Research
Current Research Projects
- 2024-2025
Transformative education for refugee children and youth: Strengthening well-being and shaping futures.
Principal Investigator: Robert Williamson
Co-investigators: Ching-Chiu Lin & Inna Stepaniuk
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Knowledge Synthesis Grant; $30,000 - 2023-2025
Children's ecological imagination with augmented storying
Principal Investigator: Kristiina Kumpulainen
Co-investigators: Ching-Chiu Lin, Anne Burke, and Jennifer Vadeboncoeur
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant; $170,768 - 2023-2025
Re-storying community: Arts-based digital storytelling for community inquiry
Principal Investigator: Ching-Chiu Lin
Co-investigators: Narottam Aryal (Nepal); Bertram Bruce (United States); Chimi Dema (Bhutan); Udgum Khadka (Nepal); Julian Lawrence (United Kingdom); Kezang Sherab (Bhutan); Bhawana Shrestha (Nepal); Kristiina Kumpulainen (Canada); Rita Irwin (Canada); Cher Hill (Canada).
Collaborators: Smriti Karanjit Manandhar (Nepal); Suzanne Smythe (Canada); Anita Sinner (Canada); Kezang Choden (Bhutan); Kinley Bidha (Bhutan)
New Frontiers in Research Fund 鈥� Special Call: Research for postpandemic recovery, administered by the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat, $ $493,608 - 2022鈥�2025
Learning with the Land
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin
Co-investigator with other 29 international collaborators from Canada, Australia, Norway, Japan, and USA.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant, $200,000 - 2021-2024
Pathways to education: An international study to understand the educational experiences of refugee children with dis/abilities
Principal Investigator: Robert Williamson
Co-investigator with researchers from Canada, Jordan, Kazakhstan, and USA.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant, $199,772 - 2020鈥�2022
Storied lives: An impact study of COVID-19 on seniors and their community support services
Co-investigator: Quincy Wang
Partner Organization: MOSAIC
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) COVID-19 Special Initiative, $25,000
Past Research Projects
- 2016鈥�2021
The Transversality Hub: Towards a new mode of learning for community arts practice
Co-investigators: Rita Irwin, Anita Sinner, Peter Grimmett
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant, $139,066 - 2016鈥�2019
O Canada! Reimagining Canadian Identity: A Cosmopolitan Approach to Teaching and Learning
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin
Co-investigators: Geogre Belliveau, Peter Gouzouasis, Carl Leggo, William Pinar
Collaborator: Ching-Chiu Lin
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant, $199,022 - 2014鈥�2018
Pedagogical Assemblage: Building and sustaining capacity through mentoring programs in British Columbia
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin
Co-investigator: Linda Farr Darling
Postdoctoral Researcher: Ching-Chiu Lin
Partners: BC ministry of Education, BC Teachers鈥� Federation (BCTF), BC School Superintendents Association (BCSSA), and Teacher Education Office, UBC.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant, $200,000 - 2012鈥�2015
Youth Arts Practice as the Production of Knowledge for Community Development
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant, $73,257 - 2012鈥�2015
Citizens of Tomorrow: Investigating the Impact of Community Media Arts Practice on Marginalized Urban Youth
Principal Investigator: Kit Grauer
Co-investigators: Juan C. Castro
Collaboator: Ching-Chiu Lin
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant, $215,340 - 2011鈥�2013
Media Arts for Inquiry: Investigating Youth and Community Development through Young People鈥檚 Creative Practice in Community Media Arts Centres
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship $90,000