Angela Kaida recently spoke with Am Johal at the Below the Radar podcast to discuss how she utilizes an interdisciplinary, community-driven and ethics-based approach to her research and how it has enriched her work.

We're pleased to announce Justine Chambers is joining CERi as our inaugural Artist-in-Residence from January to August 2021.

We’re delighted to announce Jessie Williams, director of Indigenous relations in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), has joined the CERi Advisory Board.

This spring term Namiko Kunimoto has joined CERi as International Researcher-in-Residence. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and the Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies at Ohio State University.

This blog post is authored by current and former SFU Masters of Public Health students James Young, Angel Kennedy and Nasaha Vikin. It is a reflection on their experience developing and evaluating MindMapBC, a project that received funding through CERi’s Community-Engaged Research Funding Program.

We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Tammara Soma is joining CERi as Researcher-in-Residence from January to August 2021. Soma is a food systems planner and a food waste expert with a heart for equity and justice.

After a year’s hiatus due to the pandemic, Innovations in Research returns to spotlight SFU researchers and community partners who are advancing equity from across disciplines.

This blog is part of a series that features panelists participating Field Stories: Community-Engaged Research in Times of Crisis.

This blog is part of a series that features panelists participating Field Stories: Community-Engaged Research in Times of Crisis. Art-ful Engagement in Small Cities: Beyond the Project will unpack the implications of project thinking, project funding and sustainability of CER initiatives.

This blog is part of a series that features panelists participating Field Stories: Community-Engaged Research in Times of Crisis. Land as Life: Ongoing Institutional Resistance and Survivance in Pandemic Times focuses a conversation that addresses the question of how universities can cultivate community-engaged research for social and cultural sustainability in good relation with people, community and land.

SFU librarian Heather De Forest recently spoke to Am Johal on the Below the Radar podcast to discuss her role as the lead in the Community Scholars Program and the collective power of academic libraries within the open access movement.

CERi’s second webinar in the Remaking the Table series took place on Jan. 20 and examined how to approach community-engaged research through a trauma informed lens.

This blog is guest authored by Jshandeep Jawal, co-director of Solid State. Solid State was part of CERi's Community-Engaged Research Funding Program in the summer of 2020.

What is cultural sensitivity and how can we forge spaces to uplift and centre the voices, experiences, and expertise of racialized communities? That’s one of the questions that was posed during CERi’s third webinar of the Remaking the Table series which focused on an exploration of how we can strive to cultivate a collective toolkit for culturally sensitive community engaged research.

This blog is authored by Stefanie Machado, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences and a participant of CERi's Community-Engaged Research Funding Program, and Elmira Tayyar, an MPH candidate in the FHS at SFU, and the Assistant Project Coordinator of IRIS.

Food insecurity is a multifaceted issue affecting Canadian households and communities across the Nation. One community has been taking steps to change that.

Namiko Kunimoto recently spoke with Am Johal for the Below the Radar podcast to discuss Japanese imperialism through the lens of art, racial equity within universities and taiko drumming within diasporic communities.

This blog is authored by Joseph Mwesigwa Ssendikaddiwa, a SFU Faculty of Health Sciences MSc. graduate and a member of CERi's 2020/21 Graduate Research Fellowship cohort.

On an episode of the podcast, Below the Radar, Tammara Soma and Am Johal discuss the connectionions between food planning, community-engaged research, waste management and climate justice—and the ways in which we can redefine systems to create a more just and sustainable future of food.

This blog is authored by SFU Faculty of Health Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, Caislin Firth, Master of Urban Studies student, Farina Fassihi and Meg Holden, Professor and Director of Urban Studies. They are participants of CERi's Community-Engaged Research Funding Program.

A former CERi fellow reflects on the year in work, loss and pandemic life. This blog is authored by Belen Febres-Cordero.