Research/Project Funding - Received

• 2023-Ongoing
  Canada Research Chair in Indigenous governance in education Tier 2
  Description: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Canada.
  Principal Investigator
• 2021-Ongoing
  Critical Understandings of Land & Water: Unsettling Place at SFU film series - Phase 2
  Description: SFU Indigenous Digital Media Grant.
  Principal Investigator
• 2022-2022
  Intergenerational learning circle on Indigenous graphic novels and decolonial graduate knowledge mobilization projects
  Description: Elevate & Mobilize EDI Research Grants in Education (EMERGE). Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia.
  Principal Investigator
• 2022-2022
  Raising Nisga’a Language, Cultural Sovereignty, and Land-Based Education through Traditional Carving Knowledge
  Description: Museum of Anthropology Indigenous Collections Access Grant .
  Principal Investigator
  
• 2020-2022
  Raising Nisga'a Language, Cultural Sovereignty, and Land Based Education through Traditional Carving Knowledge
  Description: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-Frontiers in Research Grant.
  Principal Investigator
• 2021-2021
  Deepening Indigenous Education and Equity in School District #42: Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows
  Description: This project engaged Indigenous methodologies, which required consultation and collaboration with stakeholders to support the deepening of Indigenous education and equity in School District #42. Stakeholders included: Katzie Nation, Kwantlen Nation, Métis Nation, Fraser Valley Indigenous Society, District Board of Trustees, Senior Administration Team, Managers, Teachers, Administrators, Students, Support Staff, Caregivers, and Community Members.
  Principal Investigator.
• 2019-2020
  Program Review of Spirit Lodge & Spirit Way Programs for Helping Spirit Lodge Society (Vancouver, BC)
  Description: The Helping Spirit Lodge Society provides first and second stage transition housing for women and children fleeing domestic violence.
  Project Co-Investigator with Project Lead Lynda Gray
  
• 2019-2019
  Kwhlii Gibaygum Nisga’a Language Classes
  Description: This Vancouver based project will foster intergenerational Nisga’a language learning and community capacity building by contributing to Nisga’a: language orality, literacy, cultural sharing, language resources, material development and a language blog. Knowledge sharing and mobilization of the project will be conducted through our cultural dance and performances with the Kwhlii Gibaygum Nisga’a Dance group as well sharing all materials and resources on our Nisga’a language blog and presentations at conferences. Aboriginal Language Initiative Grant, First Peoples Cultural Council of B.C.
• 2018-2020
  Nisga’a Language Revitalization Educational Study
  Description: In collaboration with Nisga’a Lisms government and the Council of Elders this project will examine the feasibility of extending Nisga’a language revitalization efforts in the Nisga’a Nation’s traditional territories in the Nass Valley, and also in urban centres in British Columbia which have large Nisga’a populations. This is a mixed-methods (quantitative & qualitative) research project. Funded through Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant
  Principal Investigator, Simon Fraser University
• 2018-2019
  First Peoples Cultural Council Aboriginal Language Initiative (FPPCCAL) 2019/2020 Application 
  Description: Grant writer & member of Vancouver Urban Nisga’a Revitalization Ad Hoc Committee. The FPPCCAL supports weekly Nisga’a language classes and research at the Native Education College
  Principal Investigator
• 2016-2017
  Energizing Relationships: Indigenous Doctoral Supervision and Mentorship at Universities in British Columbia
  Principal Investigator
• 2016-2017
  Building Local Indigenous Partnerships & Community Engagement Project 
  Description: Purpose was to build or strengthen partnerships between SFU’s Faculty of Education and First Nations/Aboriginal communities in the Lower Mainland. To this end, it focused on (a) community consultations on areas of collaboration and partnership, (b) developing a website of teaching resources based in local communities and histories, and (c) building relationships between faculty members and local Aboriginal people by involving the latter as guest speakers in Faculty of Education courses and programs. Funded through SFU Community Community Engagement Fund and the Faculty of Education.
  Co-Investigator with Dr. Mark Fettes, Simon Fraser University
• 2016-2017
  SFU Presidential Research Start Up Grant
  
• 2015
  Indigenous Education Graduate View Book for UBC’s Faculty of Education
  Co-developed an Indigenous Graduate Education Viewbook for the Faculty of Education at UBC as part of Post-doctoral fellowship. The purpose of the view book is to encourage Indigenous undergraduates to pursue graduate studies. The viewbook features an array of information that includes information on: the purpose of graduate education, Indigenous research and methodologies, Indigenous faculty and faculty supporters research and teaching interests, as well as current graduate student and alumni profiles.
• 2015-Present
  Indigenous Doctoral Supervision & Mentorship Project
  Description: Collaborated with faculty, Indigenous doctoral students and Indigenous doctoral alumni at British Columbian universities in order to understand successful and challenging mentorship and supervisory practices. Second, it will produce knowledge mobilization materials and workshops that can assist students, supervisors and university administrators to create an optimal research relationship. Funded through Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada-SFU Internal Grant.
  Principal Investigator, Simon Fraser University
• 2014
  Indigenous Educational Doctoral Initiatives at Research-Intensive Universities In Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia
  Under the supervision of Dr. Archibald, conducted a rigorous examination of nearly a hundred research university websites across four countries in order to identify promising and notable doctoral initiatives that aim to improve access, retention and success for Indigenous doctoral students. A final report with recommendations was submitted to the Office of Indigenous Education, Faculty of Education, UBC.
• 2012
  Teacher Candidate Responses to Required Aboriginal Content Courses
  Research Assistant: Worked with Dr. Jan Hare to write an Indigenous education and professional teacher training literature review and create a research design for qualitative study.
  
• 2011
  Indigenous Choice Schools
  Research Consultant: Worked with Dr. Jo-ann Archibald and the Vancouver School Board (VSB) to identify and write a literature review for Aboriginal Education K-12 in particular areas that informed Aboriginal Focus Schools, including curriculum, pedagogy, parental engagement, leadership, and governance with community; developed a resource repository of literature for the VSB Aboriginal Steering Committee.
  
• 2010–2011
  Indigeneity Research Cluster in Educational Studies
  Research Assistant: Worked with Dr. Jo-ann Archibald on a research cluster to understand the wholistic dimensions of Indigeniety and its possibilities in order to transform and improve Indigenous education. Research topics included: placed-based knowing, relational ontology, traditional ecology, identity, culture, and language. Research coordination & summary of literature.
• 2010–2011
  Aboriginal Youth Mobility Project: Preparing to Make the Medicine Bundle
  Research Assistant: Worked with Dr. Jan Hare on a longitudinal case study that examined the choices that a cohort of 33 First Nations youth made about staying, leaving, or returning home to their reserve community, in light of the patterns of observed among Aboriginal populations in Canada. Literature review & qualitative data analysis.
• 2009
  Justice Institute Aboriginal Mentoring Research
  Research Consultant: Worked with Dr. Michelle LaFlamme on an Aboriginal Youth Mentoring Research Project. Coordinated focus groups, analyzed qualitative data, & report writing.
• 2009–2010
  Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement Undergraduate (SAGE U)
  SAGE Undergraduate Provincial Network Coordinator: Worked with Dr. Jo-ann Archibald to co-develop and coordinate an Aboriginal peer mentoring project at UBC, UNBC, UVIC, VIU & SFU. Supervised five SAGE U Research Assistants and  coordinated SAGE members at SAGE U meetings across the province. Collaborated and assisted in the development of curriculum and workshops to be used for SAGE U sessions. Assisted with data analysis and the SAGE U Community Report.
• 2010
  Aboriginal Undergraduate to Graduate Transitions Project (ATU2G)
  Research Assistant: Worked with Dr. Jo-ann Archibald, Dr. Michelle Pidgeon & Dr. Colleen Hawkey on a provincial research project aimed at enhancing undergraduate to graduate student transitions. Facilitated and coordinated an Aboriginal Mentorship Research Assistant Symposium, faculty video interviews, & SAGE U curriculum. Analyzed qualitative data, report writing, video coordination.
• 2006–2007
  International Study of Indigenous Language Nest Programs
  Research Assistant for Qualitative Research Study in New Zealand. Conducted interviews.