Communities and Collections

Student Conduct and Accountability addresses student conduct in multiple ways, including prevention, collaborative (non-adjudicative) problem-solving, policy development, and decision-making under the Code of Student Behaviour.

Energy Efficiency Alberta was a government agency in operation from January 2017 to September 2020. Its mandate was: to raise awareness among energy consumers of energy use and the associated economic and environmental consequences; to promote, design, and deliver programs and carry out other activities related to energy efficiency, energy conservation, and the development of micro-generation and small-scale energy systems in Alberta, and to promote the development of an energy efficiency services industry.

The Alberta Consortium for Motivation and Emotion (ACME) was established in 2011 and is an affiliate lab with the Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation (CRAME). ACME members examine how motivation and emotions influence people in achievement settings such as school, sports, or therapy. ACME was created to support graduate students at the University of Alberta with a shared interest in motivation and emotion and a desire to actively pursue and disseminate research in collaboration with the director and beyond their thesis requirements. We work primarily from the following theoretical frameworks: achievement goal theory, mindset theory, attribution theory, control value theory of emotions, self-determination theory, self-efficacy. Contact us at acme@ualberta.ca.

NEOS is a consortium of government, health, college and university libraries in Alberta that cooperate to share library resources, technology, collections and people.

The WorkSpace Canada Project is a long-term photo documentary by Martin Weinhold. Since 2006 Weinhold constantly explores the country on his mission to produce a multifaceted portrait of a nation at work. The artistic idea is to capture the relationship between person and workplace in visual narratives. It is a threefold approach, introducing work environment, work activity and the performing person. Closeness and depth in the portraits and a modern image of Canada is what matters most to the project’s author. The ambitious goal is to combine a mosaic of contemporary Canada with a complex inventory of the current western world of work. As of 2020 the collection consists of photographs from all Canadian provinces and one territory. In 2021 the nationwide endeavor shall be completed.
The WorkSpace Canada Project was and is inspired by political theorist Hannah Arendt. In her book The Human Condition she distinguishes between labour, work and action as important elements for the realization of our human capacities. Arendt is discussing the subject of “work” with regard to men’s and women’s limited life time. This is why Martin Weinhold wants to shed light onto the choices people make for their career, as these choices determine how a large portion of the given years will be spent.
The WorkSpace Canada Project is entirely produced on black and white medium format film. Currently approx. 4,000 photographs are available as digital files in high resolution. The project’s main collaborators are Ryerson University (Toronto), Library and Archives Canada and the John-F-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies (Berlin). Subset collections were published and exhibited in Canada and abroad. At present Library and Archives Canada keeps a compilation of 112 original gelatin silver prints.

Tracking Change is a multi-year research initiative funded by the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada and led by the University of Alberta, the Traditional Knowledge Steering Committee of the Mackenzie River Basin Board, the Government of the Northwest Territories and many other valued partner organizations. Over six years (2015-2022), the project will fund local and traditional knowledge research activities in the Mackenzie River basin and sister projects in the Lower Amazon and Lower Mekong River Basins, with the long term goal of strengthening the voices of subsistence fishers and Indigenous communities in the governance of major fresh water ecosystems. The project developed in recognition that river systems are important social, economic, cultural and ecological places that contribute to the well-being of communities in diverse ways. River peoples, particularly Indigenous peoples who have well developed fishing livelihoods can offer extremely valuable insights about long term (historic and current) patterns of social and ecological change and the interconnections between the health and dynamics of these river systems and that of river communities. Although based on oral traditions, this system of observation or “tracking change” is much like monitoring. Like those who live on Canada’s east and west coasts, the ability of Indigenous communities in the Mackenzie River Basin to maintain fishing as a livelihood practice is of social, economic and cultural importance to all of Canada; if this river system is not healthy, how can we be?

Research Impact Canada (RIC) is a pan-Canadian network of universities committed to maximizing the impact of academic research for the public good in local and global communities. RIC is committed to developing institutional capacities to support creating and assessing impacts of research, scholarship and creative activities by developing and sharing best practices, services and tools. University of Alberta has been a member since 2018.

The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) is a not-for-profit organization that exists to inspire and advance a culture committed to sustained improvement for safer healthcare in Canada. It does this by fostering collaboration between governments and stakeholders, supporting the development of patient safety initiatives that will help the Canadian healthcare system become the safest and best in the world. CPSI's work lays primarily in implementing safety interventions, advocating for policy change, and strengthening alliances and networks.

Community Service-Learning (CSL) offers University of Alberta students the opportunity
to work and make a difference with a local community group, while reflecting and putting
their experiences in context within a university course. These community partnerships
provide opportunities for students to gain valuable experience, contribute to their
awareness of the social and political life of their community, and build capacity in the
local not-for-profit sector.

The Opening Up Copyright (OUC) community contains two collections of materials from the University of Alberta's Opening Up Copyright Instructional Module Series. The "Module Materials" collection contains copies of module videos, transcripts, and PowerPoint slides. The "Scholarly Contributions" collection contains copies of conference presentations and journal articles that have been developed by the OUC team and examine various facets of the series. All materials are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. The fully interactive versions of the modules can be viewed at the project website: https://sites.library.ualberta.ca/copyright/.