goal of changing the signage of Cadboro Bay to be an honest and accurate representation of our history. See below for a link to their petition.

Hello! Researchers at the University of Victoria, Department of Computer Science are conducting research to design an interactive system to improve diagram accessibility for people with visual impairments.

If you meet the following criteria, we would love to hear and learn from you!

1. Consider yourself to be blind, visually impaired, or partially sighted;
2. Rely on the auditory channel, or auditory combined with other sensory channels to access information from a computer;
3. Use screen readers, braille-based systems, self-created solutions or others to access digital information;
4. Have an age of more than 18 years;
5. Reside in Canada.

During the study, you will be asked to participate in a remote interview session on Zoom or on Microsoft Teams. This session will be centred around understanding the current experience of you accessing diagrams and diagrammatic information, and assessing the need for a technology solution that could improve the accessibility of diagrams.

Insights gained from interviews with you will help us explore approaches to broaden access to diagrammatic information for people who may be otherwise left out or limited from the types of information they can readily access due to the constraints of how current technologies are designed (i.e., high reliance on visual channels of access). The result of this study will help inform the design of future computational systems to address diagram accessibility issues for people with visual impairments. The interview session will last 1 hour and as a thank you for your time we will provide an Amazon gift card of $30 CAD.

This project is titled “Improving Diagram Accessibility for People with Visual impairments”, and the researcher conducting this study is Yichun Zhao, an MSc student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. This study is taking place under the supervision of Dr. Miguel Nacenta and Dr. Sowmya Somanath. The University of Victoria research ethics number for this study is 21-0425.

If you have any questions or would like to participate in this study, please contact me directly via email at yichunzhao@uvic.ca. Thank you, Yichun Zhao

This study recruitment information is also available through this accessible link: https://chunthebear.github.io/diagram-accessibility-research/.