Date: October 14th, 2026
Time: 1 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: 312 Main St, SFU CERi Office
The 2026-2027 CERi Graduate Fellowship program is pleased to open several of our workshops to the wider SFU community. For students interested in community-engaged research, these sessions offer CER fundamentals and insights, as well as a chance to network and learn about each other’s ongoing work.
This workshop features two key sessions:
Presented by: Keshav Mukunda, SFU Librarian
Your community project will involve collecting or working with research data, which is the underlying information that supports your research findings and other outputs. Managing this data properly is of crucial importance to the success of your project. This can include handling, storing, and securing the data responsibly, structuring and organizing the files clearly, managing access to it appropriately, and thinking about roles and responsibilities for researchers, community organization staff and community members both during the project and after it is completed. This session will give you a brief introduction to planning for data management.
Presented by Stuart Poyntz, SFU CERi Scientific Director, and Tara Mahoney, SFU CERi Research and Engagement Manager
Community-engaged research draws on a rich diversity of methods because it reflects the diverse knowledge, priorities, cultures, and lived experiences of communities. Through examples and case studies, this workshop will explore approaches such as participatory action research, storytelling, arts-based inquiry, community mapping, peer research, and Indigenous methodologies. Participants will consider how different methods can support meaningful participation, shared knowledge creation, and research that responds to community priorities and contexts.
Keshav Mukunda is a Research Data Librarian at Simon Fraser University, providing research data management support and training to the university community. He has previously held various other roles at SFU Library, including liaison positions to different subject areas.
Stuart is Professor in the School of Communication and has been a Visiting Scholar at Queensland University of Technology, Griffith University, Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of British Columbia. He was also President of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People. His research addresses children’s media cultures, theories of public life and urban youth media production. He has published four books and is currently Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded research project, Youthsites: Charting the non-formal arts learning sector in creative lives, and Lead Investigator of the Social Media and News Section of the SSHRC-funded research project, IMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence on Campus. He has published widely in national and international peer-reviewed journals, including Oxford Review of Education, Canadian Journal of Communication, Popular Culture, Journal of Children and Media, Cultural Studies, Journal of Youth Studies, Studies in Social Justice, Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, and the Canadian Journal of Education, and in various edited collections.
With over 15 years of experience in community organizing and a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University, Tara has been at the forefront of innovative projects that bridge the gap between academic research and community-driven solutions. She oversees the creation and production of SFU CERi's publications and programs, including the 312 Main Research Shop and Graduate Fellowship Program.
Tara has published widely on topics related to community-engaged research and public engagement with climate issues. Prior to her role with SFU CERi, Tara was the co-founder and creative director of public engagement agency Gen Why Media, instructor with Civic Innovation Change Lab at RADIUS SFU and the Research Fellow in Climate Change Communications at the David Suzuki Foundation. She teaches climate communications in the Climate Action Certificate Program offered by SFU Continuing Studies. To learn more about her engagement work and publications visit creativepublics.ca.
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