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Feature Story: Celebrate all of the important relationships in your life on Palentine’s Day
No full textWhat if there was a day to celebrate the people who are the most important to you? A day that doesn’t make you feel hyperaware that you are single. A day that you don’t have to see countless proposals, flowers, jewelry, and posts about “bae” as you scroll through social media. Good news – Palentine’s Day is February 13 and we are welcoming it with open arms.Staffn
A Qualitative Analysis of the Mental Health Training and Educational Needs of Firefighters, Paramedics, and Public Safety Communicators in Canada
No full textBackground—Public safety personnel (PSP) are at heightened risk of developing mental health challenges due to exposures to diverse stressors including potentially psychologically traumatic experiences. An increased focus on protecting PSP mental health has prompted demand for interventions designed to enhance resilience. While hundreds of available interventions are aimed to improve resilience and protect PSPs’ mental health, research evidence regarding intervention effectiveness remains sparse. Methods—Focus groups with PSP elicited a discussion of psychoeducational program content, preferred modes of program delivery, when such training should occur, and to whom it ought to be targeted. Results—The results of thematic analyses suggest that PSP participants feel that contemporary approaches to improving mental health and resilience are lacking. While welcomed, the provision of sporadic one-off mental health and resilience programs by organizations was seen as insufficient, and the available organizational mental health supports were perceived as being questionable. The available programs also left participants feeling insufficiently prepared to deal with personal mental health problems and in discussing mental health concerns with co-workers. Conclusions—Participants reported needing more engaging methods for delivering information, career-long mental health knowledge acquisition, and a systems approach to improve the workplace culture, particularly regarding mental health.This research work was supported by a Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Public Safety Personnel Catalyst Grant (FRN: 162528) and by an Alberta Health, Mental Health and Addiction COVID-19 Community Funding Grant (Grant: 011530).Facultyye
Political fanaticism, alienation and the Trickster archetype in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland
No full textThis thesis uses Jungian and post-Jungian methods of textual analysis as a methodological
approach to analyze two fairytale films produced at the beginning of the twenty-first century,
Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and Terry Gilliam’s Tideland (2005). Based on del
Toro’s artistic rendering of the Spanish Civil War and Gilliam’s depiction of the Canadian prairies
as an isolated and hostile landscape, it will be argued that political fanaticism and alienation are,
from a Jungian psychological perspective, symptomatic of a modern mode of being that divests
individuals of the numinous dimensions of existence. And since Jungian psychology formulates
the numinous as a category of subjective experiences vis-à-vis the Self (Edinger, 1972), it follows,
the thesis argues, that political fanaticism and alienation result from an attitude of neglect towards
internal psychological processes and the unconscious. In this line of reasoning, the thesis further
argues that the Trickster manifests in these films as a figure of remediation, which brings forth the
importance of individuation as a means to rediscover the numinous through a dialogical
relationship with the unconscious.Studentye
Making consent perceptions
No full textA Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology, University of Regina. 66 p.While recent research has expanded understandings of how people communicate consent and rejection to sexual initiations in person, less is known about digital consent negotiations. Sexual double standards and consent misperceptions shown to operate during in person consent negotiations are relatable to culturally reinforced gender-based social norms, and there is potential for those same double standards and misperceptions to impact digital interactions. To explore this, participants (n = 6) were presented with four vignettes involving two heterosexual, cisgender characters; in three an unsolicited “dick pic” was sent, and in one a dick pic was sent consensually.
Participants then responded to semi-structured interview questions about each vignette. The interviews were recorded and transcribed, and were then analyzed thematically in reference to the research questions: do the same double-standards and misperceptions regarding consent in person also operate in the digital context, and how do participants' understandings of consent compare to the Canadian Criminal Code's legal definitions?
Participants’ responses reflected similar sexual double standards and consent misperceptions as found in previous research (Amundsen, 2020; Jozkowski et al., 2017; Williamson et al., unpublished manuscript). In addition, participants relayed that consent communication is impacted by the digital context. Findings suggest that without standard consent communication methods like body language or tone of voice (Griner et al., 2021), coercive and consent violating acts can occur more easily digitally, yet heteronormative gender roles can still be employed to brush them off as misunderstandings.Studentn
Feature Story: Seven can't-miss Welcome Weekend events
No full textThe Fall term is almost here and that means it's time for Welcome Weekend!
There's too many fun events to list in one article, so we chatted with Welcome Weekend Chair Jenna Trider to settle on the top events that you need to check out at this year's Welcome Weekend taking place from Friday, August 26 to Tuesday, August 30.
"Welcome Weekend is a great opportunity to not only get to know your new home away from home on campus, but you also get the chance to meet some other great students and take part in some amazing events around campus,"said Trider.Staffn
Feature Story: U of R alum's video project celebrates the study of Indigenous language
No full textWahbi Zarry comes by his knowledge of languages honestly. Not only does the Casablanca, Morocco native speak fluent French, Arabic and English, but in the past two years Zarry has tackled learning two Indigenous languages - Cree, documented in his 2020 documentary 10 Days of Cree, and now, Nakota.
Like he did when he ambitiously tried to learn Cree in 10 days, Zarry's journey towards learning Nakota has been recorded for posterity. The result is 10 Days of Nakota, a half hour documentary and the second episode in a series called Canadian Languages, a series Zarry is producing to help buildawareness about Indigenous languages in Canada.Staffn
Exploring Teaching Effectiveness and Research on Teaching and Learning at AACSB Accredited Business Schools in Canada and the US
No full textAuthor's accepted version (postprint). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Emerald Publishing Limited in International Journal of Educational Management on 5 April 2022. The article was accepted for publication on 17-Mar-2022. Available online: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJEM-12-2021-0462/full/htmlThis study explores the implementation of two AACSB standards by business schools across Canada and the US. First, this study examines how teaching effectiveness is defined and measured in light of Standard 7 (Teaching Effectiveness and Impact). Second, this study explores the value of research on teaching and learning in relation to Standard 8 (Impact of Scholarship).
This study adopts a thematic analysis framework based on data obtained from an online survey, semi-structured interviews, and policy documents.
The results reveal that business schools rarely define teaching effectiveness; instead, they adopt various measures to evaluate teaching effectiveness. The results reveal that research on teaching and learning alone usually does not lead to tenure; however, it is valued if part of a portfolio that includes discipline-specific research. Lastly, this research highlights a stigma associated with research on teaching and learning relative to discipline-specific research.
This study introduces a comprehensive and integrated teaching evaluation framework that can be adopted to define teaching effectiveness and elevate the teaching function. In addition, we argue that business schools should nurture a niche set of academics who hold PhDs in their respective disciplines and are education experts to increase the production of research-informed instructional strategies curated for business schools.
This is the first study to explore how AACSB standards related to teaching effectiveness and research on teaching and learning are interpreted and implemented at AACSB accredited business schools
Feature Story: The University is honoured to be gifted with a Buffalo Winter Count Robe
No full textThe Office of Indigenous Engagement held a special ceremony on Thursday to celebrate the gift of a traditional Buffalo Winter Count Robe to the University of Regina. The robe was painted by knowledge keeper Wayne Goodwill from Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation, one of the last known robe painters in the province.
The robe tells the story of the Indigenous experience from precolonial days to the present. It will be used as a teaching tool to support the University and surrounding community on the path of truth and reconciliation.Staffn
Feature Story: Students from Mexico taking customized English language enhancement program at the U of R
No full textOn May 18, 2022, the first of three groups of students (22 out of 65 students in total) from Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan, Mexico arrived at the University of Regina to participate in a specialized 3-week training program to enhance their English language skills. The students are part of the International Mobility Program hosted by the U of R.Staffn