Boilevin, L., Chapman, J., Deane, L., Doerksen, C., Fresz, G. Joe, D., Leech-Crier, N., Marsh, S., McLeod, J., Neufeld, S.D., Pham, S., Shaver, L., Smith, P., Steward, M., Wilson, D., and Winter, P.“ Research 101: a Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside” (2019). About: Research 101 was a series of six weekly workshops (held from February to April 2018) to discuss research and ethics in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). These workshops emerged out of a wider conv

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

Stoneman, S. (Host). (2023, September 11). Sarah Marie Wiebe searches for strategies to resist disaster and incite joy [Audio podcast episode]. In Pretty Heady Stuff. https://soundcloud.com/user-650466923/sarah-marie-wiebe-searches-for-strategies-to-resist-disaster-and-incite-joy #MemberNews

Wiebe, S.M., Mah, K. (2023). A Hot Topic: Feeling the Impacts of Extreme Heat. University of Victoria and Capital Regional District Community Health Network. This community-engaged research project used an equity-informed lens to address extreme heat exposure, highlight the impacts of extreme heat exposure on vulnerable/priority populations in British Columbia's Capital Region District and further improve public engagement, emergency management, policy and planning in British

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

Two reports were released by the National FUTURES/forward Community-Engaged Art Mentorship Program. Gilker, K. (2023). The National FUTURES/forward Community-Engaged Art Mentorship Program Report, 2020-2023. https://icasc.ca/resource/futures-forward-community-engaged-art-mentorship-program-report-2020-2023/ Informed by research, the unique national FUTURES/forward community-engaged art mentorship program was launched in January 2020. Since then, the program has had five coho

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

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

VoicEd Radio. (2023, July 27). Preventing and addressing violence in schools with Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad. [Audio podcast episode]. Deepening the Conversation: The Latest in Canadian Education Research. In this episode, we’re looking to deepen the conversation around violence in our schools. It’s an issue that is receiving a great deal of attention in the media, but there are many inside and outside of education who believe that solutions presented don’t get to the root causes

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

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

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

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