10th Annual UNBC Graduate Conference
Day 1 – April 20th, 2015
9:00 a.m.
9:45 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION – The Gathering Place
Welcome Ceremony - The Gathering Place
Dr. Kevin D Smith, UNBC Dean of Graduate Programs
NETWORK BREAK - Bentley Centre
History & Children and Youth in
Literature and Society
The Gathering Place
Moderator: Dr. Dana Wessell Lightfoot
Daring To Teach: Early Modern Notions of
Gender and Religion
Marina Stuparyk
Daily experiences of parenting a child
with suspected FASD
Stephen Bennet
Keeping it Real: Investigating
Anthropomorphism in _Watership Down_
Dustin Batty
Health
Room 5-184
Moderator: Jamie Reschny
How do Public Health Nurses in Northern
British Columbia Experience
Interprofessional Collaboration with their
Community’s Primary Care Providers?
Sara Pyke
Balancing Caring Relationships and
Professional Standards in Social Service
Work
Ley Fraser
PPAR δ - Overexpression in Pancreatic β
Cell and its Effects on Obesity-Induced T2D
Maryam Khan
Sarah Gray
Poster Session - The Gathering Place
11:30 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
Presenters will have a one to two minute introduction period to summaries their
poster. Following the introduction period, conference participants are invited to
converse with the poster presenters.
LUNCH - The Gathering Place
1:00 p.m.
Gender and Society
The Gathering Place
Moderator: Dr. Anna Casas Aguilar
Effect of emotional experience in the
processing of abstract concepts
Ian Newcombe
Medenham's Haunted Halls: National
Identity in Hex
Jenni Bomford
Sexual Assault and Campus Politics: A Call
for Institutional Transparency and
Positive Progression
Elizabeth Gunsinger
Support Provision for Human Trafficking
Victims in a Small Community: A Case
Study
Carolyn Emon
2:30 p.m.
AFTERNOON RECEPTION - The Gathering Place
10th Annual UNBC Graduate Conference
Day 2 – April 21st, 2015
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION - Bentley Centre
Keynote Speaker - Bentley Centre
From PhD to Life
Dr. Jennifer Polk, PhD
Academic, Career, and Life Coach
10:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m.
NETWORK BREAK - Bentley Centre
PANEL PRESENTATION: Health is a
Journey, not a destination: The
delivery of health services in
Northern, B.C.
Bentley Centre
Moderator:
The Physical Environment
Room 5-184
Moderator: Dr. Dezene Huber
Development of a Small Remotely-Piloted
Aerial System for Low-Altitude, HighResolution Environmental Remote Sensing
Michael Allchin
Critically assessing and building culturally
relevant online mental health resources
for Indigenous youth in Prince George, B.C Restoration of ecosystem function by
biocrust – applications for rights-of-way
Valerie Ward
reclamation in alpine environments
Annie-Claude Letendre
Reducing Harm through HIV Prevention,
Treatment and Care Services for People
Who Inject Drugs in Northern BC
Jamie Reschny
Staging Relationships: Using Devised
Theatre to Explore Indigenous Youths’
Experiences and Perceptions of
their Relationships with Physicians
Julia MacDonald
Genetic structure of Ascaphus truei reduced variation in northern populations
Cherie Mosher
Application of ‘Data Mining’ by
Unsupervised Machine Learning to the
Classification of Hydrological Catchments
Michael Allchin
Examining pain expressions in individuals
with Mildly Cognitive Impairment:
Implications for long term care in our
aging population
Tammy Klassen-Ross
11:45 a.m.
LUNCH - Bentley Centre
12:45 p.m.
1:45 p.m.
Round Table Discussion – Bentley Centre
Mind your Mind and Find your Mind: Discussions of mental health within the world of
Academia
Dr. Corinne Koehn, Dr. Cindy Hardy, Dr. Russell Callaghan, Valerie Ward, Julia
MacDonald
CLOSING REMARKS - Bentley Centre