• Developing a cultural safety intervention for clinicians: process evaluation of a pilot study in the Northwest Territories 

  Hall, Karen Edohai Blondin (2019-04-30)

  The purpose of this study was to (1) explore the experiences and perceptions of clinicians who participated in a pilot cultural safety intervention in the Northwest Territories and (2) to make recommendations to pilot ...
• The cost-effectiveness of community based long term care services for the elderly compared to residential care : a British Columbia perspective 

  Hollander, Marcus J. (2017-12-15)

  Growth in the elderly population and restraint in the health sector have led to decision makers placing an increasing priority on home care services. In Canada, there are three models of home care: a preventive and maintenance ...
• “I see big gaps”: the Community Volunteer Supplement and disability income policy in British Columbia 

  Witkowskyj, Candace Larissa (2016-09-02)

  This research explores a disability community’s success in drawing public attention to an unlawful development of policy, that community’s efforts in resistance, and the experiences of those individuals in relation to ...
• Reconceptualizing bodies and pleasure: considerations by and for sex-positive service workers 

  Henderson, Charlotte (2016-04-27)

  Human sexuality has been overrun with narratives that limit the possibilities of pleasure. Sex-positive workers have the potential to challenge the ways in which these limitations become embodied. In this research I explore ...
• School access: children with motor disabilities in rural Uganda 

  Penny, Anne Marie (2015-05-13)
• The Space Between Us: An Inquiry Into Belonging 

  Lyster, Kim Pamela Boutwell (2015-04-17)

  This thesis explores the topic of belonging: both the sense and experience of it as well as the relationship to individual and collective well-being. Through in-depth interviews with five leaders and advocates in the ...
• Manageable Problems/Unmanageable Death: The Social Organization of Palliative Care 

  Miller, Rena (2014-08-15)

  This thesis is an exploration of the social construction and organization of community palliative care. The author's personal experience as the wife of a dying person is used to explicate the social relations of palliative ...
• A Child's "Terminal Illness": An Analysis of Text Mediated Knowing 

  Bell, Nancy Marie (2014-08-15)

  Several years ago a ten year child with a disability died from "severe malnutrition" according to a Coroners Service inquest jury. The inquest evidence shows that approximately one week prior to this child's death three ...
• The Inequity of Employment Equity: An Intersectional Examination of Black Men and Employment Related Racism 

  Metz, Jessie-Lane (2013-08-26)

  Racism is a serious barrier to achieving employment equity in Canada. The intersectional nature of oppression creates a situation where, based on various characteristics including gender, place of birth, and ethnic group ...
• Taking on Water: A Discourse Analysis of Drinking Water Policy and Practices at the University of Victoria 

  Brulotte, Jayna (2013-04-19)

  In recent years, universities, municipalities, and other public and private organizations throughout Canada have banned the sale of bottled water from their facilities. To explore how such bans are linguistically and ...
• Treatment as Prevention (TasP) and governing Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in British Columbia 

  Mollison, Ashley (2012-12-03)

  In 2010, the government of British Columbia (B.C.) dedicated $48 million to stop the spread of HIV. The STOP HIV/AIDS pilot project promotes the uptake of HIV testing in the general population, and the use of antiretroviral ...
• The social organization of mothers' work: managing the risk and the responsibility for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder 

  Schellenberg, Carolyn (2012-08-29)

  This institutional ethnography relies on observations, interviews, and textual analyses to explore the experiences of mothers and children who attend a women-centered agency in Vancouver, Canada where a hot lunch, child ...
• "Being the best": a critical discourse analysis of a series of BC Public Service strategic human resource plans 

  Gauvin, Katia (2012-08-29)

  In 2006, the BC Public Service published the first of a series of corporate human resource plans entitled “Being the Best”. One of the key goals of these plans is to improve employee engagement at the BC Public Service. ...
• A passive revolution?: constructing a municipal alternative to carbon markets in British Columbia. 

  Greeno, Matthew (2012-08-24)

  Using a Foucault-inspired critical analysis of discourse within a Gramscian framework of hegemony, this thesis analyzes how patterns of international climate change policy relate to climate policy in British Columbia ...
• The d/Deaf social worker body as multiplicity: a feminist poststructural autoethnography of deafness and hearing. 

  Jezewski, Meghan Maria Jadwiga (2012-07-19)

  As a feminist poststructural autoethnography of deafness in social work workplaces, this thesis sets out to map d/Deafness as a cracked subjectivity. Using the work of Rosi Braidotti and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, ...
• Space to think: engaging adolescent girls in critical identity exploration. 

  Woolgar, Sarah (2012-04-18)

  Canadian females grow up in a sociocultural environment full of contradictory discourses that rarely reflect the social reality they experience. Adolescent girls face abject forms of objectification, sexualization, unequal ...
• “Our authority is community based”: funding, power and resistance in community-based organizations. 

  Amyot, Sarah (2011-12-19)

  This thesis explores the relationship between funding practices and the non-profit sector through a case study of one community-based organization, called Ma Mawi wi Chi Itata Centre, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The ...
• Dialogue: understanding the process of collaborative policy making in Aboriginal education. 

  Lowen, Corrine (2011-12-01)

  Since 1999, Aboriginal Education policy in British Columbia requires School Districts to collaborate with their local Aboriginal communities to establish appropriate definitions of success, set measureable goals and actions ...
• Streetlight people: perspectives of Street Outreach Services staff on the loss of harm reduction services in Victoria, BC. 

  Hobbs, Heather (2011-06-29)

  On May 31, 2008, one of Canada’s oldest needle exchange programs was forced to close its doors. Street Outreach Services (SOS), run by AIDS Vancouver Island, was evicted from its fixed site location in downtown Victoria, ...
• Lateral violence as a process in First Nations institutions 

  James, Gil Rocky Konrad (2011-05-26)

  This thesis paper was written to meet the requirements for a master's degree in the Studies in Policy and Practice Program through the University of Victoria. British Columbia. A grounded theory was developed studying ...

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