Series consists of records relating to Mark Winston's family and his academic and employment career and includes personal correspondence with family and friends; elementary and high school report cards and university transcripts; student employment correspondence and records; Simon Fraser University career records and curriculum vitae; research and teaching awards; published media stories about Winston's research; and childhood photographs of Winston, his family, friends, as an academic at SFU, colleagues, annual photos of his research students nicknamed the "Swarm Team," places, and events.

Records include correspondence, transcripts, reports, research notes, application forms, certificates, publications, photographs, and slides.

Series is arranged into 7 sub-series:

1. Personal correspondence
2. Education
3. Employment correspondence
4. SFU career records
5. Awards
6. Media
7. Photographs

The fonds consists of records created and received by Mark Winston as a young scholar; biology professor at Simon Fraser University; professor and fellow with SFU's Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue (USD) program and Centre for Dialogue; instructor in related dialogue, facilitation, and leadership courses and programs; author; and consultant in the field of apiculture, as well as dialogue and facilitation. The fonds also consists of records relating to the development of the Centre for Dialogue and its programs by Winston in his capacity as the Centre's academic director. It also includes official university records documenting the establishment, development, and operation of the USD program by Winston as director of the program.

Activities, topics and events documented include correspondence with family, friends and colleagues; education and career records; research awards; SFU teaching notes, course outlines, and exams; Bee Masters course notes and planning records; graduate student supervision files; research notes, book drafts, manuscript submissions and published copies; financial working papers and grant applications; consulting correspondence; organization of the Apimondia '99 conference held in Vancouver; participation in local and international professional apiculture and other organizations; and the establishment and administration of the USD and Centre for Dialogue programs.

The types of documents include correspondence, transcripts, contracts, reports, research notes, agendas and minutes, certificates, budget reports, books, newspapers and journals, photographs, teaching slides, interview tapes, and audio visual materials.

Fonds is arranged into 9 series:

1. Family, education and career records
2. Correspondence
3. Teaching records
4. Research records
5. Grant and funding records
6. Consulting records
7. Apimondia '99 Conference
8. Professional organizations
9. Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue and Centre for Dialogue records

Series consists of records relating to Mark Winston's position as a professor of Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University, as a professor and Fellow in SFU's Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue program and Centre for Dialogue, and as an instructor in related dialogue, facilitation, and leadership courses and programs. Of particular note are the Knowledge Network "Bees and Beekeeping" televised course written and delivered by Winston; the Bee Masters course offered to the public; graduate student supervision and research records; and two SFU Apiculture "Heavenly Honey" t-shirts. Also included are lecture notes for one pre-SFU course taught by Winston.

Records include correspondence, lecture notes, handouts, assignments, exams, working papers, reports, certificates, photographs, slides, and audio-visual materials.

Series is arranged into 6 sub-series:

1. Pre-SFU courses
2. SFU courses
3. Bee Masters course
4. SFU graduate student files
5. Audio-visual and photographic materials
6. Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue and related courses

Series consists of records relating to Mark Winston's scholarly research and publications and includes research notes and working papers on apiculture and biology; work with artist Aganetha Dyck; newspaper and journal articles appearing in "Bee Culture," "The Vancouver Sun," "The Globe and Mail," "New York Times," and appearance on National Public Radio in the United States; research notes, drafts and published versions of scientific manuscripts; books authored by Winston; speeches, slides, and overheads used at local, national and international conferences and presentations; television interviews and media stories about Winston's research; and photographic slides pertaining to field research primarily on beekeeping, but also entomology and marine biology.

Records include correspondence, working papers, reports, contracts, interviews, draft manuscripts, publications, slides, and audio-visual materials.

Series is arranged into 6 sub-series:

1. General research
2. Newspaper and journal articles
3. Manuscripts
4. Books
5. Conferences and presentations
6. Audio-visual and photographic materials