Speaker: Henry YU, Associate professor in History, Principal of St. John's College, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

Moderator: Dr. Siu Wai WONG, Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

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Dr. Henry Yu has held two SSHRC Standard Research Grants (now known as the Insight Grant): one with Peter Ward that created a digital database of the 97,123 records of the General Register of Chinese immigration (1885-1949) for research and public history purposes; and a second on The Rise and Fall of Pacific Canada (2010-2013) that reexamines the history of engagements between trans-Pacific migrants, trans-Atlantic migrants, and First Nations and aboriginal peoples in Canada. He is also the Principal Investigator for a Partnership Engage Grant (2018-2020) between UBC and the City of Vancouver’s Chinatown Transformation Team. Dr. Yu and his team used this project and others to impact public policy and public education. They worked carefully to build upon existing collaborations as well as create new relationships with community partners both locally in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and across Canada. As Project Lead, Dr. Yu was responsible for supervising a group of over a dozen undergraduate and graduate students at UBC who conducted research, recorded and collected oral interviews, assessed and translated material in three different languages, and worked alongside both academic and community partners. He also oversaw the community consultation process, organizing multiple workshops to engage with community leaders and librarians, as well as specialists in the use of digital tools for the creation and distribution of new knowledge.

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