Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

“Walk in my Shoes: A Neighbourhood Tour” was held by the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility (UBC and Vancouver Coastal Health).  Supported by the Peter Wall Solutions Initiative, the project is looking at mobility issues and the experience of aging in the urban environment.   Seniors from the West End Seniors Centre and staff from the City of Vancouver Planning and Engineering departments, went on a 'walkabout' doing a sample 'street audit' to understand the issues older adults face getting about in their neighbourhood. 

Dr. Barb Pesut, UBC Okanagan, is leading a study funded by the Peter Wall Solutions Initiative to develop an integrated palliative care approach for patients in rural BC.  This study will be conducted in the Trail-Castlegar region but its findings will be valuable for other rural areas in BC.

The report is now available for the Wall Exploratory Workshop: “Living through Violence: Transitional Justice Considers Everyday Memory Practices and Performances of Social Repair,” held February 23-24, 2012 and organised by Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Professor, UBC School of Social Work and the Liu Institute for Global Issues.

Many Wall initiatives have led to significant publications including the following two new books recently added to the Institute’s Library:

When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform by Kenneth R. Carty, et al.  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2011.

A Voice For Many: Margaret Philp, Journalist by Janis Sarra (ed.). Toronto, ON: Carswell. 2011.

The report is now available for the Wall Colloquium Abroad: “Many Voices One Song.” Health-promoting schools: Evidence, Strategies, Challenges and Prospects, organised by Dr. Andrew Macnab, UBC Professor of Pediatrics, and held at partner institute, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 9-11, 2011.

The report is now available Wall Colloquium Abroad: Continuity in Energy Regimes, organised by Dr. Richard Unger, UBC History and held by international partner institute, the Technical University of Munich, Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS), Germany, October 27-29, 2011.

The 2011 Annual Report for the Major Thematic Grant "Coherent Dynamics of Ultra-Cold Molecular Systems" is now available online.