Because It Lasts conference committee is glad to offer 3 travel bursaries (each of $500 CAD value) to eligible travel presenters. This year, the priority is given to travel presenters who 1) have a confirmed travel plan 2) will travel from a considerably distant place 3) exhibit financial needs.
This is our first time to be able to offer travel bursaries to incoming presenters who travel from outside British Columbia to present at the conference, thanks to our generous sponsors (see the acknowledgement page)
Congratulations to this year’s travel bursary winners:
“I am very happy to accept this bursary from the Because It Lasts conference. Going to Vancouver to present our research is an amazing journey, and this bursary comes as a great help to make the experience smoother and easier for us travelling presenters.”
Octavia Olmos-Rodríguez (she/her) is a Chilean early childhood educator from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and is currently a student of the Erasmus Mundus International Masters in Children’s Literature, Media and Culture program. Octavia will be co-presenting “The Call of the Moon: Analyzing the Representation of the Night in Children’s Picturebooks” with Gabriela María Portillo Menéndez, who is also from the Erasmus Mundus
International Masters in Children’s Literature, Media and Culture program.
Linh S. Nguyễn (she/her) is a Canadian writer and MPhil candidate studying Arts, Creativity and Education at the University of Cambridge. Her research centres on spillage and situated knowledge through storytelling to transgress colonial and capitalist norms within educational spaces. Linh completed her H.B.A. in English, Writing & Rhetoric, and Creative Expression & Society at the University of Toronto. Her debut middle-grade children’s novel will be released in 2023.
Veronica Lockyer (she/her) is a second year Ph.D. student at York University, Canada. Her work and learning have a core based in Children’s rights in Canada, specifically for youth living in poverty and most recently in Indigenous female youth transitioning out of foster care. Using an Anthropological lens, she intends on working in British Columbia with groups facing the truths of the unmarked graves at residential schools upon completion of her Ph.D.
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