Fonds predominately reflects Ainley's research as a professor at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her research is arranged into thirteen subseries. Research material includes: photocopies of publications and archival material, correspondence, bibliographies, research interviews, transcripts, draft manuscripts, photographs, and other records. A series of personal records includes: retirement activities, her hobbies of art and writing, diplomas, and photographs. The series on her administrative and supervisory activities of professorship of women’s studies and environmental studies is arranged according to the major activities with which Ainley was involved and includes: meeting minutes, memoranda, reports, correspondence, employment, and other records. A series of electronic records relating, predominately, to Ainley’s research includes: draft manuscripts, conference proceedings, bibliographies, transcripts, correspondence, curricula vitae and other records. A series of professional development records includes records from conferences she attended and occasionally presented at as well as other professional development activities that she undertook. A series of correspondence predominantly consists of personal correspondence but also includes professional correspondence related to her research and occupation.
Ainley, MarianneFile consists of transcripts and notes from interviews with Dr. Marion Lowe, Hannah Gay, and Andrea Lebowitz.
File consists of interview transcript of Diane Bell in both print and digital form.
File consists of research materials regarding the life and career of Edith Berkeley, these include photocopied secondary research materials, photocopied archival materials, correspondence, and notes. File includes photo of the Berkeley's farm house.
File consists of interview transcript of interview with Sylvia Ruby. File includes archival finding aid for Dorothy F. Forward and handwritten notes.
File consists of transcript of interview with Dr. Ainley and Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk.
File consists of handwritten notes by Ainley about her research projects, as well as other events in her life, focusing, predominately on the period from 1985-1993.
File consists of photocopies of methodology articles and conference proceedings, predominately on the topic of qualitative feminist research; correspondence relating to conference session proposals; the submission of a course syllabus to a journal; transcribed notes on methodology; and a book loan request.
File consists of draft proposals, schedules and group assignment information relating to graduate teaching in New Zealand; a notice about changes to internet service at the University of Northern British Columbia; articles on historiography, methodology and qualitative data analysis; correspondence relating to book reviews; and photocopied notes from interviews.
File consists correspondence relating to research requests by Ainley at the archives of McGill University in the 1980s and correspondence relating to the citation for Ainley's article "Women and Science" for Chinook Media's website.
Item is the first part of an interview with bacteriologist Dr. Christine Rice about her early life and university career at Queen's University.
Item is an interview in Wolfville, Nova Scotia in which Marianne Ainley asks Jaye Fraser about her early life, education and the development of her career, including the obstacles Fraser perceived herself to face and her work in New Brunswick and Montreal.
Item is the first part of an interview in which Marianne Ainley interviews Isabel K. Williamson about the development of and perceived impediments to the development of her career as well as the disciplinary culture of astronomy and the relationship between amateur and professional astronomers.
Item is an excerpt from a presentation on women in geology with a presentation by Linda Scott on the role of women in the private sector scientific community and a workshop on families where both persons have professional roles.
Item is an interview in which Marianne Ainley interviews Virginia Douglas about her career as a psychologist, including her early life, the obstacles she faced and her reason for choosing psychology as a science.
Item is the second part of the first half of a conference on the history of women in chemistry and discusses the historical contributions of women to chemistry.
Item is the second part of an interview in which Marianne Ainley interviews Sylvia Ruby about her early life and the development of her career including what influenced her choose a career in science and any impediments she perceived herself to face in becoming a scientist.
Item is a lecture about Aboriginal religion in Australia given by Marcia Langton during the 6th Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Adelaide, Australia from April 21-26, 1996.
Item is an interview in which Marianne Ainley interviews Erica Kurbely about her reasons for becoming an engineer and the story of her coming an engineer.
Item is two interviews at Dr. Allin's home discussing the creation of an association of physicists in Canada and Dr. Allin's retirement and her teaching and research shortly before she retired. It was created as part of the University of Toronto Oral History Program.
Item an interview in which Dr. Dorothy Forward discusses her life at the University of Toronto, her time in student residences and the development of her career and some of the obstacles she faced. It was created as part of the University of Toronto Oral History Program.
Item is the first part of an interview in which Madeline Fritz describes her early life, her reasons for choosing to study Geology and the development of her career at the University of Toronto. It was created as part of the University of Toronto Oral History Program.
Item is the fourth part of an interview with Dixie Pelleut, a former professor in biology at Dalhousie University, about her life and academic career as research for Fingard's monograph, "Gender and Inequality at Dalhousie: Faculty Women before 1950."
Item is discussion in which Rose Sheinan, Susan Drysdale and Claudie Solar discuss and answer questions about their education and the development of their careers as women working in the sciences
Item is an interview in which Mary Pitman Baldwin, an emeritus professor in chemistry and biochemistry at Concordia University, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
Item is the first part of an interview in which Rose Johnstone, a former biochemistry professor and former Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
Item is an interview in which Sylvia Fedoruk, a physicist and former oncology professor at the University of Saskatchewan, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
Item is an interview in which Irene Spry, a former economist and professor at the University of Ottawa, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
File consists of a profile of video about William Rowan and a presentation by Ainley, entitled, "Re-explorations: science and environment in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia."
Subseries consists of materials relating to Dr. Ainley's publications including magazine and journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. Files often contain photocopies of her publications, any related correspondence, reviews of Ainley's publications, drafts and unpublished papers, and publishing and copyright agreements. The topics of these works include women in science and ornithology.
File consists of the photograph used for the cover of Ainley's monograph, "Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science."
File consists of photocopies of articles in journals and excerpts from other publications by Timlin. It also includes biographical notes on John Maynard Keynes and his relationship to Irene Spry and Spry's relationship to Timlin.
File consists of news articles on Timlin, her projects and her being named to the Order of Canada; a bibliography of her publications; and news from the University of Saskatchewan about her being given an horary Doctor of Laws. It also contains handwritten chronology of Timlin's life.
File consists of chronologies and biographies of Timlin; news articles and other material about Timlin's life; and notes on Timlin's life by Ainley.
Series contains two diplomas awarded to Dr. Ainley by the University of Northern British Columbia, news clippings, and photographs. Series also includes some of her activities during her retirement including her art exhibits, a cruise, and membership in Federation of BC Writers.
Series largely consists of Ainley's administrative activities as professor and chair of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Northern British Columbia. Material is arranged, predominately, according to the activities with which Ainley was involved, including overseeing program restructuring, coverage of the Women's Studies Program in the media, presentations to prospective students, planning for research presentations and conferences, curriculum development and retirement preparation. Series also documents Ainley's appointment as an adjunct professor in the Environmental Studies department at the University of Victoria. The series also includes records concerning Ainley's graduate student research assistants and their work with her. The series consists of memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, posters, speaking notes, correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, articles, course descriptions and syllabi, notes, printed emails, and employment contracts.
File consists of planning for and information about information sessions in Vancouver for the Women's Studies Program; correspondence acknowledging Ainley's contribution to the University of Northern British Columbia restructuring process and the Women's Studies Program; a brief description of Ainley's research; notes for a presentation about program restructuring to the planning committee of the University of Northern British Columbia; and an overhead transparency with a diagram illustrating the role of women and gender studies in the University of Northern British Columbia.
File consists of a volume of the "Child Welfare Research Communicator" with descriptions of the research projects of two graduate students from the University of Northern British Columbia.
File consists of memoranda addressed to and the curricula vitae of professors with a commitment to and proposed participation in the Master of Arts in Gender Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia and correspondence from the Graduate Studies and Research Committee at the University of Northern British Columbia.
File documents Ainley's proposal to hold the 8th Symposium on Society and Natural Resource Management at the University of Northern British Columbia. It consists of a proposal, input from and information about the city of Prince George, a proposal for the 6th Symposium on Society and Natural Resource Management to be held at Pennsylvania State University; minutes from the meeting of a group at the University of Northern British Columbia helping to create the proposal; correspondence; and a photocopy of the call for proposals to host the Symposium on Society and Natural Resource Management.
Item is a lecture given by Dr. Sharon-Dale Stone, a professor of sociology, for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia on how invisible disabilities affect women.
File consists of a draft of a brief report that outlines the historical contribution of women to science and technology and provides suggestions for how to commemorate the contributions of women to science and technology.
File consists of email correspondence related to the writing of "Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980"; blank email correspondence with attached files containing conference proceedings for Ainley's presentations, "Re-explorations: new perspectives on gender, environment and the transfer of knowledge in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia" and "Shifting Lenses: Researching the History of Canadian Women and Science"; and Ainley's request for one-term extension to her employment before retirement.
File consists of drafts of the 3rd chapter and other sections of "Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980" and conference proceedings and articles related to Catharine Parr Traill.
File consists of proceedings from presentations of "Science lessons for everyone? The writings of Catharine Parr Traill, 1802-1899" and "Colonial Lessons: Catherine Parr Traill (1802-99) and popular science education in Upper Canada"; other material on Catharine Traill; and an abstract for an article on the life of Madeline (Mach) Izowsky, a Polish immigrant who spent most of her life in Prince George.
File contains photographs created in preparation for the sale of Ainley's residence in Prince George. It consists of the wall and floor seam, fireplace, pipes, lighting and dishwasher.
File consists of correspondence, lists of participants, coding sheets, thematic analyses and transcripts from interviews conducted as part of Ainley's research for "Re-explorations: science and environment in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia."
File contains material, based on research done in Canada, for Ainley's research project, "Re-explorations: science and environment in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia." It consists of correspondence, lists of participants, coding sheets, thematic analyses and transcripts from interviews.
File consists of Residents Reports on the Canadian Women's Studies Association from 1999 and a pamphlet for a Colloquium on Gender, Science, & Environment: "Centering Women in the Landscape."
File consists of CASCA conference information including the 1992 conference program and related correspondence. File also includes employment information concerning Alysa Praamsma, and book purchase, and related correspondence.