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.
Graphic Designer Needed for Research on Gender-based Violence
For this project the student will be creating social media materials and infographics for research on gender-based violence. The work will also involve developing an existing project website. Familiarity with Wordpress and Google Sites is required. The projects the student will be creating media materials for focus on gendered violence in two ways. They firstly investigate feminist methodology and pedagogy related to gender-based violence in order to build understanding about how to best prevent and respond to this violence. A second and larger part of the research aims to address gender-based violence against 2SLGBTQI+ people. This research examines how centering queer joy in conversation about gendered violence disrupts the cultural norms such as homophobia, transphobia, racism, and ableism which lead to gendered violence. The student will be comfortable and enthusiastic about creating materials for research on gendered violence and 2SLGBTQ+ communities.
Level Up - Drug Legalization in Canada and Around the World
Comprehensive documentary scan of the status of drug legalization in a number of relevant jurisdictions Ongoing monitoring and analysis of the implementation of British Columbia's federal exemption from criminal law drug statutes Ongoing monitoring and analysis of the state of Canadian federal pardon laws pertaining to cannabis legalization
Level Up - Sociology Departments in Canada Review
The goals for this project are to review the website for all Sociology departments in Canada to determine course requirements.
Transcription for Project- Duo-ethnographic Enquiry on Consent as Pedagogy
The student will be responsible for transcribing two multi-hour interview recordings from a project titled "Consent as pedagogy: A duoethnographic dream-mapping inquiry into the (im)possibilities of consent in K-20 schools." The student will also be responsible for drafting an article based on the transcripts. The project is a duoethnographic (Sawyer & Norris, 2012) dream-mapping project (Cavanaugh, 2022), where two educator-researchers reflect on how consent was absent in theory K-20 experiences and restory (Coleman, 2020; Thomas & Stornaiuolo, 2016) consent as a pedagogical framework. Through dialoguing and creating dream-maps, they imagine consent as an anticolonial, antiracist, queer/trans, femme-inist, crip, and mad logic. The findings of this project will contribute to education research aiming to develop anti-violent, trauma-informed K-20 schools.
Level Up: Barriers to Accessing ID with Neighborhood Empowerment Team Phase 1
Students will work with Dr. Milne to complete a project for NET (The Neighborhood Empowerment Team) that (a) examines the barriers and needs related to accessing ID among diverse population groups in Edmonton to further the understanding of perspectives and experiences of these individuals and (b) offers considerations and potential solutions to address these barriers and needs.
2: Literature Review of Gender-based Violence Against Trans & Non-binary People
This contract ($450) involves working with another student who is the student team lead to undertake a literature review and produce a report on the findings. Students will be reviewing and synthesizing literature on gender-based violence against and among trans and non-binary people (approximately aged 14 to 35) as part of a larger project researching educational solutions to prevent gender-based violence. The larger project is exploring how trans and non-binary people are often excluded from research on gender-based violence due to the underlying cis-heteronormativity in how gender-based violence is imagined. As such, the ways that trans and non-binary people encounter rape myths are not accounted for in the literature, and this constitutes a major gap since rape myths are the central force behind rape culture. We need to understand how trans and non-binary people encounter rape-supportive attitudes to better know how to prevent and respond to survivors who are trans and non-binary.
Literature Review: Trauma-informed Pedagogy Related to Gender-based Violence
The student's goal on this project is to produce a literature review on trauma-informed pedagogy related to the topic of gender-based violence. The literature review will contribute to a broader project that is investigating how contemporary conversations about sexual violence post-#MeToo have seeped into classroom conversation at post-secondary institutions (both in courses that are directly on the topic on sexual violence and those that are not) and require educators to be able to navigate these conversations in trauma-informed ways. There is a gap in the literature pertaining to best practices for effectively engaging in challenging classroom dialogue about gender-based violence using a trauma-informed approach, and this project will contribute to theory and praxis related to addressing these challenges.
Literature Review: Methods for Trauma-informed Research on Gender-based Violence
The main goal of this project is for the student to undertake a literature review and produce a report of literature on trauma-informed methodology. The work will contribute to a project titled "Insights About Trauma-Informed Methodology From Gender-based Violence Researchers who Identify as Survivors." The literature review will contribute to a larger project investigating theory and praxis for trauma-informed methodology that reflects the experiences and needs of survivors of gender-based violence--including researchers. The work will contribute to a gap in the literature pertaining to trauma-informed practices for research, including but not limited to research ethics practices, research design, safety during data collection/interviewing for all involved, data analysis/confidentiality, and sensitivity related to knowledge mobilization.
Literature Review of Research on Consent Education and Queer and Trans Joy
The main goal of this project is to complete a literature review and a report of findings. The literature review should be comprised of research on sexual consent education in the Western (primarily North American) context to contribute to a larger project aiming to improve gender-based prevention education related to consent. The literature review should focus on qualitative research on consent education programming that is embedded in sexuality education and in stand-along programming. The final report will synthesize the central research on consent education, and identify trends, best practices, and gaps in the research. The literature review will also involve the concept of queer and trans joy, as it is central to emerging research discussing the effectiveness of gender-based violence prevention education. The literature review will involve summarizing research on the concept of queer and trans joy, particularly as it pertains to sexual joy.
Literature Review of Gender-based Violence Against Trans & Non-binary People
The main goal of this project is to undertake a literature review and produce a report on the findings. The student will be searching, reviewing, and synthesizing literature on gender-based violence against and among trans and non-binary people (approximately aged 14 to 35) as part of a larger project researching educational solutions to prevent gender-based violence. The larger project is exploring how trans and non-binary people are often excluded from research on gender-based violence due to the underlying cis-heteronormativity in how gender-based violence is imagined. As such, the ways that trans and non-binary people encounter rape myths are not accounted for in the literature, and this constitutes a major gap since rape myths are the central force behind rape culture. We need to understand how trans and non-binary people encounter rape-supportive attitudes to better know how to prevent and respond to survivors who are trans and non-binary.
Alternatives to Justice: Restorative Practices in Comparative Context
Survey Restorative Practices initiatives in provinces across Canada