Funded Research Projects
We list externally and SFU internally funded research projects of our faculty in the most recent twelve months. If you wish your project to be listed here but do not see it here, please contact us at edgrants@sfu.ca.
2020
| Faculty | Title | Funder | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
Sean Blenkinsop |
Developing Place and Nature-based Experiential Education Practices in Public Schools and Teacher Education |
SSHRC |
Insight |
Sean Blenkinsop |
Living Within Earth's Carrying Capacity: Towards an Education for Eco-Social Cultural Change |
SSHRC |
Knowledge Synthesis Grant |
Sean Chorney |
Mathematizing Social Issues in Canadian Secondary Schools |
SSHRC |
Insight Development |
Alanaise Goodwill |
Pandemic Experiences and Impacts of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Indigenous Communities
|
CIHR |
Knowledge Synthesis Grant |
Alanaise Goodwill |
Holistic Indigenous Mental Health and Wellness: Transforming Health Care Strengths and Solutions |
CIHR |
NEIHR Ontario |
Alanaise Goodwill |
BC Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research |
CIHR |
NEIHR British Columbia |
Joel Heng Hartse |
Underground Literacies: The Use of Private Academic Support Services by International EAL Students |
SSHRC |
Insight Development |
Maureen Hoskyn |
Development of Executive Functions in Multilingual Children: A Follow-up Study |
SSHRC |
Insight |
Maureen Hoskyn |
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World |
SSHRC |
Partnership Grant |
Angel Lin |
The Play Literacy Innovative Program: A Virtual Play Platform for Learners |
SSHRC |
Partnership Engage Grant |
Ching-Chiu Lin |
Storied lives: An impact study of COVID-19 on seniors and their community support services |
SSHRC |
Partnership Engage Grant: COVID-19 Special Initiative Partner: MOSAIC |
Kris Magnusson |
Connecting Career Development and Mental Health in Schools |
SSHRC |
Partnership Development Grant |
Amy Parent |
Raising Nisga’a Language, Sovereignty, and Land Based Education through Traditional Carving Knowledge |
SSHRC |
New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration |
Krista Socholotiuk |
Early Relationship Formation in Cross Cultural Counselling: Actions and Processes |
SSHRC |
Insight Development |
Lucy Lemare |
Do Socio-Demographic and Parenting Factors Moderate the Impact of the HIPPY Program on Children’s School Readiness? |
MITACS |
Accelerate |
Masahiro Minami |
Inclusive Resettlement: Integration pathways of resettled families with disabilities in Germany and Canada |
MITACS |
Globalink |
John Nesbit |
Teach Argumentation with the Dialectical Map |
MITACS |
Globalink |
Michelle Nilson |
Community Schools in British Columbia: Past to Future |
MITACS |
Accelerate |
Nathalie Sinclair |
The Use of 'Lesson Play' As a Post-Activity of 'TouchTimes' |
MITACS |
Globalink |
Suzanne Smythe |
A Community-based Ethnography on Multiculturalism in Practice in a Canadian Context |
MITACS |
Accelerate |
David Zandvliet |
Building a National Ocean Literacy Strategy |
MITACS |
Accelerate |
2019
| Faculty | Title | Funder | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Kaufman | Personalizing gamification strategies to improve young adult life skills training (Part 2: Support worker needs analysis and design of clinical interface) | Mitacs | Accelerate |
| Daniel Laitsch | Pan-Canadian Survey of Education Funding Structures and Processes |
Mitacs | Accelerate |
| Michelle Nilson | Scalar social learning in community-campus engagement (CCE) | Mitacs | Accelerate |
| David Zandvliet | Project: Building a National Ocean Literacy Strategy | Mitacs | Accelerate |
| Phil Winne | Instrumentation for gauging computational thinking in elementary grades | Mitacs | Accelerate |
| Beth Marshall (collaborator) | Youth, Literature, Mobilities, and Civic Engagement |
SSHRC | Insight |
Nathalie Sinclair |
Using emergent technologies to develop mathematical objects- and actions-to-think-with |
SSHRC | Insight |
| John Nesbit & Phil Winne | Coaching discovery competencies with context-sensitive prompts | SSHRC | Insight |
| Lynn Fels | Performing Mentorship: Investigating Mentorship in 4 Arts for Social Change | SSHRC | Insight Development |
| Mark Fettes & Sean Blenkinsop | Intergenerational land-based learning for reconciliation on Gabriola Island | SSHRC | Partnership Development |
Beth Marshall |
Youngsters 2: On the cultures of children |
SSHRC | Connection |
Fact-finding Survey on School Health & Nutrition |
Research Contract |
UNICEF Mapping of nutrition policies and programmes on school age children | |
| Masahiro Minami | Reviving Hope and Home for High Risk Refugee Mothers |
Research Contract | Mothers Matter Centre |
Design, development and integration of mobile technologies for primary school education |
French Embassy in Canada |
Mourou/Strickland 2019 mobility programme | |
Phil Winne |
Fostering Student Computational Thinking in Data Analysis through Self-Regulated Learning Prompts and Analytics |
U.S. National Science Foundation | DRL - STEM + Computing (STEM+C) |
2018
| Faculty | Title | Funder | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masahiro Minami | Field Feasibility and Acceptability Testing of Action-Based Psychosocial Reconciliation Approach in a Post-Genocide Rural Community in Rwanda | SSHRC | Insight Development |
| Amy Parent | Sidaxgat'ini?hl Gagoodi? (Our ability to strengthen ourselves, our hearts through the wisdom of our language and our own way of life) | SSHRC | Insight Development |
| Diane Dagenais | Ecologies of multilingual and multimodal story production | SSHRC | Insight |
| Pooja Dharamshi (co-investigator) |
Pedagogy of Literacy Teacher Education: Meeting the Challenges of 21st Century Literacies (PI: Clare Kosnik; OISE) | SSHRC | Insight |
| Michelle Pidgeon | Understanding Indigenous ethics and wholism within academic and Aboriginal community research settings | SSHRC | Insight |
| Nathalie Sinclair (with Sean Chorney) |
Gestural arithmetic: introducing early multiplicative thinking using mobile technology | SSHRC | Insight |
| Rina Zazkis | Mobilizing mathematical knowledge in secondary school teaching: towards enhanced mathematics teacher education | SSHRC | Insight |
| Michèle Schmidt | Investigating Educational Leadership for Reconciliation: Can Non-Aboriginal Female Principals Decolonize Aboriginal Education? | SSHRC | Small Research Grant |
| Engida Gebre | Context and Challenges of Using Open Data for Teaching in Secondary Education | SSHRC | Small Research Grant |
| Daniel Laitsch (with Alperin, Juan) |
President's dream colloquium: making knowledge public | SSHRC | Connection |
| Elina Birmingham | Investigating the effects of speech enhancement and compression algorithms for hearing protection devices in noisy environment | NSERC | Engage |
| Elina Birmingham | Intelligent solutions for atypical auditory processing in children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. | Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) | Team Development Grant |
| Daniel Laitsch | Preventing Extremism through Schools: A Review, Expert Consultation, Policy/Program Alternatives & Research Questions | Public Safety Canada | Community Resilience Funds |
| Mark Fettes | Intergenerational land-based learning for reconciliation on Gabriola Island | Vancouver Foundation | Field of Interest Systems Change Develop |
2021
| Faculty | Title | Funder | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
Kumari Beck Roumi Ilieva |
Post-pandemic Futures for Internationalization of the University
|
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
Robyn Ilten-Gee |
New Media Pedagogy: Designing Critical Digital Learning Experiencesp
|
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
Angel Lin Megan Barker |
Cultivating University Students' Capacity to Engage with Contentious Socioscientific Issues: Countering Mis/disinformation with Critical Socioscientific Literacies |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
Kevin O’Neill |
Understanding Students’ Choice of Course Modality in Changing Times |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
2020
| Faculty | Title | Funder | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
Lynn Fels |
Relational Practices: Play, Improv and Emergence in Social Spaces |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
Joel Heng Hartse |
Investigating Instructors’ Perceptions of Good Writing in an Internationalized Economics Department |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
Margaret MacDonald Cher Hill |
Teacher and Family Experience of COVID-19 |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
Yumiko Murai |
Investigation of Assessment Practices by Teachers Conducting Maker-Centered Learning in BC Public Schools |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
John Nesbit |
Effectiveness of Argument Visualization as a Pre-Writing Activity in Undergraduate Online Learning |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
Suzanne Smythe Nathalie Sinclair |
Investigating Technology Exclusions and Innovations Among Newcomer Communities During COVID-19 |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
Phil Winne |
Frayed Confidence Intervals Temper Confidence in Statistical Results |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
David Zandvliet |
Enhancing and Maintaining Science Education Engagement through Immersive Technologies During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic |
SFU/SSHRC |
SSHRC Small Research Grant |
Sharalyn Jordan |
Amplifying LGBTQI Refugee Resilience |
SFU |
Community Engagement Initiative Grant |
2019
| Faculty | Title | Funder | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Marshall | Little Prohibitionists: Visualizing Temperance in Victorian Children’s Literature | SFU SSHRC Small | Grant |
| Danièle Moore | Supporting Young Squamish Language Learners in North Vancouver | SFU Engagement | Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) Fund |
| Gillian Judson | Imaginative Assessment for Learning (AFL) in Post-Secondary: Exploring The Impact of Cognitive Tools on Students’ Learning, Engagement, and Demonstrations of Understanding | SFU VPA | Teaching and Learning Development Grant |
2018
| Faculty | Title | Funder | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allan MacKinnon | SFU & Vietnam: Faculty of Education 20 Years After Symposium | SFU International | International Engagement Fund |
| Paula McDowell | Creating Augmented Reality Experiences with Students to Enrich Curriculum and Build Community | SFU VPA | Faculty Inquiry Grants: Student Learning Experience |
| John Nesbit (with Joan Sharp) |
Teaching Students to Argue with the Dialectical Map | SFU VPA | Faculty Inquiry Grants: Student Learning Experience |
| Sean Blenkinsop | Teaching for Place-based Ecoliteracy in Urban Public Schools | SFU VPR | SSHRC Bridging Grants |
| Susan Barber | Refugee Wellbeing in Surrey's Schools and Community at Large | SFU Refugee and Newcomer Advisory Committee (RNAC) | Faculty Seed Grant |
| Susan Barber | “StoryShop”: A Writers Workshop for Creativity, Wellness and Self-development | SFU ISTLD | Teaching and Learning Development Grants |
| Roumi Ilieva | Examining cultures of learning and their perceived impact on the learning of culturally diverse students in a graduate course in Education | SFU ISTLD | Teaching and Learning Development Grants |
| Vicki Kelly | From Reconciliation to Indigenous Resurgence: A Digital Métissage | SFU ISTLD | Teaching and Learning Development Grants |
| Stephen Smith | Exploring Somatically Inter-Active Pedagogy within the Health Education and Active Living (HEAL) Master of Education Cohort | SFU ISTLD | Teaching and Learning Development Grants |
| Phil Winne (co-investigator) | Uncovering Students’ Enrollment Patterns Leading to Dropping Out vs. Success From The Engineering Program | SFU Big Data Center | |
| David Zandvliet (with Eileen van der Flier-Keller and Kevin Cameron) | Connecting Earth Science, Indigenous Perspectives and Environmental Education in Place-based Learning Setting | SFU ISTLD | Teaching and Learning Development Grants |
| Roger Frie | Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust (Book title) | SFU | University Publications Fund |
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