The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has awarded Partnership Development Grants to two CMS faculty affiliates.
Partnership Development Grants
SSHRC Partnership Development Grants award between $75,000 and $200,000 in value for a duration of between one and three years. They support the development of partnerships or the design and testing of new partnership approaches to nurture existing and emerging opportunities for research collaboration, best practices and/or models that can be adapted by others or scaled up to a regional, national or international level.
Congratulations to Dr. Anne Murphy and Dr. Hongxia Shan for their awarded projects!
Anne Murphy (History)
The Eradication of Caste: Building community-university partnerships for change
Co-applicants: Priti Narayan (UBC), Suraj Yengde (Harvard University)
Collaborator: Jai Birdi (Chetna Association of Canada)
Partners: Ambedkarite International Co-Ordination Society, Chetna Association of Canada
“Caste” is an axis of discrimination on the basis of ancestry, and it impacts approximately up to 2.5 million South Asians in Canada (given the percentage of marginalized castes in South Asia itself). This Partnership Development grant builds on recent high-profile commitments in the US and Canada to the recognition of caste in discrimination policies in a range of domains, including municipal, institutional, and educational. It extends an existing partnership between the Chetna Association of Canada and the University of British Columbia to build knowledge and understanding of the experiences of Dalit community members, and of caste in Canada, and to promote awareness of caste discrimination.
Hongxia Shan (Educational Studies)
Adult Learning and Education in Immigrant Settlement and Integration (ALE-in-ISI) Partnership
Co-applicants: Andreas Martin (Fern Universitat Hagen), Antony Chum (York University), Jude Walker (UBC), Shibao Guo (University of Calgary), Thomas Sork (UBC)
The partnership project involves the development of a research partnership in Adult Learning and Education in Immigrant Settlement and Integration (ALE-in-ISI) among researchers and community practitioners in Canada and Germany. The goal of the partnership is to enable trans-local and transnational learning, knowledge generation, and “transfer” among ALE practitioners and researchers on the constitution of the ALE systems intended to promote immigrant integration. The partnership has four objectives: 1) To compare and develop a systematic overview of the policies, provision, and governance of ALE programs for immigrants across cities since 2015 after the Syrian refugee crisis; 2) To identify how immigrant integration is imagined and approached by ALE practitioners and policymakers; 3) To explore relationships among program provision, program participation and integration outcomes; and 4) To build the capacity of ALE researchers and practitioners to inform dialogues over policies and programs in relation to immigrant integration.
Collaborators: Abigail Cameron (United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society), Alexandra Ioannidou (German Institute for Adult Education), Antje Ellermann (UBC), Charlie Wang (Centre for Newcomers) Christiane Hof (Goethe University Frankfurt), David Lee (MOSAIC – Multilingual Orientation Service Association for Immigrant Communities), Elena Ignatovich (UBC), Gong-Li Xu (Employment and Social Development Canada), Josef Schrader (German Institute for Adult Education), Kapil Regmi (UBC), Katherine Entigar (University of Toronto), Katrin Kaufmann-Kuchta (German Institute for Adult Education), Kiran Mirchandani (University of Toronto), Kjell Rubenson (UBC), Koyali Burman (Vancouver Local Immigration Partnership), Michael Bernhard (Goethe University Frankfurt), Sally Zhao (The Immigrant Education Society) Sandra Schinnerl (UBC), Susan Sadler (ACCES Employment)
Partner: German Institute for Adult Education
