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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Overview of the Institute ...... 1 1.1 Foundation and Recent Developments ...... 1 1.2 Vision and Mission ...... 2 2 Academic Activities...... 3 2.1 Wall Scholars Program ...... 3 2.2 Wall Solutions Initiative ...... 7 2.3 Wall Distinguished Professors ...... 9 2.4 International Research Roundtable Program ...... 10 2.5 Trustees Initiatives ...... 11 2.6 International Visiting Research Scholars Program ...... 12 2.7 Wall Exchange Lecture Series ...... 14 2.8 International Partnerships ...... 16 2.9 Associate Forums ...... 18 2.10 Director’s Initiatives ...... 19 2.11 Arts-Based Initiatives ...... 20 3 Governance ...... 22 3.1 Deed of Trust...... 22 3.2 Board of Trustees ...... 23 3.3 Academic Advisory Panel ...... 26 3.4 Observers to the Board of Trustees ...... 27 4 Administrative Structure ...... 28 4.1 Relationship Between UBC and the Institute ...... 28 4.2 Staff ...... 28 4.3 Staff Changes Since 2011 ...... 29 5 Leadership ...... 30 5.1 Role and Responsibilities of the Director ...... 30 5.2 History of Leadership ...... 30 6 Infrastructure and Resources ...... 33 6.1 Facilities...... 33 6.2 Finances ...... 33 7 Strategic Vision and Activities ...... 35

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7.1 2018 Strategic Plan – Vision and Mission ...... 35 7.2 Communications and Outreach ...... 35 7.3 Student Engagement...... 37 8 2011 External Review ...... 38 9 Challenges and Opportunities ...... 39 9.1 Academic Independence ...... 39 9.2 Board of Trustees Procedures ...... 40 9.3 Staff Resources ...... 41 9.4 Adjudication and Program Evaluation ...... 41 9.5 Physical space ...... 42

TABLES

Table 1. Institute programs by funding allocation 2019-2020...... 3 Table 2. Faculty Associates ...... 18 Table 3. Top 10 viewed videos on the PWIAS YouTube channel ...... 36

FIGURES

Figure 1. Wall Scholar Disciplines ...... 4 Figure 2. Wall Scholar Appointment Types ...... 4 Figure 3. Positive Impacts Described by Wall Scholars ...... 6 Figure 4. Wall Solutions Topics by Area ...... 8 Figure 5. Target Populations of Wall Solutions Projects 2011-2019...... 8 Figure 6. IVRS’ Regions of Origin ...... 14 Figure 7. IVRS’ Publications with UBC Collaborators ...... 14 Figure 8. Board of Trustees Timeline ...... 23 Figure 9. Media coverage of Wall Scholars research 2014-2018 ...... 36

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APPENDICIES

Appendix A 1993 Proposed Operating Mode for the Institute ...... A-1 Appendix B Vision and Mission Statements by Past Directors ...... A-4 Appendix C Historical Timeline of Institute Programs ...... A-5 Appendix D Overview of History of all Programs ...... A-6 Appendix E Adjudication Committee Membership Since 2014 ...... A-10 E.1 Wall Scholar Adjudication Committees ...... A-10 E.2 Wall Solutions Initiative Adjudication Committees ...... A-12 E.3 International Research Roundtable Adjudication Committees ...... A-14 E.4 International Visiting Research Scholar Adjudication Committees ...... A-16 E.5 Arts-Based Initiative Adjudication Committees ...... A-17 Appendix F Wall Solutions Projects Funded Since 2011 ...... A-18 Appendix G Biographies of Distinguished Professors...... A-20 Appendix H International Research Roundtables Funded Since 2012 ...... A-22 Appendix I Trustees Initiatives Since 2012 ...... A-24 Appendix J Wall Exchange Speakers and Topics ...... A-25 Appendix K International Partnerships Memoranda of Understanding ...... A-26 K.1 Collège de France ...... A-26 K.2 Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study ...... A-31 Appendix L Distinguished Visiting Professors Since 2011 ...... A-34 Appendix M French Scholars Lecture Series ...... A-35 Appendix N Director’s Initiatives ...... A-38 Appendix O Arts-Based Initiatives ...... A-40 Appendix P Board of Trustees Members ...... A-43 Appendix Q Finance Committee Meeting Attendees (2018-2019) ...... A-44 Appendix R Draft Terms of Reference for the Secretary to the Board of Trustees ...... A-45 Appendix S Secretaries to the Board of Trustees Since 1992 ...... A-48 Appendix T 2019 Draft Terms of Reference for the Academic Advisory Board ...... A-49 Appendix U Observers to the Board of Trustees Since 2003 ...... A-51 Appendix V 2019 Letter from VPRI to PWIAS Director ...... A-52 Appendix W PWIAS Organizational Chart ...... A-53 Appendix X January 2012 Proposed 3-Year Pilot Initiatives ...... A-54

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Appendix Y May 2018 Draft Strategic Plan ...... A-63 Appendix Z October 2018 Draft Strategic Plan ...... A-80 Appendix AA November 2018 Letter from Board Chair to PWIAS Director ...... A-91 Appendix BB November 2018 Resignation Announcement by PWIAS Director ...... A-94 Appendix CC December 2018 CAUT Letter to UBC President ...... A-96 Appendix DD November 2018 Statement by PWIAS Distinguished Professors ...... A-98 Appendix EE Statement by PWIAS Board of Trustees ...... A-99 Appendix FF January 2019 UBC Senate Motion Requesting External Review of PWIAS ...... A-100 Appendix GG Interim Summary of 2019 Fall Community Consultations ...... A-102 Appendix HH University Centre Building Floorplans ...... A-104 Appendix II October 2019 Issue of PWIAS Newsletter ...... A-107 Appendix JJ Description of Developments in Response to 2011 External Review Recommendations ...... A-115 Appendix KK CAUT Policy Statement on Governance ...... A-118

Appendix LL CAUT Policy Statement on Academic Freedom ...... A-120

Appendix MM November 2018 Letter from Faculty Association to UBC President ...... A-121

Appendix NN February 2019 CAUT Letter to UBC President ...... A-123

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CONFIDENTIAL APPENDICES

Confidential Appendix A Distinguished Professor Example Appointment Letter ...... CA-1 Confidential Appendix B Deed of Trust for the Establishment of the Peter Wall Endowment ...... CA-2 Confidential Appendix C 2016 Board of Trustees Procedures and Conflict of Interest Disclosure . CA-11 Confidential Appendix D 2019 Conflict of Interest Disclosure ...... CA-14 Confidential Appendix E 2018 Proposed Model for the Institute by the VPRI and the Provost...... CA-15 Confidential Appendix F July 2018 Correspondence from the Chair of the Board of Trustees ...... CA-18 Confidential Appendix G 2019 Peter Wall Endowment Financial Statement ...... CA-21 Confidential Appendix H 2019 Hampton Endowment Financial Statement ...... CA-22 Confidential Appendix I 2019 Trustees Initiative Documentation ...... CA-23

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1 OVERVIEW OF THE INSTITUTE

1.1 FOUNDATION AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Since its founding in 1991, the Institute’s mission has been to create a unique academic environment, promoting high level innovative scholarship unconstrained by conventional disciplinary boundaries. The Institute owes its beginnings to a gift of 6.5 million shares of Wall Financial Corporation stock (worth $15 million in 1991) from Vancouver financier and real-estate developer Peter Wall. The Institute is fully endowment-funded, governed by a Deed of Trust and a Board of Trustees. Since 2004, the Institute has reported for administrative purposes to the Vice-President Research and Innovation (VPRI). Over the years since its first programs were introduced in 1994, the Institute has fostered spaces for creative thinking and rare opportunities for world-class scholars to explore innovative research questions in a vibrant, collegial environment spanning all disciplines.

Motivating Peter Wall’s donation was the desire to repay the country that had admitted him as a refugee and facilitated his economic and community success. At the time it was the largest private donation in the 75-year history of the University of British Columbia. Peter Wall wanted his gift to be used to generate new ideas and initiatives that would not happen otherwise, and realized that there was an opportunity to create a university-based institute for advanced research that did not exist anywhere else (UBC News, Dec 12, 1996).

In 1993, John Grace, then Dean of Graduate Studies, led community consultations exploring ways to realize the concept of an institute for advanced studies. These consultations resulted in a Proposed Operating Mode for the Institute (UBC Reports, October 28, 1994; see Appendix A) that was approved by the UBC Senate (Vancouver Senate Minutes of February 16, 1994). The Institute’s first two programs were launched in 1994. One was the Peter Wall Distinguished Professorship, held from 1994 to 2000 by two distinguished scholars: the late Michael Smith, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Director of the Biotechnology Lab and the Genome Sequencing Centre, and Raphael Amit, Professor of Commerce and Business Administration and Director of the UBC Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Centre. The other was the Major Thematic Grant program, providing funding of up to $500,000 over a three-year period to interdisciplinary teams for innovative large-scale collaborative projects. The first Major Thematic Grant was awarded in 1996.

The Wall Endowment shares generate dividend income for the Institute’s annual operation. In 1994, the University also donated a $10 million Hampton Endowment to support a portion of the Institute’s general operating expenses.

In 1996, Kenneth MacCrimmon became the first permanent Director of the Institute. By 1999, the Institute had acquired its current permanent facilities in the Leon & Thea Koerner University Centre. This provided a supportive environment for the Institute’s growing number of faculty gatherings, workshops, and scholar-in-residence programs. Its location is one of the Institute’s big assets: a unique gathering place with breathtaking ocean and mountain views.

The last formal review of PWIAS was in 2011 during Dianne Newell’s directorship. The reviewers made a number of recommendations, including changes to some of the Institute’s core programs. Under the

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In June 2016, Philippe Tortell was appointed as Institute Director for a 5-year term. In spring 2018, Tortell was tasked with developing a new strategic plan for the Institute. In November 2018, he resigned as Director of the Institute, citing a series of directives from the Board of Trustees, the UBC Provost and the UBC VPRI. Philippe Tortell’s resignation letter stated that these directives posed a threat to the Institute’s core mission and academic independence and set a dangerous precedent of senior administrators directing research at UBC (see Section 5.2). In response, in December 2018, the UBC Senate requested an external review of the Institute focusing on its governance structure. In June 2019, Kalina Christoff was appointed as the Interim Director of the Institute and tasked with preparing for the Institute’s external review and leading community consultations.

1.2 VISION AND MISSION The Peter Wall Institute draws together scholars from UBC and around the world to engage in deep and unconstrained research into some of the most profound questions and challenges facing humanity. The Institute seeks to encourage highly innovative, creative and unexpected scholarship through wide-ranging explorations between disciplines, including the creative and performing arts. The activities of the Institute also contribute to the cultural enrichment of UBC and the wider community through regular lecture series and artistic events. Since its founding in 1991 the Institute has created a community of scholars at UBC and beyond, including partner institutions.

The Institute’s vision and mission has developed and evolved over the years, as reflected in different Directors’ strategic plans (see Appendix B).

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2 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

A guiding principle of the Institute is that innovative research is an inherently social process that thrives in a genuinely collaborative research environment. At the Institute, leading UBC scholars have the opportunity to exchange ideas with distinguished national and international scholars, to work together to develop new thinking beyond disciplinary boundaries, and to engage in intellectual risk-taking. The Institute’s programs reflect diverse perspectives and backgrounds, extend research beyond the academy, and showcase multimodal and expressive arts as important research components across all fields of inquiry. The Institute’s programs for 2019-2020 are listed in Table 1 and are described in further detail in sections 2.1 to 2.11 below, with a focus on their development since 2011. For a longer historical perspective on programming development, see Appendix C (Historical Timeline of Institute Programs) and Appendix D (Overview of the History of All Programs).

Table 1. Institute programs by funding allocation 2019-2020

Annual % of Program Programs 2019-2020 Competitive Deadline Budget Budget Wall Scholars √ √ $809,916 29% Wall Solutions √ √ $513,000 18% Distinguished Professors $318,628 11% International Research Roundtables √ √ $308,000 11% Trustees Initiatives $299,500 11% International Visiting Research Scholars √ √ $283,700 10% Wall Exchange $100,000 4% International Partnerships $70,000 2% Associate Forums $50,000 2% Director's Initiatives $40,000 1% Arts-Based Initiatives $30,000 1% $2,822,744 100%

2.1 WALL SCHOLARS PROGRAM

“Providing resources for capable and committed individuals to follow their instincts leads to the best of all discoveries, the totally surprising, the most unexpected, and the most useful ones.” – Michael Smith, Nobel Laureate and first Peter Wall Distinguished Professor

2.1.1 Overview The Wall Scholars program has been central to the Institute over much of its history. This signature program honours the spirit and legacy of the late Michael Smith, by providing time and space for scholars to engage in deep, creative and unconstrained thinking, through free and wide-ranging intellectual exchange. It offers UBC faculty from all disciplines and career stages a year-long residence at the Institute to exchange and conduct research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and explores innovative ways of thinking and knowing. In their residencies, scholars share inspiration and creative interactions that yield new syntheses and innovative methodologies. Wall Scholars engage with international visiting research scholars, further extending PWIAS’ capacities for creating a vibrant and

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stimulating intellectual environment. Figures 1 and 2 show the distribution of disciplines and appointment types across Wall Scholars 2014-2019.

Wall Scholar Disciplines Wall Scholar Appointment Types 2014-2019 2014-2019

Humanities 17% Basic Assistant Science Professor 27% Performing 30% Arts Professor 5% 36% Law & Education 5% Instructor 1% Medicine 6% Applied Associate Professor Science Social 33% 22% Science 18%

Figure 1. Wall Scholar Disciplines Figure 2. Wall Scholar Appointment Types

The Wall Scholars program develops professional and personal connections that foster curiosity, risk- taking and openness to exploring the unexpected. It builds and sustains long-lasting connections beyond the individual cohort and year in-residence through long-term alumni engagement in monthly forums and an annual Alumni Research Gala. The Wall Scholars program also provides public outreach training for scholars to develop their communication skills to engage broad audiences, increasing the impact of their work and raising their research profiles.

2.1.2 Background Until 2014, the Institute ran three types of different residential programs: Distinguished Scholars in Residence, Early Career Scholars, and Mentoring Research programs. In response to the recommendations of the 2011 External Review report, the Institute’s residential programs were consolidated into one program of Wall Scholars. This consolidation eliminated the distinctions between distinguished and early career scholars with the objective of creating a more dynamic and diverse intellectual community at the Institute. The cohort of 17 Wall Scholars in 2014 was reduced to 12 in 2015 to allow scholars to share office space on the same floor. In 2018, support was made available for up to 10 Wall Scholars to obtain full teaching and administrative release, in addition to a $20K research award, to allow them to focus completely on their individual and collaborative research activities while in residence at the Institute. In 2019, the research award was increased to $30k per scholar.

2.1.3 Adjudication Process Applicants are adjudicated in two stages (application and in-person interview) by an interdisciplinary committee comprised of 6-8 UBC faculty members chaired by the Institute’s Director. The members include the 2 Distinguished Professors and additional UBC faculty members chosen to represent a diversity

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2.1.4 Selection Criteria Committee members score candidates giving equal weight to individual scholar criteria (50%) and the cohort composition criteria (50%):

Individual Scholar Criteria

• Demonstrated interest in research and/or experience in scholarship that transcends usual disciplinary boundaries. • Proposal for research activities at PWIAS that have the potential to enrich the intellectual environment at the Institute. • Strong research record.

Cohort Composition Criteria

• A diversity of experience, knowledge and methodology. • A wide range of disciplines across the Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Performing Arts. • Different career stages including, Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors. • Potential for synergies and interactions between applicants. • Ability of cohort to interact constructively through conversation and intellectually challenge each other.

2.1.5 Budget PWIAS has funded 67 Wall Scholar awards since 2014. Since 2017, the Wall Scholars program has offered up to 10 research awards each year to UBC scholars, all of whom make the Institute their primary office (“primary office” means 3 days per week at the Institute while office space is only available on a shared basis). Since 2019, the award has provided research funds of $30,000 as well as up to $90,000 for teaching and administrative release. An additional $5,000 each is available to Wall Scholars to undertake collaborative research projects that stem from their time in residence. The program budget also includes funding to support the weekly programming and activities ($100,000), including regular lunch meetings, two research retreats and public outreach training. The budget for each Fiscal Year (FY), starting with 2014-2015 (FY15), is shown below.

FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $550,320 $506,000 $506,000 $470,000 $470,000 $809,916

2.1.6 Impact and Assessment The Wall Scholars program has had a transformative impact on the work of many UBC scholars, creating new research directions and stimulating new modes of collaboration across disciplines. The Wall Scholar program has also contributed to generating new research projects that have attracted major external and UBC funding. Figure 3 summarizes a survey of Wall Scholar alumni who responded to the question “Describe the impact of the Wall Scholar program on your research, career, or other scholarly activities.” The topics are listed according to how frequently scholars included them in their answers.

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Positive Impacts Described by Wall Scholars

Interdisciplinary Collaborations 22 New Partnerships at UBC 15 New Partnerships Internationally 12 Additional Funding Secured 12 Writing/Publication Outcomes 11 Career Growth 10 Impact on Research 9 Shift in Research Focus and/or Direction 7 Community/Connection at UBC 5 Creative Work Outcomes 4 Highlight of Academic Career 4

0 5 10 15 20 25

Figure 3. Positive Impacts Described by Wall Scholars

2.1.7 Testimonials “I would say without hesitation that the Wall Scholar 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, Theatre and Film, 2017 Wall Scholar

“My experience at PWIAS has led to a greater sense of community that reaches across the university, providing me with a better understanding and respect for what colleagues do in different departments and faculties. I understand UBC and scholarship better because of my intimate involvement at PWIAS. I have been able to lift my head beyond my area of scholarship and discipline to see how it relates to other areas. I feel that I can now serve my department and faculty better because of this broader understanding of UBC. I can safely say that my year at PWIAS has been the highlight of my 18 years as a tenure-track faculty member because of the stimulation and intellectual environment the scholars, staff and director generated.” -George Belliveau, Language & Literacy Education, 2016 Wall Scholar

"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’ 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

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"The Wall Scholar program has been very helpful for a range of reasons: • It has brought home the great importance of interdisciplinary work in advancing any global justice project. My work is now fully interdisciplinary as a result. • It has broadened my horizons as a scholar, created connections for me that are key for my future research, and nurtured my own energies considerably. • It has created a space to think very creatively, when much of the busy-ness of university life promotes scholarly path dependence rather that truly novel thinking. • It has connected me to a range of very impressive scholars throughout the university, and placed us in an environment that is stripped of the usual politics of academic institutions. This has proved very energizing." -James Stewart, Law, 2015 Wall Scholar

“The Wall Scholar program has had a profound impact on my career as a researcher and scholar. [T]here have been a wide range of tangible outcomes in both basic and applied research, as well as in event organization, establishing collaborations and attracting funding. Perhaps even more importantly, my time in residence at the Institute provided an unforgettable and eye-opening experience of interacting with scholars from a broad variety of other disciplines, which has had a lasting impact on how I think and approach my research. Just as an example, our discussions about writing and how different disciplines approach it have been incredibly insightful. While this type of impact might be less tangible and hard to quantify, it is what I believe will have the greatest long-term consequences for my work. It is also the type of experience that a program such as Wall Scholars is in a truly unique position to provide.” -Alireza Nojeh, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014 & 2015 Wall Scholar

2.2 WALL SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE

2.2.1 Overview The Wall Solutions Initiative enables UBC faculty members to work with end-users or community partners to develop or implement innovative research solutions. Wall Solutions projects address different community challenges, such as environmental issues, language and literacy, social justice, health care delivery, poverty alleviation, and population health and wellness (see Appendix F). Projects take new approaches to overcoming issues preventing the implementation or adoption of solutions through practice or policy. Projects are expected to demonstrate active participation and engagement with appropriate end-user or community partners.

2.2.2 Background The Wall Solutions program was first introduced in 2011 as a pilot program. The program was proposed by Distinguished Professor Brett Finlay and Peter Wall, and was approved by the Board of Trustees at their January 2011 meeting as a ‘Trustees Initiative’. It was initially funded from the Institute’s Endowment cash account at $1M annually for 3 years. The Trustees approved for the program to be part of PWIAS but adjudicated by a separate board and managed by a separate program officer. The Wall Solutions program became part of the PWIAS core programs in 2013.

2.2.3 Adjudication Process Applications are reviewed and selected by a committee comprised of eight members, including the two Distinguished Professors, UBC faculty members, representatives of community and partner organizations, and the PWIAS Director (see Appendix E.2).

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Wall Solutions Topics by Area Target Populations of Wall Solutions Grants 2011-2019 2011-2019 10 8 Other Environment 6 24% 26% 4 Count 2 0

Population Targets Health 50% (some grants had more than one target population)

Figure 4. Wall Solutions Topics by Area Figure 5. Target Populations of Wall Solutions Projects 2011-2019

2.2.4 Selection Criteria • Active participation from co-applicant community partner(s) • Tangible benefits to community • Specific goals achievable within 2-year time frame • Emphasis on implementation and translation of research to practice and policy

2.2.5 Budget PWIAS has awarded 40 Wall Solutions projects since 2011. Projects are funded for up to 2 years. The annual budgets for the Wall Solutions Initiative is provided in the table below. In 2014, the Wall Solutions program’s budget was reduced and since then has been around $500,000. The approved budget for FY20 was $513,000.

FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $900,000 $875,000 $1,273,000 $535,000 $495,700 $495,700 $470,000 $470,000 $513,000

2.2.6 Impact and Assessment An evaluation of the Wall Solutions program was conducted by an external consultant (Snyder Consulting) in 2018 covering 37 projects awarded from 2011 to 2016, and focused on the impact of Wall Solutions after the granting period. Interviews and surveys were conducted with grantees and some community partners.

a) 17 of 31 completed projects described specific new practices or policies resulting from the Wall Solutions project.

b) All participants interviewed highlighted the value of community partner-academic researcher collaborations in these projects. Many of the collaborations have continued, in particular with those projects that successfully applied for additional funds from other sources.

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PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES c) The evaluation report noted challenges in contacting community partners (9 of the emails for community partners bounced back as “undeliverable” and other partners were no longer at the organizations or were unable to provide information). Therefore, the evaluation was incomplete with respect to the experience of the community partners.

2.2.7 Testimonials “The Peter Wall Solutions Initiative gave us the opportunity to try something new. That original funding has now enabled us to leverage approximately $800,000 to implement in 23 sites across Canada with the view to making this a sustainable low cost, high impact program to support older adults living at home with serious illness. We now have a complete toolkit for implementation and evaluation of the program.” -Barbara Pesut, School of Nursing, UBC Okanagan, 2018

“The projects funded have demonstrated a commitment on the part of faculty to affect change in their communities. Funding for my research immeasurably allowed me to expand my research trajectory, reach out to a larger audience and try innovative forms of engagement and research data collecting.” -Penny Gurstein, School of Community and Regional Planning, 2016

2.3 WALL DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS

2.3.1 Overview The Peter Wall Institute’s Wall Distinguished Professor program was announced in 1994. The Distinguished Professorship is an appointment by the UBC President, directed at attracting and retaining world-class scholars at UBC. The Professorship provides a research office at the Institute, a research grant and salary support for a five-year term renewable once, and for appointments prior to 2010, renewable without limit. Partial course release is also provided. The terms of each appointment are set out in an appointment letter issued by the UBC President’s office and are negotiated directly with the Distinguished Professor’s home department. The Institute does not have all records of appointments and their terms (see Confidential Appendix A).

The appointees are expected to engage with and represent the Peter Wall Institute. In their capacity, since 2002, Distinguished Professors have been Official Observers to the Board of Trustees. They are also ex- officio members of the Wall Scholar Adjudication committee and, at their discretion, can serve on any other PWIAS adjudication committees.

There are currently two Distinguished Professors appointed to the Institute (see Appendix G):

• Brett Finlay (since 2002), Michael Smith Laboratories, Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Immunology. Brett Finlay is a microbiologist focused on understanding how microbes interact with their host to cause health or disease. • Derek Gregory (since 2011), Geography. Derek Gregory is a human geographer whose research focuses on aerial violence and on medical care and casual evacuation in war zones.

2.3.2 Background Michael Smith (1993 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) and Raphael Amit (Commerce & Business Administration) were the first Wall Distinguished Professors and held the appointments from 1997-2000. Michael Smith passed away in October 2000. Raphael Amit resigned from UBC and his position at the Institute in June 2000 to take on a position at Wharton School of Economics.

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2.3.3 Budget This annual amount includes a salary top-up and research award for each Distinguished Professor.

FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $271,900 $264,800 $332,251 $306,000 $302,759 $310,641 $318,761 $327,123 $318,628

2.3.4 Impact and Assessment The Distinguished Professors maintain an active schedule of international travel, representing the Institute globally as well as through local talks and media interviews. They attend approximately a third of Wall Scholar activities and Wall Associate events, participating in discussions and establishing a continuity of academic presence alongside the annual renewal of Wall Scholar cohorts and visitors to the Institute.

2.4 INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE PROGRAM

2.4.1 Overview This program provides UBC faculty an opportunity to host a diverse, international, group of 25 to 30 participants in a small intensive workshop-type setting over 2 to 5 days. Roundtables convene scholars, students, community leaders, artists, and policy makers from around the world, providing them with the opportunity to explore new themes, create foundations for innovative scholarship, and seek important advances in science and society. Each Roundtable provides funding for a coordinator to be hired to facilitate its organization and provides opportunities for graduate students and other junior scholars to participate. Roundtable meetings include a public event as a part of their knowledge mobilization.

2.4.2 Background Following the 2011 External Review recommendations, the Institute expanded what had been called the Exploratory Workshops Grant to launch the International Research Roundtable awards in 2012. Funding was increased from $25,000 to a maximum of $45,000 per Roundtable meeting, facilitating participation of a greater number of international scholars. The International Research Roundtable program awards 5- 6 Roundtable meetings each year, hosted at the Institute.

2.4.3 Adjudication Process A call for proposals is issued annually and applications are reviewed by an adjudication committee. The adjudication committee is chaired by the Director, and composed of UBC faculty members who have hosted an International Research Roundtable in previous years, and are familiar with the program. The current committee consists of six faculty members including the Director. Members are invited to serve for two years, with approximately half of the committee turning over each year (see Appendix E.3).

2.4.4 Selection Criteria • The International Research Roundtable must offer a unique opportunity for collaboration among scholars of diverse disciplines. The Institute will not fund meetings that would have otherwise happened. • The application must describe how the proposed roundtable will create a coherent forum for creative curiosity and the exchange of ideas that can lead to new discoveries, and must set out the anticipated research collaborations going forward.

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2.4.5 Budget Roundtable awards provide up to $45,000 to support travel, accommodation, a workshop coordinator and meeting expenses. The funds are transferred to a UBC faculty awardee who acts as the Principal Investigator (PI). Funds are managed within the PI’s home department. The Roundtable program’s budget also includes funds for up to 10 Theme Development Workshops per year ($700/workshop) available to UBC researchers to meet at the Institute and develop proposals for potential Roundtable meetings or other funding programs.

FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $350,100 $436,863 $217,020 $271,700 $271,700 $290,000 $290,000 $308,000

2.4.6 Impact and Assessment The International Research Roundtables often lead to new collaborative research initiatives, theme- directed research grants and special journal issues or new publications. The Institute has funded 45 Roundtable awards since 2012 (see Appendix H).

2.4.7 Testimonials “The roundtable program is enormously valuable! It provides a unique opportunity to bring together people from different sectors and disciplines. It gives space for discussions and conversations that often don’t happen when researchers stay within their disciplines and in the academic sector. It forces academics to step out of their comfort zone and “talk to their neighbours” – it is a motor for connecting and many new ideas are born in this context. Keeping some allocated money for follow-up activities is key because the roundtable creates momentum and without resources, it is hard to keep up the momentum and move the agenda forward.” -Eva Oberle, School of Population and Public Health, 2018

“The topic of diversity in urban forestry has only recently got attention from a more interdisciplinary perspective. To date, diversity has primarily related to diverse urban forest resources, tree species composition, and the like. The Roundtable introduced a much more comprehensive approach to diversity, adopting a socioecological perspective, and emphasizing the need to consider people diversity, as well as the mutual impacts between urban forest & people diversity.” -Cecil Konijnendijk, Forestry, 2018

2.5 TRUSTEES INITIATIVES

2.5.1 Overview The Trustees Initiatives allow members of the Institute’s Board of Trustees to fund activities or events that do not fit the criteria of the Institute’s other programs. Since 2012, the Trustees Initiatives have funded gifts to the Director of the UBC Opera Ensemble (Nancy Hermiston), donations to local arts and music organizations (the Vancouver International Song Institute at UBC, the Elektra Women’s Choir, and the Vancouver Opera Guild), as well as stipend payments to one of the Trustees (Sonya Wall).

2.5.2 Background Trustees Initiatives were first announced in 2000 (Annual Report 99-00), with the first initiative providing funds to host the International Gairdner Awards at PWIAS. Shortly thereafter, in July 2001, the Trustees Initiatives funded the appointment of retired Chief Justice of the BC Court of Appeal, Allan J. McEachern,

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PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES as Peter Wall Fellow in Law who subsequently (in 2002) was elected as UBC Chancellor. The Institute’s records indicate, the next Trustees Initiative was approved in 2011 and allocated an annual stipend payment to Sonya Wall for the years 2011-2013 to recognize her contributions to the Institute. A number of Trustees Initiatives have been funded since 2013, as listed in Appendix I.

2.5.3 Selection Process There is no open call for applications to the Trustees Initiatives. Trustee Initiatives have originated through proposals by Peter Wall or his appointed Trustees. The Institute’s Annual Report 1999-2000 states, “the academic integrity of the proposals are assessed by the director and the endowed professors.” However, in practice, the PWIAS Director and Distinguished Professors do not participate in the selection process. For some Trustee Initiatives, the Institute has records of Board minutes documenting formal discussion and approval. For other initiatives, records are limited to email correspondence. In the case of one Trustees Initiative (Wall Opera Research Project), the Board of Trustees accepted and carried out the recommendation of the PWIAS Director to request an assessment of the proposal by external referees before making a formal decision to fund it.

2.5.4 Selection Criteria The Institute does not have formal selection criteria for the Trustee Initiatives. A discussion was held at the Board of Trustees January 15, 2016 meeting on the Trustees Initiatives align with the stated aims of the Institute and whether they satisfy the Deed of Trust’s requirement that Peter Wall Endowment funds be used for the exclusive benefit of PWIAS. This following criteria were noted:

• Initiatives are in line with the Institute’s goal of benefiting the people of Vancouver and BC (Board of Trustees Minutes January 15, 2016). • Initiatives fall outside the Institute’s core programs (Annual Report 1999-2000).

2.5.5 Budget See Appendix I for full list of Trustees Initiatives and their associated expenditures since 2012. Since FY19, amounts include $216K annually for the Wall Opera Research Project.

FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $80,000 $90,000 $116,000 $86,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $216,000 $291,500

2.5.6 Impact There is no formal process of assessing the Trustees Initiatives for impact. In the case of the Wall Opera Research Project, a progress report will be submitted to the Board of Trustees in May 2020.

2.6 INTERNATIONAL VISITING RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM

2.6.1 Overview The International Visiting Research Scholars (IVRS) program was launched in 2012 to help build and sustain long-term research connections between UBC scholars and the global academic community. It aims to bring scholars from across the world to spend a minimum of 3 weeks at the Institute during the academic year and to give a public talk during their visit. The Institute partners with UBC faculties, departments and research centres to attract visiting scholars to work collaboratively with UBC faculty on innovative research.

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2.6.2 Background Initially, a grant of $10,000 was awarded to a UBC faculty member to bring in an external scholar to UBC and the Institute. In 2018, the grant for IVRS was increased from $10,000 to $15,000, to encourage longer- term visits and recognize the rising cost of short-term accommodation in Vancouver. Visiting scholars are now hosted by at least two UBC faculty from different disciplines. The program also includes funding of up to $5,000 to support short-term visits for IVRS to return the following year to expand on their collaborations at UBC.

2.6.3 Adjudication Process A call for proposals is issued annually and applications are reviewed by an adjudication committee. The adjudication committee is chaired by the Director, and composed of UBC faculty members from diverse disciplines, many of whom have hosted an international visiting scholar in previous years, and are familiar with the program. Members are invited to serve for two years, with approximately half of the committee turning over each year. See Appendix E.4 for list of IVRS Adjudication Committee members since 2012.

2.6.4 Selection Criteria Visiting scholar nominations are judged on the basis of a demonstrated record of scholarship in their field, engagement in high quality, innovative research, and merit of the proposed collaborative research with their UBC faculty hosts, based on the following 4 criteria: • Research excellence • Interdisciplinary perspective • Broad public engagement • Quality of proposed research and potential for catalysis

2.6.5 Budget The funds are transferred to a UBC faculty awardee who serves as the primary host to the visiting scholar. The funds are managed by the primary host’s home department.

FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $174,900 $297,918 $259,590 $262,000 $262,000 $290,000 $290,000 $283,700

2.6.6 Impact and Assessment The Institute has supported 104 international visiting research scholar awards since 2012. Visiting scholars have come from universities in the USA, UK, Germany, China, Australia, France and many other countries. Over the past 7 years, scholars and hosts have been distributed almost equally between the Arts and Humanities, Sciences, and Applied or Social Sciences. In many cases, the original collaboration has been maintained over several years following receipt of the IVRS award, as demonstrated by co-authored publications between the IVRS and their host(s). The number of co-authored publications by the collaboration partners (i.e. visitor and one or more UBC faculty hosts) was found to increase by a factor of 5 in the years following the IVRS award.

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IVRS' Regions of Origin IVRS Publications with UBC Collaboration (2012-2019) (Jan 2014-July 2019) South America 5% Australia Europe 9% 29% Africa PWIAS Associate Collaboration 11 60 5%

Other UBC Collaboration 5 34

Asia North 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 13% America 39% Before IVRS Award After IVRS Award

Figure 6. IVRS’ Regions of Origin Figure 7. IVRS’ Publications with UBC Collaborators

2.6.7 Testimonials “My activities at the PWIAS took me clearly outside my zone of expertise, with discussions across very different fields (art, literature, history, philosophy, politics), which I had never experienced before in a professional context. Beyond interesting discussions about commonalities of research careers across disciplines (mentoring, diversity at the workplace, mechanisms of innovation, communication to various audiences), I enjoyed meeting such an intellectually rich group of people, hearing about their questions and research. It was mind-opening and also promoted the development of better listening skills. It changed my perspective in many topics.” - Ophélie Ronce, University of Montpellier, France 2018-2019

“The visit was very successful in terms of having an opportunity to learn of work going in targeted labs at UBC and to develop a new collaboration. The new collaboration is with the Tim Inglis/Romeo Chua [neurophysiology] group, bringing together our mutual interests in sensorimotor learning with their expertise in proprioception. We initiated a new series of experiments and presented a poster of our initial results at the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology meeting this fall. We anticipate this collaboration continuing for the foreseeable future.” -Richard Ivry, Cognition Lab, University of California – Berkeley 2019

2.7 WALL EXCHANGE LECTURE SERIES

2.7.1 Overview The Wall Exchange invites prominent scholars, writers, journalists, or humanitarians to give a high-profile, free lecture that is open to the public in downtown Vancouver in the spring and fall of each year. They feature well-known academic scholars or public intellectuals who have pioneered new approaches and contributed new knowledge to society. These events feature a 40-minute speaker presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation with local community representatives. They are held in partnership with local and national media. Video recordings of the presentations are made freely available through the Institute’s YouTube channel. In addition to their public event, Wall Exchange speakers engage with Wall Scholars and the broader UBC community during a 2-3 day visit that includes media interviews and meetings with UBC students and faculty.

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2.7.2 Background The Wall Exchange program was introduced by Sonya Wall and Director Dianne Newell in 2011 as part of the Institute’s 2009-2011 Strategic Plan. The inaugural event was held in May 2011 and featured Craig Venter, sequencer of the first human genome. Since then, the Institute has hosted 15 speakers, including American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, former UN Envoy and diplomat Stephen Lewis, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist Bruno Latour, molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler, and the broadcast journalist and author Ali Velshi (see Appendix J).

2.7.3 Selection Process Wall Scholars and Associates, as well as members of the Board of Trustees, are invited to contribute suggestions for speakers. Speakers are selected and invited by the Institute Director and Program Managers. The Institute aims to select a diversity of speakers. Preference is given to speakers who have not yet had a large amount of public attention but are deemed to have important or timely insights to share.

2.7.4 Selection Criteria • An internationally renowned expert in their field • Contributed new knowledge to society • Dynamic speaker with ability to connect with a general audience • Willingness and ability to engage with UBC faculty and students while at UBC during their visit

2.7.5 Budget The annual Wall Exchange budget covers 2 lectures per year. The budget includes speaker fees, travel and accommodation expenses for the speaker and moderator, venue rental and ticketing, event promotion and recording.

FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $202,200 $108,000 $78,963 $79,000 $75,000 $75,000 $80,000 $80,000 $100,000

2.7.6 Impact Each year, the Wall Exchange has engaged an at-capacity audience of over one-thousand guests in downtown Vancouver, and thousands more through the event recordings online. The Wall Exchange has helped to significantly increase media visibility of PWIAS. For example, with the last Wall Exchange event presented by Carl Hart (Columbia University), media coverage included interviews with the CBC/Radio- Canada, CKNW and Global TV, as well as articles published in the local independent media sources The Tyee and the Georgia Straight. The following CBC/Radio-Canada radio hosts have moderated Wall Exchange events: Bob MacDonald (Quirks & Quarks), Johanna Wagstaffe (CBC meteorologist), Duncan McCue (Cross Country Check-up), and Nora Young (CBC Spark). The award-winning national radio program CBC Ideas has broadcast several Wall Exchange lectures and discussions are currently underway with the CBC to expand its coverage of the Institute’s lectures beyond the Wall Exchange.

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2.8 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

2.8.1 Overview The Peter Wall Institute has developed partnerships with a number of institutes. Through these partnerships, the Institute facilitates exchanges of outstanding scholars and hosts jointly supported seminars and Wall Colloquia Abroad. The Institute’s International Partners include the Collège de France and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). The Institute also maintains a close relationship with the French Consulate General Vancouver, partnering to support the French Scholar Lecture Series since 2012. The Institute is a member of UBIAS (University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study) – an international network presently comprising 44 members, enabling structured exchanges across partner institutes.

2.8.2 Background The Collège de France partnership began in 2008 with an agreement to support international exchanges of scholars between the Collège de France and PWIAS, and to organize jointly hosted seminars and Wall Colloquia (see Appendix K.1). The Collège de France agreement was recently renewed for a 4-year term at the jointly-organized Memory Symposium in Paris in April 2018. The new agreement includes funds to encourage the mobility of early career scholars and to fund joint research projects, through a Collaborative Projects Fund.

This STIAS partnership (since 2009) has supported a number of exchanges of UBC scholars to STIAS, several Wall Colloquia at Stellenbosch, and in 2018 the Institute hosted its first two South African scholars in residence from the STIAS Iso Lomso Fellows (early career scholars) program. The STIAS agreement is in the process of being renewed (see Appendix K.2).

The Institute’s 4-year agreement (2010-2013) with the Technical University of Munich was not renewed due to reduced budget allocation and a decision to focus on more active partnerships.

Through the Institute’s Partnerships Agreements the Institute can bring one or more Distinguished Visiting Scholars per year to the Institute. The Distinguished Visiting Professor is expected to participate in the Institute activities and events, and to lead a symposium, public talk or speaker series (see Appendix L).

Since 2012, PWIAS has partnered with the Consulate General of France in Vancouver (CGFV) to jointly- sponsor a French Scholar Lecture Series. Up to 5 scholars are selected each year, who receive travel and accommodation support for a one-week visit. These visits create connections between French Scholars and UBC faculty, leading to future research collaboration opportunities and scholar exchange. Scholars give presentations in English and French during their visit, and participate in networking events with local researchers, and with the French-speaking community in British Columbia (see Appendix M).

The Institute hosted the international conference of the University-Based Institutes of Advanced Study (UBIAS) network in September 2013. The Conference, Scientific and Academic Knowledge, brought together over 120 scholars from Institutes for Advanced Study around the world, UBC scholars and members of the public, to share ideas on interdisciplinary knowledge, and to showcase innovative research approaches.

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2.8.3 Selection Process Several international collaboration programs are supported by the Institute’s partnership agreements:

• PWIAS Faculty Associates (See Section 2.9.2 for information on Faculty Associates) are eligible to be nominated for scholarly exchanges to the Collège de France or STIAS. Expressions of interest are reviewed by the Director and Distinguished Professors and qualified nominations are submitted to the Collège de France or STIAS for consideration. • Wall Colloquia Abroad proposals are research meetings held at our partner Institutes. PWIAS Faculty Associates are eligible to apply. Applications are reviewed by the PWIAS international adjudication committee. • French Scholar awards are open to all UBC faculty. There is a formal call for applications once a year. Proposals are reviewed by the PWIAS Director and the Science and Cultural officers from the French Consulate in Vancouver.

2.8.4 Selection Criteria Nominees for visiting scholar exchanges must demonstrate outstanding scholarship in their field, a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and the ability to engage with a broad audience.

Research topics of visiting scholars and the Wall Colloquia Abroad must demonstrate innovative approaches, and the potential for strengthening or expanding interdisciplinary research collaborations

2.8.5 Budget

FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $70,000 $70,000 $70,000 $70,000 $70,000 $70,000

2.8.6 Impact Through public events and residencies at UBC and the Institute, strong connections have been forged between UBC researchers and some of the world’s leading scholars and their institutions.

2.8.7 Testimonials “I found it extremely enriching to be in a community of people who came from wildly different disciplines. Having the balance of being immersed in my own project and then engaging with topics far outside my scope was very stimulating.” - Malebogo Ngoepe, Mechanical Engineering, STIAS Visiting Fellow 2019

“The Wall Colloquium (Health Promotion in Schools, 2011) ... provided the opportunity to generate a novel response to address the burden of malaria on children’s health. We proposed to train teachers in African schools to use WHO guidelines to manage children with fever, by doing a simple finger prick diagnostic test for malaria and giving treatment promptly to those positive. A pilot program in 4 schools in Uganda followed and the children benefited by a dramatic reduction in the number of days they were absent from school due to malaria. The schools now sustain this teacher driven program independently and the benefits continue; the International Pediatric Association has endorsed this model as applicable in any area where malaria is endemic, and programs have been reported from elsewhere in Africa.” - Andrew Macnab, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Wall Colloquium Abroad at STIAS, 2011

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2.9 ASSOCIATE FORUMS

2.9.1 Overview The Institute stays connected to its Associates and the wider UBC scholarly community through occasional dinners and receptions that typically feature an academic talk or performance. These Associate Forums showcase and seed new and ongoing interdisciplinary research exchanges. The annual ‘Wall-a-palooza’ alumni research gala in March and the Institute’s holiday party also build and maintain relationships between members and associates of the Institute and the wider UBC community.

2.9.2 Background Faculty Associates of the Institute are those who have served on an Institute committee, have been selected for one of the residential programs, or have been Principal Investigator on a competitive award. Associate status is a lifetime appointment. The first Wall Faculty Associates were selected in 1996. After moving to permanent space in the University Centre in 1999, the Institute began to host special events for Faculty Associates. These facilitated gatherings build collegiality and campus community. They also provide an opportunity for Associates to introduce new colleagues to the Institute, and can generate research ideas and lead to fresh collaborations.

As of December 2019, there were 588 Faculty Associates, representing almost every research unit at UBC, Vancouver.

Table 2. Faculty Associates

Area of the University Associates Applied Science 50 9% Arts 202 34% Dentistry 2 0.3% Education 23 4% Forestry 16 3% Land and Food Systems 10 2% Medicine 104 18% Peter A. Allard School of Law 23 4% Pharmaceutical Sciences 7 1% Public Policy and Global Affairs 12 2% Science 118 20% Sauder School of Business 10 2% Other Units 11 2% Total 588 100%

2.9.3 Budget

FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $66,490 $38,000 $25,000 $25,000 $30,000 $30,000 $50,000

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2.10 DIRECTOR’S INITIATIVES

2.10.1 Overview Since 2015, the PWIAS Director has been allocated a small fund each year to use for new initiatives at their discretion. As part of the Director’s Initiatives, PWIAS played a prominent role in commemorating UBC's Centennial by producing and co-sponsoring a number of events and celebrations between September 2015 and May 2016. PWIAS Directors have also led several initiatives to showcase UBC scholarship, including two edited volumes of interdisciplinary essays by UBC faculty and international authors, as well as a podcast series that is currently being produced by the Institute (see Appendix N).

2.10.2 Background In 2015, Interim Director, Nancy Gallini, proposed that the Trustees approve discretion for the Director over re-assignment of expenses across different budget categories, as long as the overall Institute’s budget remains unchanged and adheres to a limit set by the Trustees. The Board of Trustees did not approve this proposal but instead introduced a new budget category of $25K to ‘New Research Initiatives’ that would provide the Director with some discretionary funds to support new projects or activities. This budget category was increased to $40K in fiscal year 2016 and is hereby referred to as ‘Director’s Initiatives’.

2.10.3 Selection Criteria The Director’s Initiatives funds are intended to: • Explore ways of improving upon the Institute’s programs and research environment at the Institute • Support new initiatives to better achieve the Institute’s mission

2.10.4 Budget

FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 $25,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000 $40,000

2.10.5 Impact Through the Directors Initiatives, PWIAS has published two books: Reflections of Canada: Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150+ Years (2017), a collection of essays by Canada’s leading writers, researchers, and public intellectuals on what Canada is and what it must become; and Memory: Essays on how, why and when we remember (2018), a collection of essays by a diverse group of contributors who capture different perspectives on the idea of memory. Both books have resulted in extensive media coverage. The Memory book is available online through the open access publisher JSTOR and has had 4,100 chapter views and 2,507 chapter downloads from January to October 2019. The Institute is currently producing The Ways of Knowing podcast, hosted by Interim Director Kalina Christoff. The first episode, released in October 2019, featured Michelle Stack, a PWIAS Associate and an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at UBC, whose research focuses on university rankings and the media’s role in education. In less than a month, this podcast has been downloaded 66 times. Episode Two was released in December 2019, and features Max Cameron, a PWIAS Associate and a Professor in the Department of Political Science at UBC as well as a member of the PWIAS Board of Trustees, whose work examines modern-day challenges to democracy and democratic institutions.

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2.11 ARTS-BASED INITIATIVES

2.11.1 Overview The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies encourages UBC faculty to consider the integration of multimodal and expressive arts as an important component of all of its funding programs. The presence of performing and visual arts in an institute for advanced studies is integral to the pursuit of excellence and cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines regarding questions about humanity and its experience (see Appendix O). Detailed stories of some of the Institute’s Arts-Based Initiatives are available in a special issue of the Institute’s online newsletter at: pwias.ubc.ca/news/wall-papers/arts-based-initiatives.

There are a number of opportunities for increased incorporation of the arts into PWIAS programs. In 2018, PWIAS Director Philippe Tortell had begun conversations regarding a potential partnership with the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity to provide opportunities for UBC faculty and artists. Discussions were proceeding with the Banff Centre’s President and CEO Janice Price, and Vice President for Arts and Leadership, Howard Jang, for the co-sponsorship of international visitors, and exchanges between the two Institutes. In September 2019, the Board of Trustees discontinued this planned partnership with the Banff Centre.

2.11.2 Background Researchers at the Peter Wall Institute have adapted arts-based approaches (drama, poetry, visual arts, dance and song) to explore important research questions and disseminate research findings to diverse audiences. The Institute hosted a Wall Composer in Residence (2010-2012), Wall Author in Residence (2014), Wall International Visiting Artists as well as a wide-range of arts-based forums and events. In 2015 and 2016, the Institute awarded 3 ‘Arts-Based Awards’ of up to $10,000, to fund artistic projects led by UBC scholars and international artists. In 2017, the Institute began co-sponsorship of some UBC Chan Centre performances as a mechanism to have some of the world's leading performers interact with the PWIAS and the UBC community. This had the added benefit of raising the profile of the Institute on campus and across the wider community.

2.11.3 Selection Process The Arts-based Initiatives Committee was formed in 2012 to develop program ideas connecting the performing and visual arts with research in the sciences and humanities. The Arts-based Initiatives committee also adjudicated the Arts-Based award competitions (in 2015 and 2016) and advised the Director on directions the Institute might take to integrate the performing and expressive arts into the research activities of the Institute. Committee members are appointed by the Institute’s Director. The Committee has been renewed with each Director since 2012, ranging from 5 to 11 members with a representation of UBC faculty from across the arts and local Vancouver artists (see Appendix E.5).

2.11.4 Selection Criteria • Innovation in research approach across multiple disciplines • Extent to which the initiative will lead to the development of scholarly or creative work • Aspects of the initiatives that will be open and of interest to the public • A well specified plan • Feasibility of undertaking the project

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2.11.5 Budget

FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 $2,000 $45,000 $50,286 $10,000 $25,500 $25,500 $30,000 $30,000 $30,000

2.11.6 Impact Arts-Based Initiatives and awards have provided UBC faculty with opportunities to explore new modes of interdisciplinary inquiry and artistic production, and to deepen engagement with university audiences and collaborators through a diversity of scholarly and artistic means.

2.11.7 Testimonials “The PWIAS first supported my research through an Arts-Based Initiative award in 2015 which allowed me to bring the UK-based scholar and theatre practitioner Helen Eastman and one of her actors to UBC to explore ideas about the ancient Greek chorus in the modern world. This work would not have been funded through any agency besides the PWIAS. For myself, UBC students and faculty it has been profoundly generative in terms of leading to other projects including pieces devised for dementia patients in nursing homes, to environmental theatre for children. It also led to a film-project (funded by a $24,812 SSHRC Partnership Engage grant). Other projects are pending.” -Hallie Marshall, Theatre and Film

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3 GOVERNANCE

3.1 DEED OF TRUST The Deed of Trust for the establishment of the Peter Wall Endowment was signed in 1991 by Peter Wall and the UBC President at the time, David Strangway (see Confidential Appendix B). The Peter Wall Endowment was established at the UBC Foundation, which was founded in 1987 as an Agent of the Crown to encourage financial support for UBC and its programs, facilities and activities, and to receive funds and property for the benefit of UBC.

Most of the Deed of Trust addresses the management and investment of the Peter Wall Endowment, but its text also makes some provisions with respect to the governance of the Institute. The Deed of Trust is currently the only existing governing document for the Institute.

Section I of the Deed of Trust, CONSTITUTION AND PURPOSE OF THE PETER WALL ENDOWMENT, stipulates that:

• The funds held in the Peter Wall Endowment trusts are for the exclusive benefit of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia. • The UBC Foundation shall employ the income and capital of the Peter Wall Endowment exclusively for the purpose of initiating, establishing, operating and funding the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. • The characteristics of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies shall be developed by the President of the University.

Section II of the Deed of Trust, GOVERNMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF THE PETER WALL ENDOWMENT, stipulates that “The Peter Wall Endowment shall be governed and managed by a Board of up to 5 Trustees to be known as the Peter Wall Endowment Trustees”. Within the same Section II, the Deed of Trust stipulates that:

• The governing body of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies is the Peter Wall Endowment Trustees. • The University will put in place an administrative structure to implement and manage the programs of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, in consultation with the Peter Wall Endowment Trustees. • The Peter Wall Endowment Trustees will appoint a prestigious Advisory Panel to help advise them in selecting “the best possible programs, projects and people”. The Advisory Panel will be appointed in consultation with the University. • The Peter Wall Endowment Trustees may appoint a Management Committee to handle the finances and investments of the Peter Wall Endowment.

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3.2 BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Board of Trustees meets twice a year. According to the Deed of Trust, the Peter Wall Endowment Trustees members are the following:

(a) The Chairman of the UBC Foundation - who will have the right to appoint a person to serve in his place or her place to serve at the chairman's pleasure should the chairman choose not to serve; (b) The President of the University - who will serve as the Chairman of the board of trustees, and who will have the right to appoint a person to serve in his or her place at the President's pleasure should the President choose not to serve; (c) Peter Wall - who shall have the right to appoint a person to serve at Peter Wall's pleasure should Peter Wall choose not to serve. (d) One person appointed by Peter Wall or in Peter Wall's Will to serve at Peter Wall's pleasure; and (e) One person appointed by the President of the University to serve at the President's pleasure.

Board of Trustees 2019 (a) Max Cameron, UBC Political Science – Appointed by the Chairman of the UBC Foundation (b) Santa Ono, UBC President – President of the University, Chairman of the Board of Trustees (c) Sonya Wall, Donor Family – Appointed by Peter Wall (d) Bruno Wall, Wall Financial Corporation – Appointed by Peter Wall (e) Judy Illes, UBC Neurology – Appointed by the President

See Appendix P for a list of the Board of Trustees since 1992 and their affiliations.

Figure 8. Board of Trustees Timeline

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3.2.1 Procedures and Conflict of Interest Declarations A document titled, Procedures for the Operation of the Board of Trustees at the Institute (see Confidential Appendix C), was introduced for discussion at the Board meeting on January 15, 2016, and approved at the Board meeting on June 27, 2016. According to this document, the procedures include:

• A requirement of the Trustees to engage actively in the oversight, governance and promotion of the Institute and its programs in order to ensure that its mandate and the Deed of Trust are being fulfilled in a sustainable manner to the benefit of UBC. • A requirement of the Trustees to not permit the Institute, including the property, information, and opportunities of the Institute, to be used for the private benefit, advantage, or profit of any person. • A definition of what constitutes ‘conflict of interest’ and directions on how it should be managed. • An acknowledgment that the day-to-day operations of the Institute are within the purview of the Director and staff of the Institute. • Rules according to which any Trustee requests for information from the Institute’s staff should be channeled through the Director, and any Trustee direction or supervisory concerns of a Director should be communicated through the Chair of the Board. • A distinction between open and closed meetings of the Board of Trustees, with open meetings resulting in publicly available minutes, and closed meetings resulting in confidential minutes.

The Conflict of Interest Declaration, including a commitment to observe the Procedures, was signed by all Trustees and noted in the Board meeting minutes on June 27, 2016 (see Confidential Appendix C). The Institute does not have copies of the 2016 signed COI declarations.

In the summer of 2019, the Trustees were asked by the Board Chair to renew the COI declarations and their commitment to observing the Procedures by signing an updated COI form (see Confidential Appendix D). The Institute requested copies of the signed COI declarations from the Board Secretary, but they were not provided. The Board Secretary relayed that the Trustees will be seeking counsel through the Institute’s 2019 Governance Review Diagnostic with regards to the question of how COI declarations and the personal information they contain should be handled.

3.2.2 Finance Committee (Management Committee prior to 2014) According to the Deed of Trust, the Trustees may appoint a Management Committee to handle the finance and investments of the Peter Wall Endowment. The Terms of Reference of the Peter Wall Institute’s Management Committee were discussed by the Board of Trustees at the April 29, 1998 Board of Trustees meeting. The Committee was assigned the following responsibilities: (a) To manage the assets of the Endowment including the purchase and disposition thereof (b) To report to the Trustees the income generation capability of the assets of the Foundation (c) To prepare regular financial reports regarding the status of the Endowment

From 1996-2007, the Committee included 4 members, listed below. The UBC Vice-President, External Affairs, acted as an informal mediator or facilitator. 1. The UBC Foundation Treasurer – Ex officio 2. An Appointee of Peter Wall 3. Director of PWIAS 4. Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies

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According to the Institute’s email records, this Management Committee was dissolved in 2007 and its duties were assumed by the Board of Trustees. In 2011, the Management Committee was reinstated and its membership was reconstituted as follows: 1. The UBC Treasurer 2. Peter Wall or Appointee 3. An Appointee of Peter Wall 4. The UBC Comptroller (pro tem)

In the 2011 reconstituted Management Committee, the PWIAS Director was no longer a member but was included as an observer. Another change was the number of Appointees by Peter Wall. The Terms of Reference for the re-constituted 2011 Management Committee were formally approved at the December 11, 2015 meeting as follows: “The Management Committee is to advise the Trustees regarding financial and property-related recommendations concerning the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.” According to the Institute’s email records, the reconstituted Management Committee was advisory to the Trustees, who retained authority and responsibility for financial and property related decisions concerning the Institute.

In 2014, the Board of Trustees approved a change to the name of the Management Committee which became the Finance Committee. The Institute has no records of discussed changes to the Terms of Reference or the membership structure. According to the Institute’s records, the Finance Committee has met three times so far: in May 2018, in May 2019, and in September 2019. These three Finance Committee meetings were all chaired by the UBC President who also participated as a member. Appendix Q shows the attendees of those three meetings. The Institute does not have any record of Finance Committee meetings from 2014-2017.

3.2.3 Secretary to the Board of Trustees The Secretary to the Board of Trustees records minutes of Board meetings and performs other functions as requested by the Board Chair. There are currently no formally approved Terms of Reference for this position. In 2019, the Institute developed draft Terms of Reference for the role of Board Secretary (see Appendix R). This draft awaits formal approval by the Board Chair.

Historically, individuals who have served as Secretary to the Board of Trustees include the UBC Vice- President Finance and Administration (1992-2007) and the UBC Vice-Provost (2008-2014). See Appendix S for the list of Board Secretaries since 1992. In the past 9 years, 8 different individuals have served in the capacity of Secretary to the Board. For most of the Institute’s history, the Secretary to the Board has held a University position outside of the administrative unit within which the Institute is administered, (i.e., the Faculty of Graduate Studies until 2004, and the VPRI office since 2004), thus enabling the Secretary to the Board to perform their duties in an impartial and independent manner. Since 2016, a staff member from the VPRI office has acted as Secretary to the Board. Concerns about the independence of the Board Secretary from the Trustees and UBC Governing Bodies were raised at the Academic Advisory Board meeting on September 17, 2019 and at the Board of Trustees meeting on September 20, 2019. There has been no action taken to address this issue so far, and the VPRI staff member remains in the position of Secretary to the Board.

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3.3 ACADEMIC ADVISORY PANEL

3.3.1 Overview and History Under the terms of the PWIAS Deed of Trust, the Peter Wall Endowment Trustees would appoint a ‘prestigious Advisory Panel’ composed of some of the world’s most distinguished scholars to give it the benefit of such person’s advice in selecting the best possible programs, projects and people. The first such committee was established in 1996: an Academic Advisory Committee composed of 10 scholars from UBC, chaired by Michael Smith, Wall Distinguished Professor. The role of the Advisory Committee was to provide guidance on all aspects of the operation of the Institute, and to have primary responsibility for overseeing the academic direction of the Institute. The committee generally met once or twice a year prior to Board of Trustee meetings. This Advisory Committee was expanded by Director Janis Sarra following the 2011 External Review to include 8 international members, drawn from Princeton, Radcliffe, Collège de France, University of Hong Kong, Swedish Collegium, Cambridge, Durham IAS, and the Israel IAS. The International Academic Advisory Committee (IAAC) met annually from 2012-2014. There was no Academic Advisory Panel between 2014 and June 2019.

3.3.2 Academic Advisory Board (2019) In July 2019, Interim Director Kalina Christoff reconstituted an interdisciplinary Academic Advisory Board (AAB), comprised of nine UBC faculty members. Since September 2019, this Board has met monthly to provide advice and make recommendations to the Institute Director on all academic matters of the Institute. The Draft Terms of Reference for the AAB 2019-20 are included in Appendix T. This draft awaits formal approval by the board chair. Emma MacEntee, PWIAS Program Manager serves as AAB Secretary. Current AAB members are:

Lara Boyd, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy Wade Davis, Professor, Department of Anthropology Sima Godfrey, Associate Professor, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies Michelle LeBaron, Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Anthony Phillips, Professor, Department of Psychiatry Sebastian Prange, Associate Professor, Department of History Olav Slaymaker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography Edward Slingerland, Professor, Department of Asian Studies Kalina Christoff, Professor, Department of Psychology and PWIAS Interim Director (Chair)

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3.4 OBSERVERS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES In addition to the 5 members of the Board of Trustees, Board meetings have often included the PWIAS Director, the Head of the administrative unit under which the Institute is administered (Faculty of Graduate Studies until 2004 and the VPRI office since 2004), and the UBC Provost. Up until 2003 these individuals were listed in the Board minutes as guests to the Board of Trustees meetings. In 2003 the following individuals were given Official Observer status according to the Institute’s Annual Report:

UBC Vice-President Academic & Provost (Barry McBride) Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies (Frieda Granot) Director, Peter Wall Institute (Dianne Newell) Peter Wall Distinguished Professor (Brett Finlay)

Appendix U lists all Official Observers to the Board of Trustees since 2003.

The current Observers are:

PWIAS Interim Director (Kalina Christoff) Vice-President Research & Innovation (Gail Murphy) Provost and Vice-President Academic (Andrew Szeri) Peter Wall Distinguished Professor (Brett Finlay) Peter Wall Distinguished Professor (Derek Gregory)

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4 ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE

4.1 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UBC AND THE INSTITUTE President Strangway originally assigned administrative responsibility for the Peter Wall Institute to the Dean of the UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies. In November 2004, administrative responsibility was transferred to the UBC VPRI. A May 2019 letter from UBC VPRI Gail Murphy to PWIAS Interim Director Kalina Christoff (see Appendix V) described the relationship between PWIAS and the VPRI office as follows:

• The VPRI office is the administrative point of contact for PWIAS • The VPRI provides oversight on financial transactions and human resource appointments from PWIAS that use UBC systems • The VPRI welcomes Institute staff, including the Director, to VPRI portfolio events • The VPRI and Provost (Vancouver) facilitate PWIAS’s access to UBC bodies, such as the Deans and Associate Deans of Research, for such purposes as consultation • The VPRI and Provost (Vancouver) are also available to the PWIAS Director to access information about the strategic directions of the University • The VPRI office provides support as requested by the PWIAS Board of Trustees, such as providing Secretariat support to the Board of Trustees

4.2 STAFF The Institute currently has a small team of 5 full-time staff members working with the PWIAS Director. The team is comprised of two Program Managers, a Grants Coordinator, a Communications and Events Coordinator, and a Financial and Facilities Clerk. The Institute’s financial operations are managed by a Senior Finance Manager at the VPRI office. The success of the Institute can be attributed in large part to the dedicated staff and to the initiative and strong leadership of the Institute’s Program Managers, not least in the face of rapid turnover in directors (no less than 5 in as many years). Appendix W shows the Institute’s Organizational Chart as of 2019.

Program Managers The two Program Managers, Emma MacEntee (since 2010) and Bernadette Mah (since 2012), have a primary role in oversight, administration and management of the portfolio of funding programs of the Institute. Reporting to the PWIAS Director, they manage all aspects of program development and design, application call and adjudication, budget planning, project monitoring, and evaluation of program outcomes. The Program Managers also oversee the Institute’s public events (e.g. The Wall Exchange), outreach activities, and the Institute’s knowledge mobilization strategy. The Program Managers co- supervise three staff members (the Grants Coordinator, the Communications and Events Coordinator, and the Financial and Facilities Clerk). Since 2014, the Program Managers have also been responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Institute including human resources, building facilities, IT related services, and space needs.

Communications and Events Coordinator The Communications and Events Coordinator, Aurora Tejeida (since 2018), is responsible for developing and implementing a full range of communications and marketing projects, advertising initiatives, utilizing social media channels and supporting publicity for PWIAS events. The position ensures accuracy and

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Grants Coordinator The Grants Coordinator, Nicole Smith (since April 2019), supports the program managers to coordinate the Institute's funding competitions and adjudication meetings for its core programs. This role also assists with program calls and promotion, maintains program records and databases, and the Institute’s program evaluation activities.

Financial and Facilities Clerk The Financial and Facilities Clerk, Mel Ingram (since 2017), provides administrative support to the Director and the program managers, coordinates meeting and guest room bookings, and handles inquiries related to Institute facilities. Finance responsibilities include preparing UBC Finance forms (e.g. journal vouchers, purchase orders, requisitions). The Financial and Facilities Clerk reports to the Program Managers, and to the Senior Finance Manager (VPRI), Earl Dyer, for reconciliations, expense reimbursements, and purchase requisitions for the Peter Wall Institute.

4.3 STAFF CHANGES SINCE 2011 Since its last external review in 2011, the PWIAS underwent two phases: a period of experimentation and expansion with respect to the Institute’s programs, which led to substantial increase in staff hiring and the Institute’s annual budget from 2011 to 2014; a subsequent budget tightening in 2015 (see Section 5.2, History of Leadership). At the November 13, 2014 Board of Trustees meeting, the Trustees set a target for operational expenses not to exceed 21% of the overall budget. The Trustees considered data from different UBC Faculties that ranged between 15% and 30% for operational expenses. As part of the budget tightening in 2014, staffing costs were reduced by 44% and the position of Assistant Director was eliminated. Until 2014, the Assistant Director had been responsible for the Institute’s human resources, financial operations and administrative operations, including the Institute’s record keeping. Also in 2014, the Institute’s financial operations were assumed by the VPRI office. PWIAS award funding, which had been managed by the Institute until 2014, started being managed by the awardees’ home departments. The Associate Director’s other responsibilities were re-assigned to the Institute’s two program managers.

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5 LEADERSHIP

5.1 ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DIRECTOR The Director is based in the Institute and dedicates approximately half-time to the Institute’s affairs, while continuing to be involved in their home department and their research. The Director is responsible for engaging the Institute’s many stakeholders. The Director facilitates contact and collaboration among scholars from different fields and disciplines and actively encourages cross-fertilization and the advancement of new ideas within the Institute, across the University and in the community at large. The Director also formulates and executes the Institute’s strategy, builds relationships with international and local media, and leads and motivates the Institute’s staff. The Director works closely with, and reports to, the Board of Trustees. The PWIAS Director is appointed for a 5-year term, with the possibility of a renewal or extension.

5.2 HISTORY OF LEADERSHIP The Institute’s Director at the time of the 2011 External Review of the Peter Wall Institute was Dianne Newell, a historian of technology from the Department of History. Dianne Newell served as Interim Director from 2003-2006 and Director from 2007-2011. In 2011, the Institute had 3 staff members: an Assistant Director, a Program Coordinator and a Finance/Facilities Clerk. Its annual 2011 operating budget was approximately $1.7M. During Dianne Newell’s term, the Institute updated its facilities and programs, and launched its first International Partnerships (STIAS, TUM-IAS, and Collège de France) and the Wall Exchange public lecture series. At the end of her term in 2011, the Institute launched an international call for the recruitment of a new director, that was led by the VPRI office.

The search committee selected Janis Sarra, former Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence (2002) and professor at UBC Allard School of Law, who was appointed as Director for a 5-year term beginning 2012. Following the recommendations of the 2011 External Review (see Section 8), Janis Sarra proposed a 3- year plan (2012-2015) that included changes to the Institute’s programs and staff, and the introduction of several new pilot initiatives (see Appendix X). In line with this 3-year plan and with the intention of testing out new programs to find out which ones would be most successful, the Board of Trustees approved substantial increases in the operating budgets for Fiscal Years (FY) 2012-2014: the annual budget was $1.6M in 2011 FY, $3.6M in 2012 FY, $5.9M in 2013 FY, and $6.2M in 2014 FY. Several new staff positions were added to support the expanded programming, including 4 new program managers and the Institute’s first full-time communications manager. The Wall Solutions program, which until then had operated as a Trustees’ Initiative separate from other PWIAS programs, became one of the Institute’s core programs.

At the end of 2013, PWIAS Trustees raised concerns about the sustainability of the increased budget (BOT minutes, Dec 2013). As a result, Janis Sarra made efforts to reduce the budget, streamline programs and work towards a new vision. The Assistant Director position, which had been in place since 2008 was eliminated. In early 2014, the programs and staff were scaled back further and the budget was reduced from $6.2M in 2014 FY to $3.6M in 2015 FY. Soon after, Janis Sarra was asked by the Board Chair, UBC President Stephen Toope, to step down as Director. No official explanation was provided.

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In 2015, an international search for a new Director resulted in the appointment of Philippe Tortell, UBC professor in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and Botany, and former Wall Scholar. Tortell was appointed for a 5-year term, beginning in June 2016. He made concerted efforts towards knowledge mobilization and raised the profile of the Institute by forging connections with national media, and by leading several initiatives to showcase UBC scholarship, including 2 interdisciplinary edited volumes of essays by UBC faculty and international authors (see Section 2.10 Director’s Initiatives).

In September 2017, Tortell was invited to propose a renewed strategic plan for the Institute. After extensive consultations with the PWIAS and UBC communities, he formulated a Draft Strategic Plan (see Appendix Y) and presented it at the June 2018 Board of Trustees meeting. All Official Observers attended this meeting and, according to the meeting minutes (Board of Trustee minutes June 4, 2018), there was an “agreement on the mission and vision for the Institute as expressed in the draft plan”. Further discussions centred around achieving (1) greater thematic focus, (2) better strategic alignment between the Institute and UBC, and (3) extended impact of the Institute’s scholarship. On July 6, Tortell received correspondence from the UBC Provost and the UBC VPRI outlining a detailed model for organizing the Institute into interdisciplinary research themes (see Confidential Appendix E). This model represented a significant departure from the Institute’s activities and approach to research.

On July 20 2018, the Board of Trustees held an in-camera meeting to further discuss Tortell’s Draft Strategic Plan. As a result of this in-camera meeting, on July 26, Tortell was asked by the Chair of the Board of Trustees (see Confidential Appendix F for correspondence from the Chair) to submit a revised strategic plan proposal that organizes the Institute’s activities around themes and introduces an expectation for Wall Scholars to engage directly with the already existing Research Excellence Clusters run by the UBC VPRI. In October 2018, Tortell submitted a revised PWIAS Strategic Plan (see Appendix Z), proposing adding new PWIAS initiatives with emphasis on thematic research ‘cluster’ cohorts, while retaining the already active thematically open programs.

On November 16, 2018, Tortell received a letter from Santa Ono (see Appendix AA), informing him that the Board had held an in-camera meeting and had decided to eliminate the majority of PWIAS programs and to modify the remaining programs to achieve an alignment with the existing Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters program led by UBC’s VPRI. On November 18, 2018, in response to this letter, Tortell resigned from his position as Institute Director, stating that it was no longer possible for him to continue as Director; that the mandated re-alignment posed a threat to the Institute’s core mission and academic independence, and that it set a dangerous precedent of senior administrators directing research at UBC (see Appendix BB for resignation announcement).

Tortell’s resignation provoked strong reaction from the scholarly community and was covered in the local and national media. It also resulted in statements by the UBC Faculty Association (see Appendix MM) and the Canadian Association for University Teachers (CAUT) (see Appendix CC), declaring formal concerns about collegial governance and academic freedom (see Section 9.1 for more details). The Institute’s Distinguished Professors released a statement stating that they were excluded from consultations

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At the UBC Vancouver Senate meeting in January 2019, the UBC Senate mandated the UBC Provost and VP Academic to arrange for an external review of the Institute, to be reported back to Senate, to make recommendations to the University on the Institute’s governance structure (both academic and financial) (see Appendix FF).

In June 2019, President Ono appointed Kalina Christoff, UBC Professor of Psychology and a previous Wall Scholar, as Interim Director for a one-year term, to lead preparations for the Institute’s external review and carry out a series of public consultations leading up to the external review. The Institute held six consultation meetings from September until November 2019 that were open to all members of the academic community. More than 50 participants from more than 40 UBC departments attended these consultations. These consultations were captured through video recordings and an interim summary of its outcomes was circulated (see Appendix GG). One of the key themes that emerged from these consultations centred on concerns regarding the Institute’s governance and the stability of its leadership. Strong support was expressed for the unique thematically-open nature of scholarly work supported by the Institute and how it enriches UBC in ways that the VPRI Research Excellence Clusters and other UBC initiatives do not.

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6 INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESOURCES

6.1 FACILITIES Since 1999, the Institute has been housed at the Leon & Thea Koerner University Centre, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where it occupies the top floor of the three-story main building and the adjacent East Wing. The three different floors of the building are used as follows:

Top Floor: The Institute’s Academic Area on the top floor (Appendix HH, page A-3) comprises a total of about 380 m2 . This area is divided into two sections: the East section (rooms 320-332) contains offices for the Director, Peter Wall Distinguished Professors and six shared offices for Wall Scholars, as well as a small lounge space; the West section includes two interconnecting conference rooms (rooms 307 and 309) capable of accommodating a maximum of 50 people when the divider is open. The smaller room (309) is also used as a boardroom. Room 314 in that section is used as swing office/meeting space.

Middle Floor: This floor (Appendix HH, page A-2) spans approximately 820 m2 and contains an academic area for the Institute located in the East Wing of the building. This area is about 220 m2 and is used for administrative staff office and meeting space (rooms 201-203, 208 and 210), as well as office space for international visitors (rooms 204-206). A glass atrium (room 213) connects the main building and the East Wing and provides a designated direct entrance for the Institute. An Associates coffee lounge (rm 228) is located at the entrance. This floor also contains the Sage Bistro (rooms 202-220), a restaurant open to the public occupying approximately 600 m2. The East area of the restaurant, Sage East (rm 207, 209 and 220) is co-managed under an agreement between Sage Bistro and the Institute, with booking priority to the Institute for research-related activities during the academic terms.

Bottom Floor: This floor (Appendix HH, page A-1), spans approximately 1,640 m2. While this floor was originally conceived of as space for the Institute’s operations, there have been difficulties expanding the Institute’s operations into it (see Section 9.5). Currently, the Institute uses only the East Wing of this floor, a small residential area of about 180 m2, offering 5 guest accommodations (4 standard rooms and 1 suite) reserved for visiting scholars participating in the Institute’s programs. The remaining 1,460 m2 area of this floor are currently used by UBC’s Classroom Services (rm 101, 103, 107, 109) as teaching classrooms, and by the Sage Bistro as office and meeting space (rooms 171, 172, 173, 175, 177, 179). The VIP Room (room 176) is used by Sage Bistro as a venue to rent out for smaller functions. The Ideas Lounge (room 174) operated by Sage Bistro, was opened in 2012 and provides light lunch, beverages and snacks and a gathering space open to the UBC community. The Institute has contributed financial resources to the opening and subsequent operations of the Ideas Lounge. It provides much needed lunch meal options to the Institute’s scholars, associates and visitors.

6.2 FINANCES

6.2.1 Financial Operations Until 2014, all grants awarded by the Institute were managed by the Institute’s Assistant Director and grant-related expenses were processed by the Institute’s Financial Clerk. Since 2014, the grants, and all associated expense reconciliation, have been managed by the awardees’ home departments at UBC. These changes in financial practices were introduced in 2014 to reduce administrative costs.

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The Financial Clerk is based in the Institute and works with the Senior Finance Manager and Portfolio Finance Director based in the VPRI office. The VPRI’s Senior Finance Manager’s services are contracted by PWIAS (currently at $50K annually). The Institute’s Financial Clerk prepares the financial transactions. The Senior Finance Manager sets finance policy and oversees financial controls. Annual budgets and financial strategies are set by the Finance Committee (see Section 3.2.2). The Institute’s annual budget, and all other financial matters, are discussed by the Finance Committee and then brought to the Board of Trustees for approval.

6.2.2 Financial Resources The Institute is funded by two endowments: The Peter Wall Endowment and the Hampton Endowment. The Peter Wall Endowment comes from the original donation from Peter Wall, comprised of shares in the Wall Financial Corporation (WFC). As of September 2019 the adjusted value of those shares is $144M. The dividends from these shares are used to cover the majority (84% as of 2019) of the operating budget of the Institute, with any unspent dividends accruing as a cash portion of the endowment. As of September 2019, the market value of the cash portion of the Peter Wall Endowment is approximately $40M (see Confidential Appendix G for 2019 Peter Wall Endowment Financial Statement).

The second endowment is the Hampton Endowment, which comes from a $10M donation from UBC to support a portion of the Institute’s operating expenses. The Hampton Endowment is managed by the UBC Investment Management Trust, an independent body to UBC, to generate dividends for the Institute’s operation. The Hampton Endowment is valued at $16M as of September 2019. The annual amount available towards operating expenses is limited to 4% of the fund value. At present the Hampton Endowment is contributing approximately 16% of the Institute’s annual operating budget (see Confidential Appendix H for 2019 Hampton Endowment Financial Statement).

Since 2014, both funds have performed very well, reversing the losses incurred during the 2008 global downturn. Dividends received from the WFC shares since 2014 have been steady.

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7 STRATEGIC VISION AND ACTIVITIES

7.1 2018 STRATEGIC PLAN – VISION AND MISSION The following vision and mission for the Institute were formulated by Director Philippe Tortell in his 2018 PWIAS Draft Strategic Plan (Appendix Y). This vision and mission were generally agreed upon by the Board of Trustees (BOT minutes June 4, 2018).

Vision

A globally connected community of scholars working collaboratively and creatively to generate transformative knowledge for a better world.

Mission

We promote the highest ideals of scholarship by creating a vibrant space for deep and sustained collaboration across intellectual, cultural and geographic boundaries. We nurture fundamental research and creative practices that explore new ideas and approaches to tackling complex questions of global significance. Through active public engagement and knowledge translation activities, we use new ideas, evidence and insights to influence broad discourse on critical questions, and drive positive societal impacts. Towards these ends, we seek to:

• Foster the continued growth and development of a unique and remarkable academic environment at UBC, where ideas are unconstrained, and where creativity and intellectual curiosity drive major breakthroughs in knowledge.

• Nurture existing and new partnerships with national and international organizations, providing opportunities for sustained interactions with leading scholars and creative minds around the world.

• Deepen public understanding of PWIAS-enabled research, and enhance societal discourse on critically important questions by translating the products of high level scholarship into broadly accessible formats.

7.2 COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH In August 2012, the Institute hired a full-time communications manager and developed its first communications plan. During that same year, the Institute redeveloped the Institute’s website, launched Currents the Institute’s monthly online newsletter (see Appendix II), and the Wall Papers magazine, and created PWIAS social media channels on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. The Institute’s YouTube channel features more than 100 videos of PWIAS talks and events that have received more than 300,000 views. In 2015, the Institute developed a revised communications strategy and plan for 2015- 2016, that focused on raising the profile of the Institute, increasing online communications, and ensuring its affiliation with UBC is clearly recognized.

The Institute’s current communications strategy is focused on expanding public outreach and partnerships within UBC, as well as between UBC faculty members and scholars at other institutions. Key elements of the communications strategy for 2019 include:

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Wall Scholars in External Media 140 120 100 80 60 40 Media Coverage Media 20 0 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 TV 0 0 1 0 0 Radio 1 0 9 15 4 Print 6 13 15 26 30 Online 13 18 31 54 82

Figure 9. Media coverage of Wall Scholars research 2014-2018

Table 3. Top 10 viewed videos on the PWIAS YouTube channel

Title of Talk Name of Speaker Program Views Distinguished Reading the Brain Stanislas Dehaene 39,783 Visiting Professor The Hidden Beauty of Mathematics Cedric Villani Wall Exchange 29,772 A Politics on the Street Q&A with UBC faculty Judith Butler Wall Exchange 24,182 The Shadow World of the Global Arms Trade Andrew Feinstein Wall Exchange 23,366

A Politics on the Street Judith Butler Wall Exchange 21,744 Approaches to the Anthropocene: A Bruno Latour (in Wall Exchange Conversation with Philippe Descola and Bruno conversation with (with Distinguished 16,197 Latour Philippe Descola) Visiting Professor) Heat Trap: A New Way to Generate Electricity Alireza Nojeh Wall Scholar 15,875 Using Nanotechnology? War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Conflict Bruno Latour Wall Exchange 13,473

A Cosmic Perspective for the 21st Century Martin Rees Wall Exchange 8,456 Bugs 'R Us: The Role of Microbes in Disease, Brett Finlay Wall Exchange 7,377 Health and Society

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7.3 STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Although the Institute does not do formal undergraduate and graduate teaching, it nevertheless intersects with, and has an impact on, those activities. UBC students benefit through association with the Institute in many ways. Examples include: • The development of new interdisciplinary curriculum content. Through connections at PWIAS, Professors Janet Werker from Psychology and Mark Turin from Anthropology & First Nations and Endangered Languages developed and co-taught a UBC-wide course in Language Sciences, entitled Living Language: Science and Society. The course, cross-listed with 6 different faculties, was launched in 2018, and offers upper-level undergraduates and graduate students an opportunity to examine the scientific study of language as it applies to all domains of human life, in the creation and acquisition of spoken language through writing systems, texts of all kinds, arts, culture, science, and technology. • Student engagement in new interdisciplinary collaborations formed by networks of scholars at the Institute. Wall Scholars, Stephen Hallam, Microbiology and Immunology and Joe Dahmen School of Landscape Architecture initiated a collaboration while in residence together that explored new approaches to the design of environmentally sustainable building materials. They led a group of students who built a composting toilet for refugees camps made of biodegradable biocomposite mycelium. The project won top prize at the 2018 Biodesign Challenge at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, beating out 500 other entries from around the world. • Students have an opportunity to engage with, and learn from, international visitors hosted in their UBC departments via the Institute’s International Visiting Research Scholars and International Research Roundtable programs. From September 2018 to August 2019, PWIAS hosted 80 visiting researchers from other countries. • Students participate in the organization of International Research Roundtables as paid coordinators or rapporteurs. • Students work directly on Wall Solutions community-based projects. • All PWIAS awards include a keynote lecture or event open to the UBC community as a condition of the award. Students make up a large part of these audiences.

“My involvement with the "Visual Literacy across the Disciplines" [2018 International Research Roundtable]…allowed me the opportunity to become acquainted with numerous scholars whom I would've probably never otherwise encountered, because their work is far outside my own discipline, yet, in several cases, their research interests dovetailed with mine in surprising, fruitful ways. [A]ttending the roundtable itself was a terrific experience.” -Joshua Timmermann, PhD Candidate, History

“Dr. Ronce was present in our [department’s] theoretical discussion group, our evolutionary discussion group, and also during the weekly seminar. To be affiliated with her gave and continues to give me inspiration to pursue academia… I know that not only me, that many of my fellow graduate colleagues, benefited from Dr. Ronce’s visit.” -Linnea Sandell, PhD Candidate, Zoology on collaborating with 2018 International Visiting Research Scholar, Ophélie Ronce

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8 2011 EXTERNAL REVIEW

The last External Review of the Peter Wall Institute took place in April 2011. The 2011 PWIAS External Review Self-study and the Report of the External Review Committee are available at: https://pwias.ubc.ca/external-reviews. Appendix JJ lists the specific recommendations by the 2011 External Review and describes some of the developments around the Institute since 2011 in response to some of these recommendations.

The 2011 external reviewers noted the many strengths of the Institute, including the breadth of its programs, its financial resources, and the efficiency and dedication of its staff members. The reviewers also identified a number of challenges, including the lack of strong international program of visiting scholars (a common feature of leading Institutes for Advanced Studies world-wide). The reviewers recommended that the Institute restructure its programs so that they are coherent, synergistic and international. The reviewers also noted that the limited accommodation of the Institute to the 3rd floor of the University Centre building provides insufficient space for a critical mass of activity. The reviewers recommended that Institute increase its footprint within the building in order to realize the full potential afforded by the Institute’s existing resources. It was noted that if the whole of the University Centre building were made available to PWIAS, it would provide an outstanding location for an Institute for Advanced Study, able to accommodate a vibrant and attractive community of scholars from the UBC community and beyond, whose daily presence in the building would make it an intellectual focus for the campus. Finally, the reviewers noted that PWIAS may be unique in the world among Institutes for Advanced Studies in having appreciably more resources than it needs for its ongoing programs. The reviewers cautioned that such a situation is likely to create temptation within UBC for the Institute’s resources to be utilized for activities not central to the Institute’s mission. They stated that evidence for such “mission creep” was already discernable at the time of the 2011 External Review. The surplus financial resources available to the Institute have increased further since 2011. In the absence of an explicit strategy for managing this risk, the Institute is now grappling with the challenges foreseen by the 2011 Reviewers, as illustrated by the difficulties in arriving at a new strategic plan for the Institute in 2018.

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9 CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

9.1 ACADEMIC INDEPENDENCE Two fundamental principles of academic governance are collegial governance and academic freedom. According to the principle of collegial governance, academic staff must play the decisive role in making academic decisions and setting academic policy (CAUT Policy Statement on Governance, 2019; Appendix KK). In addition, an academic Institution’s mission cannot be achieved without academic freedom. Therefore, all academic staff members have the right to academic freedom, including “the right, without restriction by prescribed doctrine, to freedom to teach and discuss; freedom to carry out research and disseminate and publish the results thereof” (CAUT Policy Statement on Academic Freedom, 2019; Appendix LL).

In response to Philippe Tortell’s resignation as Institute Director in November 2018, concerns were publicly expressed regarding the integrity of the Institute’s academic governance and perceived violations of the core tenets of academic freedom and collegial governance. For example, in an open letter to UBC President Ono, dated November 25, 2018 (see Appendix MM), the President of the UBC Faculty Association, Bronwen Sprout, expressed concerns that in the formulation of the PWIAS strategic plan, the University’s administration may have undertaken actions aimed at altering the mission of PWIAS without sufficient collegial consultation. The letter also stated that the Faculty Association views such actions as “potential incursions upon the academic freedom and autonomy of UBC’s academic units as well as usurpations of the academic governance powers of Senate”.

In a further letter to UBC President Ono, dated February 28, 2019 (see Appendix NN), the Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), David Robinson, stated the CAUT’s conclusion that the Institute’s governance structure is contrary to principles of academic freedom insofar as it grants decision-making power over programs, research, and personnel matters to a Board of Trustees composed of a majority of non-academic staff. This letter quotes UBC Policy 114 on Fundraising and Acceptance of Donations which provides that, “UBC values and will protect its integrity, autonomy and academic freedom, and will not accept donations when a condition of such acceptance would compromise these fundamental principles.” The letter concludes by urging President Ono to review the PWIAS Deed of Trust and make any amendments to it necessary to fully align it with principles of academic freedom and with UBC Policy 114.

UBC Policy 114 came into effect on 1993, two years after the 1991 PWIAS Deed of Trust was signed by Peter Wall and UBC President David Strangway. As such, Peter Wall’s donation was accepted on conditions different from those required by UBC Policy 114. One such condition is the inclusion of Peter Wall and Peter Wall appointees on the Institute’s governing body, allowing for continued donor influence over the Institute’s academic programs, research and academic appointments. In addition to overlooking academic governance principles, this governance model also creates potential or perceived conflicts of interest with Wall Financial Corporation representatives on the Board of Trustees and as Official Observers.

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PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES supplementary document could address the challenges presented by the original Deed of Trust and could provide clarification for aspects of the Institute’s governance that the Deed of Trust either does not address or are not fully aligned with principles of academic freedom and collegial governance. Finally, this document could also address the PWIAS governance model in relation to British Columbia’s University Act, which governs all university-based academic bodies in British Columbia.

9.2 BOARD OF TRUSTEES PROCEDURES Notwithstanding the existence of Procedures for the Operation of the Board of Trustees at the Institute document (see Confidential Appendix C), concerns have been raised by multiple sources regarding the Board of Trustees operations with respect to transparency of decision-making, management of conflict- of-interests, record-keeping, and due consultation with PWIAS members and the broader academic community. For example, in a letter to President Ono, dated December 11, 2018 (see Appendix CC), the Executive Director of CAUT, David Robinson, expressed concerns that “a collegial process initiated by the former Director to develop a strategic research direction for the Institute was overruled by the Board of Trustees which unilaterally directed major changes to how the Institute was to operate”. Similarly, one of the key themes that emerged from the 2019 fall community consultations centred around the need to improve the Board of Trustees’ procedures and decision-making processes to ensure greater transparency, consultation and respect for the Director’s leadership; strengthening the academic governance and mandate was presented as an opportunity to establish stability and future sustainability (see Appendix GG for further details on consultation themes). As well, past Board of Trustee faculty members have recommended that new Board of Trustee members be provided with training, terms of reference, and other forms of documentation to prepare them to effectively carry out their responsibilities.

Important documentation that pertains to the Board of Trustees decision-making is not always made available to the Institute. For example, the Institute does not have all records of the minutes of Board of Trustees meetings. Other key documents, such as the Conflict of Interest declarations by Board of Trustees members are not available to the Institute. There is a large variability in the documentation available in support of different award payment made by the Institute. For programs such as the Wall Scholars and International Research Roundtables, financial transactions related to award payments are supported by an adjudication process that produces a formal record of the specific award amounts and recipients. For other programs, however, such as the Trustees Initiatives, there is no such formal record and decisions are sometimes only backed up by email correspondence by the Board Secretary stating the Trustees have approved a specific amount be used at the discretion of the donor (see Confidential Appendix I for an example e-mail correspondence). Concerns have been raised by the University that the transfer of money to the donor, Peter Wall, to be used upon his direction to third parties where there is no connection to the purpose of PWIAS, would constitute him obtaining a personal benefit from a charitable trust, which would be in violation of the University’s obligations under the PWIAS trust and general charitable law. Because the funds held by the two PWIAS trusts are for the exclusive benefit of PWIAS at UBC, the approval of such payments to the donor has been raised as an issue of concern and a potential failure of the Board of Trustees’ fiduciary duty to comply with the terms of the trusts.

The issue of perceived conflict of interest came to the fore most recently following Philippe Tortell’s resignation, in relation to the proposal to divert the Institute’s core programs towards the Research Excellence Clusters run by the VPRI’s office. Specific individuals who were perceived to be in conflict

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PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES included the VPRI, in her capacity as Official Observer to the Board of Trustees; the two UBC faculty Trustees on the Board, who hold Research Excellence Cluster awards from the VPRI’s office; and the Secretary to the Board of Trustees who holds a senior staff position at the VPRI’s office that reports directly to the VPRI. However, perceived conflicts of interests have been a long-standing issue with respect to the Board of Trustees’ composition and operations. One of the main responsibilities of the UBC President is to lead the University’s fundraising efforts and this could create difficulties when the same individual is also tasked with chairing a Board of Trustees comprised in part of potential donors to the University. In addition, loans to the Wall Financial Corporation from the cash portion of the Peter Wall Endowment have been approved by the Board of Trustees, raising concerns regarding financial conflict of interests for members of the Peter Wall Endowment Board of Trustees who also serve the interest of the Wall Financial Corporation. The Institute does not currently have effective practices in place or independent oversight to help it manage these inherent conflicts.

In September 2019, on the recommendation of the Institute Interim Director, the Board of Trustees agreed to undertake a Governance Review Diagnostic conducted by Elizabeth Watson, QC, from Watson Advisors Inc. The purpose of this diagnostic is to analyze the Board’s current governance procedures and consider updates that will align them with best practice governance principles. The results of the diagnostic are scheduled to be reviewed and discussed by the Board of Trustees in December 2019.

9.3 STAFF RESOURCES For most of its history the Institute has operated with a minimal number of staff members, while at the same time maintaining a large number of programs and activities. Currently, there are eleven different programs run by the Institute, supported by only two program managers. The Board of Trustees has historically, as well as recently, focused on keeping the administrative costs for the operations of the Institute as low as possible. However, the complexity and diversity of Institute activities as well as frequent introduction of novel initiatives, has put significant pressure on its limited staff resources. The high turnover and vacancies in the director position since 2011 has created demands that further exceed the staff capacity as set by the Board of Trustees’ targets for administrative costs. There is a general consensus among the Board of Trustees and members of the academic community that the Institute would be best served by concentrating its efforts on select programs aligned with the Institute’s mission. There is also a general desire to strengthen the International stature of the Institute by expanding the Wall Scholar program to add an international component, bringing international scholars to spend a year in residence at the Institute alongside the UBC scholars. Such expansion would require a corresponding expansion of administrative and physical resources, as well as for international scholars to be able to apply directly and be hosted by the Institute. Currently, international visitors are not hosted directly by the Institute but by UBC departments to which the Institute transfers the award funds for management. The Institute could benefit from regaining its ability to manage financial awards within the Institute – an ability the Institute had prior to 2014 with the position of an Assistant Director responsible for financial administration.

9.4 ADJUDICATION AND PROGRAM EVALUATION Adjudication and program evaluation were two key themes discussed during the Institute’s 2019 fall consultations (see Appendix GG). Although each of the Institute’s four competitive programs (Wall Scholars, Wall Solutions, International Visiting Research Scholars, and International Research Roundtables) has a formal adjudication process, the Institute is currently seeking ways to make

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PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES improvements to the processes. These improvements include increasing diversity of representation on the programs’ adjudication committees and ensuring committee members have sufficient time to provide in-depth evaluation of applications, including feedback to unsuccessful applicants.

The Institute does not currently have agreed upon mechanisms for evaluating the success of its programs. However, there is agreement among the Board of Trustees and academic community members that developing such mechanisms would be beneficial for the Institute’s functioning. The Institute’s fall 2019 community consultations demonstrated a desire for the Institute to develop innovative methods for program evaluation that go beyond traditional metrics such as publications and awards, to capture the less tangible but more critical benefits such as transformative shifts in scholarship and academic community building.

Discussions during the Institute’s 2019 fall consultations also identified a tension between two contrasting views for the Institute: a view that holds inclusivity and diversity of experience as guiding principles of overriding importance in determining selection criteria for awardees; and a view that holds research excellence as the guiding principle and selection criterion, which entails an inherent exclusivity. Although historically the Institute has endorsed research excellence as its guiding principle, the consultations suggested a desire for the Institute to disrupt problematic ideas of excellence and elitism. A consensus emerged from the consultations that the Institute’s guiding principles and selection criteria cannot be properly formulated if the Institute lacks stability and clearly defined mission and vision.

There may be an opportunity for the Institute to enhance its adjudication and program evaluation by expanding the current Academic Advisory Board by increasing its membership and responsibilities. This expanded Board could be tasked with arriving at program adjudication and evaluation processes in consultation with PWIAS associates and the broader academic community. This expanded Board could also provide additional support to the Institute’s Director and programming activities.

9.5 PHYSICAL SPACE Until 1997, the UBC Faculty Club occupied the Leon & Thea Koerner University Centre, providing UBC Faculty members with space for regular gatherings and social interactions. With the closing of the UBC Faculty Club in 1997, it was recognized (minutes of the Management Committee meeting, November 10, 1997) that the Institute’s needs and those of the community for a university gathering place could be met extremely well by having the Institute housed in the former Faculty Club’s building (the current University Centre building), including the lower floor. However, in subsequent years much of the space on the lower floor came to be used by UBC Classroom Services and the Sage Bistro.

The original vision for the Institute, dating back to 1997, conceived of the lower floor of the University Centre to be used as collaborative space for regular program meetings, workshops, and Wall Associates’ gatherings. The 2011 external review included a specific recommendation to extend the space available to PWIAS within the Koerner University Centre, to encompass the whole building (recommendation 5.2; see also Appendix JJ). Over the years, the Institute has engaged in multiple and still ongoing conversations with the relevant UBC administrative units, requesting additional space be made available to the Institute on the lower floor of the University Centre. However, despite these discussions, the majority of this space continues to be used by UBC Classroom Services and has not yet been made available to the Institute. As noted by the 2011 external reviewers, making this space available to the Institute will provide the space and sense of place necessary for it to realize its potential as an Institute for Advanced Studies.

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Appendices

Appendix A 1993 Proposed Operating Mode for the Institute ...... A-1 Appendix B Vision and Mission Statements by Past Directors ...... A-4 Appendix C Historical Timeline of Institute Programs ...... A-5 Appendix D Overview of History of all Programs ...... A-6 Appendix E Adjudication Committee Membership Since 2014 ...... A-10 E.1 Wall Scholar Adjudication Committees ...... A-10 E.2 Wall Solutions Initiative Adjudication Committees ...... A-12 E.3 International Research Roundtable Adjudication Committees ...... A-14 E.4 International Visiting Research Scholar Adjudication Committees ...... A-16 E.5 Arts-Based Initiative Adjudication Committees ...... A-17 Appendix F Wall Solutions Projects Funded Since 2011 ...... A-18 Appendix G Biographies of Distinguished Professors ...... A-20 Appendix H International Research Roundtables Funded Since 2012 ...... A-22 Appendix I Trustees Initiatives Since 2012 ...... A-24 Appendix J Wall Exchange Speakers and Topics ...... A-25 Appendix K International Partnerships Memoranda of Understanding ...... A-26 K.1 Collège de France ...... A-26 K.2 Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study ...... A-31 Appendix L Distinguished Visiting Professors Since 2011 ...... A-34 Appendix M French Scholars Lecture Series ...... A-35 Appendix N Director’s Initiatives ...... A-38

Appendix O Arts-Based Initiatives ...... A-40 Appendix P Board of Trustees Members ...... A-43 Appendix Q Finance Committee Meeting Attendees (2018-2019) ...... A-44 Appendix R Draft Terms of Reference for the Secretary to the Board of Trustees ...... A-45 Appendix S Secretaries to the Board of Trustees Since 1992 ...... A-48 Appendix T 2019 Draft Terms of Reference for the Academic Advisory Board ...... A-49 Appendix U Observers to the Board of Trustees Since 2003 ...... A-51 Appendix V 2019 Letter from VPRI to PWIAS Director...... A-52 Appendix W PWIAS Organizational Chart...... A-53 Appendix X January 2012 Proposed 3-Year Pilot Initiatives...... A-54 Appendix Y May 2018 Draft Strategic Plan ...... A-63 Appendix Z October 2018 Draft Strategic Plan ...... A-80 Appendix AA November 2018 Letter from Board Chair to PWIAS Director ...... A-91 Appendix BB November 2018 Resignation Announcement by PWIAS Director ...... A-94 Appendix CC December 2018 CAUT Letter to UBC President ...... A-96 Appendix DD November 2018 Statement by PWIAS Distinguished Professors ...... A-98 Appendix EE Statement by PWIAS Board of Trustees ...... A-99 Appendix FF January 2019 UBC Senate Motion Requesting External Review of PWIAS ...... A-100 Appendix GG Interim Summary of 2019 Fall Community Consultations ...... A-102 Appendix HH University Centre Building Floorplans ...... A-104 Appendix II October 2019 Issue of PWIAS Newsletter...... A-107 Appendix JJ Description of Developments in Response to 2011 External Review Recommendations ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..A-115 Appendix KK CAUT Policy Statement on Governance ...... A-118 Appendix LL CAUT Policy Statement on Academic Freedom ...... A-120 Appendix MM November 2018 Letter from Faculty Association to UBC President ...... A-121 Appendix NN February 2019 CAUT Letter to UBC President ...... A-123

Appendix A 1993 PROPOSED OPERATING MODE FOR THE INSTITUTE

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Full-size available online from the UBC library Open Collections.

The Proposed Operating Mode for the Institute was approved by the UBC Senate (Vancouver Senate Minutes of February 16, 1994).

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-3 Appendix B VISION AND MISSION STATEMENTS BY PAST DIRECTORS

In April 1998, the Institute’s first Director, Ken MacCrimmon, recorded the mission of the Institute in the PWIAS Annual Report as follows: “The Institute supports basic research through interdisciplinary initiatives that have the potential to make important advances in knowledge. The Institute brings together researchers from UBC with distinguished scholars from around the world to conduct fundamental research drawing upon and contributing to a wide range of diverse disciplines. It supports basic research through interdisciplinary initiatives that contribute significantly to innovative advances of knowledge. Of overriding concern in all Institute activities is excellence in research characterized by being fundamental, interdisciplinary, and unique.” (PWIAS Annual Report 1998-1999, MacCrimmon).

In 2008, Director, Dianne Newell, wrote that the Institute’s mission is “to create collaborative, interdisciplinary, basic research programs for scholars at all stages of their career.” (PWIAS 2007-08 Annual Report, Newell).

Director Janis Sarra in her Vision and Action Report to the Board of Trustees (Dec 2013) stated: “The Institute is committed foremost to excellence in research; its goal is to stimulate collaborative, creative, innovative interdisciplinary research that makes important advances in knowledge. A guiding principle is that excellence and truly innovative research are achieved in a highly collaborative international research environment at UBC, where UBC scholars have sustained opportunity to exchange ideas with national and international scholars, to work together on innovative research, develop new thinking that is beyond disciplinary boundaries, and engage in intellectual risk-taking. The Institute respects diversity of perspectives and backgrounds, research embedded in the community and integration of multimodal and expressive arts as an important component of research across all disciplines. The Institute is committed to wise stewardship of its resources in continuing to build on its significant research accomplishments”.

More recently in 2018, Philippe Tortell wrote in his draft strategic plan: “We promote the highest ideals of scholarship by creating a vibrant space for deep and sustained collaboration across intellectual, cultural and geographic boundaries. We nurture fundamental research and creative practices that explore new ideas and approaches to tackling complex questions of global significance. Through active public engagement and knowledge translation activities, we use new ideas, evidence and insights to influence broad discourse on critical questions, and drive positive societal impacts.” (Draft Strategic Plan, May 2018). The vision and mission for the Institute as expressed in his draft plan (see Section 2.1) were generally agreed upon by the Board of Trustees at their meeting on June 4, 2018.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-4 Appendix C HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF INSTITUTE PROGRAMS

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-5 Appendix D OVERVIEW OF HISTORY OF ALL PROGRAMS

Program Name Year Status Description Distinguished 1994 Ongoing. The program was The Distinguished Professorship is an appointment Professor (DP) announced in 1994. Dr directed at attracting & retaining a world-class Michael Smith and Dr scholar at UBC. The Professorship is an endowed Raphael Amit were chair that provides salary support (originally appointed in 1997. The intended to be $100,000/year) for a five-year term current DPs are Brett Finlay renewable once, and for appointments prior to (since 2002) and Derek 2010, renewable without limit. Gregory (since 2011). Major Thematic Grant 1994 Discontinued in 2013. The The MTG provided funding of up to $500,000 over (MTG) program was announced in a three-year period to an interdisciplinary team of 1994 but the first award UBC and external scholars undertaking a large- was not made until 1996. scale collaborative project in a new area. This research must be basic, and have the potential to provide significant contributions to theory. PIs must apply for and receive a TDW and EWG before applying for a MTG. Faculty Associates and 1996 Ongoing. In 1999 after Faculty Associates of the Institute are those who Faculty Associate moving to permanent have served on an Institute committee, have been Forums space in the University selected for one of the residential programs, or Centre, the Institute began have been Principal Investigator on a competitive to host ~20 events award. The Institute currently hosts monthly (lunch/dinner forums) per Associate dinner forums throughout the academic year for Associates. term, annual holiday party and Wallapalooza alumni gala. Exploratory Workshop 1997 Discontinued. Exploratory Established to lead into the Major Thematic Grant. Grants (EWG) Workshop Grants were The EWG provided funding for top UBC replaced by the researchers to come together with 5-10 International Research international experts for 3-5 days to explore the Roundtables in 2012. possibilities of developing a research agenda in a new field. Initially, up to 10 EWG per year at $25,000 each. Distinguished Scholars 1998 Discontinued. Merged with Each year UBC faculty members were appointed in Residence (DSIR) the ECS program to form as DSIR. Applicants were tenure-track faculty the Wall Scholar program members with demonstrated and recognized in 2014 to foster research excellence. Initially, four scholars per engagement and year with $12000 stipend plus $5000 for a mentorship between the workshop. Early Career and Senior scholars.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-6 Program Name Year Status Description Catalytic Visitor 1998 Discontinued 2000. Complemented the EWG: focused on bringing in program one visitor for one or two academic terms. The underlying rationale is that in some cases the research endeavour is better served by having a single person brought in to provide leadership over an extended period. Theme Development 1999 Ongoing. Rolling application. Provides catering and space to Workshops (TDW) groups of UBC faculty who want a focal point for attracting colleagues to work on the initial stages of probing a thematic topic and research funding proposals involving multiple academic disciplines and faculties. Currently up to 10 per year at $700 each plus conference space. Colloquium and 1999 Ongoing. In recognition of its commitment to knowledge special events mobilization and to help raise the profile of PWIAS, the Institute has hosted many public colloquia, talks, performances and other events. Visiting Junior 1999 Discontinued. The This program brought to UBC for one month in the Scholars competition for the summer up to 10 international scholars at the summer of 2004 was early stages of their careers. Scholars were suspended due to the nominated and sponsored by UBC depts and uncertainties concerning selection based on research excellence and fit with the directorship, then fundamental, interdisciplinary research. 6-11 per discontinued the following year provided $6000 stipend. year. Trustees Initiatives 2000 Ongoing. The Trustees of the Institute can propose funding- worthy research-related activities or events that do not fit the criteria of the Institute’s thematic or residential programs. The FY20 amount is $83,000 has been committed as a gift to Nancy Hermiston (UBC Opera Program). FY20-22: Awarded $200K/year to N. Hermiston et al for Opera Research Project (3-year project). Early Career Scholars 2000 Merged with the DSIR The success of the Visiting Junior Scholars program (ECS) program to form the Wall inspired the ECS program; to address recognized Scholar program in 2014. need to bring together UBC tenure track faculty members from diverse disciplines at the early stages of their careers (Assistant and Associate Professors).

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-7 Program Name Year Status Description Distinguished Visiting 2005 Ongoing. One or more times a year a distinguished senior Professor (DVP) scholar with a reputation for interdisciplinary engagement spends approximately one month in residence at the Institute. DVPs come from PWIAS partner Institutes. This program evolved from the former Catalytic Visit program (1998-2000).

Wall Summer Institute 2005 Discontinued in 2008. An intense five-day workshop of up to 10 for Research (WSIR) interdisciplinary fellows in residence, invited from around the world to push forward thinking on a cutting-edge research question with UBC scholars. A follow-up weekend retreat was held in another part of the world. Evolved from earlier, month- long, Visiting Junior Scholars summer program.

International 2008 Ongoing. PWIAS has 2 MOUs for faculty exchanges and Partnerships: colloquia abroad with the Collège de France in Exchanges and Wall Paris (2008-ongoing), and Stellenbosch Institute Colloquia Abroad. for Advanced Study (2009-ongoing). PWIAS agreement with the Technical University of Munich–Institute for Advanced Study initiated in 2010 expired in 2013, and was not renewed.

Arts-Based Initiatives 2010 Ongoing. Beginning with To support alternate ways of exploring important appointment of a Wall research questions as well as disseminating Composer in Residence, research findings to diverse audiences. The PWIAS held Arts-based Institute has hosted a Wall Composer in competitions in 2015 and Residence, Wall Author in Residence, Wall 2016. International Visiting Artists, as well as a large number of arts-based forums and performances. The Wall Exchange 2011 Ongoing. PWIAS’ signature public lecture series brings Lecture Series internationally prominent public intellectuals to Vancouver twice per year. French Lecture Series 2012 Ongoing. In partnership with the Consulate General of (FLS) France in Vancouver the FLS program invites UBC scholars to nominate academics from France, from diverse disciplines to give a talk in English in Vancouver. International Visiting 2012 Ongoing. The IVRS program was implemented to Research Scholars supplement the DVP program. UBC faculty are (IVRS) granted partnership awards of $15,000 to bring an international scholar to UBC for a minimum of three weeks to collaborate on interdisciplinary research projects.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-8 Program Name Year Status Description International Research 2012 Ongoing. Replaced the Exploratory Workshop grants, Roundtable (IRR) (funding was increased to enable more international participants to attend). The Institute currently funds and hosts up to five roundtables per year. Wall Solutions 2012 Ongoing. Wall Solutions was proposed by DP Brett Finlay Initiative with Peter Wall to fund research projects that aimed to find creative solutions to societal problems. At the time of its introduction, this program was contested for not being within the PWIAS mandate of fundamental exploratory research (BOT minutes Oct 2010). UBC Visiting Scholars 2012 Discontinued 2014. Enabled UBC early career faculty to travel abroad Abroad and undertake research that would make a contribution to the country being visited. Wall Hour 2012 Discontinued 2014. A series of free forums hosted by PWIAS and open to all faculty and graduate students. The fora included a box lunch and were held in locations across the campus, co-hosted with various faculties and centres. Wall Scholars Café 2012 Discontinued 2014. The cafes were hosted at PWIAS over coffee and conversation in the PWIAS scholars lounge. The weekly event was open to all faculty and graduate students. The cafes promoted informal idea exchange on a wide range of fundamental and interdisciplinary topics. Wall Scholars (WS) 2014 Ongoing. Based on the combination of discontinued programs (ECS, DSIR, mentorships), the Wall Scholars Award provides support for up to 10 full- time, tenured or tenure-track UBC faculty members to spend one year in residence at the Institute, in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-9 Appendix E ADJUDICATION COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP SINCE 2014

E.1 WALL SCHOLAR ADJUDICATION COMMITTEES

Name UBC Department 2014 Sarra, Janis (Director, Chair) Peter A. Allard School of Law Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Al-kassim, Dina English; The Social Justice Institute Biukovic, Ljiljana Peter A. Allard School of Law Craig, Ken Psychology Reiner, Peter Psychiatry; Neuroscience Schabas, Margaret Philosophy 2015 Gallini, Nancy (Acting Director, Chair) Vancouver School of Economics Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Hamel, Keith Music Harrison, Kathryn Political Science Lopes, Dominic Philosophy Naus, Christian Cellular & Physiological Sciences Richer, Harvey Physics 2016 Gordillo, Gaston (Acting Director, Chair) Anthropology Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Bronfman, Alejandra History Hamel, Keith Music Richer, Harvey Physics; Astronomy Schulte, Patricia Zoology Tortell, Philippe (incoming Director) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-10 Name UBC Department 2017 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Harley, Chris Zoology Mawani, Renisa Sociology Muehlmann, Shaylih Anthropology Richer, Harvey Physics; Astronomy 2018 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Blackburn, Carole Anthropology; Sociology Social Justice Institute; Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Chaudhry, Ayesha Studies Harley, Chris Zoology Richer, Harvey Physics; Astronomy 2019 Christoff, Kalina (Chair, Wall Scholar Alumni Psychology invited to chair committee) Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Altshuler, Doug Zoology Blackburn, Carole Anthropology; Sociology Richer, Harvey Physics; Astronomy 2020 Christoff, Kalina (Interim Director, Chair) Psychology Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Jennifer Berdahl Sociology Vanessa Andreotti Educational Studies James Stewart Peter A. Allard School of Law

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-11 E.2 WALL SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE ADJUDICATION COMMITTEES

Name UBC Department 2015 Finlay, Brett (Chair) Wall Distinguished Professor Galini, Nancy (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished School of Economics Professor) Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Hall, Judith Pediatrics; Medical Genetics Kalmar, Gabe VP, Sector Development, Genome BC Livingstone, Angus Innovation Catalyst, VPRI Quayle, Moura Liu Institute for Global Issues Knowledge Translation, Michael Smith Foundation for Scarrow, Gayle Health Research Sullivan, Sam Global Civic Policy Society 2016 Gordillo, Gaston (Chair) Anthropology Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Hall, Judith Pediatrics; Medical Genetics Kalmar, Gabe VP, Sector Development, Genome BC Quayle, Moura Liu Institute for Global Issues Knowledge Translation, Michael Smith Foundation for Scarrow, Gayle Health Research Sullivan, Sam Global Civic Policy Society 2017 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Hall, Judith Pediatrics; Medical Genetics Kalmar, Gabe CEO Pacific Family Autism Network Quayle, Moura Liu Institute for Global Issues Rankin, Catharine Psychology

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-12 Name UBC Department 2018 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Hall, Judith Pediatrics; Medical Genetics Kalmar, Gabe VP, Sector Development, Genome BC Quayle, Moura Liu Institute for Global Issues Rankin, Catharine Psychology Knowledge Translation, Michael Smith Foundation for Scarrow, Gayle Health Research 2019 Christoff, Kalina (Interim Director, Chair) Interim Director/Psychology Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Hall, Judith Pediatrics; Medical Genetics Rankin, Catharine Psychology Knowledge Translation, Michael Smith Foundation for Scarrow, Gayle Health Research

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-13 E.3 INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ADJUDICATION COMMITTEES

Name UBC Department 2015 Gallini, Nancy (Acting Director, Chair) Vancouver School of Economics Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Coleman, Katharina Political Science Dawes, Martin Family Practice Fels, Sidney Electrical and Computer Engineering Sumaila, Rashid UBC Fisheries Centre Tiberghien, Yves Institute of Asian Research 2016 Gordillo, Gaston (Acting Director, Chair) Anthropology Fels, Sidney Electrical and Computer Engineering Laffin, Christina Institute of Asian Research Nelson, Harry Forestry Sumaila, Rashid UBC Fisheries Centre Tortell, Philippe (Incoming Director) Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science; Botany 2017 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Baines, Erin Liu Institute Laffin, Christina Asian Studies McKay, Heather Orthopaedics; Family Practice Naus, Christian Cellular & Physiological Sciences Nelson, Harry Forestry 2018 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Baines, Erin Liu Institute Cheung, William Fisheries Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability; The Harris, Leila Social Justice Institute Kuus, Merje Geography Otto, Sarah (Sally) Zoology Stack, Michelle Educational Studies

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-14 Name UBC Department 2019 Christoff, Kalina (Interim Director, Chair) Psychology Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability; The Harris, Leila Social Justice Institute Konijnendijk, Cecil Forest Sciences Oberle, Eva School of Population and Public Health Otto, Sarah (Sally) Zoology Stack, Michelle Educational Studies

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-15 E.4 INTERNATIONAL VISITING RESEARCH SCHOLAR ADJUDICATION COMMITTEES

Name UBC Department 2015 Gallini, Nancy (Acting Director, Chair) Vancouver School of Economics Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Geography Distinguished Professor) Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies; The Social Chaudhry, Ayesha Justice Institute Gregory, Derek (Ex Officio, Wall Wall Distinguished Professor Distinguished Professor) Nappi, Carla History Reiner, Peter Psychiatry Young, Margot Peter A. Allard School of Law 2016 Gordillo, Gaston (Acting Director, Chair) Anthropology Finlay, Brett (Ex Officio, Wall Distinguished Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Professor) Immunology; Michael Smith Laboratories Nojeh, Alireza Electrical and Computer Engineering von Keyserlingk, Marina Land and Food Systems Young, Margot Peter A. Allard School of Law 2017 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Daniels, Lori Forest & Conservation Sciences McLeod, Chris School of Population and Public Health Samuels, Lacey Botany, Faculty of Science Smith, T'ai Art History, Visual Art & Theory 2018 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Arcese, Peter Forest Conservation Godfrey, Sima French, Hispanic and Italian Studies McLeod, Chris School of Population and Public Health Smith, T'ai Art History, Visual Art & Theory Zerriffi, Hisham Liu Institute for Global Issues; Forestry 2019 Godfrey, Sima (Chair) French, Hispanic and Italian Studies Arcese, Peter Forest Conservation Beauchamp, Mark Kinesiology Fee, Margery English Wittman, Hannah Food, Nutrition and Health Zerriffi, Hisham Liu Institute for Global Issues; Forestry

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-16 E.5 ARTS-BASED INITIATIVE ADJUDICATION COMMITTEES

Name UBC Department 2015 Kurth, Richard (Chair) School of Music Gallini, Nancy (Acting Director) Vancouver School of Economics Galloway, Steven Creative Writing Gardiner, Robert Theatre and Film Law, Hedy School of Music Mathijs, Ernest Theatre and Film Pritchard, Bob School of Music Shelton, Anthony Museum of Anthropology Soussloff, Catherine Art History, Visual Art & Theory 2016 Gordillo, Gaston (Acting Director, Chair) Anthropology Levell, Nicola Anthropology Marshall, Christopher (Toph) Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies Smith, T'ai Art History, Visual Art & Theory 2017 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Eastman, Foster Multimedia artist Kurth, Richard School of Music Sharon, Rena School of Music Soussloff, Catherine Art History, Visual Art & Theory 2018 Tortell, Philippe (Director, Chair) Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science; Botany Eastman, Foster Multimedia artist Kurth, Richard School of Music Sharon, Rena School of Music Soussloff, Catherine Art History, Visual Art & Theory

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-17 Appendix F WALL SOLUTIONS PROJECTS FUNDED SINCE 2011

Award No. Wall Solutions Projects Year 1 Understanding and Addressing Energy Poverty in Musqueam 2011 KidsCan: Involving youth in research to create mHealth solutions for improved youth 2 2011 health 3 Housing Justice: Public Engagement, Policy Development and Legal Rights 2011

4 Funds of Knowledge for Vancouver Inner-City Youth 2011 Transforming Spaces, Transforming Lives? An Integrated Partnership to Enhance 5 2011 Health and Mobility of Older Adults 6 Aboriginal Water Health 2011

7 Climate Change: Assessing the Adaptive Capacity of Community Forests 2011

8 Palliative Care without Borders: Rural Integrated Palliative Approach Team (RIPAT) 2011

9 Adaptive Strategies for ‘Namgis Food Sovereignty in an Era of Climate Change 2011 Teaching the Basic Scientific Concepts Underlying Climate Change and Global 10 2011 Warming 11 FEATHERS: Functional Engagement in Assisted Therapy through Exercise Robotics 2011

12 Medical Cannabis: Certification for Safe Access 2011 Peer engagement in harm reduction: development, implementation and evaluation 13 2014 of best practice guidelines for British Columbia 14 MobileKids: A smart game for keeping kids active 2014

15 Development of Humane Wildlife Control Accreditation Program 2014 SmartMom: Development and Evaluation of a Text Messaging Program for Prenatal 16 2014 Education 17 Towards alleviating the isolating effects of hearing loss 2014 Translating community-based HIV research into culturally appropriate action with 18 2014 Aboriginal people who use illicit drugs and/or illicit alcohol in Vancouver, BC 19 Collaborative Solutions for Haida Gwaii Herring Fisheries 2014 TCARE-2: A sustainability plan for a rural palliative approach service using a 20 2014 nurse/volunteer navigation partnership 21 Implementation Pilot of a Family Palliative Caregiver Decision Support Guide 2014

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-18 Award No. Wall Solutions Projects Year "I'd Rather Stay": Visual Media as a Catalyst to Engage Community around 22 2014 Developing Strategies to Support the Mobility and Health of Older People Edible, poisonous or ecologically vital-DNA sequence database to characterize BC 23 2015 fungi important for human and environmental health 24 Supporting the achievement of health goals with formerly incarcerated men 2015

25 Evaluating the impact of alternative income assistance timing on drug-related harm 2015

26 Monitoring and evaluation of adoption and use of LPG for cooking in rural Gujarat 2015

27 Reparations for wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda 2016 What's Up? Fostering communication skills for children with autism using virtual 28 2016 reality game Turning Points: An Empowerment Connection Project for Indigenous People with 29 2016 Alcohol Dependence 30 Water to Bricks: harnessing fungal mycelium for sustainable biosolids architecture 2017

31 Wildfire 2017: Community-based Solutions to a Wicked Problem 2017

32 Developing a Portable Dynamic Vision Test for the Aging Population 2017 Exhumations and Memorialization in the Pacific Region of Colombia: Fostering 33 2017 Healing and Strengthening Community-Driven Knowledge Transfer Our Future Community: Engaging Youth on Climate Solutions with a Place-Based 34 2017 Videogame 35 Honey Bees as Bioindicators of Environmental Pollution 2017 Anti-mosquito recycled paint for economically feasible malaria prevention in 36 2018 impoverished nations 37 VitalVideo: Early identification of critically ill infants using video monitoring 2019

38 SmartParent 2019

39 Mapping linguistic diversity in a globalizing world through open source digital tools 2019

40 Biodegradation and ecotoxicity testing of compostable single-use coffee pods 2019

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-19 Appendix G BIOGRAPHIES OF DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS

Brett Finlay Brett Finlay is a Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology at UBC. He was appointed Peter Wall Distinguished Professor in 2002. His research interests are focused on host-microbe interactions, at the molecular level. By combining cell biology with microbiology, he has been at the forefront of the field called Cellular Microbiology, making several fundamental discoveries in this area. His research team studies several pathogenic bacteria, including Salmonella and pathogenic E. coli, and more recently microbiota. He is well recognized internationally for his work, and has won numerous prestigious awards, including the Prix Galien Canada Research Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.

Dr. Finlay serves as an Official Observer on the Board of Trustees, former Chair of the Wall Solutions Adjudication Committee, and member of the Wall Scholar Selection Committee. He is a strong advocate of promoting science to the public, and recently co-authored two books, Let Them Eat Dirt and The Whole Body Microbiome, to make this research accessible to the public. He has also received financial support to create a documentary on Let Them Eat Dirt aimed at young families, researchers, and doctors.

Derek Gregory Derek Gregory is a political geographer. His research focuses on the transformations of modern war in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and on the political and cultural geographies of bombing from the air. His book The everywhere war (2011) is on US military power and violence, though there are excursions that address other advanced militaries (Britain, Israel). Killing Space is a study of the histories / geographies of bombing, focusing on three main campaigns: the combined bomber offensive against Germany in World War II, the US air wars over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and the ‘drone wars’ over Afghanistan-Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere. Another project, Deadly embrace: war, distance and intimacy, focuses on information (how publics are informed about distant wars waged in their name); intelligence (how states and their militaries know the enemy and the battlespace); logistics (how people and materials are transported to and from war zones); and weapons (the changing range over which violence is inflicted).

Recent projects include an edition of essays that explore the ways in which war has (and has not) changed since 1914 under the title War material. These are all, in different ways, investigations into the killing fields. His latest project, Wounds of War, examines how casualties (both military and civilian) are evacuated from war zones, and the intersecting roles of military and civil-humanitarian medical machines in medical care and evacuation. The study focuses on the Western Front, 1914-1918; the Western Desert of North Africa in the Second World War; Vietnam during the American war; and Afghanistan today.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-20 Dr. Gregory was appointed Peter Wall Distinguished Professor in 2011 and serves as an Official Observer on the Board of Trustees, a member of the Wall Scholar Selection Committee, and former member of other program Adjudication Committees.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-21 Appendix H INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ROUNDTABLES FUNDED SINCE 2012

Year Title

2012 Breathing Life into the Ashes: Resilience, Arts and Social Transformation 2013 A Biocultural Hinge: Theorizing Affect and Emotion Across Disciplines

2013 Bonding Through Bars

2013 Creating a Knowledge Hub in Health Literacy and Chronic Disease Management 2013 Ocean Acidification: Global Implications for the Marine Environment

2013 Place, belonging and promise: Indigenizing the international academy 2013 Speculative Cities 2013 Time and Life in the Universe 2013 We Are Our Brains Bending the Knotted Oak: What do clinical Music Therapy and research in Music 2014 Cognition add to the Management of Neurodevelopmental Disorders? 2014 mHealth for Infectious Disease Management: Taking Evidence to Scale 2014 Spaceship Earth: Meeting challenges for living on the Blue Planet under siege 2015 Building a Bioanalytical Theory for Analysis of Marine Mammal Movements 2015 Donning the Regalia: Maintaining Tradition in an Age of Modernity 2015 Geopolitical Economies of Development and Democratization in East Asia Prosociality in History and Historiography: Can Big Gods Tip the Balance in World 2015 History Public Policy Development as related to Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 2015 (DoHAD) 2015 Seafood in an Uncertain Future: From Scenarios to Policies 2015 The Contours of Later Modern War

2016 East Asian Manuscript and Print as Harbingers of the Digital Future Future Child Health and World Human Population: Relationships between Population 2016 Size, Environmental Effects and Health and Well-being of Children Miners, Minerals and Minamata: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Artisanal Gold 2016 Mining and Sustainable Development 2016 Re-Imagining Aging: adding Life to Years

2016 The Ethical Challenges of Herring Food Web and Value Chains

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-22 Year Title After the Ink is Dry: strategies and best practices to support durable implementation 2017 of complex multi-party agreements 2017 Memory and Civic Responsibility During and After Mass Violence

2017 Printing the Future of Therapeutics in 3D What do rankings tell us about higher education? International and Interdisciplinary 2017 Perspectives 2018 Curating Critical Pedagogies

2018 Do Rainbows come in Green? Urban Forests and Multicultural Citizenship

2018 From Villain to Virtuoso: The Role of Spontaneous Thought in Science and Society Levelling the playing fields: Developing strategies to promote outdoor play in schools 2018 and communities Promise and Peril: Design and Application of Conservation Finance Models to 2018 Biodiversity Conservation, Human Well-being and Sustainability 2018 Smiling to their faces: Emotional labour, race and the university 2019 At the Edge of Assisted Dying Beyond Borders and Walls: Collaborating for Change in International Prison Health 2019 Research Occupying Big Data: Systematizing links between food security and biodiversity 2019 conservation through citizen science Responding to Crisis: a human rights and public health approach to legal regulation of 2019 currently prohibited substances The Truth Machine: Exploring the Social, Records, and Technical Potential and Pitfalls 2019 of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies 2019 Visual Literacy: Seeing, Making and Reading Images across the Disciplines Everyday activism: Civil society in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years after 2020 Communism's Collapse 2020 International Critical Suicide Studies Research Roundtable

2020 Sustainable Development of Space The addicted self in the age of information technology: exploring the mind's 2020 propensity for habitual and compulsive interactions The Social Exposome in Child Health and Development: Advancing Research and 2020 Partnerships to Reduce Inequalities in Canada

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-23 Appendix I TRUSTEES INITIATIVES SINCE 2012

Year Project Title Recipient 2012 Stipend for Board Trustee Sonya Wall

2013 Stipend for Board Trustee Sonya Wall

2014 Stipend for Board Trustee Sonya Wall

2014 Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI) Rena Sharon

2015 Stipend for Board Trustee Sonya Wall

2016 Support for Local Arts Organization Elektra Women's Choir

2016 Support for Local Arts Organization Vancouver Opera Guild

2018 UBC Opera Program Nancy Hermiston

2019 Wall Opera Research Project (year 1 of 3) Nancy Hermiston

2020 UBC Opera Program Nancy Hermiston

2020 Wall Opera Research Project (year 2 of 3) Nancy Hermiston

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-24 Appendix J WALL EXCHANGE SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

Date Speaker Moderator Topic Charlie Smith Spring 2011 Craig Venter Synthetic Life (Georgia Straight) Charlie Smith Fall 2011 Derek Gregory The Everywhere War (Georgia Straight) Charlie Smith Spring 2012 Judith Butler A Politics of the Street (Georgia Straight)

Fall 2012 Sir Martin Rees Bob McDonald (CBC) A Cosmic Perspective for the 21st Century

Bugs 'R Us: The Role of Microbes in Spring 2013 B. Brett Finlay Michael Serapio (CBC) Disease, Health and Society War and Peace in an Age of Ecological Fall 2013 Bruno Latour Duncan McCue (CBC) Conflict André Picard Spring 2014 Stephen Lewis The End of AIDS: Reality or Hyperbole (Globe & Mail)

Spring 2015 Bonnie Bassler Kelly Crowe (CBC) The Secret, Social Lives of Bacteria

Paolo Pietropaolo Fall 2015 Eyal Weizman Forensic Architecture (CBC) Johanna Wagstaffe Climate change denial: Where do we go Spring 2016 Naomi Oreskes (CBC) from here? Amber Frid-Jimenez Fall 2016 Gabriella Coleman Anonymous and the Politics of Leaking (Emily Carr)

Spring 2017 Cedric Villani Peter Klein (UBC) The Hidden Beauty of Mathematics

The Shadow World of the Global Arms Fall 2017 Andrew Feinstein James Stewart (UBC) Trade

Spring 2018 Ali Velshi Peter Klein (UBC) The Weaponization of Culture

Emotional Intelligence in a Brave New Fall 2018 Rosalind Picard Nora Young (CBC) Robotic World Garth Mullins Spring 2019 Carl Hart Drug use for grown ups (Crackdown Podcast)

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-25 Appendix K INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING

K.1 COLLÈGE DE FRANCE

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PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-33 Appendix L DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORS SINCE 2011

Year Name Institute/University 2011 Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France, France

2011 Philippe Sansonetti Collège de France, France 2013 Anne Cheng Collège de France, France

2013 Philippe Descola Collège de France, France

2015 Serge Haroche Collège de France, France 2016 Alain Supiot Collège de France, France 2017 Edouard Bard Collège de France, France 2018 Barbara Romanowicz Collège de France, France 2018 Philippe Sansonetti Collège de France, France

2018 Étienne Ghys CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, France

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-34 Appendix M FRENCH SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES

Year Scholar Name Institute/University Public Lecture Neuromodulation Today and Tomorrow: 2014 Elena Moro CHU Grenoble Alpes can doctors change my brain functions? The History of a Family of Membrane Channel Proteins, the Connexins (from 2014 Marc Mesnil Université de Poitiers intercellular communication, related pathologies and beyond) École Pratique des Charlotte von Rice in Japanese Culture: Myth and 2014 Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Verschuer Reality from a Premodern Perspective Sorbonne Centre for Studies of Sufism and Religious Boundaries in 2014 Remy Delage India and South Asia, Contemporary Pakistan: Local CNRS/EHESS Perspectives on Global Matters 2014 Patrick Dehornoy Université de Caen Set Theory: The Last 50 Years

Biomechanical Modeling of Soft Tissues CNRS & University Joseph 2015 Yohan Payan for Computer-Assisted Medical Fourier (Grenoble) Interventions

Small Molecule Activation by Polyhydride CNRS Laboratoire de Ruthenium Complexes. Subtle Changes in 2015 Sylviane Sabo-Etienne Chimie de Coordination, Ligand Design, Tremendous Variations in Université de Toulouse Bond Activation and Catalysis Chauvet Caves 2015 Jean Michel Geneste International Research Predator and Prey: The Art of Chauvet Program What is a Book? Authorship, textuality, 2015 Roger Chartier Collège de France and reading from the age of the codex to the digital world Laboratoire Kastler 2016 Frederic Chevy Brossel, École Normale Waves, Vortices and Superfluids Supérieure Capillary Electrophoresis and Taylor 2016 Herve Cottet Université de Montpellier Dispersion Analysis

The Human Transformation of Caves and Jean Jacques Université Savoie-Mont 2016 Sheltered Spaces: Chauvet cave (France) Delannoy Blanc and the Gabarnmang site (Australia)

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-35 Year Scholar Name Institute/University Public Lecture Islam and Empire in India: The Padshah's Centre for South Asian 2016 Corinne Lefevre Sacred Authority and Religious Pluralism Studies, CNRS/EHESS in Mughal Times

Centre Georges About the Neganthropocene and its 2016 Bernard Stiegler Pompidou Economy Institut de Neuroscience 2017 Christophe Bernard des Systèmes, Aix- The sacred disease: Epileptic seizures Marseille Université The neuroglial partnership: an alternative 2017 Christian Giaume Collège de France therapeutic strategy to target Alzheimer’s disease Ministere de la Culture, 2017 Hadrien Laroche Duchamp on Wheels ENS, EHESS EHESS, Kingston Empty Square V. Evolutionary Memory: 2017 Catherine Malabou University The New Adventures of Signs

Université Grenoble Human Factors in the Design of Virtual 2018 Sihem Amer-Yahia Alpes Marketplaces

2018 Francois Bonnetblanc Université de Montpellier Awake Nurosurgery: The Naked Brain CNRS & Sorbonne Our Amazing Universe: Astronomical 2018 Francois Bouchet Universities-UPMC Revelations and New Mysteries (UMR7095) Institut de Physique du French Polynesia: from Island Formation 2018 Catherine Chauvel Glove de Paris to Native Population Journeys Le Mans Université & New Media, New Challenges for the Book 2018 Brigitte Ouvry-Vial Institut Universitaire de Industry France The Shift from Fisheries to Aquacultureon 2018 Fabrice Teletchea Université de Lorraine a Global Scale: Consequences, and Possible Solutions

Political Crisis: The Changing Model of 2019 Bruno Amable University of Geneva French Capitalism

From Philanthropy to Democracy: 2019 Julia Cagé Sciences Po Paris Rethinking Governance and Funding of High-Quality News in the Digital Age

EPHE, Paris Lettres Long-term Fire and Biodiversity Dynamics 2019 Christopher Carcaillet Sciences Univ. in Sub-alpine Forests in the Alps

Frédérique de Institute Jean Nicod, 2019 Why do I feel this Body as my own? Vignemont CNRS

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-36 Year Scholar Name Institute/University Public Lecture Contemporary issues of drug policy in Marie Jauffret- INSERM, EHESS/Paris Europe and America: opioid crisis, drug 2019 Roustide Descartes University consumption rooms and cannabis regulations

Climate Finance: European and French 2019 Catherine Malecki LiRIS, Univ. Rennes 2 Leadership Arts et Metiers Bordeaux, Life Cycle Engineering and the Circular 2019 Nicolas Perry Inst. de Mécanique et Economy: Design for Recycling and d'Ingéniére Bordeaux Recycle-Based Design

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-37 Appendix N DIRECTOR’S INITIATIVES

Year Project Title

2015 Joseph Stiglitz, economist and a professor at Columbia University: Wall Scholars Lunch

2015 Mohammed Fahmy, Journalist: Reception at UBC

2015 UBC Opera Singer Behind the Song I - Philippe Castagner

2015 Helen Eastman: Greek Chorus performance at Associates Dinner

2015 UBC School of Music performance at PWIAS holiday reception

UBC Opera Singer Behind the Song II - Judith Forst and Simone Osborne; concert and 2016 roundtable discussion and reception UBC Centennial 100 Years Wise: Women in Science & Engineering: panel discussion and 2016 reception

2016 Peter Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine: Global Health keynote lecture & reception

2016 UBC Opera Singer Behind the Song III - Ben Heppner; performance and conversation

2016 Naomi Oreskes: Wall Exchange (increased speaker fee)

"Who Cares? Re-Imagine the Culture of Care for an Aging Society": Public event at BMO 2016 Goldcorp Theatre, CHHM, GenWhy Media (Roundtable)

2016 UBC Centennial Vice-President Research Emerging Research Workshop: Water

2016 UBC Centennial Vice-President Research Emerging Research Workshop: Epigenetics

2016 UBC Centennial Vice-President Research Emerging Research Workshop: First Nations

2016 Raj Patel: UBC Sustainability Initiative public talk (co-sponsorship)

2016 Naomi Klein: UBC Sustainability Initiative public talk (co-sponsorship)

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Insurgence/Resurgence exhibit of Indigenous artists at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, co- 2017 sponsorship with the Royal Society of Canada UBC Killam Professor Lecture Series co-sponsored with Vice-President Research – with 2017 speakers J. Werker; S. Otto, R. Hancock, L. Riesberg, D. Pauly, J. Montaner.

2017 UBC Opera Singer Behind the Song IV - Sondra Radvanovsky

Celebration of 50th Anniversary of Order of Canada at the Chan Centre co-sponsored with 2017 Vice-President Research

2017 Royal Society of Canada Pacific Chapter dinner meeting for scholars held at PWIAS

Reflections of Canada: Illustrating our Opportunities and Challenges at 150 Years. PWIAS book 2017 compilation of essays.

2017 Reflections of Canada. Book Launch at the Beaumont Gallery, Vancouver

UBC Opera Singer behind the Song V - Renee Fleming; presentation and dialogue "Music and 2018 the Mind" Wave: Re-imagining the People's Constitution; Royal Society of Canada 150th Anniversary co- 2018 sponsored with Royal Society of Canada Damned if you do, damned if you don't: Moderated forum and dialogue live-streamed event on 2018 Site C Dam co-sponsored with Royal Society of Canada An Informed Vote: Panel on Electoral Reform at the Roundhouse Community Centre co- 2018 sponsored with the Royal Society of Canada

2018 Memory: Essays on how, why and when we remember. PWIAS book compilation of essays.

2018 Memory - Book Launch at Heritage Hall, Vancouver

2019 UBC Opera Singer behind the Song VI - Eric Owens

2019 The Whole-Body Microbiome. Book launch for Wall Distinguished Professor Brett Finlay

2019 Let Them Eat Dirt Documentary Screening for Wall Distinguished Professor Brett Finlay

2019 PWIAS Podcast series The Ways of Knowing

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-39 Appendix O ARTS-BASED INITIATIVES

Year Project Title Project Leader Emily Molnar, Ballet BC & Wall Soundscape No. 1 with Ballet BC: 'Flash Mob' Downtown 2012 Alfredo Santa Ana, Wall Vancouver with dancers from Ballet BC and Arts Umbrella. Composer in Residence Musical Dialogues: Hearing the Conversation Unfold Alfredo Santa Ana, and UBC performance and discussion at UBC Computer Sciences and School of Music: David 2012 Department and the Institute for Computing, Information and Gillham and Rebecca Cognitive Systems Webham VISI 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Convergence (Vancouver 2012 Rena Sharon International Song Institute) Fairness in Financial Markets Dance & Dialogue at the 2012 Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre in Janis Sarra Vancouver Rising from the Ashes: Resilience, Arts & Social Transformation Michelle LeBaron, Cynthia 2012 October 25, 2012 at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Cohen Recreation Centre in Vancouver Art Song - An Endangered Species? January 25th dinner 2012 Rena Sharon performance at the Wall Centre Chamber Music as a Metaphoric Model of Conflict Resolution Rena Sharon, David Gillham, 2012 at the Vancouver School of Theology Chapel Max Cameron, Michelle Part of UBC Celebrate Research Week 2012 LeBaron

2013 Speculative Cities, Keynote lecture by Architect, Charles Renfro Charles Renfro

The Natures of War, blending poetry and prose, paintings and 2013 Derek Gregory videos, a public talk at the Vancouver Aquarium

I Hear You Say - ECS cohort collaborative art furniture 2012-2013 Early Career 2013 installation Scholars Cohort

Arts-Based Conceptions of Water, Student art competition and 2013 Janis Sarra public panel discussion 2014 Author in Residence Camilla Gibb Fashioning Cancer: The Correlation between Destruction and Jacqueline Firkins, Christian 2014 Beauty – mentorship grant Naus William Cheung, Ryan Seafood in an Uncertain Future, Visual art display - public 2014 Vachon, Yoshitaka Ota, event Masahiro Matsuura Arts, Well-Being and Resilience: Ideas and Music / Bending the Michelle LeBaron, Cynthia 2014 Knotted Oak, Concert and lecture Cohen, Jane Wilburn Sapp

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-40 Year Project Title Project Leader Helen Eastman, Hallie 2015 Visiting Artist (Award): Urban Myths for the Third Millenium Marshall Sexuality and the Interdisciplinary Imagination with concert Amin Ghaziani, Daniel Justic, pianist Sara Davis. Discussion & dinner co-sponsored by 2015 Blue Frank, Mary Bryson, Critical Studies in Sexuality & Gender, Race, Sexuality and Sara Davis Buechner Social Justice Measurement Music: Sonification as a tool for uncovering Chris Chafe, Bob Pritchard, 2016 patterns in data (Award) Philippe Tortell Paul DeMarinis, Bob 2016 Visiting Artist Paul DeMarinis (Award) Pritchard Joe Dahmen, Amber Frid- 2016 They Grow Without Us: Mushroom Furniture (Award) Jimenez Imagining a traditional Punjabi narrative in Vancouver: 2016 Anne Murphy Creative workshop and performance (Award) Herring People with Haida artist April White - mixed media art Evgeny Pakhomov, Tony 2016 installation and forum (Award) Pitcher, Mimi Lam Goldin+Senneby: Speculation and Performance in Art and Scott Watson, Shelly 2016 Finance (Award) Rosenblum, Lorna Brown War Stories from Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones George Belliveau, Peter Klein, 2016 told by foreign correspondents, combat veterans and scholars Derek Gregory, Ann Jones, held at the Goldcorp Stage Farah Nosh Brendon McLeod, Lynn A Little OCD? Understanding Compulsions and Intrusive 2016 Furlotte, Leah John, Melissa Thought. Reception at the Chan Centre Robichaud, Juliana Negreuris

Mushroom Furniture. UBC demonstration of sustainable 2016 Joe Dahmen building materials.

Death in Thebes: From Oedipus to Antigone pre-concert 2017 Hallie Marshall lecture at the Chan Centre

2017 Max Raabe pre-concert lecture at the Chan Centre Ilinca Iurascu, Kyle Frackman

Foreclosure Follies theatre performance and dialogue on the 2017 Janis Sarra, Helen Eastman financial crisis

2017 Visiting Artist: Canadian Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke George Elliott Clarke

Integrating Artistic Practice with Research across the University, 2-day workshop exploring how UBC scholars and 2017 artists can initiate collaborative research projects across the Philippe Tortell arts, humanities, and sciences and with the larger community of Vancouver

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-41 Year Project Title Project Leader Visiting Artist: Deborah Carruthers, multi-media artist and 2017- projects 'sounds of ice' and 'slippages'; exploring facets of Deborah Carruthers 2018 disappearing ice with multi-media art work Philippe Tortell and Jonathan Visiting artist, Chris Chafe, Director of the Stanford University 2018 Girard, Director, UBC Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics Symphony Orchestra Chan Centre artist, Cristina Pato, musician and educator, Chair 2019 in Spanish Culture and Civilization, New York Univ. A lunch Ana Casas-Aguilar discussion with Wall Scholars Chan Centre artist, Kealoha (Steven Kealohapau’ole Hong- 2018 Ming Wong), Poet Laureate of Hawaii. A lunch discussion with Philippe Tortell Wall Scholars.

2019 Staging data: Research stories brought to life through theatre George Belliveau

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-42 Appendix P BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBERS

Position Affiliation Year President UBC President and Vice David Strangway President of the University 1992-1997 Chancellor UBC President and Vice Martha Piper President of the University 1997-2006 Chancellor UBC President and Vice Stephen Toope President of the University 2007-2014 Chancellor Appointed by the President (in Simon Peacock Dean, Faculty of Science, UBC 2014-2017 place of President) UBC President and Vice Santa Ono President of the University 2017-present Chancellor Donor Peter Wall Donor Wall Financial Corporation 1992-1996

Bruno Wall Donor (in place of Peter Wall) Wall Financial Corporation 1996-2004

Sonya Wall Donor (in place of Peter Wall) Donor Family 2004-present UBC Foundation Appointed by the President for Boughton Peterson Yang Les Peterson 1992-2008 UBC Foundation Anderson L. Clark Warren UBC Foundation UBC Development Office 2010-2012 Appointed by the President for Liu Institute for Global Issues, Peter Dauvergne 2013-2017 UBC Foundation UBC Appointed by the President for Maxwell Cameron Political Science, UBC 2018-present UBC Foundation Donor Appointed Director Wall Financial Robert H. Lee Donor Appointed Corporation; Prospero 1997-2012 International Realty Inc. Managing Partner, David Thompson Donor Appointed 2012 Thorsteinssons LLP Bruno Wall Donor Appointed Wall Financial Corporation 2012-present Appointed by President Cardiology, Royal Columbian Akbar Lalani Appointed by the President 1994-2011 Hospital Anne Martin- Appointed by the President Sociology, UBC 2011-2016 Matthews Judy Illes Appointed by the President Neurology, UBC 2017-present

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-43 Appendix Q FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING ATTENDEES (2018-2019)

May 22, 2018

Members: Guests: Santa Ono (Chair), UBC President Greg Martyn (Secretary) Philippe Tortell, PWIAS Director Peter Smailes, UBC Treasurer Bruno Wall, PWIAS Trustee Sonya Wall, PWIAS Trustee

Regrets: Ian Burgess, UBC Comptroller

May 13, 2019

Members: Guests: Santa Ono (Chair), UBC President Greg Martyn (Secretary) Kalina Christoff, PWIAS Interim Director Bernadette Mah (PWIAS Program Manager) Yale Loh, UBC Treasurer Emma MacEntee (PWIAS Program Manager) Peter Smailes, UBC VP Finance & Operations Bruno Wall, PWIAS Trustee Sonya Wall, PWIAS Trustee

September 9, 2019

Members: Guests: Santa Ono (Chair), UBC President Greg Martyn (Secretary) Kalina Christoff, PWIAS Interim Director Earl Dyer (Senior Finance Manager, VPRI) Karamjeet Heer, UBC Comptroller Peter Smailes, UBC VP Finance & Operations Yale Loh, UBC Treasurer Bruno Wall, PWIAS Trustee

Regrets: Sonya Wall, PWIAS Trustee

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-44 Appendix R DRAFT TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

August 2019 - DRAFT PURPOSE

The Secretary to the PWIAS Board of Trustees (“Board”) provides efficient and effective support to the Board Chair and the Board in the coordination, facilitation and recording of the activities of the Board as well as in providing advice and guidance on policy and process.

QUALIFICATIONS The Secretary should be a UBC full-time Faculty member, who holds a tenured position at the rank of Professor. The secretary qualifications must include:

− Integrity and independence.

− Familiarity with the Institute’s mission and its programs.

− Knowledge of meeting procedures, decision-making rules, and governance best practices.

− Excellent communication and organizational skills and attention to detail.

CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT

The Secretary is not a voting member of the Board.

The Secretary is appointed by the Board Chair.

Secretaries are normally appointed for a three-year term, with the option of an additional two-year term. Shorter terms may be considered as needed.

In the event that the Secretary is unable to attend a Board meeting, it is the Board Chair’s responsibility to find an alternate.

DUTIES

The Secretary’s role in helping manage Board meetings involves the following 3 main functions.

1. Clerical Oversight:

The Secretary will oversee a staff member appointed by the Board Chair to:

▪ Ensure the timely distribution of the board meeting agenda.

▪ Schedule Board meetings.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-45 ▪ Maintain a list of board members and their contact information.

▪ Keep track of board member terms.

▪ Ensure board member names, bios, meeting minutes, are published on the Institute’s website.

▪ Annually administer the Board’s Code of Ethics (Conflict of Interest policy, Confidentiality Agreement).

2. Advisory Duties:

▪ Serve as advisor to the Board on policy and process.

▪ Oversee the creation of the Board Meeting Agenda and assist the Board Chair in the use of the Agenda to ensure orderly decision-making.

▪ Ensure that an up-to-date copy of the Board policies and processes is available at all meetings.

▪ Ensure that the Board complies with the Board’s and UBC’s policies and processes.

▪ Provide frameworks to work through disagreements when they arise.

▪ Transition the new Secretary.

▪ Orient new Board members.

3. Recording Duties

▪ Attend all Board Meetings.

▪ Ensure that a quorum is in attendance so the meeting can be held.

▪ Compile minutes that meaningfully capture the considerations that shape important Board decisions, both so as to inform the deliberations of future Boards and so as to keep the Institute’s key constituencies well informed. Minutes should include:

o date, time, location of meeting;

o name of person who recorded the meeting;

o list of those present and absent;

o list of items discussed, including reports;

o text of motions with a succinct summary of reasons for any actions taken;

o a record of any conflicts of interest declarations and a note on how each conflict of interest was appropriately managed;

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-46 o an indication of the general nature of any matters discussed in camera, with a separate set of Confidential Minutes prepared to ensure compliance with privacy policies (discussions are held in camera only to ensure compliance with privacy policies).

▪ Ensure that accurate minutes of meetings are approved. The Secretary signs a copy of the final, approved minutes and ensures that this copy is maintained in the Institute records.

▪ The Secretary may also carry out other appropriate duties and responsibilities as may be assigned by the Board Chair.

DOCUMENTATION PROTOCOL

Final approved Minutes of Board meetings will be circulated to all Board members following each meeting, no later than with the agenda package for the subsequent meeting.

EVALUATION PROTOCOL

Annually, the Board will review its goals and objectives. The effectiveness of the secretary’s role, conduct and position description may be evaluated as part of the evaluation of the Board itself.

APPROVED: Chair, Board of Trustees ______2019.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-47 Appendix S SECRETARIES TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SINCE 1992

Name Affiliation Term

Terry Sumner VP Finance and Administration, UBC 1992-2007

Ken MacCrimmon PWIAS Director* 29 July 1997

Olav Slaymaker PWIAS Director* 21 Nov 2006

Wesley Pue Vice-Provost, UBC 2008-2011

Janis Sarra PWIAS Director* 5 Dec 2011

Barbara Harrmann PWIAS Assistant Director* Various 2011-2012

Joanne Forbes PWIAS Program Manager* Various 2011-2012

Merissa Bakos PWIAS Program Assistant* Various 2011-2012

Angela Redish Vice-Provost, UBC 2013-2014

Brett Finlay PWIAS Distinguished Professor* 22 Jan 2014

Glen Hawkins PWIAS Financial and Facilities Clerk* 15 Jan 2016

Greg Martyn Director, VP Research, UBC 2016-present * In absence of Secretary

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-48 Appendix T 2019 DRAFT TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD

PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD

(7/17/2019 DRAFT) TERMS OF REFERENCE

A. PURPOSE

The purpose of the Academic Advisory Board (AAB) is to provide advice and make recommendations to the Institute Director on all academic matters of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS).

B. DUTIES • Considers and makes recommendations to the Director on any issues to be referred by the Board of Trustees. • Makes recommendations to the Director for PWIAS programs and research initiatives. • Makes recommendations to the Director for Faculty membership appointments for the Board of Trustees and for appointments of Peter Wall Distinguished Professors. • Makes recommendations on peer review process, including the terms of reference and review guidelines for all peer review committees, appointments of peer review committee members, and the distribution of funding across programs. • May develop temporary working groups to evaluate and make recommendations on research initiatives as requested by the Director. • Ensures adherence to, abides by and upholds all policies and procedures (e.g. Conflict of Interest).

C. MEMBERSHIP • Members are appointed by the Institute’s Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees. • The Institute Director will serve as Chair of the AAB. • The AAB members are UBC Faculty selected to provide broad representation of research disciplines. • Members are normally appointed for a one year term, with the option of an additional one or two year term, to an overall maximum of three consecutive years of membership. Former members may be reappointed after a break in service of at least one calendar year. In extraordinary circumstances, a Member’s appointment may be terminated on the authority of the Institute Director. • All members have one vote, except for the Chair, who will vote only in the event of a tie. • In addition to the Members of the Board, one or more guests may be invited by the Institute Director to attend meetings of the AAB on an ex-officio, non-voting basis. The purpose of this participation shall be to advise on matters that may require specialized knowledge that is not already represented by the serving AAB members. • The Institute Director, as Chair, ensures integrity of AAB processes, maintains a positive working relationship with AAB members and ensures that new members are oriented to the AAB, promotes a positive working relationship between the AAB and the Board of Trustees, ensures that an AAB self-evaluation is completed and reported annually, and serves ex-officio as a non-

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-49 voting member of the AAB.

D. CONFLICT OF INTEREST AAB members have an obligation to act in the best interests of PWIAS. AAB Members will not participate in Board decisions where they have a personal or financial interest that could interfere or be reasonably perceived to interfere with that obligation. When AAB Members find themselves in a Conflict of Interest, they will disclose it to the Chair and the AAB Members present at the AAB meeting shall immediately develop a plan to avoid or to manage the conflict.

E. WORKING PROTOCOL • The AAB will meet a minimum of eight times per year, (once per month September to November and January to May). In extraordinary circumstances, a special meeting of the AAB may be convened upon the request of the Director. • The time and duration of meetings will be determined by the AAB Chair in consultation with PWIAS staff. • Agenda packages will be circulated electronically to members no later than five working days in advance of meetings. • A simple majority (50% of voting members plus one) shall constitute a majority for the purpose of AAB votes. • Administrative support for the AAB is provided by the PWIAS administrative office. • All members of the Board are expected to maintain confidentiality with respect to all business of the Board, including but not limited to maintaining confidentiality of documentation and minutes.

F. DOCUMENTATION PROTOCOL

Minutes will be circulated to all AAB members following each meeting, no later than with the agenda package for the subsequent meeting. Minutes and all other Board business documentation are to be considered confidential by members unless expressly indicated otherwise by the Chair.

G. EVALUATION PROTOCOL

Annually, the AAB will review its goals and objectives, performance and Terms of Reference and report to the Board of Trustees on this review. The report will include any resulting recommendations for changes to the Terms of Reference.

APPROVED by Chair, Board of Trustees:

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PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-50 Appendix U OBSERVERS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SINCE 2003

Name Title 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Wall, Sonya* Donor Family ✔ ✔ * Wall, Bruno* Donor Family * * * * * * * * * ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Finlay, B. Brett Peter Wall Distinguished Professor ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Gregory, Derek Peter Wall Distinguished Professor ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ MacCrimmon, Ken Director, PWIAS ✔ Newell, Dianne Director, PWIAS ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Slaymaker, Olav Acting Director, PWIAS ✔ Sarra, Janis Director, PWIAS ✔ ✔ Gallini, Nancy Director, PWIAS ✔ Gordillo, Gaston Director pro tem, PWIAS ✔ Tortell, Philippe Director, PWIAS ✔ ✔ ✔ Christoff, Kalina Interim Director, PWIAS ✔ McBride, Barry UBC VP Academic and Provost ✔ ✔ Whitehead, Lorne UBC VP Academic and Provost ✔ ✔ Mackie, George Acting UBC VP Academic and Provost ✔ Pue, Wesley Vice Provost & AVP Academic Resources ✔ ✔ ✔ Farrar, David UBC VP Academic and Provost ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Redish, Angela UBC Provost & VP Adademic pro tem ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Szeri, Andrew UBC VP Academic and Provost ✔ ✔ ✔ Granot, Frieda Dean of Graduate Studies ✔ ✔ Dolphin, David UBC Acting VP Research and International ✔ Hepburn, John UBC VP Research and International ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Burt, Helen UBC AVP Research and Innovation ✔ Murphy, Gail UBC VP Research and Innovation ✔ ✔ ✔ Sumner, Terry UBC VP Administration and Finance ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Burgess, Ian Comptroller, UBC ✔ * Indicates serving as a member of the Board of Trustees

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Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies DRAFT Strategic Plan May, 2018

For feedback and comments by key stake-holders

STRUCTURE OF THE DOCUMENT:

Executive summary

Our History - where did we come from? PWIAS history, founding principles and mission.

Our Present - where are we now? Current strengths, limitations, opportunities and challenges.

Our Future - where are we going? Renewed vision and mission for the PWIAS, desired impacts and strategic objectives.

Our Strategy - how will we get there? A concrete and achievable plan of action to meet strategic objectives.

Measuring Success - how will we know when we achieve our goals? Specific measures to gauge progress in achieving objectives.

Alignment with UBC and its new strategic plan, Inspire. Key areas of synergy between PWIAS and UBC.

Concluding thoughts.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-63 Executive Summary

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) is a unique academic environment, with an outstanding track record of promoting innovative and inter-disciplinary research. Over its 25 year history, the institute has become a central place on campus for high level scholarship that is unconstrained by conventional boundaries. As the stature of PWIAS at UBC continues to grow, so does its national and international reputation. The institute has many current strengths, including vibrant programs, access to world-class scholars, meaningful connections with international research partners and broad public audiences, a magnificent location, outstanding administrative staff and strong financial resources. These attributes stimulate cutting edge research and creative intellectual engagement. Since the Institute’s last external review in 2011, its programs have been further enriched through an expanded scope of international partnerships, and stronger public outreach using digital and social media platforms. By expanding its physical space (scholar offices and visitor accommodation), enhancing recruitment and engagement of scholars into various programs and building strategic partnerships regionally, nationally and internationally, we will be poised to further extend our reach and profile well beyond what has been achieved thus far.

Our vision is to be widely recognized as the most innovative and creative center for inter-disciplinary scholarship in Canada, and a major player in the global network of Institutes for Advanced Studies. To do so, the Institute will continue to foster the evolution of new research directions and creative approaches to scholarship. Our five-year strategic plan identifies three primary objectives; 1) fostering a remarkable and unique academic environment at UBC, where unconstrained creativity and intellectual curiosity drive major breakthroughs in knowledge; 2) creating strategic partnerships with like-minded national and international organizations, and; 3) engaging the public in societal discourse on critically important issues.

To achieve these objectives, we outline a series of concrete actions over the coming 3 – 5 years. First, we aim to secure additional institutional support for the Wall Scholars program and facilitate deeper engagement of awardees with the Institute. Second, we propose to develop a PWIAS Fellows program to create a more cohesive community of Institute alumni across campus. To accommodate program growth, we will work to expand our physical space with more offices for resident scholars and visitors. Third, we will extend collaborative opportunities with academic units across UBC and prominent academic organizations across Canada and the world. At a national level, we seek to solidify strategic partnerships with the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). Internationally, we will explore potential partnerships that can increase the reach and impact of our programs around the globe, contributing to developing strategic research partnerships along the Cascadian Corridor and Pacific Rim to support the broader UBC international strategy. Fourth, we aim to more tightly integrate international visiting scholars into the PWIAS community through program changes and by procuring accommodations more suitable for extended stays. Fifth, through collaboration with Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, we will to build a unique new program that links leading arts-based practitioners and academic scholars, demonstrating the transformative potential of including the creative and performing arts into advanced research.

To push the boundaries of communicating research and scholarship, the Institute will further strengthen partnerships with local, national and international media outlets. These communication channels will bring the Institute’s scholarship into the public realm, and make our work broadly accessible on various platforms. Through these activities and others, the PWIAS will significantly advance UBC’s strategic focus on research excellence, discovery, creativity, diversity, collaboration, discourse and knowledge mobilization.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-64 Our history

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) has evolved significantly over its ~ 25 year history, keeping pace with changes across UBC and the broader research environment. Four permanent institute Directors, and three interim / acting Directors have contributed to shaping the trajectory of PWIAS programs and activities. Since its inception, the institute’s core mission has been to stimulate cutting-edge fundamental research that brings together wide ranging expertise and transcends traditional academic boundaries. This mission has remained unchanged over the past quarter century, although specific programs have been re- shaped to best meet evolving needs.

The last formal review of PWIAS was in 2011. The reviewers made a number of recommendations that were largely implemented over the last 7 years. These included a greater emphasis on international research exchange programs, the merger of residential programs between junior and senior UBC faculty, increased engagement with off-campus community partners, a more robust marketing and public outreach program, and elimination of the Major Thematic Grant program. More detailed information on the external review and resulting PWIAS program changes is available in several existing documents. Since 2014, the basic program structure of PWIAS has remained largely unchanged; the four core programs are Wall Scholars, International Visiting Research Scholars, International Research Roundtables and Wall Solutions. The PWIAS Director, Prof. Philippe Tortell, is entering year 3 of a 5-year term.

Our present

PWIAS remains the only institute for advanced study at a Canadian university. The institute celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2016 and is currently thriving, with vibrant programs supporting by an outstanding staff and strong financial outlook, a well-established presence on the UBC campus, and a rapidly increasing profile across Canada and internationally. We now approach an important juncture in the Institute’s history, a crossroads where we are poised to build upon past success and realize a future vision that significantly enhances the Institute’s and UBC’s image, reputation and impact. As we move forward, we pause to identify current strengths, limitations, opportunities and challenges. We also restate the Institute’s fundamental values and the impact we seek to achieve through delivery of our core programs.

Our Fundamental Values: We believe in the unfettered exchange of ideas, intellectual risk-taking and the advancement of fundamental knowledge, collaborative exchange, inter-disciplinary scholarship that meets the highest standards of academic rigour, and the mobilization of advanced research to broad public audiences and end-users.

Desired Impacts: We seek to foster a new model of academic and research culture, creating a dynamic environment that encourages and supports scholars to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and embrace truly creative and innovative approaches. We aim to foster significant advances in research methods, theory and application, rethinking critical questions from inter-disciplinary points of view. Equally, we endeavour to share our work, our stories and our vision with the broader public, harnessing research-driven knowledge to benefit individuals and societies, and promoting deep and critical discourse on important issues.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-65 Assessment of our current position:

Strengths

Significant financial resources. The institute is endowment funded. Strong market performance of Wall Financial Corporation shares has grown the endowment substantially. The Institute’s significant cash balance is able to support targeted and strategic investments. In 2014, the Board of Trustees approved a 3-year budget that provides stability for longer-term planning.

PWIAS Associates. We have developed a far reaching and committed relationship with a broad UBC community of PWIAS Associates (now more than 500). The diversity of scholarship represented among this outstanding group of UBC faculty reflects the depth of rich and creative talent on campus. Our focus on residential programs for UBC-based scholars is key to establishing long-term collaborative networks.

Location. The institute is located in a uniquely beautiful physical setting on the UBC campus in Vancouver, one the world’s most attractive cities. Our Wall Scholars lounge and seminar room have spectacular views of Burrard Inlet and the north shore mountains. This setting creates a space that is conducive to spontaneous, often unexpected, meaningful exchange. We recently renovated the upstairs space to further enhance the visual appeal and effectiveness of shared and office space. Scholars working in PWIAS offices experience a physical and intellectual environment that facilitates expansive discussion and stimulates creative thinking.

Aligned with UBC. The institute is positioned within the UBC VP Research portfolio, facilitating effective collaboration across UBC departments and faculties.

Exceptional international scholars. The Institute hosts 10 – 15 International Visiting Scholars per year and 4 – 5 International Research Roundtables that explore an array of thought-provoking questions, ideas and innovative solutions to some of the world’s most perplexing problems.

International Partnerships. PWIAS has active MoUs with the Collège de France (Paris) and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (Stellenbosch, South Africa). These partnerships are thriving and have benefited a number of UBC faculty members through exchange visits.

Strong administrative support. The institute’s day to day operations are supported by an efficient, financially lean and highly effective administrative core. PWIAS staff (two program managers, a communications and events coordinator and two support staff) are highly committed, professional and skilled. They work together well, with a shared vision and clearly articulated responsibilities that support different aspects of PWIAS programs. The structure and cohesive flow of the administrative team allows the institute to focus its resources on programs, while minimizing administrative overhead. Skilled PWIAS staff are often consulted to assist other UBC units who seek to develop collaborative workshops or inter-disciplinary research activities (e.g. VPRI Centennial Emerging Research Workshops).

‘Nimble’, flexible programs and administrative procedures. This positions the Institute to respond quickly to emerging and unanticipated opportunities.

Robust committee structure. The Institute engages a wide range of UBC scholars who participate in rigorous inter-disciplinary adjudication committees for all of our programs. Early, mid-career and established scholars from across UBC guide development of exciting new initiatives (e.g. arts-based programs).

High profile Distinguished Professors in residence. Two distinguished professors in residence, Brett Finlay and Derek Gregory, anchor the Institute’s scholarship. Wall Scholars and visitors engage frequently with these exceptional researchers whose scholarship spans basic and applied science and social sciences. Distinguished

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-66 Professors provide high visibility and profile for PWIAS through their extensive network of international research contacts. They also serve as role models and mentors to scholars at every level, and provide long- term commitment and guidance to PWIAS. Their intellectual insights have shaped the institute’s academic trajectory.

Strong digital presence. The institute hosts a well-functioning, attractive website, a monthly newsletter (3000+ subscribers as of April 2018) and a growing collection of videos. Our highly effective social media platforms are maintained by a full-time communications and events coordinator.

Effective public engagement. Well established off-campus public engagement programs and activities include high profile public events (Wall Exchange lecture) and community partnership programs (Wall Solutions).

Limitations

Release time for scholars. Department-based service and teaching responsibilities detracts from scholar’s full engagement with Wall Scholar program activities, and limits recruitment of new applicants to this program. Secured teaching and administrative release for UBC-based faculty during their appointment as Wall Scholars would support them to more fully contribute to the mission of the Institute.

Small physical footprint. There is currently room for 12 scholars and visitors in shared offices in the upstairs space. International visitors located in office space downstairs in the administrative area are not in proximity to scholars, posing a barrier to spontaneous interaction and engagement – the core of the Institute’s mandate. We also have limited accommodation space available to host visitors, particularly those coming for extended stays. There are few ‘swing space’ options to encourage past program alumni to spend time using PWIAS offices.

Robust and objective metrics for measuring success. We do not yet have a clear approach to gauging the impact of PWIAS activities over the short and long-term, using both quantitative and qualitative metrics.

Distinguishing among PWIAS Faculty Associates. We need to better identify and recognize those PWIAS Associates who have a truly deep and sustained engagement with the Institute.

Sustained engagement with Scholars. The wealth of sharing, interaction and scholarly exchange enjoyed by PWIAS program participants withers over time. We seek to continually and meaningfully engage these exceptional individuals well beyond their period of PWIAS residency, nurturing long-term cohesive relationships within and between different Wall Scholar cohorts.

Opportunities

National partnership opportunities. There is significant potential to develop strong partnerships with a number of world-class Canadian organizations, including the Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and Banff Center for Arts and Creativity. These organizations share many PWIAS values and goals and would serve as vehicles to connect and engage us with top-tier scholars and artists. Through committed and carefully selected partnerships, PWIAS will elevate its national profile and significantly advance its strategic objectives, as outlined below.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-67 International partnership opportunities. Potential to significantly expand partnership with STIAS and the Collège de France through enhanced research collaborations and scholar exchanges. Flexibility in program funding will enable us to develop new research partnerships along the Cascadian corridor and Pacific Rim, supporting the UBC international strategy.

New venues for public outreach and communications. Strong new collaborations with national media (e.g. CBC and Globe and Mail) will provide an opportunity to significantly raise the public profile of PWIAS and UBC, and expand the impact and reach of our programs.

Challenges

Maintaining a unique identity. We seek to differentiate PWIAS from other units on campus involved in inter- disciplinary initiatives, and other Institutes for Advanced Studies around the world.

Complacency. As the broader academic environment changes around us, we must continue evolving and innovating.

Misunderstanding of the PWIAS mandate. Perceptions of PWIAS as ‘elitist’, serving the needs of a select few ‘insiders’.

Mission creep. There is an on-going demand for resources to support initiatives and program activities outside of the core PWIAS mandate.

Our Future

Building on current strengths, exploiting available opportunities and being mindful of potential challenges, PWIAS is in an excellent position to enhance the effectiveness and impact of its programs, develop innovative approaches to inter-disciplinary scholarship, while augmenting its national and international profile. We seek to become widely recognized as the most innovative and creative center for inter-disciplinary scholarship in Canada, and a major player in the global network of Institutes for Advanced Studies. We also seek to maximize the impact of our work through effective knowledge mobilization, using advanced research to address complex societal questions. Towards these goals, we articulate a series of priority objectives to focus our energy and resources. The objectives outlined below are designed to be achieved over a 3 - 5 year time- frame, supporting a renewed vision and mission for PWIAS.

The renewed PWIAS Vision

A globally connected community of scholars working collaboratively and creatively to generate transformative knowledge for a better world.

The renewed PWIAS Mission

We promote the highest ideals of scholarship by creating a vibrant space for deep and sustained collaboration across intellectual, cultural and geographic boundaries. We nurture fundamental research and creative practices that explore new ideas and approaches to tackling complex questions of global significance. Through active public engagement and knowledge translation activities, we use new ideas, evidence and insights to influence broad discourse on critical questions, and drive positive societal impacts.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-68 Towards these ends, we seek to:

Objective 1: Foster the continued growth and development of a unique and remarkable academic environment at UBC, where ideas are unconstrained, and where creativity and intellectual curiosity drive major breakthroughs in knowledge.

Objective 2: Nurture existing and new partnerships with national and international organizations, providing opportunities for sustained interactions with leading scholars and creative minds around the world.

Objective 3: Deepen public understanding of PWIAS-enabled research, and enhance societal discourse on critically important questions by translating the products of high level scholarship into broadly accessible formats.

Our Strategy

The broad objectives outlined above provide high-level targets for the next 3-5 years. Below, we outline a specific implementation strategy for each objective.

Objective 1: Nurturing a unique and remarkable environment at UBC

PWIAS is an intellectual oasis, where scholars engage deeply, respectfully and creatively, nurturing their curiosity, and taking intellectual risks unfettered by traditional academic structures. Those who participate in PWIAS programs are exposed to a wide range of scholarly perspectives that open unexpected and often serendipitous pathways to deeper and more creative research. The success of PWIAS programs depends on the extent to which they attract the very best scholars from all corners of campus. Going forward, we will create greater awareness and higher profile for PWIAS programs across UBC, thereby increasing the number and diversity of top-tier applicants. To do so, we must offer supportive environments, conditions and incentives that increase the value (real and perceived) of our awards. We must also act to bring together diverse constituents from across campus, creating an intellectual space that is uniquely welcoming for a wide variety of intellectual perspectives, and one that fosters long-term engagement.

1a) Teaching and Administrative release for Wall Scholars. In order for Wall Scholars to fully immerse themselves into the intellectual life of the Institute, they need the time and space to focus on their research, explore creative ideas and fully engage with the other members of their cohort. For this reason, we seek to minimize teaching and administrative duties for Wall Scholars during their year in residence. We currently provide a $20,000 research award, plus an additional $15,000 for course buyouts, but it is up to each scholar to negotiate the terms of teaching and administrative release with their individual departments. This results in significant discrepancies among scholars in different departments. To circumvent this problem, we propose to implement a new funding model for the Wall Scholars program, where Institute funds are paid directly to departments to cover salary costs for faculty in exchange for full teaching and administrative release. This would bring the Wall Scholars program in line with other major fellowships (e.g. NSERC Steacie Fellowships, CIHR new investigator awards, and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholars), where full teaching and admin release is provided.

1b) On-going Engagement with PWIAS Associates and Wall Scholar alumni. Unlike residential programs at other institutes for advanced studies that build cohorts of visiting scholars, all PWIAS programs must involve at least one UBC faculty member, and international visitors must have a local host. This creates a unique

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-69 opportunity to build long-term and sustained networks of collaborators at UBC. As we seek to increase the reach of PWIAS programs among UBC faculty members, and to continue expanding our network of institute Associates, we will foster a stronger sense of community among our alumni. This will ensure that scholars continue to enjoy the benefits of PWIAS well beyond their involvement in any particular program. A key challenge in this respect is to differentiate among the large (and growing) number of PWIAS Associates, who have varying levels of engagement with the Institute. We propose to create a PWIAS Fellows program, whereby a subset of our top and most engaged alumni maintain a more formal connection to the Institute. Fellows will receive standing invitations to on-going program activities. Implementation of this initiative would require development of clear guidelines around nomination / selection procedures, and benefits and expectations. We also seek to nurture continued engagement within and between Wall Scholar cohorts, well beyond their time in residence at the institute. To this end, we propose to host monthly lunches targeted at Wall Scholar alumni. Our goal is to create a regular forum for Wall Scholars to sustain and enhance relationships established during their year in residence, while providing opportunities for cross-fertilization across cohorts.

1c) Engagement with international visitors. The International Visiting Research Scholars (IVRS) program was established to bring some of the world’s leading scholars to PWIAS. The program has been successful in attracting many outstanding visitors to UBC, but its impact on the PWIAS and broader campus community remains mixed. Some visitors become deeply integrated into the Institute’s intellectual life, while others have had very little interaction with the PWIAS, beyond a few informal encounters. We seek to establish much stronger engagement with our visiting scholars through several modifications to the IVRS program. Most importantly, we propose to increase the funding level for these awards (from $15,000 to $30,000), while reducing the number of awardees to stay within the budget allocation and office space capacity. To justify this greater financial support, we will require that IVRS remain at UBC for at least one full academic term (four months), with their primary office located in the PWIAS. These changes would align the IVRS program with visiting fellow programs at other Institutes for Advanced Study around the world (e.g. STIAS, Radcliffe, IAS Princeton).

We will also more actively promote the Distinguished Visiting Professor Program (DVP), which was launched in 2016. This program was developed to attract internationally renowned scholars (e.g. Nobel Laureates and members of the US National Academy of Sciences), providing a $50k award for visits of at least four months. The program suffered a significant set-back in 2017, when Dr. Martin Roth passed away tragically and unexpectedly just a few weeks before he was to arrive in Vancouver as our first DVP. Going forward, we will more actively recruit DVP nominations from top UBC faculty members, while also using our partnerships with the Royal Society of Canada and CIFAR (see below) as a potential applicant pool. We will also accept nominations on a rolling basis, rather than on a fixed schedule.

As we seek to engage more deeply with our visiting scholars, we must address the challenge of finding suitable guest accommodation. At present, our approach to visitor housing is ad-hoc, with Institute staff and UBC faculty hosts helping to secure accommodation on a case by case basis. We have established relationships with some property owners / managers in Vancouver, but we struggle to find suitable accommodation at reasonable prices. We propose that the Institute procure two furnished apartments for use by PWIS visitors. This model has been effectively employed by other Institutes of Advanced Study.

1d) Integrating the Creative and performing arts. Incorporating artistic modes of expression and exploration has potential to benefit many fields of scholarship and brings a rich set of perspectives and lenses to important questions. The presence of creative and performing arts in an institute of advanced study helps foster an

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-70 environment dedicated to the pursuit of excellence and cross-pollination of ideas. More than just being a ‘show-piece’ for public engagement and knowledge translation, the arts can provide vital approaches to research practice. Scholars at the PWIAS have adapted arts-based approaches to offer alternative ways of exploring important research questions as well as disseminating research findings to diverse audiences. The PWIAS has an arts-based initiatives committee, which has been increasingly active over the past year, providing advice and guidance on the development of programs. To date, however, arts-based activities have been ad-hoc, without an overarching vision and purpose. We seek to establish a more robust and coherent framework through which the arts can be used in synergy with other forms of advanced research at PWIAS. To accomplish this, we propose to create a more rigorous program of arts-based research activities, and to provide greater financial support for these activities. To this end, a one day meeting was organized in Oct. 2017 to explore potential areas for synergy and collaborations among artists and other researchers on campus and in the lower mainland. Based on ideas generated at that meeting, we are currently drafting guidelines for an arts-based program, including procedures for rigorous and transparent adjudication of solicited research projects. Programs will be developed in consultation with leading arts-based researchers on campus, and with the Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

1d) Space considerations. PWIAS enjoys a stunning location with magnificent views from offices and the upstairs conference room. Recent space reconfigurations, new furniture and seating areas (both indoors and on the large exterior patio) significantly increased functionality and attractiveness of the Wall Scholars office suite and common area. The Institute now offers a warm and welcoming environment that is conducive to casual conversation, focussed intellectual exchange and development of ideas. However, the Institute’s relatively small footprint limits our capacity to host scholars from UBC and abroad. The three private offices in the upstairs space house the Director and the two Distinguished Professors. Six double occupancy offices house Wall Scholars and International visitors. Several other shared offices are available in the ground floor administrative suite, and in a swing-space adjacent to the conference room. These latter spaces, while reasonably attractive and functional, are less desirable due as they isolate visitors from the main scholar cohort. Shared office space is not common among other IAS’, and it poses a hard cap on the total number of scholars we can accommodate. If we wish to expand our programs, encourage scholars to make full time use of their PWIAS office while in residence, and provide drop-in offices for alumni, we identify a need to procure additional space.

Other spaces are available for PWIAS events and social engagements. These include the Sage East conference / dining room for larger events (up to 100 people) and the Associates Lounge, where PWIAS alumni can drop in for a coffee and snacks. Both spaces are currently working well to support the needs of the Institute. For the past several years, PWIAS contributed $30k annually to support the IDEAS Lounge (run by UBC Food Services), which serves daily lunches and can also host afternoon events and receptions. The Lounge now appears to be profitable and is no longer in need of the PWIAS subsidy. We can thus use these funds to support other initiatives.

Objective 2: Strategic Partnerships

To effectively leverage existing resources of PWIAS, we seek partnerships with other units on the UBC campus, in the broader Vancouver community, across Canada and internationally. Through these partnerships, we can

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-71 extend the Institute’s reach and impact, creating opportunities for scholarly exchange and collaboration to advance the Institute’s objectives and reputation. These partnerships must be carefully selected to meet a number of objective criteria. First, any potential partner must provide opportunities for engagement with world-class talent (in research, creative and performing arts or public engagement). Second, the potential partner must provide access to people or facilities that can mutually support research and creative practices of significant interest to a broad constituent of UBC faculty members. Third, we must take into account geographic and cultural factors, working with partners that provide access to important regions and communities in areas of strategic interest. Below, we briefly review existing and developing partnerships, and provide some suggestions for future potential opportunities.

2a) UBC Partnerships. Over the past two years, PWIAS has begun to expand its partnerships across the UBC campus, with co-sponsored programs with PIMS (Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences), the Chan Center for Performing Arts, Belkin Art Gallery, Green College, the Vancouver Institute and the Global Reporting Center. These collaborations have been significant in enabling us to draw on top-tier scholarship and artistic practice that is not currently represented at PWIAS. For example, our partnership with the Chan Center has allowed PWIAS to host world-class artists. These visits have provided new avenues for productive and creative discussion among a range of UBC faculty, and have helped draw in faculty members from across campus. As another example, during the joint PWIAS-PIMS visit of Cedric Villani (world-renown mathematician and Field Medalist), we hosted a PWIAS Associates dinner (The Math Muse), which brought Villani together with a world-class concert violinist (Corey Cerovsek) to explore the mathematical structure underlying the music of JS Bach. Going forward, we will seek to identify new potential partnerships with other units across the UBC campus (e.g. Center for Brain Health, Quantum Matter Institute, the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs). As we explore such partnerships, we must define the role of partners, and ensure that PWIAS derives clear benefits and recognition. These endeavours will support impactful and creative inter-disciplinary research across UBC, creating new networks of scholars on campus.

2b) Off-campus partnerships. Through the Wall Solutions program, PWIAS has already established significant links to a number of non-academic partners. These partnerships are important in anchoring our scholarship to broader societal issues, while also providing us with a significant means of outreach and public impact (see below). Where appropriate, other off-campus partnerships will be explored. For example, to help connect arts-based research activity on the UBC campus with the broader Vancouver community, PWIAS has begun developing relationships with some of the leading figures in the Vancouver arts community, including Laura Moore (Arts editor for the Georgia Straight) and Norman Armour (Director of the Vancouver Push Festival). These connections, and others, will help us reach broad target audiences and increase the impact of our work.

2b) National partnerships. By engaging with leading centers of scholarly excellence across Canada, PWIAS will significantly expand the national reach of its programs. The PWIAS Director is a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), and has worked closely with RSC leadership to support a number of initiatives. For example, PWIAS drove conception and organization of the national Constitutional Wave event held in 2017 to mark the 150+ anniversary of Canadian Confederation. This unfolded as a series of simultaneous public events in 5 cities across Canada, where leading scholars engaged in interactive dialog with audience members about the Canadian Constitution. The Wave event provided an example of how advanced scholarship can illuminate complex questions in a broadly accessible manner, supporting a key PWIAS strategic objective. More recently, PWIAS played an instrumental role in establishing a Pacific chapter of the RSC. We hosted a dinner meeting for leading RSC Fellows and College members, and organized an afternoon of research talks open to the UBC community. We also recently hosted a major public discussion forum examining the complexities of the Site C dam project. As we move towards building a critical mass of RSC-

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-72 associated faculty members at UBC and across the province, we will use the expertise of leading scholars to address complex issues of public concern. Such activities align with our strategic priorities by attracting top- tier scholars to PWIAS and deepening public engagement with researchers.

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) has built a global reputation for stimulating high-level inter-disciplinary research and supporting sustained engagement of leading scholars around the world. UBC currently hosts more CIFAR fellows than any other university in Canada, yet there is no central venue on campus to bring these scholars together. PWIAS Distinguished Professor Brett Finlay is one of the most prominent CIFAR fellows, and co-leader of the Humans and the Microbiome program. Moreover, Professor John Hepburn, VP Research at CIFAR and former VP Research at UBC, provides us a unique opportunity for engagement. The PWIAS is thus uniquely positioned to develop a partnership with CIFAR. As a first concrete step towards closer partnership with CIFAR, PWIAS and CIFAR recently co-hosted a meeting at the Collège de France. The meeting helped lay the foundation for a series of follow up symposia that are currently being planned. In addition, during last year’s CIFAR Global Call for new programs, PWIAS hosted an afternoon discussion session that attracted UBC researchers from across campus to ‘pitch’ their proposals for group feedback. Going forward, we propose hosting periodic lunches open to all UBC CIFAR fellows, with the goal of stimulating cross-disciplinary engagement between different CIFAR programs.

Finally, we will support other ad-hoc opportunities that showcase PWIAS research on the national stage. Significantly, UBC will host the 2019 Congress, the largest meeting of social scientists and humanities scholars in Canada (http://faculty-staff.ubc.ca/2018/01/09/ubc-to-host-canadas-largest-gathering-of-scholars- congress-2019/). This presents the unparalleled opportunity to engage with leading scholars from across the country who will be in Vancouver for that event.

2c) International Partnerships. PWIAS currently has two active partnerships with international research institutes, the Collège de France (CdF; Paris) and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS) in South Africa. Both these partnerships are vibrant and growing. They connect us with world-class scholars across a wide range of disciplines and meet the strategic criteria outlined above. We will continue to promote and support the CdF and STIAS partnerships, seeking possibilities to further strengthen these important relationships.

The CdF is one of the world’s foremost academic institutions, with an illustrious history going back more than 500 years. Its Professors (about 50 in total) represent the very best of the French academy, including a Nobel Laureate and some of the world’s most influential thinkers. The CdF is also noteworthy in its commitment to public engagement and outreach, which is a key strategic objective of PWIAS. PWIAS recently renewed its MOU with the Collège de France, and this new agreement includes a fund to support collaborative research between CdF and UBC Professors. Significant research connections have already been established, and new collaborations are beginning to take shape, with three CdF Professors scheduled to visit PWIAS during 2018- 2019. During the recent visit of CdF Professor Edouard Bard, PWIAS convened a group of UBC researchers (and regional collaborators) to explore synergies across anthropology, archaeology and geochemistry. These researchers, who had never previously worked together, went on to compete successfully for a VPRI Cluster grant. This provides an excellent example of how international partnerships can catalzye new inter-disciplinary research groups at UBC. In support of our renewed partnership, PWAIS and CdF co-hosted (along with CIFAR) a meeting to explore new research directions on the theme of memory. Discussions are now underway for a series of follow- up symposia during 2019-2020.

Our interaction with the Collège de France is enhanced by a close working relationship with the Consul General of France in Vancouver. The current administrative director of international partnerships at the CdF was the

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-73 former French Cultural Attaché in Vancouver, and is thus very familiar with UBC and eager to promote closer ties with PWIAS. We have partnered with the French Consulate on a short-term visiting lecturer program, which is currently thriving. The number of applications increased by more than 3-fold this past year, and the program was recently featured on CBC / Radio Canada.

Our partnership with STIAS has also flourished over the past few years. There is increasing interest among UBC scholars to participate in STIAS programs, and a number of them have spent time as resident STIAS fellows. PWIAS has also co-sponsored a number of meetings at STIAS (Wall Colloquium Abroad), and we will soon be hosting two African Scholars affiliated with the STIAS Iso Lomso program. This will represent the first reciprocal visit of STIAS-affiliated scholars to PWIAS, and will serve to strengthen our bi-lateral partnership. The relationship with STIAS is important for PWIAS as it connects us with a top-tier partner Institution in Africa. Many UBC scholars have active research in various African countries, working in a range of disciplines from medicine to water governance, social justice and poverty reduction. As an example of the strategic synergy between PWIAS and STIAS, we are currently exploring a joint program to examine the processes of Truth and Reconciliation in the Canadian and South African contexts.

Going forward, there are other opportunities for international collaborations that will support the strategic priorities of PWIAS and the broader UBC international strategy. For example, there is strong interest across UBC to stimulate stronger research collaborations along the ‘Cascadian Corridor’. This includes exploring partnerships with the University of Washington and other leading west coast Institutions (e.g. Stanford, UC Berkeley and others). PWIAS will play a strategic role in building meaningful partnerships along the Cascadian Corridor, by hosting visiting scholars, organizing inter-disciplinary meetings and exploring new relationships with like-minded inter-disciplinary research institutes, including The Simpson Center for the Humanities (U. Washington) and the Stanford Humanities Center. This past year, for example, we invited several researchers from UW to visit the PWIAS to participate in discussions about and sustainable urban development. The conversations were rich and deep, cutting across fields from clean energy and health care to sociology and geography.

Further afield, the PWIAS will explore possibilities of partnering with a leading inter-disciplinary research institute in Asia. Given UBC’s location on the west coast, and its world-class expertise in Asian Studies, such a partnership would build on the university’s existing research strengths (e.g. Institute of Asian Studies) and provide a mechanism for further engagement. We are currently exploring options, including possibilities at the University of Tokyo, with which UBC already has a formal partnership through the Quantum Matter Institute. Other possibilities exist, including a number of institutes in Hong Kong or mainland China.

Finally, we will explore an emerging opportunity for meaningful partnership with Cambridge University, one of the world’s great academic and research centers. Former UBC President (and previous Chair of the PWIAS Board of Trustees) Stephen Toope is now the vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, where he is exploring opportunities to create an Institute for Advanced Studies. He has expressed interest in a partnership with UBC, and the PWIAS is exceptionally well placed to play a leading role in this collaboration.

2c) Banff Center for Arts and Creativity. We will seize an extraordinary opportunity to partner with Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, with the aim of creating a unique program of engagement between scholarship and the creative and performing arts. The relatively close proximity of Banff to Vancouver will enable us to build a major western Canadian hub for arts-based research. The PWIAS Director has already held extensive consultation with Janice Price, the Executive Director of Banff and Howard Jang, Banff VP for Arts and Leadership, both of whom are very enthusiastic about the proposed partnership. We are now beginning to discuss an agreement to create an artist exchange program between PWIAS and Banff Center. Through this

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-74 agreement, we propose to host several visiting artists at the PWIAS each year as part of the existing Banff residency program. During these visits, artists would engage with UBC faculty hosts to explore important questions around major themes. Discussions will inform creative work produced during the Banff residency, while also stimulating deep inter-disciplinary discussions on the UBC campus. Follow up meetings will be scheduled in Banff during the annual Wall Scholars retreat in May.

Objective 3: Enhancing societal discourse on critically important questions

We seek to harness the products and outputs of advanced scholarship to stimulate broader public understanding of complex societal questions, from climate change and food security to a myriad of other political, economic and social questions. To achieve this, we will foster greater awareness of PWIAS activities locally, nationally and internationally through effective public relations and outreach, and closer interaction with leading national and international media outlets. The Institute has a full-time communications manager who supports our outreach and public engagement activities, and we have an attractive website, a strong social media footprint and regular newsletters that reach thousands of subscribers each month.

With the advent of the high profile Wall Exchange lecture series and the Wall Solutions program, the PWIAS has made significant strides towards engaging with the broader public to advance discourse and knowledge translation. Nonetheless, the profile of the PWIAS still remains relatively low in comparison to other Canadian academic centers (e.g. Munk Center, Massey College etc.). To overcome this, the PWIAS will seek increasing visibility in the national media, with feature stories and broadcasts highlighting the work of the Institute and its scholars. Towards this end, the PWIAS Director has established strong contacts with the leadership of the Globe and Mail and national CBC. Key points of contact at the Globe and Mail are David Walmsley (Editor in Chief), Sinclair Stewart (Deputy Editor) and Wendy Cox (western Canada Bureau Chief). Through these contacts, the PWIAS was able to get a series of essays placed in the Globe and Mail as part of our Canada 150 book (see below). The PWIAS director has also established a close working relationship with the Executive Producer of CBC Ideas (Greg Kelly), and Quirks and Quarks (Jim Lebbans), and with Nora Young (Spark) who will moderate the November 2018 Wall Exchange lecture. CBC Ideas has already broadcast several Wall Exchange lectures, and discussions are underway for additional future collaborations, including a multi-part feature on exploring the theme of memory. Internationally, we will also seek better coverage in major international news outlets including the New York Times, and others. Former Wall Scholar Peter Klein (UBC Journalism and Global Reporting Center) has strong ties with the New York media and will be a key ally in helping to publicize our work through various media channels.

To mark the 150+ anniversary of Canadian Confederation, the PWIAS led a major book project, an edited compilation of essays entitled Reflections of Canada. This project brought together some of UBC’s (and Canada’s) leading thinkers to address key societal questions facing Canada in its sesquicentennial year. Writing in highly accessible and engaging language, the authors offered profound and timely insights into a range of topics from the health care system, federalism, energy policy, sustainable architecture and social justice. The book garnered significant attention across the country, with over 40 print and media interviews. Selected essays were featured in the Globe and Mail, and several authors appeared on a special edition of CBC Cross Country Checkup. Following on this success, the PWIAS is currently undertaking a second edited book project entitled Memory. This book is scheduled to be released in early November, 2018, in advance of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. The project will serve to illuminate large themes around the idea of memory, as seen through a variety of disciplinary perspectives. It will challenge readers to think deeply and critically about memory, and expose them to the depth of scholarship supported by PWIAS and UBC. We expect this book to attract significant attention, and we are planning a high profile launch.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-75 Going forward, we plan to produce a series of books, bringing together the voices and perspectives of leading scholars, artists and thinkers to address important questions of broad public interest. We have worked with the UBC Press to develop an appropriate series template, and have registered a PWIAS publishing imprint and a dedicated ISBN block. These book projects will provide a major outlet for the work of the PWIAS, bringing the fruits of our scholarship into the public realm. This, in turn, will significantly increase the recognition and stature of the PWIAS across Canada and beyond, maximizing the impact of our work.

Continued emphasis will be placed on the high profile Wall Exchange lectures, through which world-class scholars and thinkers communicate the excitement and significance of their work to broad public audiences. The location of the lectures at the Vogue Theater in downtown Vancouver is a unique and important attribute of the program, and our most recent lecture (Ali Velsh, May 2018) attracted a capacity crowd of 1,200. However, as other units on campus become more involved in hosting well known speakers (e.g. Phil Lind Initiative and UBC President’s Speaker Series), the PWIAS will also consider other potential formats for the Wall Exchange to keep the events ‘fresh’ and innovative in terms of both content and style. As an example of this, our War Stories event (held at the BMO Theatre in the Olympic Village in Sept. 2016) was a highly successful collaborative public engagement, combining artistic practice in drama and photography with scholarship in geography, education, journalism and counselling psychology to explore the impacts of war on both soldiers and civilians. We are in the early stages of planning a major series of public events in 2019, as part of an international memory symposium being organized with our international partners in France and South Africa. The CBC and Banff Center have both expressed a strong interest in working with us on developing these programs.

The PWIAS’ knowledge mobilization / transfer activities are another important vehicle for public engagement and impact. At present, the Wall Solutions program is the main conduit for these activities, with 10 projects currently funded to translate the results of advanced research into workable solutions for complex problems. Going forward, the Wall Solutions program will be maintained and further strengthened, with active recruitment of potential applicants from across campus. As an example of this more pro-active approach, we successfully fostered a new collaboration between researchers working in architecture and microbiology, using systems biology and advanced material design principals to convert municipal wastes into sustaining building materials. There is significant scope for additional projects with high potential impact. Increasingly, the Solutions projects are taking on global dimensions, with current projects active in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. There is significant scope for increased engagement with a variety of international NGOs and other potential community partners. Given the important role of communications in promoting our research programs and successes, greater emphasis will be given to showcase ‘success stories’ and to developing a knowledge mobilization (KM) strategy. The Institute will consult on KM activities being facilitated through VP Research and Community Engagement units to share ideas and best practices, and to maximize potential synergy.

Measuring Success

While setting targets to meet our strategic objectives, we will adopt quantitative and qualitative metrics to evaluate our success. Some metrics are relatively simple, while others are more nuanced and challenging, and not easily put into quantitative terms. To ensure that we effectively measure the Institute’s overall performance, we will work with experts to identify key performance indicators and an appropriate set of metrics to inform decision-making. We will select a consultant to effectively design a new program evaluation process. Moreover, we are currently developing a new database to track and analyse demographic data of program participants, information on participant history, post-residency achievements (grants, collaborative

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-76 projects awards, etc.). These data will be important to help monitor longer-term impacts of our programs. For example, our success in attracting top applicants for our programs can be measured by tracking total numbers of applications and the proportion of traditionally under-represented groups. Through this approach, we have already observed a three-fold increase in the value placed on the visiting French lecture series.

Other metrics include tracking the number of new major grants and awards related to PWIAS seed activities, and the number of new creative works. Post-event surveys and scholar interviews will also help to obtain feedback on how PWIAS programs and forums have influenced participant thinking, scholarship and research. Such qualitative and narrative feedback is an important complement to more quantitative measures. Given our focus on media relations, we are now also beginning to track more closely the Institute ‘foot print’ across a range of traditional and emerging media platforms. Increased media coverage of the PWIAS and its activities, and increased traffic to our website and social media feeds will be important metrics of impact.

Alignment of PWIAS with UBC priorities and strategic plan, Inspire

The great research strengths and diversity of UBC are critical to the success of PWIAS, and there is a strong shared interest in promoting world-class academic excellence. We seek to harness the energy and talents of faculty from across campus to achieve maximum impact, while creating an intellectual environment that benefits a broad swath of UBC scholars.

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies is strategically advantageous to UBC as it:

• Provides inter-disciplinary opportunities, support for long-term research and for projects unlikely to meet the criteria of other funding programs; • Provides seed funding, space, mentorships and training for UBC faculty members to embark on innovative new research directions; • Attracts top-level international scholars to UBC through strategic partnerships and programs, and engages these visitors in collaborative research, lecturing, and other outreach activities; • Strengthens the UBC community by convening scholars from different disciplines to share insights and engage in conversation and dialogue; • Highlights UBC researchers and their research in ways that are accessible to broader public audiences (e.g. engaging in community-based projects, hosting public events and maintain a vibrant digital presence); • Provides support and strength to the humanities and the creative and performing arts through seed funding and an increased campus profile; • Demonstrates how all research disciplines benefit from and challenge each other’s methods and perspectives; • Generates a positive profile that reflects positively on UBC;

Just as PWIAS makes a highly significant contribution to the intellectual life of UBC, the Institute, in turn, benefits from the strength of reputation of UBC’s scholars and research centers. UBC faculty members populate the various PWIAS programs, and serve on multi-disciplinary review committees. The PWIAS community comprises more than 500 Wall Faculty Associates - UBC scholars who have achieved that status

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-77 by virtue of being Principal Investigator on a Wall Institute award or a member of a Wall Institute committee. And it is through nominations by UBC’s faculties, departments and research centres that PWIAS brings outstanding international scholars to UBC for extended visits.

With both UBC and the PWIAS recently undergoing leadership transitions and celebrating milestone anniversaries (100 and 25 years, respectively), the time is ripe to renew mutually synergistic strategic priorities. We seek to explore beneficial alignment with the broader UBC community, while securing intellectual and academic independence that enables us to respond rapidly and creatively to emerging opportunities at the forefront of advanced research.

At the highest level, PWIAS serves to advance UBC’s three strategic priorities of Inclusion, Collaboration and Innovation, through its own commitment to UBC values -- research excellence, discovery, creativity, diversity, collaboration, discourse and knowledge mobilization.

Collaboration is at the heart of PWIAS programs. By engaging with scholars from across campus and around the globe, we bring together disparate perspectives and research approaches that lead to unexpected and innovative ways of thinking and doing. True collaboration, where individuals come together on a level intellectual playing field, requires sustained effort and patience. It also demands a high level of intellectual generosity and curiosity, as researchers to openly share their vulnerabilities, experience, and expertise. PWIAS strives to create an environment where scholars safely challenge the limits of their personal knowledge, engage with openness and humility and are open to new ideas and ways of thinking. Creating environmental conditions that nurture meaningful and impactful inter-disciplinary engagement is challenging on modern university campuses, where researchers are driven by deadlines, administrative duties and funding pressures. The research culture of PWIAS creates ideal conditions to build a diverse, vibrant and collegial community of scholars across the UBC campus, with strong and sustained connections to each other and to leading researchers across the world. In the past year alone, the PWIAS has served to catalyze new inter-disciplinary and international collaborations that culminated in (for example) successful VPRI Cluster Grants and a Canadian Institute of Health Research, Healthy Cities grant. We also played a pivotal role in building some of the key collaborations underpinning the new UBC Language Sciences Initiative. This initiative is led by Professors Janet Werker, Mark Turin and others. Professors Werker and Turin’s new collaboration, and those of many others, surfaced through initial interactions at PWIAS; these interactions lead to new ways of working within and across disciplines.

The PWIAS plays an important role in the translation and mobilization of advanced research to address highly complex societal problems. Through the Wall Solutions program, we will continue to make connections between leading UBC researchers and non-academic partners across BC, Canada and around the world. This work, along with our other public engagement and outreach activities enables us to ensure the relevance of UBC research to the public.

Finally, through its various international partnerships and programs, PWIAS will serve as a key node to develop the UBC global strategy. Existing programs (International Visiting Research Scholar and Distinguished Visiting Professor) can be used to target world-class scholars from the Pacific Northwest (Cascadian corridor) and Pacific Rim to spend time at the PWIAS, experiencing the depth and breadth of scholarship at UBC. Our International Research Roundtable program can host world-class scholars working in areas of significant regional expertise and relevance (e.g. big data and sustainable cities). As we seek to further broaden the international scope of our programs, PWIAS will work closely with the UBC VP International to target potential partners in strategically-important regions, such as Asia. PWIAS will showcase the best of UBC, and serve as ambassador for the broad research excellence across campus.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-78 Through its core activities, PWIAS will contribute substantially toward achieving UBC’s strategic priorities. Specifically, the PWIAS will:

• Attract, engage and retain a diverse global community of scholars (UBC Strategy 1); • Create a welcoming physical space to advance collaboration, innovation and community development (UBC Strategy 2); • Enable inter-disciplinary clusters of research excellence in pursuit of impact (UBC Strategy 6); • Support the translation of research into action (UBC Strategy 9); • Foster a strong and diverse research culture that embraces the highest standards of integrity and collegiality (UBC Strategy 10); • Deepen the relevance and public impact of UBC research (UBC Strategy 16); • Support the objectives and actions of the renewed Indigenous Strategic Plan (UBC Strategy 17); • Build and sustain strategic global networks (UBC Strategy 19).

Concluding Thoughts

PWIAS aims to be more than a research Institute – it seeks to offer an environment where intellectuals, artists, scholars and researchers share their expertise and intellectual passions, where ideas develop in unanticipated directions, where scholarly serendipity and curiosity thrive and relationships flourish. Over the past quarter century, the institute has enriched the intellectual life of UBC. And the future is bright. By leveraging its significant resources and exploiting strategic opportunities for partnership and collaboration, PWIAS will continue to push the boundaries of innovative scholarship. It will also continue facilitating a vibrant culture of research across UBC, connecting UBC faculty to leading researchers and artists from around the world and harnessing advanced research to catalyze broad public discourse. By doing so, PWIAS programs will positively impact the practice of research and scholarship at UBC and globally, and inform our collective understanding of critical questions facing society.

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PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-97 Appendix DD NOVEMBER 2018 STATEMENT BY PWIAS DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS

November 22, 2018

We are both deeply saddened by the resignation of Professor Philippe Tortell as Director of the Peter Wall Institute. We respect his reasons for doing so – he has been a principled, passionate and creative Director, so we know how difficult that decision was – and we thank him for his extraordinary work on behalf of the Institute and all who work here and with us across the campus and around the world.

Professor Ono has noted that we met with him to discuss the situation on 21 November, and we are grateful for him making the time to do so at short notice. We believe it will be helpful for us to summarise some of the key points we made to the President at that meeting:

(1) The Institute’s research model is a profoundly social one, in which the juxtaposition of scholars working with different ideas and on different issues, and through their regular, informal social interactions, generates a culture of trust in which risk-taking is encouraged, research horizons are broadened and real advances made. Hence the Wall Scholars program, whose members are drawn each year from across the entire campus (from the medical sciences to the performing arts, from the humanities to engineering) is the core and heart of the Institute’s work.

(2) Unlike the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies, which is not part of Princeton University and which defines its interests in strikingly narrow (‘focused’) terms, the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies is part of UBC and needs to be responsive to the university community as a whole. Hence the essential heterogeneity of the Wall Scholars program.

(3) We are committed to the vision of the Institute as a place where creative scholars of the first rank can forge their own collaborations and freely pursue innovative ideas beyond the confines of centrally determined directives and priorities. Since none of us has privileged insight into what will matter most, and serendipity cannot be imposed, we believe that every University needs a place where scholars are encouraged to think outside the box (and the cluster), where their social interactions foster a fascination with the unexpected and the unexplored, and where the independence of their work is respected and nurtured. The Peter Wall Institute is such a place. There is of course room for clusters but to limit the work of the Institute this way is as exclusionary as it is destructive.

(4) The Director’s Strategic Plan was arrived at through an extensive consultation – not least with our Faculty Associates, who know the work of the Institute best. We were deeply concerned at our exclusion from Board discussions about the future of the Institute. We explicitly asked to attend the relevant meetings – we normally attend all Board of Trustees meetings as observers – but were told they were in camera.

(5) We ask that a reconstituted Board of Trustees reconsider the Strategic Plan for the Institute in the light of our concerns.

Brett Finlay and Derek Gregory

Peter Wall Distinguished Professors

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December 10, 2018

The Board of Trustees of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) is pleased to provide this update to the University community. It is obvious that there is a great deal of interest in the future success of the Institute. This is promising and underscores the Institute’s key role in positioning UBC as a leading academic institution.

The Board extends its sincere thanks to the community for the feedback we have received so far. We are encouraged by the constructive dialogue that has been initiated by scholars associated with the Institute. We hope that these and other conversations will continue and we look forward to opportunities to participate when we are invited to do so. We are open to the continuation of these dialogues both to inform the PWIAS 2019/20 budget which we will be developing through mid-February 2019 and to guide the Institute as it evolves over the longer term.

The Board clearly heard the enthusiasm for the Wall Scholars program and we continue to fully support it, especially in its expanded form that will now enable up to full teaching buy-out. There is no requirement that Wall Scholars be involved with Research Excellence Clusters. We expect the community dialogues will inform how best to allocate the funds we have set aside for research.

The Board acknowledges concerns about governance that have been expressed in recent weeks. In response, we will commission an external review of the governance structure both as it is set out in the Deed of Trust as well as operationally within the Institute. The Board is committed to the terms of the Deed, but it is also open to improving its governance within that framework.

In this spirit, the Board will re-establish a prestigious Advisory Panel, which has been active at different points in the past. We see an excellent opportunity now to appoint members of the UBC Community and outside it to help ensure the focus and impact of the Institute as it decides on programs and projects. The process for re-establishing this Panel, and nominating local and international members, is one of the areas in which the Board would like input from the community dialogues.

Finally, to ensure the seamless operations of the Institute, the Board will ensure that staffing and administrative needs at the Institute are addressed in the near term.

The Board is very thankful to all community members who have shared their concerns, hopes, and ideas about the future of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. We welcome your active and constructive engagement, and we are excited to imagine the future of the Institute together.

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October 31, 2019

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to thank everyone for engaging in such fruitful, constructive and open exchanges throughout the Peter Wall Institute’s first 4 external review consultation sessions. We have had 46 unique participants from 38 departments in attendance at our sessions so far. I’ve provided below a summary of the key themes we’ve discussed together, identifying the Institute’s strengths, opportunities and vulnerabilities. One of the possible solutions to address some of the Institute’s challenges that we began discussing is the creation of a Peter Wall Institute Academic Board. We will continue discussions around this, and other potential solutions, at the next two community consultation meetings. I strongly encourage all UBC faculty to share your thoughts and experiences. We hope you will register to attend one of the upcoming sessions on November 5 and 8.

A summary of key themes discussed so far

Governance There was interest in positively impacting the Institute’s governance to improve future stability and to have more transparency in decision-making. Concerns were raised that the Institute’s Board of Trustees’ decision-making processes may extend into the purview of the Director’s responsibilities and may unduly influence the types of research that faculty are able to do, thus impinging on Academic Freedom. Strengthening the academic governance and mandate was presented as an opportunity to establish stability and future sustainability.

Academic Mandate The Institute should develop a clear mandate and goals. The suggestion was made to formulate, through community consultation, what the UBC academic community truly values and commit to a clear course of action. The Institute has played an important role on campus, establishing connections across units in ways that other campus initiatives are unable to do. There was a deep appreciation for opportunities at UBC for faculty to interact with specialists in other disciplines, and to learn the language and approach of other disciplines (i.e. to bridge “different ways of knowing”). Participants described how the Wall Scholars program uniquely “rejuvenates”, “builds collegiality”, and brings about “transformational” change to their research and scholarship. We heard recommendations from participants that the Institute should seek a balance between “open and thematic” calls (e.g. The Wall Scholars program call should remain open, but the cohort could then be tasked with generating themes for further calls).

Program evaluation There was discussion about the criteria for measuring success and the challenges with defining success. Defining outcomes by certain traditional standards can be useful guide posts in measuring the success of the Institute’s programs, but some of the most important benefits are often less tangible. Suggestions were made for success to be measured in community engagement and public interest, as well as academic community building, both locally and internationally. However, program outcomes can not be properly evaluated if the Institute lacks stability and clearly defined goals. As well, program evaluation

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-102 should be an ongoing continuously updated process, informed heavily by academic considerations and the first-hand experience of participating faculty members.

Program adjudication We discussed the challenges of recruiting adjudication committee members for the Institute’s programs, and possible ways that the Institute could address these challenges. Participants discussed the metrics for the Institute’s programs and how the Institute might position itself as a leader in the exploration and research of criteria that disrupt commonly held and often problematic ideas of excellence, elitism, and knowledge. There was a general appreciation for how the Institute provides “a spirit of generosity” with knowledge sharing that is not always the case in the academic arena.

Communication strategy Many participants shared a passion for their experiences at the Institute. It was suggested that we capitalize on these stories to communicate, in easily understood language, the important and unique work that goes on at the Institute, so as to encourage greater interest and expand awareness, locally and internationally. We heard that many Wall Scholar alumni and members of the Institute’s adjudication committees would be willing and able to act as ambassadors to the Institute; promoting its programs to researchers across campus at departmental meetings and at workshops abroad.

Building and Broadening Relationships Participants discussed how the Institute’s programs play a significant role in helping the university by supporting UBC scholars, and their home departments and research centres, to advance their research and to attract and retain leading scholars at UBC. The Institute provides UBC faculty the time and space for fostering collaborations and personal connections both locally and internationally. The Institute’s Wall Scholar program now provides funding for full-teaching and administrative release, to enable scholars to focus on the program activities while in residence. There is a need to develop better relationships with UBC’s Department Heads and Deans in order to facilitate the implementation of teaching and administrative releases offered by the Institute, as well as to develop a better understanding of how the Institute can contribute more effectively to departments and other units on campus. The Institute already contributes immensely to the development of UBC’s capacity for research and teaching innovation and the appreciation of this contribution should be encouraged and promoted.

Thank you again for your participation in the Peter Wall Institute’s external review consultation sessions. I look forward to seeing you at future consultations.

Prof. Kalina Christoff Interim Director Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies University of British Columbia 6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Email: [email protected]

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PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-114 Appendix JJ DESCRIPTION OF DEVELOPMENTS IN RESPONSE TO 2011 EXTERNAL REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS

Listed below are the specific recommendations made by the 2011 External Review, along with description of the developments around the Institute since 2011 in response to these recommendations.

(A) Enhance the Early Career Scholars program by providing the scholars with office space in the PWIAS building, negotiating a reduced teaching load for each ECS in addition to an increased standard grant, thus facilitating their interaction with senior scholars (DPs, DVPs and DSRs). [4.1-2]

In 2014, the Institute consolidated its three residential programs (Distinguished Scholars in Residence, Early Career Scholars, and Mentoring Research programs) into one program of Wall Scholars creating a more dynamic and diverse intellectual community at the Institute. As of 2018, funds for full teaching and administrative release are made available to Wall Scholar awardees but the releases require negotiation with the awardees home departments and not all Wall Scholars are able to retain full releases. However, these additional funds have enabled much greater physical presence at the Institute.

(B) As a major priority, greatly strengthen the Distinguished Visitor Program to bring distinguished scholars to UBC, provide mentoring to Early Career Scholars and raise the international profile of PWIAS. [4.3]

The Distinguished Visitor Program has been part of the Institute’s International Partnerships since 2005 and remained so after the 2011 External Review. Within the International Partnerships program there are funds available to host at least one Distinguished visitor per year for a period of up to one month. Since 2011 the Institute has hosted 10 Distinguished Visiting professors (see Appendix L). The Institute is currently not accepting nominations for Distinguished Visiting Professors. However, since 2012, the Institute has been offering International Visiting Research Scholars awards of $15,000 for UBC Faculty to bring international visitors to UBC.

(C) Modify the privileged status given to PWIAS associates to address the perception within parts of UBC that PWIAS is for the benefit of an insider group. [4.6, 5.1]

As of December 2019, there are over 500 Faculty Associates, representing almost every research unit at UBC, Vancouver. The Institute hosts special events for Faculty Associates to build collegiality and campus community. They also provide an opportunity for Associates to introduce new colleagues to the Institute. The perception within parts of UBC that PWIAS may benefit an insider group appears to arise due to other aspects of the Institute’s functioning rather than the PWIAS Associates program. In particular, the way programs are adjudicated are not entirely transparent. This is addressed in Section 9, Challenges and Opportunities of the 2019 Self-study materials.

(D) If the Exploratory Workshops Grants program is to be continued, the value of the grants should be doubled to $40,000 to facilitate international participation. [4.7]

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-115 Until 2012, the Exploratory Workshops program provided $25K for a 2-3-day workshop. In 2013, the program was renamed the International Research Roundtables program and began providing up to $45K to support a larger number of International participants.

(E) Discontinue the Major Thematic Grants program in order that the funds can be deployed more effectively to develop the programs that will secure PWIAS’s place among the leading institutes for advanced study. [4.9]

The Major Thematic Grants program was discontinued in 2013.

(F) Extend the space available to PWIAS within the Koerner University Centre, preferably to encompass the whole building, in order to provide the space and sense of place necessary for it to realize its potential as an institute for advanced study. [5.2]

Since 2012 multiple discussions have been held between PWIAS leadership, members of the Board of Trustees and University representatives to explore the possibilities of extending the PWIAS space to include use of the first floor of the Koerner University Centre. However, at present, the Institute space remains almost exclusively confined to the 3rd floor of the building. The Institute has contributed funds to support the operations of the Ideas Lunch & Wine Bar, housed on the 1st floor of the building, but has not been able to extend its space usage onto the first floor for programming purposes due to its continued use by classroom services.

(G) Eliminate the current ‘hotel’ space within PWIAS and assign dedicated residential space elsewhere within UBC for PWIAS visiting scholars. [5.2]

This recommendation was not implemented. PWIAS has not been provided with dedicated residential space elsewhere within UBC. Because of that, the Institute retained its guest suites. This space provides accommodation that is difficult to secure elsewhere on campus for visiting scholars participating in the Institute’s programs for short-term stays (less than one week). Visitors staying for longer periods often need family housing and arrange accommodation off-campus.

(H) Restructure the Academic Advisory Committee to include a substantial number of distinguished international scholars from outside UBC. [5.3]

The Academic Advisory Committee was restructured and from 2012 to 2015 included 7 distinguished international scholars (from IAS Princeton, Radcliffe, Collège de France, Univ. Hong Kong, IAS Durham, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and Israel IAS). There was no Academic Advisory Panel between 2014 and June 2019 (see Section 3.3 of the 2020 External Review Self-Study document). In July 2019, Interim Director Kalina Christoff reconstituted an Academic Advisory Board, comprised of nine UBC faculty members that meets monthly. This Board can be expanded to include international representation when a 5-year term directorship appointment is in place.

(I) Address the apparent lack of coherence and communication relating to interdisciplinary initiatives at UBC, and ensure that any new institutions do not undermine the role of PWIAS. [5.4]

At the time of the 2011 external review, discussions were being held at UBC for the creation of a new research institute for the humanities. Concerns were expressed that such an Institute would undermine the role of PWIAS. No such research institute for the humanities was established at UBC and PWIAS has

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-116 continued to play a central role as an interdisciplinary hub that includes strong representation from UBC’s humanities. However, more recently, new interdisciplinary initiatives at UBC have been introduced, including the Vice-President for Research and Innovation’s (VPRI) Research Excellence Clusters and UBC’s Public Humanities Hub. It was not clear in the communications about these new initiatives how they were distinct from the interdisciplinary activities of PWIAS. Recent discussion about the PWIAS at the UBC administration level have focused on questioning how and whether PWIAS contributes uniquely to the University, rather than on how to protect its already established role as a centre for interdisciplinary research at UBC.

(J) Change the administrative reporting structure so that the Director reports to the Vice-President, Academic, in future. [6.1]

This recommendation was not implemented. The PWIAS has remained within the portfolio of the Vice- President Research and Innovation for University administrative purposes.

(K) Re-launch the search for the next Director, seeking to recruit internationally a leading scholar, who, with appropriate administrative support, will be able to remain active in research. [5.5, 6.6]

Although PWIAS has carried out international searches for the Director, all searches have resulted in the appointments of UBC scholars. Directors are expected to remain active in research 50% of their time, however, in practice the directorship responsibilities significantly exceed a 50% appointment.

(L) Exploiting fully the exceptional financial resources and advantages of location possessed by the Institute, and with the committed backing of the UBC leadership, refocus PWIAS programs so that they are coherent, synergistic and international, and so the Institute can attract outstanding scholars from around the world to interact with Early Career Scholars, Distinguished Scholars in Residence and others, thus enabling PWIAS to realize its aim to be one of the leading institutes for advanced study and also maximizing the benefit to UBC. [6.5-7]

A number of changes to PWIAS programs were implemented following this recommendation. PWIAS has increased the number of international visitors per year and has implemented changes to better integrate synergies across the Institute’s programs. Details about all programming changes made in response to the 2011 External Review can be found in the Section 2 of the Self-Study document.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-117 Appendix KK CAUT POLICY STATEMENT ON GOVERNANCE

1 Academic staff must play the decisive role in making academic decisions and setting academic policy in order for post-secondary institutions to fulfill their public responsibilities for the creation, preservation, and transmission of knowledge and for the education of students. Academic staff associations have a role to play in strengthening systems of shared governance at their institutions, and in protecting and fostering the voice of the academic staff within them.

2 Final authority for administrative and financial matters should be the responsibility of the Board of Governors composed primarily of external community representatives selected through an open and transparent process. The Board should also include internal members comprising the President and representatives of academic staff regardless of type of appointment, alumni, non-academic staff and students. Among its functions, the Board should serve as a link between the institution and its many publics, with a responsibility to mediate between them while protecting the integrity of the institution’s academic mission, institutional autonomy and Academic Freedom. Every effort should be made to ensure that the Board reflects the diversity of the community in which the institution is located. Membership on committees of the Board should be open to all of its members.

3 Academic decisions and setting of academic policy should be the responsibility of a senior academic body (typically called Senate1) committed to collegial governance. Associated functions should include but should not be limited to articulating the academic mission of the institution, determining its programs of study and related curricular matters, determining academic standards, oversight of long- range academic planning and its implementation, and oversight of the academic operations of the institution. In addition, the Senate should have unlimited power of recommendation to the Board on any matter within the Board’s purview that the Senate considers to be of import to the institution. This requires that the Senate is apprised of Board and administrative proposals or initiatives before final decisions are made and has meaningful opportunities to consider and provide recommendations.

4 Both the Board and the Senate should operate under written, publicly-available procedures and rules, within the context of and consistent with procedures and rules set out in legislation constituting the institution and in collective agreements negotiated between the institution and its academic staff association. These should include clear articulation of powers, duties and functions, including details about any delegated powers, duties or functions where their delegation has been authorized.

5 The majority of the Senate should be academic staff elected by their colleagues. The Senate should include student representatives elected by students. The President and Vice- President (Academic) should be ex officio members with vote. Other administrators at the rank of Dean and above should have voice but no vote. There should be one or two representatives elected by the Board of Governors. There should be a Speaker of Senate elected by the Senate who should have no other administrative post within the university. Every effort should be made to ensure that the Senate reflects the diversity of the academic community at its institution, and that barriers to equitable participation are identified and removed. Senators who are academic staff should be a majority on all committees of Senate, and should be elected by Senate following an open committee nomination process.

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-118 6 Academic staff should be a majority in all bodies that make recommendations or decisions on academic matters in departments, faculties, schools or colleges.

7 The President and the Vice-President (Academic) should be appointed or reappointed with the approval of both the Senate and the Board in an open and transparent process. Such appointments should be made on the recommendation of search or reappointment committees. These should be joint committees of the Board and Senate and include effective representation of academic staff as well as student and non-academic staff representation. Demonstrated ability to foster effective shared governance of the institution should be included in criteria and in duties listed in position descriptions.

8 The President, Vice-President (Academic) and any other officer whose duties include a significant role in supporting governance processes should be subject to periodic performance evaluation, with opportunities for input by all members of the Board and of Senate. Evaluation criteria should include criteria concerning performance of duties with respect to fostering effective shared governance of the institution.

Approved by the CAUT Council, November 2019.

Endnote 1 Although the term “Senate” is used in most institutions, other terms are used, e.g., General Faculties Council (at most Alberta universities), University Council (universities in Saskatchewan), Conseil universitaire (Laval), Education Council (colleges and institutes in British Columbia), Learning Council (University College of the North). A few institutions (e.g., University of Toronto) have a unicameral system with a Governing Council that fulfills the roles of both Board of Governors and Senate.

Accessed December 6, 2019 (https://www.caut.ca/about-us/caut-policy/lists/caut-policy- statements/policy-statement-on-governance)

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-119 Appendix LL CAUT POLICY STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM

1 The institution1 serves the common good of society, through searching for, and disseminating, knowledge, and understanding and through fostering independent thinking and expression in academic staff and students. These ends cannot be achieved without academic freedom. All academic staff members have the right to academic freedom.

2 Academic freedom includes the right, without restriction by prescribed doctrine, to freedom to teach and discuss; freedom to carry out research and disseminate and publish the results thereof; freedom to produce and perform creative works; freedom to engage in service2; freedom to express one’s opinion about the institution, its administration, and the system in which one works; freedom to acquire, preserve, and provide access to documentary material in all formats; and freedom to participate in professional and representative academic bodies. Academic freedom always entails freedom from institutional censorship.

3 Academic freedom does not require neutrality on the part of the individual. Academic freedom makes intellectual discourse, critique, and commitment possible. All academic staff members have the right to fulfil their functions without reprisal or suppression by the employer, the state, or any other source. Institutions have a positive obligation to defend the academic freedom rights of members.

4 All academic staff members have the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, expression, assembly, and association and the right to liberty and security of the person and freedom of movement. Academic staff members must not be hindered or impeded in exercising their civil rights as individuals, including the right to contribute to social change through free expression of opinion on matters of public interest. Academic staff members must not suffer any institutional penalties because of the exercise of such rights.

5 Academic staff members are entitled to have representatives on and to participate in collegial governing bodies in accordance with their role in the fulfilment of the institution’s academic and educational mission. Academic staff members shall constitute at least a majority on committees or collegial governing bodies responsible for academic matters including but not limited to curriculum, assessment procedures and standards, appointment, tenure and promotion.

6 Academic freedom is a right of members of the academic staff, not of the institution. The employer shall not abridge academic freedom on any grounds, including claims of institutional autonomy.

Approved by the CAUT Council, November 2018. Endnotes 1 The term “institution” is meant to include universities and colleges. Replace the term with the appropriate term for your institution. 2 See Policy Statement on Service.

Accessed December 6, 2019 (https://www.caut.ca/about-us/caut-policy/lists/caut-policy- statements/policy-statement-on-academic-freedom)

PWIAS External Review Self-study Appendices A-120 Appendix MM NOVEMBER 2018 LETTER FROM FACULTY ASSOCIATION TO UBC PRESIDENT

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