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: Evaluating habitat use of female moose in response to large scale salvage logging practices

by Stephanie Boulogne | Sep 15, 2020 | News, Open access, UVicSpace

By Alexandra Francis https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/12093 An M.Sc. thesis in the School of Environmental Studies. Abstract: Global biodiversity is in decline as a result of unprecedented human alterations to the earth’s land cover. Understanding the...

Featured Dissertation: Managing the eroding public health nurse role

by Stephanie Boulogne | Jun 8, 2020 | Open access, UVicSpace

“When it is no longer your call”, a PhD dissertation in the School of Nursing, by Megan Elise Kirk https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/11785 Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explain how public health renewal has shaped public health...

Featured Thesis: Predicting retention of diluted bitumen in marine shoreline sediments, Southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

by Stephanie Boulogne | Oct 3, 2019 | Open access, UVicSpace

This 2017 M.Sc. in Geography thesis discusses diluted bitumen (dilbit) shoreline retention for southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia   by Lee Allen Sean Britton Abstract: Canada has become increasingly economically dependent on the exportation of...