We are delighted to congratulate the three recipients of the 2025–2026 Catalyzing Engaged Digital Scholarship (CEDS) Grant, co-presented by DiSA and UBC’s Public Humanities Hub, which provides $10,000 plus in kind, to support for collaborative critical inquiry and technological innovation.
(left) Associate Professor Patrick Parra Pennefather (Theatre and Film) was awarded for AI, Derivative Works, Emerging Laws, and the Future of Creativity: A Symposium, a policy-focused project bringing together artists, legal experts, and developers to address intellectual property conflicts raised by generative AI.
(centre) Assistant Professor Alexander Ross (School of Information) was awarded support for Playful Engagements: Catalyzing Digital Game-Based Approaches to Teaching and Research, a workshop series and forum that repositions games and play as established learning tools and methodologies.
(right) Professor Kimberly Huyser (Sociology) project Tracing Settler-Colonial Logics in Canadian Legislation and Legal Rulings, will Indigenize large language models to analyze over 121,700 Canadian court documents and legislative texts from 1870 to the present, tracing the systematic patterns through which Canadian law has worked to displace Indigenous ties to traditional territories.