Social justice
Learning philosophy at Wilkinson Rd Jail
Media release
New class at VI correctional centre
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Ryan Tonkin, 1st student in PhD program
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A new partnership between UVic's Faculty of Humanities and BC Corrections puts a powerful spin on experiential learning, with 10 UVic and 10 incarcerated students learning
side-by-side about big issues including justice, free will and human nature.
Philosophy undergrad Madeleine Kenyon will be among 10 UVic students who will join their counterparts on the “inside” for a first-of-its-kind philosophy course at the Vancouver
Island Regional Correctional Centre (VIRCC), more commonly known as the Wilkinson Road jail.
Tonkin is the recipient of a 2017 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, administered through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and on July 5, was named a Trudeau
Scholar 2017 by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. He is the eighth UVic student (and the first in philosophy) to win the prestigious Trudeau scholarship since the program's inception in
2004.