Research

  • 2023-2024 Principal Investigator, SSRC Connections Grant, Cultivating Imagination: Leading Toward A Just Future Project--$16,500
  • 2021-2023 Principal Investigator, SSHRC Small Grant, Taking Learning Outside with The Walking Curriculum: Educators’Experiences—$7,000
  • 2021-2023 Principal Investigator, Imaginative Leadership Education: Graduate Students’ Experiences Learning about Leadership and Imagination Through Imaginative Pedagogies
  • 2019-2020 Principal Investigator, SFU, Imaginative Leadership: Community-engaged Exploration into Imaginative Leadership and an Imaginative Schools Network.
  • 2019-present Co-Investigator, Surrey School District/Network of Inquiry and Indigenous Education Project: Inquiry Into Imaginative Ecological Teaching Practices and First People’s Principles for Learning. 
  • 2019-2020 Principal Investigator, SFU, Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines (ISTLD) Grant. Imaginative Assessment for Learning (AFL) in Post-Secondary: Exploring The Impact of Cognitive Tools on Students’ Learning, Engagement, and Demonstrations of Understanding—$5,000
  • 2019-2021 Advisory Board, NSF-funded research project: Conferences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imaginative Thinking in Informal STEM Environments (Museum of Science, Boston)—$249,996
  • 2018-2020 Advisory Board, NSF-funded research project: Collaborative Research:  Design and Development of Transmedia Narrative-Based Curricula to Engage Children in NGSS and Engineering Design (Smith College, USA)—$2,500,622
  • 2015 Primary Applicant/Coordinator, Professional Online Scholarship & Training Initiative, Simon Fraser University. Project: Development/launch of online graduate certificate in Imaginative Education—$110,000
  • 2014 Co-Applicant, SSHRC Connections Grant.  Project:  Strategies for expanding adoption and adaptation of Imaginative Education programs—$48, 936
  • 2014 Co-Applicant, SFU, Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines (ISTLD) Grant. Project: Teaching about Imaginative Education imaginatively—$5000
  • 2012-2013 Academic Coordinator/Co-Initiator, Imaginative Education Research Group (IERG) Grant Partnership with University Gabriel Minstrel, Santiago, Chile—$115,000 
  • 2012 Co-Applicant, SSHRC-Public Outreach Grant Open Category Project: Bringing "Learning in Depth" to K-12 classrooms—$77,950
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