Awarded Research Grants in 2025

External Awards

A Longitudinal Multiple Case Study of Multilingual University Students’ Composing Processes with and Beliefs about Using Generative AI to Complete Academic Writing Assignments

This project investigates how multilingual university students across different institutions engage with GenAI in their academic writing. It examines students’ AI-supported composing processes alongside their reflections on decision-making, literacy development, and academic integrity.

Dr. Joel Heng Hartse (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Daniel Chang, Dr. Ismaeil Fazel (Co-applicants)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Grant

Ethical Elementary Teacher Mentorship in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty: Responding to the Calls for Reconciliation and Justice at the School District Level

This project examines an Indigenous-led relational mentorship model that supports teachers in advancing reconciliation, Indigenous sovereignty, and systemic educational change. It evaluates changes in teacher understanding, implementation barriers, and the model’s potential to improve public education for Indigenous students and communities in BC.

Dr. Jeannie Kerr (Principal Investigator)
Q’um Q’um Xiiem Dr. Jo-ann Archibald (Co-applicant)
Dr. Chastity Desjarlais, Ms. Christine Stewart (Collaborators)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Grant

Ask the Teachers: How are Jewish Identity and Antisemitism Approached in Canadian Public Schools?

By centring Jewish teachers’ voices, this mixed-methods research study examines how education policies, resources, and school practices construct and address Jewish identity and antisemitism in Canadian K–12 schools. Its findings will inform EDI frameworks, training, policy resources, and inclusive school environments that support well-being and belonging.

Dr. Lilach Marom (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Emily A. Caruso Parnell, Lauren Rossi (Co-applicants)
Dr. Sandra S. Acker, Dr. Robert Brym, Dr. Richard Menkis (Collaborators)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Insight Grant

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


Co-Creating Teacher Professional Development to Foster Racial Literacies and Navigate Digital Racial Identities in Secondary Education

This project will collaborate with secondary school teachers in Canada and the U.S. to co-develop a digital racial literacy professional development program. Through case studies and digital design activities, teachers will explore racial identities, racism, and digital technologies while developing classroom lessons. The research will examine how teachers’ understanding and approaches to racial literacy evolve.

Dr. Robyn Ilten-Gee  (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Pooja Dharamshi (Co-applicant)

Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation

BC First Nations Women's 2SLGBTQQIA+ self-determination, rematriation & research governance initiative

This initiative will bring together BC First Nations women and 2SLGBTQIA+ leaders and mentees to strengthen relationships, share knowledge, and build alliances. Activities include expanding the Matriarchal Leadership Circle, finalizing the BC First Nations Self-Determination, Repatriation, and Research Network, and hosting the third annual summit on self-determination, rematriation, and research governance. 

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

International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership

Aid to Scholarly Journals grants support Canadian scholarly dissemination by funding innovative activities and helping journals cover the costs of publishing articles, digital publishing, and distribution through Canadian not-for-profit platforms.

Dr. Daniel Laitsch (Principal Investigator)

Funding Agency: SSHRC
Program: Aid to Scholarly Journals

Internal Awards

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 (2025)

Welcome Home Dear Ancestor: The Ni'isjoohl Rematriation Documentary

Dr. Amy Parent

Agency: SFU
Program: University Publication Fund

 

 

* Please note we only list co-investigators and collaborators affiliated with the Faculty of Education at SFU.