• Socio-spatial dimensions of school closures and neighbourhood change in Ontario: An environmental injustice? 

  Collins, Patricia A.; Barber, Rachel; Masuda, Jeff R.; Snow, Gabrielle (Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2023)

  In addition to their educational purposes, public schools and their surrounding properties are essential to community liveability, as they enrich the daily lives of children, parents, and nearby residents. Yet, decisions ...
• Community-led, peer-facilitated Advance Care Planning workshops prompt increased Advance Care Planning behaviors among public attendees 

  Carter, Rachel Z.; Siden, Ellie; Husband, Amber; Barwich, Doris; Soheilipour, Shimae; Kryworuchko, Jennifer; Sawatzky, Richard; Kazanjian, Arminee; Stajduhar, Kelli; Hassan, Eman (PEC Innovation, 2023)

  Objective: Despite recognized benefits, engagement in Advance Care Planning (ACP) remains low. Research into peer-facilitated, group ACP interventions is limited. This study investigated the acceptability of community-led ...
• Drug checking in the fentanyl era: Utilization and interest among people who inject drugs in San Diego, California 

  Bailey, Katie; Abramovitz, Daniela; Artamonova, Irina; Davidson, Peter; Stamos-Buesig, Tara; Vera, Carlos F.; Patterson, Thomas L.; Arredondo, Jaime; Kattan, Jessica; Bergmann, Luke; Thihalolipavan, Sayone; Strathdee, Steffanie A.; Borquez, Annick (International Journal of Drug Policy, 2023)

  Background In North America, overdose rates have steeply risen over the past five years, largely due to the ubiquity of illicitly manufactured fentanyls in the drug supply. Drug checking services (DCS) represent a promising ...
• Implementing a decentralized opioid overdose prevention strategy in Mexico, a pending public policy issue 

  Bejarano Romero, Raúl; Arredondo Sánchez-Lira, Jaime; Slim Pasaran, Said; Chávez Rivera, Alfonso; Angulo Corral, Lourdes; Salimian, Anabel; Romero Vadilllo, Jorge J.; Goodman-Meza, David (The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 2023)

  Summary The public health crisis due to opioid overdose is worsening in Mexico’s northern region due to the introduction of illicitly manufactured fentanyl into the local drug supply. Though there is an increase in overdose ...
• Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism: Keywords for decolonizing geographies 

  Pasternak, Shiri; Cowen, Deborah; Clifford, Robert; Joseph, Tiffany; Scott, Dayna Nadine; Spice, Anne; Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Heidi (Political Geography, 2023)
• Engaging First Nations People at Work: The Influence of Culture and Context 

  Thiessen, Susan (Administrative Sciences, 2023)

  The paper seeks to understand organisational context and culture’s influence on engaging First Nations People in Canada in work. Organisations have many opportunities to attract and engage Indigenous people, who have ...
• Riding the wave: A grounded theory of transplant transition in adolescents and youth adults 

  Lim, Angie; Marcellus, Lenora (Health Care Transitions, 2023)

  Objectives: The health care transition from pediatric to adult-focused health care for adolescent and young adult (AYA) organ transplant recipients is a critical yet understudied period. Unique challenges include supporting ...
• Perceived Causes of Career Plateau in the Public Service 

  Darling, Sean; Cunningham, John B. (Administrative Sciences Quarterly, 2023)

  The purpose of this paper was to develop a better understanding of the causes of career plateau in the public service, focusing on 67 people who we determined to be career plateaued. Our interviews identified examples of ...
• Defining the Climate for Inclusiveness and Multiculturalism: Linking to Context 

  Cunningham, John B. (Administrative Sciences Quarterly, 2023)

  The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of how to define a positive climate for inclusiveness that recognizes the context and social environment of participants. In order to study employees working ...
• The Beauty Underneath: Revitalizing Indigenous Shellfish Harvest in Semiahmoo Bay 

  Juteau, Christy (2023-10-04)

  North American coastal Indigenous communities have feasted from the tidelands since time immemorial. Abundant clams, oysters, mussels, seaweed and other marine resources provided seasonal sustenance, opportunity for ...
• The Experiences of LGBTQ+ Migrant Youth with Discrimination in Canada: A Systematic Review 

  Kakuru, Doris; Matthiesen, Amarens; Montiel, Andrés E.; Sinclair-Palm, Julia H.; Wright, Laura H. V. (University of Victoria, 2023)

  Relative to the general population, members of LGBTQ+1 communities experience disproportionately higher rates of violence, stigma, and discrimination. When discrimination is considered in the context of racialization and ...
• Liberating and Loving Youth Who Use(d) Drugs: A Foundation for Building New Worlds 

  Rai, Emma (2023-09-20)

  Abstract In this thesis, I intentionally embody and politicize the acts of liberating and loving youth who use drugs. Liberatory love provided a conceptual starting place, from there I emersed myself in the critical ...
• Accessing and Implementing Community Drug Checking in Smaller Urban Vancouver Island: Contextual Factors to Consider 

  Hutchison, Abby (2023-09-18)

  The criminalized drug supply in British Columbia and, on a larger scale, in North America is unregulated and leaves those who access the supply to navigate consumption of substances that may be of unknown composition. Drug ...
• Good Roads 2.0: An Analysis of the Impacts of Rail-Trail Organizations on Strategic Planning, Community-Building and Economic Revitalization 

  Mihell, Natasha (2023-09-13)

  Friends of Rails to Trails Vancouver Island (“FORT-VI”) seeks to develop a 224km rail-trail corridor from Victoria, British Columbia (“BC”) to Courtenay, BC, with an additional spur from Parksville to Port Alberni. To ...
• Getting the Job Done: Understanding Barriers and Enablers to Municipal Climate Action in Greater Victoria 

  Masemann, Charlotte Emilia (2023-09-13)

  Municipalities in Greater Victoria are dedicated to climate action and municipal officials deal with both barriers and enablers in implementing climate solutions. Focus groups held with municipal staff members in the ...
• Executive Women: Designing Quality of Work Life in the Public Service 

  Confreda, Sara (2023-09-07)

  The purpose of this report is to gain a deeper understanding of quality of work life (QWL), particularly for women executives in the public service. The study is exploratory, focused on identifying factors that contribute ...
• A Gendered Analysis of Implemention and Impacts of Prescribed Safer Supply in BC: A Qualitative Exploration during Dural Public Health Emergencies 

  Sullivan, Ginger (2023-08-31)

  Women and gender diverse persons often remain underserved by harm reduction programs and initiatives (e.g., needle distribution, supervised consumption services, prescribed safer supply programs). A lack of attention to ...
• Honouring lived experience wisdom: Healing and healing environments according to ‘family members’ in Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction and culturally supportive housing 

  Brown, Meaghan (2023-08-31)

  Honouring lived experience wisdom: Defining healing and healing environments according to ‘family members’ in Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction and culturally supportive housing’ illustrates a strengths-based story of ...
• Improving Care for People with Severe Persistent Mental Illness in the Palliative Phase 

  Donald, Erin E. (2023-08-30)

  Persons with severe persistent mental illness (SPMI) experience a greater burden and severity of chronic disease, late diagnosis, and premature death compared to the general population. These patients also receive fewer ...
• Survivor's Narratives of Early Childhood Sexualized Violence 

  Lindner, Kylee (2023-08-29)

  This thesis adopts a Critical Feminist Research methodology to reveal how young children (6 years old and under) resist, respond to and heal from sexualized violence. Using memoirs that include first-person narratives as ...

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