Building and Sustaining Momentum: Indigenizing Our Curriculum and Practices in Collaborative and Meaningful Ways in Science at UBC

The Biology Department, and it’s EDI Committee is proudly hosting Dr. Ashley Welsh, to give one of the last departmental seminars of the season.

📅 Date: Monday, May 11
🕒 Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
📍 Location: ASC130
👤 Modality: In-person

Note that there will also be an information trainee lunch with Dr. Welsh, open to graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, from 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM in ASC271. Pizza will be served.

Abstract: In this session, Dr. Welsh will share various approaches for how Science educators can begin and sustain their engagement with Goal 4, Indigenizing Our Curriculum, from UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan. She will highlight specific examples of how curriculum and practices are being reshaped in the Faculty of Science at UBCV and will speak to the opportunities and tensions in this work. Her presentation will be grounded in her personal and professional experiences as a non-Indigenous STEM educator and the generosity and care afforded to her by her Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleagues and mentors.

Bio: Dr. Ashley Welsh (she/her) is of settler descent and was born and raised on the traditional and treaty territory of the Mississauga First Nations (Williams Treaties territory) and now lives in Vancouver on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Ashley is the Faculty Liaison (Science) in the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology and the Science Centre for Learning and Teaching (Skylight) at the University of British Columbia Vancouver (UBCV) campus. Within this cross-appointed role, she develops, leads, and partners with students, staff, and faculty on teaching and learning initiatives to enrich curriculum, pedagogy, and scholarship in undergraduate math and science education with a focus on inclusive and decolonizing practices. Ashley holds a BSc in Chemical Physics from the University of Guelph and an MA and PhD in Curriculum Studies (Science Education) from UBC.