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The world of peers' engaging in care
Canada Research Chair in Partnership with Patients and Communities recently released a tool , on peer interventions in community health,...
Nov 8, 2024


Evidence Briefs on Gender-Based Violence
SSHRC and Women and Gender Equality Canada has posted the resulting research briefs from the Knowledge Synthesis Grants competition. ...
Nov 8, 2024


Combatting Food Insecurity
Food Banks Canada conducted a PAR study involving people with lived experience of food insecurity. Learn more> Â #MemberResearch #CBRMethods #ResearchEthics #KnowledgeMobilization #Advocacy
Nov 8, 2024


Check out SFU Community-Engaged Research Initiative's latest blog
The Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS (MIPA) in Big Data Research: The Engaging Project. Co-authored by HIV long-term survivors and field experts. Learn more> #MemberResearch #CBRMethods #ResearchEthics #CBRTheory #KnowledgeMobilization #Advocacy
Nov 8, 2024


Tri-agency Training Strategy
Canada’s major research funding agencies—CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC—have released the Tri-agency Research Training Strategy to enhance...
Nov 8, 2024


Empowering Vulnerable Communities to Tackle Climate Risks
The University of Waterloo's Inclusive Resilience Project focuses on equity-informed flood risk communication and mapping for vulnerable communities in Canada. Led by Partners for Action (P4A) and funded by Public Safety Canada, including Sharmalene Mendis-Millard. Learn more> #MemberResearch #CBRMethods #KnowledgeMobilization #Advocacy
Nov 8, 2024


Community-Driven Health Transformation
At Michigan State University's Flint campus, Dr. Jennifer Johnson, the Charles Stewart Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health, is pioneering a national model for community-based health research. Learn more> #CBRMethods #MemberResearch #Advocacy #KnowledgeMobilization
Nov 8, 2024


Navigating emotional labour in grad school
Article : Auer, M . (September, 2024). "Navigating Emotional Labour in Grad School."  University Affairs. #ResearchEthics...
Nov 8, 2024


Investigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Adolescents in Alberta: Community Report
Community Report: Child and Youth Healthy Futures Lab, UBC Okanagan PROJECT OVERVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic and safety measures impacted...
Aug 28, 2024


Unintended consequences: Why good intentions go bad, and how to make positive change in an unpredictable world
An interview with Kirsten Moy By Laurie Mazur with Kirsten Moy If you’ve ever tried to bring about positive change in the world, you know...
Aug 28, 2024


Report: Facilitation for Community Transformation
Authors: Kari Grain, Khari Wendell McClelland and Tara Mahoney Introducing our new handbook, a free and accessible resource for those...
Aug 28, 2024


Promising practices and constraining factors in mobilizing community-engaged research
Michelle Lam and Akech Mayuom Abstract This article describes a project involving 13 community focus groups on the topic of anti-racism...
Aug 23, 2024


Zoom for Community-Based Research
UNDER THE SCOPE of substantiating collaborative learning and sustainable rural relationships through online hybrid research in Western...
Aug 23, 2024


Carnegie Classification Partnership With a Joint Venture of Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions
For nearly two decades, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Community Engagement Classification has recognized postsecondary institutions in the United States for demonstrating their commitment to their broader communities through engaged learning, research, and partnership practice. Now, a new initiative will bring the classification to a group of Canadian institutions. McMaster University, Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies, Simon Fraser Uni
Aug 23, 2024


CIHR new Research Excellence Framework
Message from Rhonda Kropp  Associate Vice-President, Learning Health Systems I am pleased to announce the release of CIHR's Research Excellence Framework, a major step in advancing our strategic plan commitment to research excellence in all its diversity. This Framework positions CIHR on a clear path towards achieving our vision where Canadian health research is recognized as inclusive, collaborative, transparent, culturally safe, and focused on real-world impact. We are lo
Aug 23, 2024


Knowledge Mobilization through Art: Exploring the Fusion of Art and Psychology at U of T Mississauga's Art Exhibit
The three-day art exhibit was a celebration of the intersection between art and science, which is the focus of the CCDMP’s knowledge mobilization project, pip o.  The pip o. Project  adopts an arts-based approach to disseminate our research on child development to a wider and diverse audience. Project initiatives include a bi-annual magazine for parents and teachers, arts-based curriculum that promotes social-emotional development, and community events. Learn more> #Knowl
Jun 25, 2024


Research Impact Story: The Building Bridges Together project is co-creating financial empowerment strategies
In a country as prosperous as Canada, the statistic that 5.8 million people live in poverty is a stark reminder of the inequities that persist. In Durham Region, the  Building Bridges Together project  supported by Durham College’s Social Impact Hub, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and led by Professor Lorraine Closs from the Faculty of Social and Community Services are tackling this issue head-on by empowering low-income community mem
Jun 25, 2024


Article: Imagining a Post-Pandemic Reality through an Arts-based Methodological Framework
Janes, H., Berry, A., Lyonblum, E., Risk, L., & Niknafs, N. (2023). Imagining a Post-Pandemic Reality through an Arts-based...
Jun 24, 2024


Youth-Led Research Project Magazine: RE-IMAGYN BC Combining Art and Research to Co-Create Understandings of Relationship and Gender Equity with 2SLGBTQ+ Youth
Description -Â This magazine, which was entirely created by youth, shares the findings from the first phase of the RE-IMAGYN BC...
Jun 24, 2024


Article: Systematic Integrative Narrative Review onCommunity Support Practices and Outcomes inSocial and Community Housing
Lapierre, J., Bourque, L., Leblanc, N., Roch, G., Provencher, V., Jetté, C., ... & Fournier-Dufou, L. (2024). The Systematic Integrative...
Jun 24, 2024
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