Research News
2025-26 CGS, SSHRC, and OGS Funding Recipients
Nov 11, 2025
Meet Caelan Carriere: Bringing Neurodiversity to the Classroom
Erin York - Sep 18, 2025
CCESC Summer Students Learn through Community Partners: BGC South East and Modern Fuel
Chelsea Lam and Amelia Nicholas - Aug 20, 2025
Recently, as summer students with the Centre of Community Engagement and Social Change (CCESC) at the Faculty of Education, Chelsea Lam (BAH’25, B.Ed’26) and Amelia Nicholas (BAH’25) had the opportunity to explore community resources within Kingston. We visited two outstanding or
QLEARN Expands Community Engaged Pedagogy in Education
Jennifer Thompson, Shannan Crowder, and Michelle Searle - Aug 18, 2025
QLEARN is a holistic and innovative experience offers an opportunity for students to learn and apply research and evaluation skills with community partners.
Dr. Alana Butler's Insight Award
Rachel Su - Aug 13, 2025
Alana is exploring how post-secondary institutions are adapting—or retreating—in the face of shifting equity climates. She aims to assess whether the momentum seen in 2020 has been sustained and how the Canadian landscape may be affected by developments in the U.S.
Dr. Heather McGregor's Insight Award
Rachel Su - Aug 13, 2025
Together with co-investigators Dr. Thashika Pillay and Dr. Alice Johnston, and collaborators Dr. Sara Karn and Lindsay Borrows, Dr. McGregor is developing a local professional learning community (PLC) in Eastern Ontario.
Dr. Lee Airton's Insight Award
Rachel Su - Aug 13, 2025
Dr. Airton and their colleagues are launching a national study to examine how practicum experiences uniquely affect under-represented teacher candidates.
Dr. Patty Douglas's Partnership Development Award
Rachel Su - Aug 13, 2025
Patty’s groundbreaking community-engaged research project, “Telling our Stories (TOS)” is flipping the script on autism research and services.
Dr. Rosa Bruno-Jofre's Insight Award
Rachel Su - Aug 13, 2025
Rosa will do extensive work in the New York Public Library to follow Ford’s many humanitarian-based, civil rights-oriented involvements.
Addressing Attendance and Equity Challenges in Education through Community-Engaged Experiential Learning
Shannan Crowder & Michelle Searle - Aug 11, 2025
Through Dr. Michelle Searle’s (Dr Amanda Cooper, co-PI) Catalyst Research Grant from the Centre for Community Engagement and Social Change (CCESC) graduate students are connected with community partners for sustained research and evaluation efforts that make a tangible difference