Featured Dissertation: Access, barriers and role of transit for homeless shelter residents in Surrey, British Columbia

by Stephanie Boulogne | Nov 24, 2020 | Open access, UVicSpace

By Peter Greenwell https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/12361 A PhD dissertation in the Social Dimensions of Health program. Abstract: In this research, I examine the mediating role of transit and the mobility needs and experience of individuals who are...

How Better Toxic Drug Alerts Could Save Lives

by Stephanie Boulogne | Nov 23, 2020 | News, Open access, UVicSpace

November 19, 2020 | The Tyee via UVic News In a recent Tyee article, Bruce Wallace, of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR), commented on BC’s Toxic Drug Alert System. “We haven’t really figured out a way to convey...

Featured Thesis: Traitors, Harlots and Monsters, The Anti-Aristocratic Caricatures of the French Revolution

by Stephanie Boulogne | Oct 2, 2020 | News, Open access, UVicSpace

By Stephen A. W. Chapco https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/6669 An M.A. thesis in the Department of History. Abstract: The opening of the Estates General in 1789 came at a time of momentous national crisis. France’s separate Three Estates were summoned to meet...

Featured Thesis: GULE | The masks we carry

by Stephanie Boulogne | Oct 1, 2020 | Open access, UVicSpace

By Kl. Peruzzo de Andrade https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/12159 An M.A. thesis in the Social Dimensions of Health Program. Abstract: This thesis documents and discusses the production of a film about the Gule Wamkulu Mask Dance, in the village of...

Featured Thesis: Harry Potter et les mots fantastiques

by Stephanie Boulogne | Oct 1, 2020 | Open access, UVicSpace

By Sandra Justice https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/12164 An M.A. thesis in the Department of French. Abstract: This thesis examines the French translation of the 224 neologisms in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh book in J.K. Rowling’s...