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Active Service to Simon Fraser University

Departmental Committees
- 2005-2006: Governance Task Force, School of Communication
- September 2003: August 2004 Member, Search Committee, School of Communication
- 2003, 2004, 2006: Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee (TPC), School of Communication
- 1996 – 1997: Honours Coordinator, School of Communication
- 1992 – 1995: Director, School of Communication , SFU
- 1988 – 1992: Director, Community Economic Development Centre, SFU
- 1979 – 1983: Chairman, Graduate Studies, Department of Communication
- 1981 – 1981: Co-ordinated Graduate Deans of Canadian universities to re-establish IDRC fellowship.
University Committees
- 2003- 2010: Co-Chair, Steering Committee, Burnaby Mountain College
- 2002-2008: Co-Chair, Development Studies Steering Committee, SFU
- 2001 – 2004: Chair, Steering Committee, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
- 2001 – Current Chair, Steering Committee, Graduate Development Studies Program
- 2000 – Current Member, SFU-Burnaby Liaison Committee
- 1999 – Current Committee member, In 1999 I was elected by all faculty to the Board of the Mountain Community Corporation, which I attend regularly (and teach a course about).
- 2000 – 2010: Current Elected Board Member, SFU Community Trust
- 2002 – 2003: Acting Director, Community Economic Development Centre
- 1999 – 2001: Member, Academic Advisory Committee, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
- 2000 – 2000: Chair, Senate Review Committee of the Eastern Indonesia University Development Project
- 1999 – 1999: In 1999 I was active in the development of the Centre for Dialogue, Centre for Dialogue
- 1995 – 1995: Member, External Review of Women’s Studies Department
- 1985 – 1988: Member, SFU President’s Advisory Committee on International Co-operation
- 1987 – 1987: Appeared before Winegard Committee regarding more effective links between CIDA and universities.
- 1979 – 1983: Member, Senate Graduate Studies Committee, SFU
- Other SFU Faculty Association
- 1985 – 1987: Member, Executive
- 1988 – 1992: Member, University Affairs Committee
Active Service to the Academic Community
- 1998 – Current In terms of academic community service, I support the journal Pacific Affairs and Canadian Journal of Communication as much as possible, reviewing articles and books.
University Related Activities
- 2008 – 2010: Director, Development & Sustainability Program, Faculty of Environment, SFU
- 2001 – 2004: Director, Dialogue Institute, SFU
- 2003 – 2003: Reviewer, Grant applications for US National Science Foundation
- 2003 – 2003: Reviewer, Grant applications for SSHRC Individual Grants
- 1994 – 1994: Member, Advisory Committee to Fraser Basin Management Program
- 1990 – 1990: Member, B.C. Council on Conflict Resolution
- 1977 – 1980: To study American universities’ relation with international development (via USAID, foundations, etc.), U.S. National Science Foundation grant
- 1973 – 1977: UBC professor involved in trying to create an ” Institute of Development Studies .”
- 1974 – 1975: Consultant, on finding Canadian university resources for research in Bangladesh , IDRC
- 1970 – 1971: Fellow, studying university based transfer of technology projects in South Asia, Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University
Book and Manuscript Reviews
- 2005: Columbia University Press
- 1997: Princeton University Press
- 1997: Cambridge University Press
- 1997: University of Toronto Press
- 1976 – 2006: Pacific Affairs
- 1995: Canadian Public Policy
- 1993: Journal of Developing Areas
- 1993: Culture
- 1988 – 1994: Canadian J. of Communication
- 1986: Journal of Asian Studies
- 1979: International Journal
- 1978: Canadian Literature
- 1972: Journal of European Studies
- 1971: Journal of African and Asian Studies
Service to the Community At Large
- 1999 – 2004: Municipal Government Representative, I have been re-appointed by the Mayor and Council for a further three year term as Citizen Representative on the Environment and Waste of the City of Burnaby , and attend those meetings regularly.
- 1999 – Current Director, In late 1999 I started, on a voluntary basis, the very successful “Sea to Sky Radio Society” to bring english and french radio signals in to Whistler Valley . This brings me in contact with one of my original interests, the role of communication in cultural and socio-economic development