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Join our team at 312 Main Research Shop! We're hiring Research Assistants to collaborate with community partners on impactful projects. Dive into meaningful research with us! Check out our openings now. learn more
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Facilitation for Community Transformation
Introducing our new handbook, a free and accessible resource for those interested in using facilitation to advance community interests. Whether you're new to facilitation or a seasoned expert, this guide offers valuable insights for community-engaged research and beyond. Perfect for researchers, students, and university leaders, it provides practical advice and strategies for supporting communities through social transformation. learn more
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Community Scholars Program Spotlight: CityHive
This Q+A is taken from an interview conducted by Tara Mahoney (SFU CERi) on the collaboration between CityHive and the Community Scholars Program. The interviewees included Heather De Forest and Dana McFarland from the Community Scholars Program and Joanne Nellas and Giulia Belotti from CityHive. The interview has been edited for brevity. learn more
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Seeking Community Voices on News Coverage of Police Violence
This article is authored by Emily Blyth, who was part of the 2023 cohort of CERi's Graduate Fellowship Program. She is a PhD student with the Faculty of Health Sciences and uses arts-based and interdisciplinary approaches to study the differential health impacts related to media exposures to police violence. This article details her journey with the CERi Graduate Fellowship Program and how she learned to incorporate community-engagement in her work. learn more
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Participation. Cooperation. Social Transformation.
CERi promotes principles of participation, cooperation, social transformation and knowledge translation to lift up and strengthen the capacity of SFU’s researchers and students, to engage respectfully and ethically with community members.
Research that supports positive community change.
Based out of the new 312 Main co-working space in downtown Vancouver, CERi is SFU's first research infrastructure developed for the purpose of extending community-engaged research to provincial, national and international communities.
Simon Fraser University’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) is a new university-wide strategic initiative of the Office of the Vice-President, Research.
LATEST POSTS
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July 09, 2024
July 09, 2024
This Q+A is taken from an interview conducted by Tara Mahoney (SFU CERi) on the collaboration between CityHive and the Community Scholars Program. The interviewees included Heather De Forest and Dana McFarland from the Community Scholars Program and Joanne Nellas and Giulia Belotti from CityHive. The interview has been edited for brevity.
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July 09, 2024
July 09, 2024
This article is authored by Emily Blyth, who was part of the 2023 cohort of CERi's Graduate Fellowship Program. She is a PhD student with the Faculty of Health Sciences and uses arts-based and interdisciplinary approaches to study the differential health impacts related to media exposures to police violence. This article details her journey with the CERi Graduate Fellowship Program and how she learned to incorporate community-engagement in her work.
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May 14, 2024
May 14, 2024
This article is authored by Kirsten Bradford, who is part of the Fall 2023 cohort of CER Funding Program participants. Alongside collaborators from five First Nations, Bradford is co-producing a paper with the intention to re-awaken Indigenous salmon stream caretaking knowledge. The collaboration is intended as a landing point for Indigenous Peoples in their work to restore their salmon streams and the relationships, rights, and responsibilities tied to those streams.
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April 23, 2024
April 23, 2024
This article is authored by Madeleine Hebert. Madeleine leads housing research projects at Happy Cities, working with professionals and communities to develop solutions to improve social connectedness, resilience, and wellbeing. Her work promotes collaborative approaches and ensures that spaces provide equitable opportunities for everyone.
PROGRAMS
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CERi’s Graduate Fellowship Program is designed to facilitate community-engaged research through a combination of financial support, mentorship, peer learning and professional development.
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CERi’s Community-Engaged Research Funding Program is a grant program available to SFU faculty and graduate students.
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In partnership with Vancouver Island University, the University of Northern British Columbia, and University of British Columbia, the Simon Fraser University Library coordinates a program to provide staff of charitable and non-profit organizations in British Columbia with access to the latest research and knowledge in their fields.
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CERi’s Researchers-in-Residence program supports and promotes SFU faculty members actively practicing community-engaged research or whose research involves CER methods.
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The purpose of these awards is to provide recognition to SFU faculty members, graduate students, and community partners for outstanding community-engaged research that supports positive change.
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