Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Office of Research and Scholarship.

Connor Doyle is a poet and prose writer who recently graduated from KPU with a double major in Creative Writing and English Literature. Actively engaged in the writing community, Connor is the co-founder and managing editor for Pulp magazine, a magazine operated and owned by KPU students for students.

Kathrin Arcari is a KPU student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Counselling who has a keen interest in education abroad and human interaction. While travelling the world and promoting human rights advocacy, Kathrin has been given the opportunity to develop her research.

Researcher profile of Calvin Tui a student in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts. Calvin Tiu’s main goal is to incorporate passion with learning by inspiring students to break out of traditional forms of education and make a path of their own. Calvin achieved this by incorporating his passion for rap into his English studies

Katie Warfield, Aaron Goodman and Chad Skeltonwere/are members of the Visual Media Workshop, a research hub launched at KPU to publish cutting-edge research, lead community and student workshops, and work with world-renowned academics. The three members were/are interested in three main categories of research: critical digital visual literacy, digital visual storytelling, and data visualization.

Researcher Profile of Dr Stephen Peplow, a faculty member in the School of Business at KPU whose research interests are in geographical information systems (GIS), statistics and agent-based modeling.

Researcher Profile of Dr. Kamala Nayar, a faculty member specializing in South Asian Studies at KPU who is committed to interdisciplinary inquiry, with an interest in ethnic studies, especially in relation to Canadian society.

Ron Messer is a faculty member in the School of Business at KPU whose research interests focus broadly on management accounting and decision making.

Katie Warfield is a KPU faculty member in the department of Journalism and Communication at the Surrey Campus and she is the lead researcher of the Making Selfies/Making Self Research Project.

The Office of Research and Scholarship at KPU publishes an annual bibliography of faculty scholarly activity. The research and scholarly activity profiled in this publication illustrates the variety of topics and methods by which KPU is enhancing its reputation as an applied polytechnic university. There is a growing body of thematic and individually inspired research that we believe can be characterized as - driven by demand; informed by science; and transformed by impact

The Office of Research and Scholarship at KPU publishes an annual bibliography of faculty scholarly activity. The catalog of Scholarly Activity for the year 2012 collected in the following 23 pages represents all that is best about KPU: important, interesting and vibrant activities across the full spectrum of our pedagogy, our community engagement and our innovation. We present this catalog to both recognize the contributions of our scholars and to inform our community as to the outcome of their support

Research Infographics - Faculty of Health. Principal investigator Arleigh Bell, an instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), with five researchers from the United States carried out a study to identify which debriefing practices work best for health students.

Research Infographics - Faculty of Health and Faculty of Arts. Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) researchers/instructors Carol Hansen, Judith DeGroot and Sharon Leitch travelled to Scotland to learn about its national strategic dementia plan and review current research.