Prison Arts in Canada: Building a National Network
This grant supported a 3-day symposium in October 2025 that brought together people with lived experience of incarceration with artists, activists and scholars working in the field of Prison Arts to build a robust national network for knowledge exchange and mobilization.
Dr. Lynn Fels (Principal Investigator)
Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Connection Grant
Tracking and understanding shifts in pedagogical relationships in the era of Generative AI
This project harnesses the experience sampling method to generate high-quality, high-frequency data about the simultaneous evolution of students’ use of generative AI tools and their understanding and experience of pedagogical relationships, cutting across public high schools, a traditional university a polytechnic institute, and youth maker spaces.
Dr. Kevin O’Neill (Principal Investigator)
Laura D'Amico; Shawn Bullock; Cary Campbell; Yumiko Murai (Co-applicants)
Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Development Grant
How do teachers teach science through history when the histories spark potentially heated socio-political debates?
This study builds on calls for a "sociopolitical turn" in science education by exploring how K-12 teachers in Brazil, US, UK, Canada, Chile, and Colombia use the History of Science (HoS) to navigate sociopolitical themes and the challenges they face in engaging students in meaningful discussions about the role of science in society.
Dr. Cristiano Barbosa de Moura (Principal Investigator)
Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Development Grant
BC First Nations Women's 2SLGBTQQIA+ self-determination, rematriation & research governance initiative
This outreach activity has three interconnected priorities and one event that will enable BC FN women and 2SLGBTQIA+leaders and mentees to learn from each other, build alliances, and take the lead in developing a precedent-setting research-informed initiative: 1) build reciprocal relationships with BC First Nations; 2) extend and renew membership in the Matriarchal Leadership Circle; 3) finalize the BC First Nations Self-Determination, Repatriation, & Research Network; and 4) run the 3rd annual B.C. First Nations Women’s, 2SLGBTQQIA+ Self-Determination, Rematriation & Research Governance Summit.
Dr. Amy Parent (Principal Investigator)
Gloria Lin (Co-applicant)
Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Connection Grant
Jews and antisemitism in the EDI landscape of Canadian universities (Phase 2)
The second phase will survey and interview faculty members and staff at Canadian postsecondary institutions who have observed or experienced antisemitism in their institutions, filling a quantitative and scale gap in the scholarship on Jewish identity in Canadian higher education.
Dr. Lilach Marom (Principal Investigator)
Funding Agency:
Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation
Developing a culturally responsive strategy to advance child health equity
This funding will support Dr. Hou's research program over the next five years, which will focus on culture as a central driver of child health equity and will co-create of a strategy that is informed by the lived experiences of racialized youth and families and cuts across the individual level (child, family, clinicians) and the systems level (hospitals, community clinics).
Dr. Sharon Hou (Principal Investigator)
Funding Agency:
Michael Smith Health Research BC
Program: Scholar Program
5 University Consortium (5UC) Travel Grant
Highlighting Biocultural Approaches to Climate and Environmental Learning in Tanzania" at 2nd Annual 5UC Conference (5UCC) hosted by Sokoine University of Agriculture from September 30 – October 3, 2025 in Morogoro, Tanzania
Dr. David Zandvliet
Agency:
SFU Community Trust Endowment Fund
Program: 5UC Travel Grant
A Qualitative Case Study of a Multilingual Students Composing Processes When Using Generative AI to Complete Academic Writing Assignments
This pilot study investigates the use of GenAI in higher education through screen-recording technology and interviews, focusing on multilingual student’s practices of using generative AI to complete academic writing assignments, their understanding of the impact of GenAI on their language and literacy learning, and how academic integrity affects their decisions about whether and how to use GenAI.
Dr. Joel Heng-Hartse (Principal Investigator)
Agency: SFU/SSHRC
Program: SSHRC Small Research Grant
German Translation: Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust
Dr. Roger Frie
Agency: SFU
Program: University Publication Fund
Book: Tuning in: A new theory of sound, music and instruments
Dr. Cary Campbell
Agency: SFU
Program: University Publication Fund - Rapid Response
Scholarly Journal: Science & Education
Dr. Cristiano B. Moura
Agency: SFU
Program: University Publication Fund
Welcome Home Dear Ancestor: The Ni'isjoohl Rematriation Documentary
Dr. Amy Parent
Agency: SFU
Program: University Publication Fund
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