Research methodologies

A tangle of blue and white hand-drawn circles as if bubbles surfacing against a dark background with light streaks in various directions, Barbara Yelin's illustration from But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (2022)

Art and Testimony

This toolkit builds on the advice and resources shared by experts in a webinar series exploring arts-based research methodologies for constructing survivor testimonies. The chapters examine a variety of art forms—including performance, graphic novels, and comics—as approaches for documenting testimonies, conducting research, and teaching. Organized into three thematic clusters, the toolkit provides both methodological insights and practical resources available at UBC and beyond.

Interlocking shapes in moody blues and greys show textures and markings in white, in Paul Klee's Rocks at Night (1939), Watercolor and ink on chalk-and glue-primed letter paper, mounted on paper. From the collection of the Guggenheim Museum in the public domain

Trauma-informed Research

This toolkit builds on the advice and resources shared by experts in a webinar series on trauma-informed research and practice. It introduces four thematic clusters with methods of trauma-informed research and further points to resources available at UBC and beyond.

an extreme long shot of three speakers on stage at the Vancouver Public Library, with audience members in the shadows, and a camera recording the event in the foreground

What “Public Humanities” means

Check out some readings that may help you start defining the public humanities, public scholarship, and the value of this kind of work.