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Vancouver Symposium 28-29 Aug 2000

Item encompasses two videocassette recordings of talks delivered at the "Vancouver Symposium on Networks, Needles, Drugs, Risk and Infectious Disease" on the evenings of Monday, August 28, and Tuesday, August 29, 2000 at SFU Harbour Centre.

The first videocassette (labelled "Vancouver Symposium Tape 1 August 28, 2000") is a recording of the talks delivered at the Symposium on the evening of Monday, August 28, 2000. The recording begins with footage of participants awaiting the start of the talks in a lecture theatre, chatting informally. Bill Richards begins the proceedings by introducing himself as the Chair of the Symposium, the location, and the three speakers: Sam Friedman (Senior Research Fellow, National Development and Research Institutes, New York), John Wylie (Manitoba Health, Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Winnipeg), and Ann Jolly (Bureau of HIV/AIDS, STD and TB, Laboratory CDC, Ottawa). Friedman talks about networks and the analysis of elements that affect epidemics. Wylie talks about the use of social and sexual network analysis to study the ecology of organisms, and show the environment through which infectious diseases can spread. He specializes in chlamydia and gonorrhoea, and specifically why Aboriginal communities in Manitoba are most at risk. Jolly talks about social and sexual network analysis as methods to work through data and identify people of priority, and then use the data to get disease under control. Friedman and Jolly each speak for about 20 minutes, while Wylie speaks for approximately 10 minutes.

The second videocassette (labelled and misdated as "Vancouver Symposium Tape 2 August 28, 2000") is a recording of the talks delivered at the Symposium on the evening of Tuesday, August 29, 2000. As with the first videocassette, the recording begins with footage of participants awaiting the start of the talks in a lecture theatre. Bill Richards once again begins the proceedings by introducing himself as the Chair of the Symposium, the location, and the two speakers: Scott Clair (Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, Connecticut) and Dean Gerstein (Senior Research Vice-President, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Studies, NORC). Clair talks about his work with street and intravenous drug users, and in particular with the Hispanic and African-American communities in Hartford. They are examining how these communities are interacting and the risk behaviours for HIV infection in order to gain a better understanding of how to prevent it using intervention programs. They are also working towards a peer model. Gerstein talks about the outcomes of studies he conducted among drug users in white, African-American, and Hispanic communities in Chicago and Washington, DC, and how the patterns and aspects of these networks affected their risk of getting HIV. Gerstein also speaks of his interest in the outcomes of substance abuse treatment, and the relationship between drug policy and how much people are using. Clair speaks for approximately one hour, while Gerstein speaks for about 45 minutes.

Teaching records

Series consists of records documenting courses proposed, developed, or taught by Bill Richards over his career. It also includes recordings of guest lectures from his classes, and two dissertations by non-SFU PhD students that Richards mentored in social network analysis and his software program FATCAT. Records include correspondence, departmental memoranda, course syllabi and outlines, exams, assignments, evaluations, lecture notes, background literature, audio cassettes, and two dissertations.

Steve Kline CMNS 805 lecture

Item is a lecture by SFU Communication Professor Steve Kline delivered in Bill Richards' CMNS 805 course on March 18, 1991. The recording is on two audio cassettes. The lecture begins on the first side of tape 1, which then continues onto the second side. The lecture concludes on one side of tape 2 (the other side is blank). Kline lectures on his Technicians of the Imagination project, the sampling strategy he developed, and processes of statistical interpretation.

Software program files

Sub-series consists of records relating to the creation, development and running of Bill Richards' network analysis computer software and utility programs, and in particular NEGOPY and FATCAT. Records include correspondence, notes, manuals, user guides, data print outs, and software programs in digital format.

Research

Series consists of records arising from Bill Richards' research activities, computer software program development, and collaborative projects utilizing his software programs. For types of records, see sub-series descriptions.

Series is arranged into 5 sub-series:

  1. Collaborations and projects
  2. Software program files
  3. NEGOPY researchers and locations
  4. NEGOPY data analysis
  5. Reference material
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