Dedyukina, L., Wolki, C., Wolki, D., Wesche, S. D., Kenny, T. A., & Skinner, K. (2023). Process Evaluation of a Cooking Circle Program in...

Alzaghoul, A., Rahimpoor-Marnani, P., Yunis, K., Alamgir, A., Alghalyini, B., & Tamim, H. (2023). Characteristics of Self-Rated Oral Health among Syrian Refugee Parents in Ontario. International Journal of Dentistry , 2023 . This is a collaborative community-academic partnered research article, with Access Alliance: Multicultural Health and Community Services and partners. Canada has been hosting Syrian refugees since early 2015. Almost half of the Syrian refugee population l

Below are three resources, a community report, technical report, and toolkit, generated by the Kelowna Homelessness Research Centre (KHRC) on Lived/Living Experience Circle on Homelessness. Community Report Rempel, K., Griffiths, S., Lloyd-Smith, J., Kelly, S., Hines, B., & Kirk, A. (2023) Community Report: Exploring Opportunities for a Penticton Lived/Living Experience Circle This community-based research project was designed to support the Central Okanagan Journey Home Soci

Sioui, G., and Shawayahamish, A. (2023). Dewemaagannag : My Relations Indigenous Engagement Guide. Concordia University Office of Community Engagement. Created by the Office of Community Engagement at Concordia University, Dewemaagannag: My Relations is a self-reflection guide that provides key principles and values to guide any non-Indigenous individual or oganization who wish to decolonize relationships with Indigenous communities. #EquityinResearch #ResearchEthics

Eizadirad, A. (2023, October 28).  Challenging the norm: Equity, diversity, and education with Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad  [Audio podcast episode].  SpeakUP! International.       Are you ready to challenge the status quo? Educator and advocate for equity and diversity, Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad, brings us on an enlightening journey through the complexities of fostering equity and diversity in education. With his strategic and meticulous approach, he highlights the importance of self-c

Eizadirad, A., Abawi, Z., & Campbell. A. (2023). Enacting anti-racism and activist pedagogies in teacher education: Canadian perspectives. Canadian Scholars Press. (286 pages). Enacting Anti-Racist and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education is a timely edited collection that examines the complexities, challenges, spaces of resistance, and possibilities when faculty—specifically Black, Indigenous, and racialized faculty—advocate and implement anti racism approaches and ped

MacLeod, L. (2021). More Than Personal Communication: Templates For Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies , 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.135 Abstract: In this project report, I introduce the citation templates for Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers that I created in partnership with the staff of the NorQuest Indigenous Student Centre. These citation templates have been adopted/linked to

The Access to Public Washrooms in Guelph Project, a collaboration between the City of Guelph, the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics (U of G), and the Guelph Lab, is working to identify ways to improve access to public washrooms in the City of Guelph. The now-published Maps Report showcases what type of washrooms are available and when washrooms are available at different times of year, different times of day, and different days of the week. Already in its nex

Griffin Epstein, Dawnmarie Harriott, Andre Hermanstyne, Suwaida Farah, Madelyn Gold, Lindsay Jennings, Michael Nurse, Maria Scotton and Julia Walter (2023). Supporting Peer Work . Working for Change. Toronto Drop-In Network. George Brown College. This report summarizes research findings of the Supporting Peer Work (SPW) research project, which investigated the working conditions of people in peer positions at social service agencies across the GTA. The report summarizes findi

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

Stephen L. Esquith, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Philosophy Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) More than 60 years ago, the landlocked west African country of Mali was regarded as a developing nation moving toward democracy. However, since the coup d'état in 2012, the country has faced an increasing amount of violence and is currently governed by military junta. Conflicts between differing ethnic groups as well as tensions between armed government forces a

Ilyniak, S. (2022). Make-work methodology: Canadian homelessness research and its role in austerity. Radical Housing Journal, 4(2), 139-156. DOI: 10.54825/HJAT4040 Observations from the frontlines of the Canadian homelessness research community demonstrate that it largely constitutes ‘makework’: activities carried out to keep busy and thus, perpetuate the non-profit sector and maintain the status quo. It achieves this through its conceptualization of socio-economic issues an

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, TriCouncil Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, December 2022. “Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada.” This is the most recent policy statement of the three federal research agencies on ethical research involving humans. Chapter 9 (pages 146 to 182) out

This new publication, "Centering equity and lived experience: implementing a community-based research grant on cannabis and mental health." (Obegu, P., Armstrong, J., & Bartram, M., 2022), the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) shares insights from an innovative program that funded and supported 14 community-based research projects across the country on mental health and cannabis. Read the article here #CBRMethods #EquityInResearch #MemberResearch