Acknowledgements
Rock the Boat would not have been possible without the financial, technical, and personal support of many graduate students, faculty, and staff across UBC and beyond.
First, we would like to acknowledge the vital assistance of our graduate student research assistants: Janina Krabbe, Simangele Mabena, Tala Maragha, Matthew Smithdeal, and Brynn Williams. We would also like to thank the graduate students, faculty and staff that participated in story sharing and script development sessions and offered their services in facilitating the live theatre and online workshops. This input provided a crucial foundation to ensure that Rock the Boat reflects the range of experiences that we hope to portray. Thank you for trusting us with your stories.
The resource would not have come to life without the brilliant work of playwright, Scott Button, and the talented team of actors and artistic collaborators: Ingrid Boussillon, Meghan Gardiner, Laen Hershler, Tetsuro Shigematsu, Bahareh Shigematsu, Brahm Taylor, Agnes Tong, and Matt Reznek. We are also extremely grateful for the expertise of Michael Sider and the team at UBC Studios for filming, editing and producing our scenes, the musical insights of Daniel Deorksen in creating the soundtrack for our trailer and UBC’s Research-based Theatre Lab for invaluable advice and support.
The generous financial support of UBC’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund enabled the creation of the original, live version of this project, Don’t Rock the Boat. The financial support of UBC’s Equity Enhancement Fund enabled the project to transition online, expand the scope of issues examined, and film four new scenes. UBC’s Inclusive Initiatives Fund enabled us to think carefully about the use of this resource in novel contexts and UBC’s Faculty and Resident Development Initiative Grant allowed us to tailor the resource for use in existing lab teams in the Faculty of Medicine.
The sage advice of Erin Fields and Will Engle and the financial support of UBC’s Open Education Rapid Innovation Grant supported positioning this project as an Open Education Resource accessible through Pressbooks. Finally, UBC’s Open Education Implementation Grant has been crucial for allowing us to implement the resource in a variety of contexts, train facilitators and organizers to ensure the sustainability of the resource and complete this new version of the resource.
Finally, we are grateful for the support and advice of our Advisory Board and research collaborators: Levonne Abshire, Rehana Bacchus, George Belliveau, Jacqui Brinkman, Grant Charles, Christina Cook, Julia Henderson, Michael Hunt, Lily Ivanova, Brianne Howard, Tal Jarus, Marie Krbavac, Chris Lovato, Kate McLeod, Yael Mayer, Anne Murphy, Jennica Nichols, Kathy O’Flynn Magee, Theresa Rogers, Karen Ross and Karen Smith.