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UVic Bounce: Waving, Not Drowning

"The truth about stories is, that"s all we are"--Thomas King. This podcast shares the stories of UVic faculty and alumni"s experiences as students. These are stories of loss, transitions, academic pressures, mental health, and more. By hearing these stories, we hope you will feel less alone and more supported in your own journey through difficult times and experiences. We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory this podcast is recorded, and the Songhees,

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00:26:33

Conclusion: Rebecca Gagan on the Transformative Power...

UVic Bounce: Waving, Not Drowning ·

2021/10/08

Thank you to Izzy Almasi, Adaezejeso Ezeaku, and Deborah Ogilvie for their wonderfulwork on this episode. This podcast would not be possible without them. This podcast is supported by a President's Strategic Framework Impact Fund grant and by the Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, and Engineering and Computer Science. For more information about UVic Bounce or to leave a comment or question about this podcast, please email us: uvicbounce@uvic.ca Follow us on Instagram @uvicbounce Cover

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00:37:08

Episode #30: UVic President Kevin Hall on Not Doing...

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2021/09/10

UVic President Kevin Hall is an innovative academic leader and civil engineer known for his strong commitment to sustainability, innovation, community engagement, and an unwavering belief in truth, respect and reconciliation, equitable access to education, and equity, diversity and inclusion. Throughout his career at three world-class institutions, Hall has served at many levels and functions—most recently as the vice-president and senior deputy vice-chancellor of global engagement and partnerships

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00:36:52

Episode #29: Andrew Murray on Learning "How to...

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2021/08/20

Andrew Murray came to UVic in 1990 to do an MA. After beginning a PhD in 1992, he gradually morphed into a sessional instructor and then a continuing sessional. He taught his first class for the English Department in Fall 1995 and has been teaching ever since. In 2014, Andrew was hired as an Assistant Teaching Professor with his primary responsibilities being in the Division of Academic Writing, now the Academic and Technical Writing Program. Andrew's doctoral dissertation was on representations of

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00:55:15

Episode #28: Dr. Victoria Wyatt on Seeing and Not...

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2021/08/13

Victoria Wyatt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Victoria. She teaches courses on responses of Indigenous artists to colonization in North America, and on visual studies and the impact of the Internet. She received theFaculty of Fine Arts Award in Teaching Excellence in 2017 and the Harry Hickman Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Leadership in 2020. Thank you to Izzy Almasi, Adaezejeso Ezeaku, and Deborah Ogilvie

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00:58:46

Episode #27: Dr. Cynthia Spada on Mental Health,...

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2021/08/06

Cynthia Spada is a sessional lecturer in the English and ATWP departments and also teaches literature and writing at Royal Roads University. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Floating World, a novel, and The Demimonde in Japanese Literature, an academic monograph, and she has published short pieces of creative writing in various genres. She is currently working on a historical novel based on her family's experiences in

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01:12:34

Episode #26: Adaezejeso Ezeaku on Learning That Your...

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2021/07/30

Adaezejeso Ezeaku is a recent graduate from UVic with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. She is currently the UVic Bounce Student Ambassador, a role that came to be after her experience with overt anti-black racism on campus. After this incident, she joined the UVic Reflection and Challenge Committee (RCC) to help create action-oriented plans to tackle issues of racism, inclusion, and diversity on campus. Her experiences with racism and her passion for healthcare and its systemic role in

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00:52:50

Episode #25: Dr. Bill Bird on Managing the Challenges...

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2021/07/23

Bill Bird has taught Computer Science (and occasionally Software Engineering) at UVic since 2015. He often teaches the introductory computer programming courses for Engineering students (CSC 111 and CSC 116), as well as higher-level courses in Algorithms and Systems. Like many instructors at UVic, he had never taught (or taken) an online course when 2020 began, but finished the year teaching hundreds of first year students over Zoom. Thank you to Izzy Almasi, Adaezejeso Ezeaku, and Deborah Ogilvie

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01:16:42

Episode #24: Deborah Ogilvie on Navigating Grief and...

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2021/07/16

Deborah Ogilvie earned a BA (2013) and MA (2021) in English from the University of Victoria, and an MA in Children’s Literature from Simmons University in Boston (2016.) To Deborah’s surprise, life didn’t pause during her studies, and instead threw some unexpected events her way. She spends most of her time these days having conversations about dinosaurs with her very favourite plot twist, who is about to turn six. Thank you to Izzy Almasi, Adaezejeso Ezeaku, and Deborah Ogilvie for their

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01:03:26

Episode #23: Dr. Stephen Ross on Keeping Your Studies...

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2021/07/09

Dr. Stephen Ross is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Stephen has always been a bit obsessive and anxious, from his early days as a “gifted” student (translation: anxious and people-pleasing) to his on-again/off-again relationship with academia—about which he remains profoundly ambivalent to this day. That journey has taken him from Chilliwack, where he grew up, to Burnaby for his undergraduate studies, and Kingston, Ontario for his MA and PhD, before bringing

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00:44:42

Episode #22: Izzy Almasi on Managing Anxiety and...

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2021/07/02

Izzy Almasi is a recent graduate from UVic, having completed a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Film Studies. Before becoming an Associate Producer and Audio Editor for UVic Bounce's "Waving, Not Drowning," Izzy workedon podcasts as an audio production volunteer and interviewer through the campus radio station CFUV. Through her co-op with Perpetual Motion Productions, she continued to hone her audio skills as an Associate Producer on the podcasts Skaana and Orca Bites. In the last two

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00:48:19

Episode #21: Dr. Corinne Bancroft on the Transition...

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2021/06/25

Corinne Bancroft is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a dissertation titled "A Child's Call: Braiding Narratives in the Face of Racial Violence" which traces how American authors focus on child characters as instruments for narrating violence, and how these children's voices call adult characters and actual readers toward a heightened sense of social responsibility. Her publications appear in

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00:50:39

Episode #20: Dr. Bruce Ravelli on Finding Your Voice...

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2021/06/18

Dr. Bruce Ravelli is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. He is an award-winning teacher who loves teaching. He teaches many of the department’s Introduction to Sociology courses (his passion) as well as a fourth-year seminar course delivered using a community-engaged learning (CEL) model. The course requires students to leave the comfort of the classroom and work with local non-profit agencies to complete a project the agency would not otherwise be able

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01:02:28

Episode #19: Dr. Jane Butterfield on Treating Your...

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2021/06/11

Dr. Jane Butterfield earned a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Puget sound in 2006, followed by an MS in the Teaching of Mathematics and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in 2012. Her PhD research was in extremal graph theory, but she also enjoys topological graph theory, Ramsey games, and pursuit games on graphs. While a graduate student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, she received three teaching awards, including the Campus Award for Excellence in

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00:51:36

Episode #18: Dr. Sarah Hunt on Self-Care as a Daily...

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2021/05/28

Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa, a member of the Kwagu’ł (Kwakwaka’wakw) Nation from the northern part of Vancouver Island, grew up locally on the Songhees reserve in Lekwungen territories. Hunt completed her undergraduate degree at UVic, and PhD at Simon Fraser University, before moving on to serve as a professor at UBC for five years. She is a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Political Ecology in UVic’s School of Environmental Studies, a prestigious professor position given to Canada’s best and

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00:54:42

Episode #17: Dr. Louise Chim on Finding and Being a...

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2021/05/21

Dr. Louise Chim is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology. She teaches introductory psychology, statistical methods in psychology, and cultural psychology. Broadly, she is interested in finding ways to facilitate student engagement and learning in large classes and how cultural contexts and emotions shape these processes. Louise was awarded the UVic Social Sciences Early Career Teaching Award in 2019. Currently, she is also a casual developmental psychologist continuously

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00:53:28

Episode #16: Dr. Cindy Holmes on Mental Health,...

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2021/05/14

*CW: This episode engages with mental health discourse and references depression, anxiety, and suicide* Dr. Cindy Holmes is a queer, cisgender, white settler of English, Scottish and Irish ancestry who grew up in the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Attawandaron and Haudenosaunee people of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation in Guelph Ontario. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria. Her interdisciplinary scholarship and pedagogy

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00:56:58

Episode #15: Dr. James Rowe on Finding Strength in...

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2021/05/07

James K. Roweis an associate professor in the School of Environmental Studies. His interests lie with social movement strategy, which he approaches from the perspective of political economy andpolitical ecology, and with a particular focus on the roots of injustice. He is especially concerned with the role of existential fears and resentments in the creation of injustice and the concomitant need for social movements to developstrategies capable of addressing these fears. He regularly teaches ES 200

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00:39:22

Episode #14: Dr. Violeta Iosub on Being an...

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2021/04/30

Dr. Violeta Iosub is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Victoria. Before coming to UVic in 2018, she taught chemistry to science majors, non-science majors and engineers for six years at the University of Calgary. Violeta was born and raised in Romania and came to Canada in 2005 on a student visa. She obtained her doctorate in organic synthesis from the University of Calgary. After thirteen long and beautiful winters in Calgary, she moved to Victoria

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00:49:46

Episode #13: Dr. Ireh Iyioha on Learning to See Yourself

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2021/04/23

Dr. Ireh Iyioha is a Nigerian-Canadian writer of literary fiction, law professor at the University of Victoria, and the founder of the PEIF Fund Incorporated, a non-profit organization that offers a Service-Mentorship Exchange Program for young professionals invested in serving kids-in-need in Canada and selected African cities. Trained as an Attorney, her life's work focuses on social justice advocacy through teaching, research, service, and creative writing. Her creative works have appeared in

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00:43:01

Episode #12: Dr. Celina Berg on Taking a Step Back to...

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2021/04/16

Dr. Celina Berg is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Victoria (UVic) and has been here since 2019. Celina completed her education at UVic with her graduate research falling in the intersection of the principles of software engineering and complex software systems, with a focus on parallel computing. Celina spent 4 years as a tenure track Instructor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) teaching a range of Computer Science courses and

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