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BCICS
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Nicole Chaland, a BCICS
researcher, is pursuing graduate work at Simon Fraser University's
Community Economic Development Centre (CEDC). The Institute would
like to thank the CEDC for lending her space at their facility.
BCICS researcher Colleen Shepherd was the proud recipient of
a Golden Key Honours Society award in March. The Golden Keys are
awarded to the top ten to fifteen percentile of students in each
faculty at the University of Victoria. Colleen is a student in
her final year in the School of Social Work. Colleen was unable
to attend the ceremony because she was conducting fieldwork in
the Kootenays. Another recipient of the Golden Key was Debra Whitman,
BSW (UVic) and current Masters of Education student through SFU's
distance programme. Debra is also assisting BCICS with fieldwork
in the Nelson area.
BCICS moves. Well, not really, but we have acquired two offices
in Sedgewick (B wing) and now more of our researchers will actually
have a desk to call home. Any of you who have visited us knows
well our situation at U House 2. For those of you we haven't had
the pleasure of visiting us our main office at U House 2, the
Institute currently has seven work stations (including those of
the secretary, the director, and the research co-ordinator), numerous
filing cabinets, bookshelves, and boxes of unpacked documents,
photocopier, printer, fax, phones, field equipment, and meeting
equipment housed in a single office. Needless, to say, our work
lives have been cramped, with six to seven people regularly, and
eight to ten people on occasion, sharing the space in the course
of a work day. Many of our research team have often had to work
from home, find a clear spot on the floor, or set up a space in
the U house kitchen! Some have found that working the graveyard
shift has its merits. But now with the Sedgewick offices, more
of us will actually have a place where we can safely spread the
necessary resources and work with a little less action! Of course,
the warm weather means we can move meetings outside again and
truth be known, it is difficult to imagine a lovelier spot on
campus for meetings. As long as you have your sun hat, sun screen,
or rain umbrella, don't mind a near-constant parade of joggers,
lost ESL students, bunnies nibbling your toes, the occasional
deer or two, and the odd unleashed canine bounding over your papers,
our al fresco office is quite charming.
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