Expanding access to digital research infrastructure at UBC
Learn more about UBC ARC Sockeye and how this platform is providing researchers across UBC with the advanced research computing support they need.
Tagbly: enhancing multimedia
This start-up has developed a new technology that allows users to produce multimedia content with interactive elements without having to use complex video editing software.
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
This interdisciplinary research team, including Assistant Professor Dr. Abdul-Mageed, is studying how literacy is changing in a digital, multicultural, and Covid-hit world.
Dr. Abdul-Mageed receives CFI grants for Deep Learning Research Infrastructure
These CFI funds provide researchers with the highly specialized infrastructure they need to be leaders in their field.
UBC iSchool welcomes Dr. Elizabeth Shaffer as new Assistant Professor
Dr. Shaffer’s research focuses on how information policy, practices and systems emerge and evolve in contemporary digital spaces, with particular attention to social justice issues.
The Enthusiast Magazine
MASLIS Alumna Kristina McGuirk takes a closer look at the history of the popular Harley Davidson’s publication.
Dr. Julia Bullard receives SSHRC Insight Development Grants
Her project ‘Subject description from the margins: Indigenous and Canadian scholarship’ will focus on scholarship and research topics in how we understand subject description in information studies.
Dr. Lemieux named one of the Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity in Canada
IT World Canada and the Women in Security & Resilience Alliance received more than 170 nominations for Canadian women who work across a wide variety of organizations.
Mega-COV: studying COVID-19’s impact on human communication
Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and his team undertake a global-scale study to investigate impact of COVID-19 on human communication in 104 languages.
Dr. Jennifer Douglas awarded SSHRC Insight Grants
Her research project ‘Getting at the Heart of the File: Toward a Person Centred Theory of Archival Care’ will study the intimacies of records creation and how knowledge of these can inform care-based and person-centred archival practices.