Assisting Research for a Project Developing Inclusive Gender Based Violence Prevention Education
The student will engage with the Principal Investigator on a project to reduce gender-based violence, particularly for 2SLGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC), and disabled youth, through educational initiatives. The project examines and develops both sexuality education and gender-based violence prevention as the foremost methods of preventing gender-based violence.
Queer Joy Project Research Assistants for Data Analysis and Knowledge Dissemination (Phase 3)
The student on this project will be part of the The Queer Joy project's exploration of what queer and trans epistemologies about consent and queer joy offer the project to end gender-based violence. This contract is for the first part of the project which will involve engagement in data collection and analysis processes and which may include: helping recruit participants, supporting the process of onboarding participants, assisting with the facilitation of data collection, and analyzing data. The goal of the project is to draw upon queer and trans epistemologies to develop more effective gender-based violence prevention education--and specifically consent education--for all youth.
Locating Survivors’ Justice Needs in Post-secondary Responses to Sexual Violence
The last decade has been a period of renewed attention to, and action on, sexual violence on post secondary campuses. Amidst the new policies, programs and responses, we argue that missing from these changes has been critical reflection, research and understanding the problem complexly. In particular, there is a focus in post secondary institutions (PSI) on being “survivor centred” in their responses but very little empirical grounding for what survivors need or want in terms of responses. This is not an easy task as survivors of sexual violence have diverse needs that shift over time and place. This project aims to get a better understanding of the complex needs of PSI survivors and to test a new method for getting at the collective needs of survivors and for empowering survivors to contribute to responses. Using a conceptual framework that understands justice to be multifaceted our main research question is: What varied justice needs do those harmed by sexual violence have, especially in relation to responses on the part of students’ post-secondary institutions? This research project involves two methods of data collection. The first phase involves in-depth, semi-structed interviews with MacEwan students who have experienced some form of sexual violence. While it is important to provide survivors the space to speak to their needs as individuals, justice is a collective, social problem. In order to get at the sociality of justice the second phase of data collection will consist of several small interactive workshops.
Data Analysis and Knowledge Dissemination RA for Gender-based Violence Prevention Project
The student on this project will be part of the The Queer Joy project's exploration of what queer and trans epistemologies about consent and queer joy offer the project to end gender-based violence. This contract is for the last part of the project which will involve engagement in data analysis and knowledge dissemination processes, which may include analyzing data and participating in knowledge dissemination including the development of academic journal articles, a public-facing report, and a public event to share study findings.
Transcriptions for Gender-based Violence Project
The main goal of this project is to transcribe one-on-one interviews, focus groups, and two workshops from a project investigating gender-based violence prevention education.
Transcriptions for Gender-based Violence Project
The main goal of this project is to transcribe one-on-one interviews, focus groups, and two workshops from a project investigating gender-based violence prevention education.
The Ground Up - a podcast about urban food solutions
This is a collaborative podcast project between Sheena Rossiter (Department of Communications) and Dr. Alissa Overend (Department of Sociology) on urban food solutions. We are seeking funding for ONE student Research Assistant (RA) to help gather information on specific strategies that Canadians cities (and various organizations and non-profits therein) are using to develop urban food solutions. The podcast will be organized around specific Canadian cities and our first pilot episode will focus on Edmonton and some of the 'ground up' urban food solutions we are doing, including but not limited to The University of Alberta Farm, Root for Trees, the library's seed sharing program, and urban foraging. We will need the RA's help to summarize what programs do, how they developed, and who is included in their membership. We will also need the student's help in reaching and contacting organizers within these programs to see if they're interested in being interviewed for the podcast.
Exploring inclusive education practices
Students are needed to gather, review, and synthesize information about inclusive education and write up this information in a concise way that is accessible, engaging, and informative. Specifically, students will gather and review academic and grey literature about promising practices for supporting the inclusion of students in the classroom who are experiencing challenges related to behavioural, social/emotional, and mental health. Students will create summary reports and tip sheets with this information to share with schools/school staff in one rural Alberta Education school division.
Literature Review of Arts-based Research Methods
The goal of this project is to produce a literature review on visual participatory arts-based methodology. The review will encompass best practices and the most important theoretical orientations for visual participatory arts-based research with youth broadly speaking. Additionally, the review should include comprehensive detail on cellphilming and research with 2SLGBTQ+ youth in particular. The project will include submitting an annotated bibliography of the most central texts identified in the review, a report (the literature review itself at a maximum of 20 pages double-spaced), and a practical guide for research assistants to use when supporting cellphilming workshops.
Queer Joy Project Research Assistants for Data Collection and Analysis
The student on this project will be part of the The Queer Joy project's exploration of what queer and trans epistemologies about consent and queer joy offer the project to end gender-based violence. This contract is for the first part of the project which will involve engagement in data collection and analysis processes and which may include: helping recruit participants, supporting the process of onboarding participants, assisting with the facilitation of data collection, and analyzing data. The goal of the project is to draw upon queer and trans epistemologies to develop more effective gender-based violence prevention education--and specifically consent education--for all youth.