• A Study of New Professionals in Student Affairs: Women’s Early Career Experiences in Their Own Words 

  Heikkila, Kalenne (2023-09-11)

  My feminist qualitative study examined the lived experience of five young women working in the field of student affairs and services in British Columbia. Using this feminist approach I explored their stories, views of ...
• Understanding the Drivers of Educational Change in Tanzania: Educational Policy and Professional Capital 

  Majani, William Pastory (2023-08-31)

  Despite series of educational change initiatives adopted in Tanzania immediately after independence to the present, there is little evidence to demonstrate that these change efforts are providing the desired learning ...
• “It helps me to be more aware and connected to my body when I spent so many years trying to disconnect”: A qualitative study on the effect of time spent in nature on eating disorder recovery 

  Buchkowski, Megan (2023-08-31)

  Eating disorders (EDs) are one of the deadliest mental health disorders (Walsh, 2017) with a high relapse rate (Berends et al., 2016) and complex treatment needs (NCCMH, 2004; NICE, 2020). One of the most common experiences ...
• Exploring Student-Centered Teaching and Learning Experiences In Higher Education During Emergency Remote Instruction 

  Benfaida, Natasja (2023-08-29)

  The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore student-centered teaching and learning experiences of University of Victoria (UVic) students and instructors during the fall of 2020, a time when higher education ...
• The mobilization of anti-racism here is like squeezing a square peg through a round hole: A critical qualitative inquiry into anti-racism in settler-colonial Canadian nursing education 

  Bell, Blythe (2023-08-22)

  Anti-racism is a relatively new priority for nursing education. The political mandate to act on the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report and the legislation of the Declaration of ...
• Examining the Contributions of Coping Self-Efficacy and Help-Seeking Behaviour on Academic Performance 

  Paular, Rikka (2023-08-10)

  Self-regulated learning (SRL) has become an essential aspect of education, with a focus on improving students' skills and strategies to learn and perform effectively. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating ...
• Informing Transformative Learning in Critical Adult Education - A Study of Chinese Public Intellectual Qin Hui (秦晖) 

  Chen, Wei (Vera) (2023-05-10)

  This study examines Qin Hui (秦晖), a prominent Chinese public intellectual, historian, and liberal thinker, using the theoretical framework of transformative learning. The project aims to contribute to the field of critical ...
• Collective Leadership: Non-Hierarchical Organising in Activist Art Practices 

  Croswell, Kimberly (2023-05-09)

  Through a new anarchist inflected critical realist methodology, this study examines the shared leadership practices informing the creative production and distribution practices of three anarchist/anti-authoritarian activist ...
• Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy: Developing "Reciprocal Resilience" through Storytelling in the Classroom 

  Hope, Georgina (2023-05-02)

  This thesis examines how storytelling can develop resiliency, in both the student and the teacher: a reciprocal process rooted in the foundations of Indigenous, anti- oppressive, and feminist paradigms. The study captures ...
• Women, Leadership and Policing: Negotiating and Navigating Gendered Experiences 

  Silden, Eva M. (2023-04-26)

  This study explored the lived experiences of 21 women police officers in southern British Columbia and their gendered experiences from recruitment through promotion to positions of leadership. The research is grounded in ...
• Examining Achievement Goal Orientations, Goal Setting, and Motivation Challenges from A Self-Regulated Learning Perspective 

  Nie, Muqing (2023-04-25)

  Adopting a self-regulated learning perspective, the present study examined the mediating role of goal management practices in the relationship between achievement goal orientations and motivation challenges among 213 ...
• Barriers to Women in Policing - Traversing the Gender Gap: An Examination into the Perceptions and Experiences of Senior Ranking Policemen 

  Pamminger, Mark (2022-11-24)

  This qualitative study investigates senior ranking policemen’s perceptions, perspectives, and experiences with policewomen. More specifically, the level of awareness that senior ranking policemen have regarding the barriers ...
• Investigating Time Estimation from a Self-Regulated Learning Perspective 

  Bahena-Olivares, Leslie Michelle (2022-07-18)

  The present study investigates university students’ time estimation accuracy from a Self-Regulated Learning perspective. Specifically, the study examines students’ goal quality, competence for goal completion, and perceptions ...
• Exploring the Experiences of Social Isolation and Loneliness of Postsecondary Students with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Demerling, Grace (2022-07-06)

  In a study of the experiences of loneliness and social isolation of postsecondary undergraduate students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, 7 students with disabilities participated in phenomenological interviews ...
• COVID-19 stress and middle school students’ engagement and school aversion: examining the mediational roles of emotion regulation and perceptions of school climate 

  Hood, Moira (2022-04-25)

  Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has included disruption, uncertainty, and additional stress for students. Adverse learning outcomes are a growing concern especially for vulnerable groups, such as middle school students. ...
• Youth mental health in the digital age: youth perspectives on the relationship between digital technology and their mental health 

  Boothroyd, Sydney J.H. (2022-01-04)

  New generations of youth are coming of age at a time when digital technology is omnipresent, where devices are our constant companions, extensions of ourselves. It is not yet fully known what effect this mass consumption ...
• Exploring factors that influence beginning teachers’ self-efficacy to teach in diverse classrooms 

  Haider, Fizza (2021-12-01)

  Teacher self-efficacy for teaching in diverse classrooms is an important factor in the successful implementation of inclusion. Quantitative examinations of teacher self-efficacy have found the construct to be correlated ...
• The relation between teacher ratings of attention and executive functioning with reading comprehension in elementary school students 

  Poole, Tara (2021-10-01)

  The purpose of the present study was to examine the associations among teacher ratings of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptomology and executive functioning (EF) skills with reading comprehension and ...
• Fostering a sense of belonging on university campus: a case study of Taiwanese Association 

  Sung, Minjeong (2021-09-29)

  Through the lens of a sense of belonging, this case study explores minority students' personal experience in the Taiwanese Association at the University of Victoria (UVic) and the impact of this organization on students’ ...
• On becoming a father and being a man: a narrative exploration of the experience of masculinity in the transition to fatherhood 

  Larsen, Sean (2021-09-24)

  Fatherhood is a gendered relationship between a male caregiver and a child. The change from non-father to father is a significant transition in men’s lives. Over the past fifty years in North America there appears to be ...

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