Watch the Wall Scholars Video: Creating New Connections

June 21, 2021

Watch our new video* where Wall Scholars share their thoughts about participating in the Wall Scholars program. 

I would say without hesitation that the Wall Scholars program has been one of the most significant intellectually stimulating and productive parts of my career to date. I have made so many invaluable connections, started working in new areas, brought together partnerships that have resulted in numerous grant applications, and broadened what I feel my own work can achieve through continued interdisciplinary collaboration. Shannon Walsh, 2017 Wall Scholar

 

Since 2014, The Wall Scholars Program has brought together diverse groups of scholars from UBC and around the world for year-long residences at the Peter Wall Institute to engage in deep, unconstrained research in an immersive, interdisciplinary environment.  Wall Scholars come from a wide range of disciplines, including:

  • Humanities & the Performing Arts
  • Health & Medicine
  • Law & Education
  • Science & Engineering

This year the Wall Scholar Program expanded to include scholars from institutions in Canada and around the world. The 2021-22 cohort includes scholars from Toronto, South Africa and Spain.

 

 

“There are two commodities on campus that are in scarce supply to scholars:  time and connection.  The Wall Scholars program afforded me the time necessary to oversee my research and knowledge mobilization projects. Equally important is the opportunity the fellowship provides to connect with other scholars at the Institute – brainstorming about   ideas, testing concepts and seeking longer-term partnerships. PWIAS’s embrace of risk-taking and experimentation is what truly draws me to the Institute, and I believe there is no better place to spend an academic year, to advance research, and develop new ways of engaging scholarship and the public.”  –Peter Klein, Journalism, 2015 Wall Scholar

Click here to learn more about the Wall Scholars Program.  

*Note: video footage was captured in summer/fall 2020, following COVID-19 protocols in place at that time.