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Sport Leadership and Cultural Transformation - Rugby Canada, Boxing Canada, Sport Scientist Canada case studies of cultural transformation efforts

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Thriving in organizations

Exhausted, frustrated, confused: study says teachers taxed by pandemic | Royal Roads University

Administration and K-12 Teachers Promoting Stress Adaptation and Thriving: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic

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Insight Problem Solving - capturing the impact of an integrated focus process on the quality, sustainability, and completeness of solutions

(PDF) Training Insight Problem Solving Through Focus on Barriers and Assumptions

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80th anniversary of the liberation of the former concentration camp Dachau, Germany (May 4, 2025)

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I am currently working on understanding the transition of Holocaust remembrance 80 years after the end of the Second World War. Specifically, I focus on Canadian and German case studies that address the role of memory politics beyond witnesses—how Gen Y and Gen Z navigate commemoration, commercialization, and memory in the near post-witness era.

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AK McLean, Rebecca Wilson-Mah & Ingrid Kajzer Mitchell

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AK McLean, Rebecca Wilson-Mah & Ingrid Kajzer Mitchell

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Regenerative Tourism

From a practitioner perspective, we explore how tour operators on specific educational components pre-tour, during, and post-tour contribute to creating a transformative regenerative tour experience.

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With community partners, we're launching a survey this month of Canadian investors (both individual and institutional) and issuers of community bonds (debt instruments used by non-profits/charities to raise loan capital from their communities to finance a project that has social impact, for instance, affordable housing projects, renewable energy). This is part of a larger project on community wealth building, as an alternative economic development model that seeks to shift ownership (but ideally moving toward stewardship) and control of wealth-generating assets (businesses, real estate) to communities. https://www.royalroads.ca/news/community-bonds-offer-great-opportunity-build-community-wealth

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Community bonds offer great opportunity to build community wealth | Royal Roads University

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Heather Hachigian, associate professor in business at Royal Roads University aims to help grow popularity of community bonds.

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Julie MacArthur - Energy Democracy and Economic Democracy

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Julie MacArthur - Energy Democracy and Economic Democracy

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I'm currently working on a few different projects related to justice and inclusivity in climate governance:

1) working with community partners on a range of grants looking at how do build and support local energy projects - from district energy to microgrids, power generation and energy efficiency in buildings. Hosting the 3rd annual community energy forum here at RRU July 30-Aug 2, and another provincial roadmap event in 2026. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/september-2023/scale-up-renewable-energy-co-operatives-to-energize-the-nation/

2) looking at the potential for democratizing participation and engagement in large, public, centralized utilities (BC Hydro), as well as symbiotic partnerships between municipal and community/non-profit actors.

3) Analysis of policy design inclusivity (of various equity deserving groups) across federal and provincial Canadian jurisdictions (based on Canadian Climate Policy Partnership data). See recent Conversation piece on why this matters. https://theconversation.com/we-need-meaningful-not-less-edi-and-climate-action-in-turbulent-times-249683

4) Work on green resource grabs, with a focus on speculative leases in Canada for geothermal power.

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Dialoguing environmental, arts-based and Indigenous approaches to improving relations with the Earth and Her First Peoples -- e.g., feature film Shih (Interconnectedness) (2025) and book Environmental Communication and Conciliation (2026) -- more at geo.takach.ca

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Research on how to eradicate poverty: Findings from the Ontario Basic Income Pilot 

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Research on how to eradicate poverty: Findings from the Ontario Basic Income Pilot 

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Funded by SSHRC, our team is exploring participants' experiences having received a basic income guarantee through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot. We have written about the mental health impacts of the benefit, and are now writing about how having a basic income can generate new opportunities and capabilities (using Nussbaum's capabilities approach).

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This SSHRC funded project examines trends in intergenerational social assistance receipt to reveal the causal and/or correlational (shared determinants) linkages between parents who access income assistance and their adult children who do so as well.

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Ingrid Kajzer Mitchell & Canadian Purpose Economy Project (CPEP)

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Ingrid Kajzer Mitchell & Canadian Purpose Economy Project (CPEP)

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I am currently working with the Canadian Purpose Economy Project on a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant exploring how social purpose companies - businesses whose reason for being is to create a better world - use their spheres of influence and work with their broader ecosystem to bring their purpose to life. Our research examines how these businesses activate their purpose beyond their organizational boundaries and collaborate to drive systemic impact. https://www.royalroads.ca/news/business-good-maximizing-impact-social-purpose-businesses

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Deniz Unsal (rru) and Taiwo Afolabi (University of Regina)

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Deniz Unsal - Global Cities and Socially Engaged art

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Deniz Unsal - Global Cities and Socially Engaged art

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This multi-site research and dissemination initiative aims at creating a community of practice that explores how socially engaged arts address urban issues and amplify voices in the cities of the Global South and Asia. In these cities, artists navigate complex environments, and art is often more closely linked to community activism and historical and ongoing struggles with gender inequality, identity politics, political repression, poverty, colonial legacies, and environmental justice. Socially engaged arts illuminate the experiences of marginalized urban communities, offering a platform for storytelling and community-building. It highlights the transformative role of art in tackling urban and social challenges and fostering change. In these contexts, art serves as both cultural expression and a powerful tool for advocacy, activism, and community empowerment. It also emphasizes the interaction between global and local alliances, bringing the concept of “glocal” to the forefront.

This ongoing initiative was born out of the following SSHRC supported research: https://equitycp.ca/

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Research Clusters. C-SET Theatre, Justice and Policing.
This research cluster aims to derive new understandings from intergenerational and intercultural perspectives on factors and histories that have led to the current landscape in which the racialized population in Canada experiences racism and discrimination in

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Deniz Unsal - The Arts Impact Partnership (TAIP): Understanding the Arts' Civic Impact in the Data-Driven Economy (as Equity Research Cluster co-lead)

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Deniz Unsal - The Arts Impact Partnership (TAIP): Understanding the Arts' Civic Impact in the Data-Driven Economy (as Equity Research Cluster co-lead)

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The Creative School of Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) with principal national partner organization Mass Culture, The Arts Impact Partnership (TAIP): Understanding the Arts’ Civic Impact in the Data-Driven Economy brings together 68 researchers, 25 Canadian partner organizations, 2 nation-wide consortia across Canada and the United States (with 1000+ arts entities),

and 7 international satellite partners.

Aims and Objectives: designing open and

inclusive impact frameworks alongside functional and representative metadata vocabularies to effectively capture the full spectrum of artistic expression and research, while conveying the qualitative

cultural richness of the arts’ civic impact. We seek to create participatory impact frameworks and metadata sets that centre those who have been historically disenfranchised by existing data-driven

technologies, which perpetuate power imbalances, biases, and structural inequalities...

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We are working with NYSHN & Songhees community member, Loreisa Lepine, to host and provide an informative sex-ed health day for Songhees members and challenge cis-het normativity residual from residential schools. This one day event is funded by an internal grant we applied for in the summer.

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The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.

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The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.

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We are working with NYSHN & Songhees community member, Loreisa Lepine, to host and provide an informative sex-ed health day for Songhees members and challenge cis-het normativity residual from residential schools. This one day event is funded by an internal grant we applied for in the summer.

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The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.

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The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.

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Jasmine Dionne & Uvic Faculty- Sarah Hunt

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Jasmine Dionne & Uvic Faculty- Sarah Hunt

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I am working with my colleagues from Uvic on an article that will highlight the success of a Vancouver Island based mutual aid collective called Intimate Access Collective that supports sex-workers on the island with restriction-free-micro-grants. We emphasize the importance of autonomy/agency as a health indicator (and provide examples of how to measure this through level of economic scrutiny) often overlooked in epidemiological-heavy research about sex-work.

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The official publication of the International Academy of Sex Research (IASR), Archives of Sexual Behavior publishes scientific research on sex, gender, and…

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I am working on an analysis about the effectiveness of the MMEIP Task Force in Treaty 8. This is an off shoot from my chapter in: Starblanket, G., & Long, D. A. (2025). Visions of the heart : issues involving Indigenous peoples in Canada (Sixth edition). Oxford University Press.

I claim that this task force is the first large scale representation of kinship governance since kinship governance was dismantled by the signing of Treaty 8.

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This website is a resource for families looking for support in finding loved ones, sharing their stories, accessing resources to find justice or to support their grief.

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Online misinformation, polarization and anti-social behavior - Jaigris Hodson

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Online misinformation, polarization and anti-social behavior - Jaigris Hodson

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I’m working on a few interrelated projects:

1) The information syndemic project uses a public health model to theorize the relationships between misinformation polarization and anti-social behavior in our polarized and technologized information environment https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/96c33418-f656-47a7-bfb6-f74905c7ee4a/content

2) I look at online harassment of research communicators: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958824001027 and mechanisms for addressing online gender based harassment in general: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10778012241259727

3) and I look at how we can understand the prevalence and spread of online misinformation, especially health misinformation: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09636625221135425

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I am working on a SSHRC Partnership Grant with Academic Communication Equity BC on developing an evaluation framework for assessing equitable postsecondary education experiences for students who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Deaf-Blind.

As part of this work, we want to build organizational evaluation capacity within the postsecondary sector and also develop innovative approaches to doing Deaf-led research (e.g., for example, we are interested in looking at how to do qualitative analysis of American Sign Language (ASL) and in ASL).

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Alfiya Battalova - access to limb prostheses

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Alfiya Battalova - access to limb prostheses

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I am part of a research project that analyzes access to limb prostheses in British Columbia. I am specifically interested in how the funding agencies use a discursive language of "basic needs" to determine eligibility criteria. I am using a policy narrative analysis and a critical disability studies lens. It would be great to expand the research to other types of prostheses/assistive devices.

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Alfiya Battalova - access to the outdoors

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Alfiya Battalova - access to the outdoors

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I am working on a duoethnography paper with a fellow handcycle user to explore how adaptive technology shapes access to the outdoors for people with disabilities. I am hoping to expand this work to include Indigenous perspectives on bike trail development.

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As part of the Accessible BC Act (2021), municipalities are required to develop accessibility plans. However, without a comparative

critical analysis of these plans, there is little or no information about how municipalities conceptualize disability, what priorities they

set up to address accessibility concerns and how they integrate evaluative thinking into the plans. The goals of the project are:

1) to identify the trends in how the accessibility plans are developed and what they focus on;

2) to develop mechanisms for evaluating the effectiveness of the plans, and

3) to pilot test the evaluation toolkit with one or two organizations that adopted accessibility plans.

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Guided by Elders of Songhees, Tsawout, and Kwakwakaʼwakw Nations, we have produced a 44-minute film called "Story Pole: Indigenous Veterans and the Tallest Totem in the World" (2025). The story starts with a site of memory, the story pole at MEE-qan, what we know as Beacon Hill Park, weaving in the mysterious plaque placed at its base, and the experience of Indigenous soldiers after the Second World War. The website couples the film with an Indigenous War Remembrance Education Toolkit for K-12. The toolkit project contracted to a Metis educate doctorate candidate and developed for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. The film has been screened on CHEK for the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, National Reconciliation Day and Remembrance Day, reaching some 140,000 people. Six members of the Underwood family presented the film in the Netherlands, positively transformative for all. Remembrance stands as an important form of truth and reconciliation. This project is the latest of 35 films housed in the War Heritage Research Initiative.

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The purpose of the Story Pole project, comprising the film and the education toolkit and its resources, is to provide an opportunity for teachers and students, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to discuss and learn about Indigenous ways of remembering and commemorating the past. The project is inspired by the 94 Calls to Action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As we move through Indigenous First Nations history together, we move toward reconciliation.

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Rob Newell - Millstream Watershed Visualization Project

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Rob Newell - Millstream Watershed Visualization Project

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The Systems-based Visualization Tools for Integrated Watershed Management research project developed and tested an experimental visualization tool for supporting participatory approaches to integrated watershed management planning in the Millstream Watershed (Capital Research District, BC). Using a community-based participatory research approach, the project engaged local government, nongovernmental organizations, and community members in the design, development, use, and assessment of the visualization tool and watershed management scenarios. The project resulted in a visualization tool that can be accessed from the project website (https://triaslab.ca/watershed#visualization) and a report with recommendations for watershed management and governance (https://triaslab.ca/files/Newell_etal-2025-MWVT_OutcomesRecommentations.pdf).

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I'm working on a SOTL research project to assess the impact of making courses more inclusive to a broader set of learners, specifically in this case, neurodivergent learners. I've designed audit criteria, audited and revised both of the courses I teach at RRU and am just finishing up running the second course with students. One of the areas I'm specifically poking at are the expectations and assessment of participation in the learning community and how the way that currently works may disadvantage neurodivergent students.

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In the classroom facilitating a digital media workshop, with students in the background engaging in hands-on learning.

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I'm working on creating bridges between traditional institutional learning and expanding the creative capacity of learners through creative consulting and facilitation. My goal is to build spaces, programs and experiences that engage a spectrum of literacies (academic, creative, social and technical) simultaneously. Utilizing Maker Pedagogy to connect the dots.

One of the projects I'm developing sits at the intersections of digital storytelling, social influence and media production — giving learners the ability to lead, communicate and create impact in a media rich world.

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The Victoria Coalition for Survivors of Torture is a non-profit advocacy organization. 

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Coalition building for more equitable communities

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Coalition building for more equitable communities

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At VCST, we believe the strongest way to support people and families who are healing from trauma, such as torture and systemic violence, is by building cross-sector connections and unlikely partnerships. Our Interconnectedness Initiative is all about fostering a web of professional and community services and connections, for knowledge sharing and support. We bring together organizations as diverse as settlement agencies, law enforcement, counselling services, community wellness and safety, and many others to build our collective capacity to support people healing from severe trauma. We co-create our organizational goals with our partners through participatory action research, so we stay focussed on survivors' needs and the organizations that support them. We will be presenting a participatory role-playing workshop to show how people with lived experience of trauma experience systemic gaps in public services. Together, we will demonstrate how important cross-sector connection and communication is to building equitable communities.