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Highlighting recent publications and theses by JIBC faculty and staff. If you have published recently contact the Library to be featured in Hot Off The Press.

Hot off the Press

Hot off the Press celebrates research and publications by JIBC employees. 

Have you published recently? Contact the Library to be featured in Hot Off the Press.

Email: library@jibc.ca

Junsong Zhang, Albertine De Leon, and Ben Coulas (2024)

Congratulations to Junsong, Albertine, and Ben for their chapter "Empowering Community Care Licensing Education: Leveraging eportfolios for inclusivity, flexibility, and skill enhancement" in Supporting the Ambitions of Higher Education. They discuss the design, implementation, and impact of the eportfolio platform, PebblePad, in CCLO-3411 - Professional Practice.

The book is now available to borrow through the JIBC Library.

Heather Simpson (2023)

Heather Simpson continues her research with her latest article "Forming strong cultural identities in an intersecting space of indigeneity and autism using research and digital storytelling" published in November 2023 in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. Heather's work "responds to the urgency to disrupt patterns of social injustice, exclusion, and cultural genocide while promoting positive identity formation, pride, and resilience for Indigenous autistics in the post-secondary education system (Simpson, 2023)". 

Heather was part of the BCcampus Research Fellows (BCCRF) program in 2021-2022 with her project "Thrivival: The fire within". Today, she carries on her work with BCCRF in an advisory role: The BCcampus Research Fellows Program: Supporting Research for Student Success.

Thank you and congratulations, Heather! 

Jennifer Jasper, Alyssa Handfield, Becky Donelon (2023)

Congratulations to Jennifer, Alyssa, and Becky on the completion of their scoping review on Gender based violence amongst first responders. Screenshot of cover of article: Gender based violence amongst first responders: A scoping review. Their research gathered available evidence to describe and synthesize gender based violence in relation to education and workplace for fire, paramedic, and police. 

Read their research in the Vault now: Gender based violence amongst first responders: a scoping review.

Jasper, Jennifer | The Vault (arcabc.ca)
Handfield, Alyssa | The Vault (arcabc.ca)
Donelon, Becky | The Vault (arcabc.ca)

 

Linda Dobson (2023)

Linda Dobson, an instructor in JIBC's Centre for Conflict Resolution, authored a chapter in the new book Therapists, and Clients: A Complete GuideCover of Book to the Benefits of Personal Writing. Linda's Chapter 11 "The Conflict Coaching Road Map for Journaling" guides users through "the journey of resolution" using a practical, four phase journaling process.

You can read Linda's chapter through the library: 

Heather Simpson (2022)

Heather Simpson’s most recent research project, Thrivival (2022), “uses digital storytelling to weave together individual and Report Cover. Text on image - Thrivival: The Fire Within - Forming Strong Cultural Identities in an Intersecting Space of Indigeneity and Autism | BCcampus Research Fellows 2021-2022 collective narrativesrepresenting storied experiences of Indigenous Autistic post-secondary students” (p. 6). Building on her past work “Forming Strong Cultural Identities in an Intersecting Space of Indigeneity and Autism in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand”, her research gives Indigenous Autistic students a voice through participatory action research.  

Listen to Thrivival in The Vault.  

View more research by Heather.  

Darren Blackburn and EMD Instructors (2022)

Congratulations to Darren Blackburn on the publication of Introduction to Emergency Management in Canada, Book Cover for Introduction to Emergency Management in Canadawhich Darren co-edited. This new EMD textbook also features chapters written by several JIBC instructors, including Bettina Williams (EMD Program Manager) and sessional instructors Karen Collins, Cindy Jeromin, Beth Larcombe, Cindy Patterson, and Lee Patterson. Well done everyone! 

The book is now available to borrow through the JIBC Library

Heather Simpson (2021)

Congratulations to Heather Simpson on her recent publication: “Forming strong cultural identities in an intersecting space of indigeneity and autism in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand” in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples.

Heather's current research examines the intersectionality of Indigeneity and autism and seeks to understand how Indigenous knowledges in education and arts programming may disrupt patterns of social injustice, exclusion, and cultural genocide while promote positive identity formation, pride, and resilience for Indigenous autistics.

Read Heather's full article in the JIBC Vault.

Visit Heather's Faculty Profile.