Stephanie Rohdin

Current

Research Consultant (Contract) at Rainshadow Communications

Past

Research Consultant at Cordillera Archaeology
Research Consultant (Contract) at Interior Health Authority of British Columbia
Field Archaeologist at I.R. Wilson Consultants Ltd

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Education

University of Victoria
University of Victoria

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Industry

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Stephanie Rohdin’s Summary

I have over 10 years experience in both academic and professional research practice. In general, my focus has been on archaeological, social, historical, and legal research with specializations in Indian Residential Schools in the province of Alberta, Aboriginal Treaty Rights in British Columbia, and Northwest Coast archaeology and ethnography. I am an experienced consultant having provided advice to government agencies and a variety of private companies. I have demonstrated excellent self-management, personal motivation and detail oriented attention to tasks. Additionally, I am capable of both managing and being part of a network team of coworkers.

My personal values include community development and improving the environment. I volunteer my services to the Western Canada Wilderness Committee as a research consultant focused on issues of wildlife conservation and developmental impacts on the environment.

Stephanie Rohdin’s Specialties:

Conducting primary and secondary research; Creating document collections, document reports, and file summaries; Data retrieval from the Internet, archival repositories, and other database sources; Qualitative research analysis; Communication of research results for the purposes of cultural and environmental resource management, litigation, and other legal proceedings; Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite of programs; Editing

Stephanie Rohdin’s Experience

Research Consultant (Contract)

Rainshadow Communications

(Research industry)

August 2003 — Present (6 years 5 months)

I presently hold a contract with Rainshadow Communications, a company focused on providing legal and historical research analysis services to the Federal Government. I currently provide such services to the Resolution Sector of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), specializing in claims related to Indian Residential Schools (IRSRC). I have also provided similar services to the Litigation Management Resolution Branch (LMRB) of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (2007) specializing in claims related to First Nations Land, Water, Resources and Treaty Rights.

In addition to identifying, entering, collecting, and summarizing the relevant data from a variety of information sources, I have also been responsible for:

Team and project management

Development of research plans and protocols

Ensuring quality of other researchers' work
Research Consultant

Cordillera Archaeology

(Research industry)

2002 — 2007 (5 years )

Work here included research and reporting on ethno-archaeological projects, editing of reports, artifact cataloguing and simple data entry for the provision of management plans and continued site impact assessments for the Stave Reservoir in Sto:lo Nation territory, British Columbia.
Research Consultant (Contract)

Interior Health Authority of British Columbia

(Government Agency; Hospital & Health Care industry)

2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

Research involved production of a literature review on low birth weight. This document was used to provide the foundational arguments for a proposed project to establish and implement a community-based program of intervention and prevention of low birth weight. Research was directed primarily toward young, at-risk women in the Okanagan Health Region District.
Field Archaeologist

I.R. Wilson Consultants Ltd

(Research industry)

2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

Work here included screening of known disturbed deposits and identification of floral, faunal, lithic and other cultural remains of an ancient Saanich First Nation village and burial site at Bedwell Harbour, Pender Island, BC. Previous work also involved riverside and field survey for shell midden using augers and soil probes, forest survey for culturally modified trees, and shovel testing and screening of known deposits of an ancient Sooke First Nation village site, Vancouver Island, BC.

Stephanie Rohdin’s Education

University of Victoria

Master of Arts - incomplete but granted Absence with Permission , Anthropology , 1999 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

Graduate Student Representative for the Anthropology Department's Equity Committee, Tutorial Instructor, Teaching Assistant
University of Victoria

Bachelor of Arts , Anthropology , 1988 — 1996

My first two years were devoted to a Secondary Education degree, specializing in Physical Education and English. I then switched to Anthropology in 1991 after taking one year off to travel and live in the United Kingdom.

Activities and Societies:

Vice-President of the Anthropology Student Society, Department of Anthropology's Undergraduate Liaison to the University of Victoria's Student Society, Archaeology Laboratory Assistant