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 cohorts, including 38...

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 of the problem....

Artificial Intelligence for Public Health (AI4PH) is a health research training program concerned with transformative change in addressing population and public health challenges and understanding how these tools impact health equity. The AI4PH team is excited to announce that their 2023/2024 programing is now open for applicants. We offer scholarships for graduate students, and a variety of (free!) short courses with the option of a certificate program for students and professionals. Their...

The Centre for Community-Based Research is seeking a Senior Researcher with experience in community-based research. Content expertise in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), newcomer settlement, e-learning, and program evaluation are considered assets. Learn more and apply by August 1, 2023 > #MemberNews

In recent years, there have been increasing demands for better disaggregated data (data broken down into sub-categories such as region, gender or ethnicity, or a combination of these sub-categories) to shed light on people’s diverse experiences. On July 15, 2020, Statistics Canada and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) released a joint statement committing to working with Canada’s policing community and organizations to collect police-reported information on the Indigenous...

Centre for Community-Based Research and Evaluation Capacity Network. (2023). Evaluating Refugee Programs. https://www.eval4refugee.ca/ This website helps build the evaluation capacity of the refugee sector across Canada in order to improve supports and outcomes for refugee newcomers. The Centre for Community Based Research and the Evaluation Capacity Network, University of Alberta lead this national initiative. #MemberNews

The Research Partnerships Officer is responsible for enhancing the development of strategic collaborative relationships between Wilfrid Laurier University (Laurier) faculty and municipal and non-governmental organizations within the communities that are home to Laurier’s campuses and locations (Brantford, Waterloo, Kitchener, and Milton), in support of the university’s social innovation activities. Learn more and apply here by April 10th #MemberNews

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 findings of working...

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 complex and...

Artificial Intelligence for Public Health (AI4PH) is a health research training program concerned with transformative change in addressing population and public health challenges and understanding how these tools impact health equity. The AI4PH team is excited to announce that our 2023/2024 programing is now open for applicants. They offer scholarships for graduate students, and a variety of (free!) short courses with the option of a certificate program for students and professionals. The...

Durham College is excited to share that we now have a collaborative space for our research centre, the Social Impact Hub! Located on the second floor of the new Centre for Innovation and Research (CIR), the Hub space enables faculty, students and community partners to gather in person to delve into socially innovative projects. Launched virtually in June 2021, the Social Impact Hub supports applied research projects and experiential learning opportunities that engage community agencies and...

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 students, educators, ...

The Project: Knowledge for Change (K4C) Global Consortium on Community-Based Research The postdoctoral appointment is linked to the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education . The UNESCO Chair is co-directed by Dr. Budd L Hall, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria and Dr. Rajesh Tandon, PRIA, New Delhi, India. The postdoctoral fellowship will be based at the Centre for Global Studies and a Faculty which reflects the post-doc...

As always, there is so much to look forward to in the CBRCanada network as we move toward spring. First and foremost, we are so pleased that C2UExpo, in person, is back! Please join us at Lakehead University, in beautiful Thunder Bay Ontario, June 5th to 8th, for C2UExpo 2023, Connected Communities. Collective Change . Where during COVID we hosted two online Mini C2UExpos, with a focus on celebrating excellence in community engaged research, the in-person gathering at Lakehead marks the...

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 question that Spence...

Artificial Intelligence for Public Health (AI4PH) is a health research training program concerned with transformative change in addressing population and public health challenges and understanding how these tools impact health equity. The AI4PH team is excited to announce that their 2023/2024 programing is now open for applicants. Their 2023/2024 Internship call for projects is live! They are inviting proposals from community partners to host an intern within their organization to help...

Deadlines are coming up for a number of SSHRC applications, including the Connection Grant (August 1st, 2023), SSHRC PostDoctoral Fellowships (September 14th), Partnership Engage Grants (September 15th) and more. Learn more here > #MemberNews

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 poisoning crisis was...

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 underhoused or socially...

The Centre for Community Based Research is looking for an experienced researcher with a strong history of doing community-based, participatory research with equity-seeking groups. Content expertise in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), arts-based methods, health equity, e-learning curriculum, and program evaluation are considered assets. This is a full-time, permanent position (with benefits) starting May 15, 2023. Applications are being accepted until April 15, 2023 . For the full job...