Interested in conducting research with schools/boards but unsure where to start or what they might expect of you? Your search is over! Come meet our expert researchers representing four Ontario school boards. They will discuss important aspects of building university/public education research relationships and strategies on how to sustain them. Lots of time for discussion […]
Professor Lisa Farley and her research colleagues have developed a reflection guide for museum educators to support their efforts to discuss challenging topics and ideas with children.
Co-organizers: Roopa Trilokekar & Khaled Barkaoui Co-sponsored by: The Faculty of Education and Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies Workshop Leader: Michelle Stack Are you wondering why, as an academic, you would want to engage with media, particularly in the current moment of heightened threats to academic freedom and widespread disinformation? This two-part interactive workshop, led […]
A new study led by Natalia Balyasnikova, associate professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, is calling for a shift in how healthy aging is understood globally.
This roundtable brings together researchers working in and with communities to reflect on experiences and lessons from university-community research partnerships. Panelists will discuss how well we understand communities’ needs, concerns, and expectations; how researchers can be more responsive to these needs and expectations; and how research findings are shared with communities, especially those whose members […]
Carl E. James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora in York University’s Faculty of Education, brings his expertise to a four-year Genome Canada research project focused on Canada’s Black population.
York University researchers have captured half a century of Canadian life in a landmark study that began in Ontario classrooms and now spans generations.
Two York University community members – Professor Satinder Kaur Brar and Faculty of Education PhD candidate Anna Pearson – have been recognized with a 2024 Minister’s Award of Excellence from Ontario’s Ministry of Colleges and Universities.
Canadian astrophysicist Louise Edwards is used to answering some of the universe’s toughest questions. But at the moment she’s trying to answer this one: How many Canadian Black astronomers does she know? Edwards, an associate professor in California Polytechnic State University’s physics department, is on a Zoom call with CBC while sitting in a friend’s brightly lit shed near […]
Six Indigenous scholars at York University have been awarded a combined $204,298 in new funding from the latest round of Indigenous Research Seed Fund Grants to explore language revitalization, Indigenous-led land restoration, decolonizing physical education curriculum and more.