Wiebe, S. M. (2023). Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat. UBC Press. About: For six weeks in the winter of 2012–13, Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence undertook a high-profile ceremonial fast to advocate for improved Canadian-Indigenous relations. Framed widely by the media as a hunger strike, her fast was both a call to action and a gesture of corporeal sovereignty. Life against States of Emergency responds to the central questio

Welcome to Gateways journal's latest general volume. The increasing depth and ambition of community-university engaged research and practice is demonstrated in this collection of articles which are characterised by a high degree of critical innovation and collaborative verve. Further, these efforts are global. This general volume opens with articles from South Africa, the UK, Australia, the USA, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Canada. In many of these articles, the partnerships are

Karsten, Sharon (2023). Walk With Me: A Community-Engaged Research Response to the Drug Poisoning Crisis . (Ed.) Mahoney, Tara. Vancouver: Community- Engaged Research Initiative, Simon Fraser University. About: The Walk With Me team and SFU CERi have collaborated on the report Walk With Me: A Community-Engaged Response to the Drug Poisoning Crisis to illuminates a powerful role for community-engaged research in addressing the drug poisoning crisis. Since the toxic drug poison

Reid, M., & Eizadirad, A. (2023). Naming systemic racism, Acknowledging complicity, and a commitment to action: Anti-Asian racism in the York Region District School Board. York Region District School Board. Executive summary: This research study provided a forum for Asian members in the York Region District School Board (YRDSB) to share their lived realities and express their concerns. It was guided by a key question: What are the lived experiences of Asian identifying studen

Mahoney, T. (2023). Community-Engaged Research and the Climate Crisis: Key Insights and Best Practices. SFU CERi. About: Climate crisis is already unfolding across BC: heat domes, wildfires, and floods have had devastating impacts on communities throughout the province, both urban and rural. These impacts – like other social and environmental injustices – are unevenly distributed, often exacerbating existing harms to Indigenous peoples, communities of colour, and the underho

It’s almost as if you’re at a party, but you don’t know anyone. For a while, it’s fine to float around the room, tuning into conversations here and there. But after some time, you notice a feeling of loneliness. Of, like, invisibility. Of ‘I definitely don’t belong here’. It is disheartening enough that, when reflecting on her early university experience, my sister repeatedly returned to these sentiments of paralyzing estrangement from her broader campus community. It is even

The Social Innovation team as part of the Department of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Georgian College has been developing a unique approach community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) informed by co-design practices and principles to better understand what it means for communities to flourish, specifically across its seven predominately rural campuses. With this newfound understanding, the department aims to drive meaningful community projects in its

When I began the conception and design of the Landscapes of Injustice partnership, I had no idea what our most dynamic and impactful activity would be. Or, rather, I had many ideas – it’s just that those ideas were wrong. While our team is proud, now that our work is done, to count many other achievements, we’ve been blown away by community response to what I once imagined as a minor aspect of our work – the digital archives . There are thousands of archival researchers out

Racism, xenophobia, and discrimination exist in every modern society causing avoidable disease and premature death among groups who are often already disadvantaged. This Series examines how the historic systems and structures of power and oppression, and discriminatory ideologies have shaped policy and practice today, and are root causes of racial health inequities. Furthermore, by applying a global lens and intersectional framework, overlapping forms of oppression such as ag

Solid waste generation is reaching a tipping point. Current forms of waste management are not taking care of the complex and wicked challenges related to discard and waste. This is why it is so important to engage with community and jointly address these challenges. Mapping Waste Governance, a community-based research project, partners with waste picker organizations (WPOs) to identify, examine and document grassroots social innovations and challenges in waste governance. Th

This new publication, " Participation—with what money and whose time?’ An intersectional feminist analysis of community participation" , (Fursova, J., Bishop-Earle, D., Hamilton, K., & Kranias, G., 2022) , is co-authored with community collaborators. It features Community Engagement Continuum, a template to reflect on the characteristics of technocratic/instrumental vs transformative and empowering community engagement processes. For more information or for community members

Dismantling The Master’s Tools is a toolkit that guides users through a brave and compassionate exploration of their identities, narratives, and practices as people living and working within systems steeped in white supremacy. Learn more and access it here #EquityInResearch #CBRTheory

Written by: Marian Riedel & Alison Taplay In British Columbia, the rapid shift to emergency remote learning for K-12 education during the initial phase of the COVID-19 global pandemic offered us the opportunity to capture the lived experience of various educational professionals, including teachers, educational assistants, administrators and other support staff. As a joint faculty research project situated at Vancouver Island University (VIU), regional independent schools and

Written by Ardavan Eizadirad, Sally Abudiab, and Brice Baartman Wilfrid Laurier University and Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education (YAAACE) The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the delivery of education with widespread disruptions. Many extracurricular programs that provided much needed support for marginalized children, families, and communities were shut down or offered remotely. Our research project, funded by the Social Sciences

Eizadirad, A., Abudiab, S., & Baartman, B. (2022).The Community School Initiative in Toronto: Mitigating opportunity gaps in the Jane and Finch community in the wake of COVID-19. Radical Teacher, 124, 33-42. This article explores a research project investigating community-based programming adaptation during the pandemic to mitigate opportunity and achievement gaps for Black, Indigenous, people of colour (BIPOC), and families from lower socio-economic backgrounds, particularly

A community-based research study, funded by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, is investigating cannabis use and mental health in Metis in Manitoba. In a conversation, Minister Frances Chartrand and Julianne Sanguins (research team members) from the Manitoba Metis Federation, described the project by emphasising how the research design was adapted during the pandemic, why a community-based approach was taken, and what impact they hope the study will have. 1. What inspire

Myrah, K., Rempel, K., & Laing, S. (2021). Allyship in research toolkit: A resource for those conducting research with participants of lived experience. Kelowna Homelessness Research Collaborative. https://khrc.ok.ubc.ca/resources/ The toolkit describes ways to incorporate authentic participation into the entire research or program development process, identifies strategies for engaging in a co-research/co-construction process, and outlines the benefits of practicing in this

Mahoney, T., Grain, K., Fraser, P., Wong, J. (2021). Community Resource Handbook. Community- Engaged Research Initiative, Simon Fraser University. The Community Resource Handbook is intended for community-serving organizations including, but not limited to, community groups, not-for-profit organizations, public and private foundations, and local, provincial and federal government agencies. It is designed to help community organizations gain a practical understanding of commun

Janzen, R. and Ochocka, J. 2020. Assessing excellence in community-based research: Lessons from research with Syrian refugee newcomers. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement,13:1 , Article ID 7037 . This article reflects on three Syrian refugee research projects that were conducted in Ontario, Canada to demonstrate tangible ways of assessing research projects which claim to be community-based, and in so doing gain a deeper understanding of how

The pdf below features community-based research journal articles between 2020 and 1998 written by a wide variety of contributors. #MemberResearch #CBRTheory #CBRMethods