Dr. Tim Dyck

About Tim

Tim is a Research Associate with CISUR based in the Vancouver office and a key part of the Institute's knowledge mobilization team.

Tim's main focus has been on production of resources for use in alcohol education and screening for risky drinking in both community and campus contexts. He has been instrumental in the development of CISUR's Alcohol Reality Check for adults and youth in both paper and online applications. He has also helped promote low-risk drinking guidelines for BC.

Tim is currently involved in supporting the Healthy Minds Healthy Campuses project (begun by the BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information in 2004). He is also participating in a working group to address implementation of campus-related recommendations within Canada's National Alcohol Strategy.

Projects

• Alcohol and other drug screening and education
• Changing the culture of substance use on campus
• Gambling online resource
• Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses
• Healthy relationships with food and substances on campus
• Helping communities
• Let's Talk Cannabis
• Opioid Dialogues
• Opioid overdose crisis response
• Promoting Dialogue

Publications

• Activities, policies and resources to address substance use on British Columbia campuses: A literature review and scan (PDF 2mb)
• Alcohol reality check (website)
• Dinner & dialogue: Engaging community in conversations about drinking culture (pdf 995 kb)
• Disability and the Phenomenological Gaze: Towards and Embodied Understanding of Addiction
• Disordered eating and unhealthy substance use among college students: A summary of the recent literature (PDF 718kb)
• Harm Reduction: A guide for campus communities
• Helping people who use substances: A health promotion perspective
• Legalization of Cannabis in Canada: Implementation strategies and public health
• Let's talk dialogue: Community conversations about drugs
• One step further: Toward a Canadian civil society voice on drug policy (PDF 417kb)
• Patients Helping Patients Understand Opioid Substitution Treatment
• The BC Campus: Where futures begin? Or a site for risky substance use?
• Understanding Dialogue
• Understanding substance use: A health promotion perspective