Awarded Research Grants in 2021

External Awards

Beyond Lip­-Service: Investigating Teacher Educators’ Pursuit of Inclusive Practice During COVID­-19

The goal of this project is to examine innovations and challenges in teacher education developed during the COVID-19 pandemic that may help Canadian teacher educators pursue more equitable and inclusive practices on a broad scale.

Dr. Kevin O’Neill (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Laura D'Amico; Robert Williamson; Dr. Marek Hatala (Co-Investigators)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Development Grants

Literacy in the Age of Data: Context­-Oriented Learning Design for Critical Data Literacy in Secondary Education

This project examines context­-oriented instructional strategies for developing secondary school students’ broader conceptualization and practices of data literacy.

Dr. Engida Gebre (Principal Investigator)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Development Grants

Learning to Care for Salmon, Our Communities and Ourselves: Towards A Posthuman Ecological Action­ Research Methodology

This project aims to catalyze communities to take immediate action to care for salmon, while simultaneously developing new, empirically informed pedagogical models that can educate communities to respond differently to the crisis on the Fraser River.

Dr. Cher Hill (Principal Investigator)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Development Grants

The New Literacies of Automation: Pedagogies, Theories and Possibilities

This project examines how those on the fringes of digital society, such as low-income and racialized and new immigrants, experience artificial intelligences (AI). The aim is to develop new literacy concepts, pedagogies, and policies to support critical awareness of AI.

Dr. Suzanne Smythe (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Nathalie Sinclair; Dr. Kelleen Toohey (Co-Investigators)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Grants

Integrating Critical Media Literacies in Plurilingual and Pluricultural Teacher Education

The overall goal of this project is to create partnerships between plurilingual/pluricultural teacher educators and critical media/communications and STEM literacies experts to co-develop teacher-validated, teacher-actionable models of intervention—engaging educators and students to enhance their critical/media literacies.

Dr. Angel Lin (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Sean Chorney; Dr. Steve Marshall (Co-Investigators)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Partnership Development Grants

"For the Next Seven Generations": (re-)Creating an Indigenous Women's Urban Leadership Framework

The goal of this project is to better understand how to develop and sustain Indigenous women’s leadership in an urban context, in partnership with a local Indigenous organization.

Dr. Michelle Pidgeon (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Rebecca Cox (Collaborator)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Partnership Engage Grants
Partner Organizations: Surrey Urban Indigenous Leadership Committee, British Columbia

Pathways to Education: An International Study to Understand the Educational Experiences of Refugee Children with Dis/Abilities

The goal of this project is to advance understanding of refugee children’s experiences with dis/abilities, as well as to identify any unmet needs and practices related to the provision of, and access to, educational services for these children.  

Dr. Robert Williamson (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Susan Barber; Dr. Masahiro Minami (Co-Investigators)
Dr. Inna Stepaniuk (Collaborator)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Partnership Development Grants

Internal Awards

Post-pandemic Futures for Internationalization of the University

This qualitative study seeks to understand, through the views, insights and experiences of administrators, staff, faculty, and international students, how internationalization at a Western Canadian university is being impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr. Kumari Beck (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Roumi Ilieva (Co-Investigators)

Funding Agency: SFU/SSHRC
Program: SSHRC Small Research Grant

New Media Pedagogy: Designing Critical Digital Learning Experiences

This study brings together two disciplines: media education and moral education, to explore ways of fostering critical reasoning transformations in students on issues of justice, identity, and society within the context of new media pedagogy for secondary school students.

Dr. Robyn Ilten-Gee (Principal Investigator)

Funding Agency: SFU/SSHRC
Program: SSHRC Small Research Grant

Cultivating University Students' Capacity to Engage with Contentious Socioscientific Issues: Countering Mis/disinformation with Critical Socioscientific Literacies

This ethnographic design-based pilot study aims to research on how to integrate critical socioscientific literacies in an undergraduate science course.

Dr. Angel Lin (Principal Investigator)
Megan Barker (Co-Investigator)

Funding Agency: SFU/SSHRC
Program: SSHRC Small Research Grant

Understanding Students’ Choice of Course Modality in Changing Times

This study tests a survey with 500 students during the pandemic, both to capture how the shift to remote teaching has influenced modality choice (remote teaching versus previously-designed online courses) and to examines the role of pedagogical features in student decision-making around course modality choice (in-person, online and hybrid).

Dr. Kevin O’Neill (Principal Investigator)

Funding Agency: SFU/SSHRC
Program: SSHRC Small Research Grant

Exploring student teacher learning through a community-engaged approach

This study explores student teachers’ understanding of teaching and learning in a newly designed teacher education course that uses a community-engaged approach.

Dr. Pooja Dharamshi (Principal Investigator)

Funding Agency: SFU/SSHRC
Program: SSHRC Small Research Grant

Taking Learning Outside with The Walking Curriculum: Educators’ Experiences

This research aims to gain theoretical and practical understanding that will support the development and advancement of best practices for outdoor learning in K-12 learning settings.

Dr. Gillian Judson (Principal Investigator)

Funding Agency: SFU/SSHRC
Program: SSHRC Small Research Grant