The third annual Student Research Symposium (SRS) took place yesterday. This was our biggest event to date with participation from nearly 100 graduating students from across the university.
While the entire day was bursting with interesting and provocative ideas, I was particularly pleased to have chaired a panel featuring students from Communications, Liberal Studies, and Motion Picture Arts. When my colleagues and I banded together three years ago to organize the first SRS, we imagined an event that gave students from across campus an opportunity to share their research findings with each other and other interested internal and external audiences. The delight that the panelists took in each other’s work and the collaborative way in which they tackled the thoughtful questions posed by the audience who had filled the classroom was inspiring.
My pleasure in the day only increased at the second session of the day when I had opportunity to hear Alex Levy, Liberal Studies and 2019 President’s Medal winner, deliver her research findings. I first met Alex when she was a second year student taking LBST 200 – our qualitative methods class. Even then she was interested in the topic of student homelessness and shocking number of students who find themselves precariously housed. Her survey of more than 250 Capilano students produced findings that have now caught the attention of Institutional Research and President Paul Dangerfield. Congratulations Alex!
I am already looking forward to April 2020!