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All Bodies Dance Project
BREATHE Project
Climate Disaster Project
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Fairshares Project
Hastings Corridor Economic Development Research Project
DTES Climate Resilience Roadmap
Write to Read BC: Learning Libraries Evaluation
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Handbooks & Toolkits
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Climate Resilience Roadmap
Facilitation for Community Transformation
A Field Guide to Public Policy Collage
CER during Health Crises Handbook
Community Resource Handbook
Research Reports
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Rebuilding Through the Aftermath: Wildfire Governance, Care, and Climate Futures
Quiet Alarm - A Review of CBC's Climate Reporting
Covering Climate Elections: Lessons From British Columbia’s 2024 Election and Beyond
Community Publications
Community Publications
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Write to Read BC: Supporting literacy and connection in Indigenous communities (2011-2026)
Frontline Workers on the Back Burner: A Call for Systemic Accountability in the Gender-Based Violence Sector
Climate Resilience Roadmap
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Housing Community Engagement Handbook
Student Publications
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Community Voices: A Public Primer on News Reporting on Police Violence
Creative Approaches to Community-Engaged Research
Dignity and agency: Identifying unmet goods and services in Vancouver’s Hastings Corridor
Advancing Climate Action Through Participatory Democracy
Event Reports
Event Reports
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The Unbounded Classroom: A Symposium on Teaching, Learning and Research for Democratic Participation
Community Engaged Climate Research Idea Jam Summary Report
Radical Democracy Summer School Summary Report
Horizon Conference Summary Report
Dialogue on Affordable Indigenous Housing: Reflections
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
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Whose Knowledge Is It?
Realizing the Promise of Disaggregated Data and Analytics for Social Justice Through Community Engagement and Intersectoral Research Partnerships
Critical Futures
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5-Year Report
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Power, privilege and equity
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Ethics of CER
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Compensation and Recognition in CER
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2026
2026
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Celebrating Black Community-Engaged Researchers
Uplifting Frontline Voices Through Community Engagement
Reimagining the Public University in a Time of Polycrisis: A National Dialogue
From periphery to focal point: Taking community direction to challenge assumptions
Never let a good crisis go to waste: an unfinished timeline of the university
Reclaiming Equity, Reclaiming Ourselves: A Letter to My Younger Academic Self
Reimagining the Public University: What Comes Next in a Time of Rupture?
What if the public university trained Robin Hoods?
The Reality of Community-Engaged Research
Q & A With Judy Wu, Downtown Eastside (DTES) Climate Resiliency Research & Advocacy Coordinator
What does ‘good food’ mean to you?
Restoring ʻĀina, Reimagining the University: Reflections from Hawaiʻi
2025
2025
Overview
Introducing Yuriy Zaliznyak, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
Research Reflections: Long COVID Awareness Month
Communicating Research Through Song
From Classroom to Community: How the BREATHE Project Redefined My Path in Research
Engaging Creativity and Community Through Research
Amplifying the Voices of Those Most Affected by Climate Change
2024
2024
Overview
Supporting those harmed by sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts: A survivor-led and ally-supported research project
Thoughts on CER on a Rainy Spring Day
How the City of North Vancouver encourages neighbourly social connections
Indigenous salmon stream caretaking: Ancestral lifeways to guide restoration, relationship, rights, and responsibilities
Seeking Community Voices on News Coverage of Police Violence
Community Scholars Program Spotlight: CityHive
Who Gets To Partake in The Conversation?
From campus to community: Empowering local voices to transform perspectives on poverty
CERi Fellowship: Diversity, Engagement, and Support
The Future of Community-Engaged Research is Bright
CER During Health Crises
At the Intersection of Aging, Community and Research
The Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS (MIPA) in big data research: The Eng/aging project.
Community-engaged research with youth: What’s in it for them?
2023
2023
Overview
Introducing Wendy Pedersen, CERi Activist-in-Residence
Moving to love-based practices in land use planning with Ethical Space
Walk With Me Project
Introducing Khari Wendell McClelland, CERi Artist-in-Residence
The Myth of Canada: The Exclusion of Internationally Trained Physicians
Introducing Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
What is “Radical Democracy” Anyway?
Transforming How We Think About Democracy
Introducing Bruce Mutsvairo, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
Caring for Salmon like Family: Inviting Reciprocal and Respectful Encounters with the Land
Designing dementia-inclusive neighbourhoods
The Importance of Allyship in Community-Engaged Research
2022
2022
Overview
Introducing Dr. Dawn Hoogeveen, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
Introducing Dr. Habib Chaudhury, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
Choosing relations first: Ethical community engagement in CER
InterGenNS: A Community Engaged Intergenerational Project in the North Shore
Introducing Dr. Taco Niet, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
Introducing Dr. Dara Kelly, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
CERi Funding Program Spotlight: Alexandra Lysova
Critical Hope by Kari Grain
An Interview with Carmel Tanaka of Cross Cultural Walking Tours
CERi Funding Program Spotlight: Yu-Yen Pan
Introducing Dr. Dara Culhane, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
CERi Graduate Fellow Highlight: Jack Farrell
Introducing Rosemary Georgeson, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
Meet CERi's co-op students: Grey Nguyen and Steven Ta
Increasing social connectivity and wellness for newcomers in Burnaby: A community-engaged research story
2021
2021
Overview
Partnering with neighbourhood houses to recognize inequities in South Vancouver neighbourhoods
Finding hope and healing through CER
Local business exemplify “Building Back Better” during COVID-19
Tammara Soma on Reimagining Food Systems in Communities for Below the Radar
Namiko Kunimoto on Exploring Japanese Culture and History Through Visual Art for Below the Radar
Joseph Mwesigwa Ssendikaddiwa on the experience of being a CERi graduate fellow
Recap: Cultural Sensitivity and Community-Engaged Research
Understanding the sexual and reproductive health access of young im/migrant women: A community engagement project
Gardening Initiative Helps to Address Food Insecurity
Innovative Research That's Advancing Equity
Symposium Panel Spotlight on Research as Advocacy: Collaborative Inquiry Meets Material Practice
Symposium Panel Spotlight on Art-ful Engagement in Small Cities: Beyond the Project
Symposium Panel Spotlight on Land as Life: Ongoing Institutional Resistance and Survivance in Pandemic Times
Heather De Forest on the Collective Power of Academic Libraries for Below the Radar
Recap: Approaching Community-Engaged Research Through a Trauma Informed Lens
Empowering youth in Surrey through leadership
Introducing Namiko Kunimoto, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
LGBTQ2 Communities and SFU Students Come Together to Improve Access to Mental Health Services
Introducing Tammara Soma, CERi Researcher-in-Residence
Angela Kaida on Engaging Community in HIV Research for Below the Radar
Introducing Justine Chambers, CERi Artist-in-Residence
Jessie Williams joins CERi Advisory Board
2020
2020
Overview
Jessie Williams joins CERi Advisory Board
Recap: Remaking the Table Series Launch
Recap: Recognizing and Negotiating Community/Researcher Relations
CERi Fellow's research unmasks the impact of COVID-19 on families of children with autism
CERi Special Research Associate Kari Grain Speaks with Am Johal for Below the Radar
Lyana Patrick on Decolonial Planning and Community Health for Below the Radar
Tips for Virtual Exchange and Engaging Partners Online
Meet Jackie Wong, Community Strategic Initiatives Associate
Announcing Lyana Patrick as CERi Researcher-in-Residence
Faranak Farzan on Neuroengineering and Brain Plasticity for Below the Radar
Why Money Matters in CER
Unlock Your Research Impact: Upcoming Lunch and Learn Series
Introducing CERi's Fall 2020 Faculty-Student Research Projects
Uplifting Black Youth: Jackie Obungah on Her Podcast Series with Below the Radar
MindMap: BC's LGBTQ2-affirming Mental Health Service Finder Tool
Meet Our Fall 2020 Graduate Fellows
'We are Community': CERi Partners with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition
3 Questions with Researcher-in-Residence Dr. Enda Brophy
3 Questions with Researcher-in-Residence Dr. Angela Kaida
Recap: Distanced Community-Based Research Panel
3 Questions with Researcher-in-Residence Dr. Nick Blomley
CERi Welcomes Three Researchers-in-Residence
Research in the Service of Community
Meet CERi’s first Graduate Fellows
CERi Partners with Karen Jamieson Dance
Below The Radar: Social Transformation — with Tara Mahoney
Below The Radar: Community-Engaged Research — with Stuart Poyntz & Joanna Habdank
Recap: CERi 312 Launch
Recap: CERi 312 Launch
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