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By Sam Bennison

Science and History

UNBC researchers receive over $300,000 to continue their work

Sep 16, 2024 | 5:00 AM

PRINCE GEORGE— Two researchers from UNBC have received over $300,000 in federal funding to continue their work.

Assistant Professor Dr. Hartley Banack earned $60,489 over two years from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). This will allow him to continue to working with the Climate Education in Teacher Education project to improve Kindergarten to Grade 12 climate change education in Northern B.C.

“Changes in the climate are already impacting northern B.C.,” says Banack. “K-12 teachers have roles to play in preparing students to adapt and respond to the changing climate. The Climate Education in Teacher Education project researches how northern B.C. teachers understand climate change and how they enact climate change education.”

Bannack adds that through participatory research methodology and community involvement, him and a team of researchers will seek to understand teachers beliefs around climate change and their intentions around education. They will also offer climate change workshops to prepare K-12 teachers to work with the B.C. curriculum.

Five other UNBC School of Education faculty members are co-applicants on the research team, including Dr. Joanie Crandall, Dr. Christine Ho Younghusband, Dr. Alex Lautensach, Dr. David Litz and Glen Thielman.

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Another researcher to receive an SSHRC grant is History Professor Dr. Dana Wessell Lightfoot. Wessell is collaborating with University of Toronto Associate Professor Teaching Stream Dr. Alexandra Guerson. Together they are studying the lives of 15th-century Jewish women who converted to Christianity. They will be investigating how the local context of them living in Spanish communities influenced their choices, work, marriage and religious identity.

The project received $240,994 over five years and will specifically focus on women, known as conversas, living in Barcelona, Girona and Valencia within the Crown of Aragon. The project aims to explore the issues around assimilation in the late medieval period in hopes of illuminating how those same issues still exist today.

“We are excited to continue our collaborative work on the lives of Jewish women and conversas in late medieval Spain,” Wessell Lightfoot says. “Many of the questions we face in our own society have deep historical roots so by exploring the interconnections of gender, religious identity and socio-cultural forces, our project demonstrates the importance of studying the past to understand our present and future.”

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