Scholarly Activity - Past Events

Explore past Scholarly Activity Weeks and revisit presentations, recordings, and shared materials where available. This archive highlights the diversity and breadth of scholarly activity across BCIT, showcasing innovative teaching, learning, and applied research from faculty and researchers across the institute

We had a wonderful response to our call for presenters, and had a great week of learning about the wide-ranging scholarly activity underway at BCIT.

Over the week, we had:

4 days of presentations
25 sessions (many of which were recorded – stay tuned for links)
Presenters from many of the schools, and areas such as the Library, Sustainability, RDI, MarComm, and Applied Research
Presenters and participants who were faculty, staff, and most excitingly – students!

Sessions included both those focused on how to pursue scholarly activity, and presentations on scholarly activity at various stages of development from early stages, to well underway, to completed. Each of these contributed to our scholarly activity community by celebrating what we do, sharing insights on how to pursue scholarly activity, and creating connections and spreading great ideas.

Thanks again for supporting scholarly activity at BCIT. Stay tuned for more events and, of course, for next year’s Scholarly Activity Week!

2025 Scholarly Activity Week committee members:

Bonnie Johnston, Instructional Development Consultant and Chair of Scholarly Activity Committee
Naveen Jit, Faculty, School of Transportation
Mary Ho, Faculty, School of Business + Media
Terry Suen, Faculty, Program Head Technology Management, School of Transportation
Shan Satoglu, Faculty, Program Head Healthcare Management, School of Health Sciences
Borna Noureddin, Faculty, School of Computing & Academic Studies
Antoinette Jackson, Project Leader, Applied Research Liaison Office
Kathy Siedlaczek, Dean, Teaching and Learning

Presentations

BCIT Scholarly Activity Week was the first event following the publishing of the Scholarly Activity Guideline in Spring 2024. The goal was to build on the Guideline document and create a forum for our community to connect, collaborate, and share the diversity of scholarly activities taking place at BCIT. By any measure, it was a great success! Over 3 days of sessions, we had:

22 presentations
Over 100 participants joined
Presenters and participants from all 6 schools, and other areas such as the Library, Learning & Teaching Centre, and Applied Research

There were great questions, great discussion, sparks of ideas for potential collaborations, adaptations of findings to new areas, and examples of all four categories of scholarly activity (application, discovery, integration, teaching/learning) happening at the Institute.

2024 Scholarly Activity Week committee members:

Joe Boyd, Research Liaison, Applied Research Liaison Office (retired)
Naveen Jit, Faculty, School of Transportation
Bonnie Johnston, Instructional Development Consultant, Learning & Teaching Centre
Terry Suen, Faculty, Program Head, Technology Management, School of Transportation
Shan Satoglu, Faculty, Program Head, Healthcare Management, School of Health Sciences
Alok Dhungana, Faculty, Power Engineering, School of Energy
Kathy Siedlaczek, Dean, Academic Planning & Quality Assurance