Student Publications

The research report, Community Voices: A Public Primer on News Reporting on Police Violence offers a practical review of the community impacts of, helpful and harmful narrative patterns in, and recommended standards for reporting on police violence. Through participatory analysis conducted in partnership with the Unlocking the Gates Services Society, these findings have been developed by community members who have experienced police violence to offer guidance to journalists, editors, and others who are interested in critical heart-based storytelling. The Student Co-Lead on this project, Emily R. Blyth, developed the research behind this publication through her time with the 2023-2024 CERi Graduate Fellowship program as a part her doctoral research which examines policing practices in Canada as a source of health inequity. This action-driven and accessibly written publication centers the voices of impacted community members to support the difficult work of reporting on police violence in ways that can expose the harms that police cause and that refuse to perpetuate those harms though uncritical narratives.

The Creative Approaches to Community-Engaged Research edited publication is an invitation to leverage creative methods in CER, whether for the first time or as another step in your current community-engaged research and practice. The publication's editors, Shaghayegh Bahrami, Emily R Blyth, and Jihyun Park, and all lead contributors in the publication are members of the 2023-2024 CERi Graduate Fellowship program. These articles reflect the expansive ways that graduate research at SFU has been influenced by CERi Fellowship Program. Graduate students or emerging community-engaged researchers may particularly benefit from the frameworks, tools, and case studies introduced in this publication.