We are passionate about our work and believe in the many ways we collaborate locally, nationally and internationally to improve the human condition through education.

2025

Dr. Kirk Anderson (Principal Investigator) "Capacity Sharing in Arctic Regions Through Transdisciplinary Intergenerational Collaborative Research and Inclusive Education", Arctic Science Summit Week 2025; Boulder Colorado, March 20-28, 2025, Memorial University of Newfoundland SSHRC Exchange - Paper Presentation at Scholarly Conferences

Dr. Anne Burke (Principal Investigator) Resilient Experiences and Agency of Youth and Children During the Pandemic: Re-visioning Education through Storytelling ( REAP), New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Research for postpandemic recovery - Full Application (TIPS)

Courtney Crocker The Tales to Teach, Tales to Reach: A series Highlighting Writers, Illustrators and Storytellers in Newfoundland and Labrador, Office of Public Engagement Accelerator Fund. 2025 

Dr. Andrew Coombs (Principal Investigator) The Future of Assessment in Canadian Schools: Addressing Systemic Challenges through a Pan-Canadian Study of Teacher Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant

Dr. Jacqueline Hesson (Principal Investigator) Hidden Realities: Exploring the Experiences of Faculty and Instructors with Invisible Disabilities at Memorial, Memorial Uniersity of Newfoundland Faculty of Education (Res & Dev Fund)

Dr. John Hoben (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Sarah Pickett, Blackout: Using Arts-Based Participatory Action Research to Explore Iterations of Neuroqueer Identity. A project of the ECHO Lab, Memorial University of Newfoundland Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund

Dr. Dale Kirby (Principal Investigator) "Tuition Waivers and Educational Equity: Supporting Former Youth in Care in Higher Education." International Conference on Education and New Developments; Budapest, Hungary; June 28-30, 2025", Memorial University of Newfoundland SSHRC Exchange - Paper Presentation at Scholarly Conferences 

Dr. Margarita Kondratieva (Principal Investigator) "Team Problem Solving For Mathematically Gifted And Other Students” Memorial University of Newfoundland, SSHRC Exchange Grants - Paper Presentation at Scholarly Conferences February 2025 Competition, The 14th International group for Mathematical Creativity and Giftedness conference. Karlstad, Sweden. June 16-18, 2025. 

Dr. Leah Lewis (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Xuemei Li, The Hearthstone Community Art Hive, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Seed, Bridge, and Multidisciplinary Fund, 2025

Dr. Xuemei Li (Principal Investigator) "Roles of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in International Students Academic Writing"; SSHRC Congress 2025; Toronto, Ontario; May 30 to June 6, 2025, Memorial University of Newfoundland SSHRC Exchange - Paper Presentation at Scholarly Conferences

Dr. Xuemei Li (Principal Investigator) Roles of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in International Students Academic Writing, Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Education (Res & Dev Fund)

Dr. Xuemei Li Building Bridges for TEAL Professionals and Local Educators, Oct 31, 2024-Oct 30, 2025, Office of Public Engagement Accelerator Fund 

Dr. Heather McLeod (Principal Investigator) Lessons of the Land: New Genre Arctic Art and Land-Based Learning, Memorial University of Newfoundland Harris Centre-Global Arctic Leadership-Indigenous and Northern Collaborative Fund

Dr. Alireza Moghaddam (Principal Investigator) Teaching Enhancement through Technology Integration to Provide Multiple Means of Representation, Memorial University of Newfoundland Teaching Enhancement through Scholarly Inquiry

Dr. Connie Morrison (Principal Investigator) Writing Through The Uncanny Valley: Experimenting with AI in a Collaborative Autoethnographic Writing Group, Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Education (Res & Dev Fund)

Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) "A growth curve model examining the effect of language-in-education program on reading growth of economically marginalized emergent bilingual elementary students. Society for Scientific Study of Reading. Calgary, Alberta. July 16-19, 2025.,  Memorial University of Newfoundland SSHRC Exchange - Paper Presentation at Scholarly Conferences

Dr. Hidayet Tok (Principal Investigator) Student Teachers' Perceptions on the Effectiveness and Challenges of the Education Internship Program: Bridging Theory and Practice, Memorial University of Newfoundland SSHRC Explore

 2024

Dr. Burke Anne (Principal Investigator) Transformative Voices of the North: New Narratives of Hope and Resilience Memorial University of Newfoundland Harris Centre-Global Arctic Leadership-Indigenous and Northern Collaborative Fund 2024

Dr. Andrew Coombs (Principal Investigator) The Future of Assessment in Canadian Schools: Addressing Systemic Challenges through a Pan-Canadian Study of Teacher Innovation Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant 2024

Dr. Jacqueline Hesson (Principal Investigator)Supporting students with disabilities at Memorial – A ‘just-in-time’ teaching and learning toolkit for instructors Memorial University of Newfoundland CITL: Teaching Innovations and Learning Enhancement Fund (TILE) 2024

Dr. Darron Kelly (Principal Investigator) Agents in the Field: Exploring the Educational Value of Place-Conscious Pedagogy. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant 2024

Dr. Alireza Moghaddam (Principal Investigator) Bachelor of Education Students Learning Effective Technology Integration Using UDL Framework through Lesson Study Memorial University of Newfoundland CITL: Teaching Innovations and Learning Enhancement Fund (TILE) 2024

Dr. Pamela Osmond-Johnson (Principal Investigator) Lading Reconciliation Education: The Strategic Advocacy of School Principals in the Prairies Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant 2024

Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) Developing a culturally responsive, scientifically grounded reading intervention through educational design research Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant 2024

 2023

Dr. Anne Burke (Principal Investigator) Resilient Experiences and Agency of Youth and Children During the Pandemic: Re-visioning Education through Storytelling ( REAP) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Research for post-pandemic recovery - Full Application (TIPS) 2023

Dr. Andrew Coombs (Principal Investigator) The Future of Assessment in Canadian Schools: Addressing Systemic Challenges through a Pan-Canadian Study of Teacher Innovation Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant 2023

Dr. Gerald Galway (Co-investigator) Factors Influencing Undergraduate Pharmacy Students’ Choice of Degree Program (MUN Seed, Bridge, Multidisciplinary Fund).

Dr. Dale Kirby (Principal Investigator) Student Financial Aid and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Response of Canadian Universities to Domestic and International Student Communities", European Conference on Educational Research, Yerevan, Armenia, August, 23-25, 2022 Memorial University of Newfoundland SSHRC Exchange - Paper Presentation at Scholarly Conferences 2023

Dr. Leslie Redmond (Principal Investigator) The comprehension and comprehensibility of police cautions and legal rights: A scoping review Memorial University of Newfoundland Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund 2023

Dr. Joelle Rodway (Principal Investigator) Learning Leadership: How School District Administrators Position Themselves as Learners within their Organizations Memorial University of Newfoundland Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund 2023

Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) Developing and piloting a culturally relevant and scientifically-grounded reading intervention for young learners Memorial University of Newfoundland SSHRC Explore 2023

Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) Developing and piloting a culturally responsive science of teaching reading Memorial University of Newfoundland Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund 2023

Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) Enacting a structured literacy curriculum: processes and outcomes Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Engage 2023

2022

Dr. Christine Arnold (Principal Investigator)  Review and Analysis of Education Policy Trajectories in Newfoundland and Labrador: A 25-Year Retrospective (MUN Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund)

Dr. Anne Burke (Principal Investigator) Playing in the Digital Forest: Growing Children’s Place-based Ecological Imagination through Augmented Storytelling (MUN SSHRC Explore)

Dr. Anne Burke (Principal Investigator) Exploring the Power of Play for Resilience, Renewal and Recovery in Children’s Lives: A Historical Archive: Children’s Play Lives During the Pandemic Active (MUN Faculty of Education Res & Dev Fund)

Dr. Andrew Coombs (Principal Investigator) Exploring parental attitudes towards classroom assessment practice (MUN Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund)

Dr. Gerald Galway (Principal Investigator) Dr. David Dibbon Leadership Institute. (MUN Special President’s Award).

Dr. Kimberly Maich (Principal Investigator) Electronic Data Collection to Measure the Back-And-Forth Utterances in Research & Clinical Practice for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or Other Social-Communication Issues (MUN Faculty of Education Res & Dev Fund)

Dr. Joelle Roday (Principal Investigator) Learning Leadership: How School District Administrators Position Themselves as Learners within their Organizations (MUN Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund)

Dr. Joelle Roday (Principal Investigator) Decolonizing Professional Learning (SSHRC Connection Grant - Individual)

Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) Developing a culturally responsive, scientifically grounded reading intervention through educational design research (SSHRC Insight Development Grant)

Dr. Jeanne Sinclair  Developing and piloting a culturally relevant and scientifically-grounded reading intervention for young learners (MUN SSHRC Explore)

2021

Dr. Anne Burke The Possibilities and Necessities of Virtual Making in Makerspaces for Children (MUN SBM)

Dr. Antoinette Doyle Developing professional learning communities in early childhood settings: Examining processes and learning outcomes (MUN SSHRC Explore)

Dr. Gerald Galway (Co-investigator) Review and Analysis of Education Policy Trajectories in Newfoundland and Labrador: A 25-Year Retrospective.
(MUN Seed, Bridge, Multidisciplinary Fund).

Dr. Gerald Galway (Co-investigator) Review and Analysis of Education Policy Trajectories in Newfoundland & Labrador. (MUN Faculty of Education R & D Grant).

Dr. Darron Kelly Developing a Practical Discourse Survey Instrument for Assessing Dialogic Agency and Rational Trust in Educational Policymaking (SSHRC Insight Grant)

Dr. Kimberly Maich Electronic Data Collection to Measure the Back-And-Forth Chains of Utterances in Research & Clinical Practice for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or Other Social-Communication Issues (MUN SBM)

Dr. Sylvia Moore Teacher professional learning to strengthen culturally nourishing pedagogies in Nunatsiavut area schools (SSHRC PEG)

Dr. Joelle Rodway Learning from High Impact Cases of Collaborative Research Networks, 2021‒2026 (Co-applicant) (SSHRC Insight Grant)

Dr. Joelle Rodway Learning Leadership: How Senior School District Administrators Position Themselves as Learners within their Organizations (PI) ( MUN SSHRC Explore)

Dr. Gabrielle Young Learning Disabilities Association of Canada (LDAC) Research Hub: Synthesizing the last decade of Canadian research on specific learning disorders (Learning Disabilities of Canada)

 2020

Dr. Saiqa Azam 1) "Studying Experiences of Science Teachers: Exploring Personal Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Grade Six and Nine Teachers"; 2) "Pre-Service Science Teachers' Professional Learning Within Informal Science Learning Contexts: A University and Community Partnership"; 13th Conference of European Science Education Research Association (ESERA): August 28-30, 2019 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)

Dr. Cecile Badenhorst Re-imagining doctoral writing- Publication Subvention Program (MUN Pub Subvention)

Dr. Cecile Badenhorst "1 Origin Stories: Doctoral Writing Subjectivties" 2 Doctoral Student Writing: Uncertain Territories."; Writing Research Across Borders 2020: Xi'an International Studies University In Xi'an China: March 11-14, 2020 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)

Dr. David Buley Community Music Literacy in Coastal Labrador (SSHRC PEG)

Dr. Anne Burke Socially Innovative Interventions to foster and to advance Young Children’s Inclusion and Agency in Society through Voice and Story [AdVoST] (SSHRC Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) Social Innovation)

Dr. Antoinette Doyle Developing Online Professional Learning Communities in Early Childhood Education Settings: Examining Processes and Learning Outcomes (MUN SBM)

Dr. Margarita (Margo) Kondratieva "Teachers' Collaboration in Mixed Groups for Learning Mathematical Inquiry: A theoretical Perspective"; The 25th ICMI: Teachers of Mathematics Working and Learning in Collaborative Groups; Lisbon, Portugal; February 3-7, 2020 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)

Dr. Margarita (Margo) Kondratieva External didactic transpositions in undergraduate university-level mathematics (Faculty of Education R&D)

Dr. Leah Lewis The Hearthstone Community Art Hive (MUN SBM)

Dr. Xuemei Li "An investigation of refugee students in the inclusive education system in a smaller Canadian city"; The 2020 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA; April 17-21, 2020 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)

Dr. Xuemei Li An examination of post-compulsory education for migrant children in urban China (Mitacs Globalink)

Dr. Leslie Redmond Using letter detection tasks to understand individual differences in reading processes in typically- aging adults (Faculty of Education R&D)

Dr. Leslie Redmond "On the contribution of morphological awareness to reading comprehension: A comparison of French L1 and L2 students"; Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading; Newport Beach, California; July 8-11, 2020 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)

Dr. Leslie Redmond A longitudinal study of emergent bilinguals: Oral language production in Early French Immersion (MUN SSHRC Explore)

Dr. Joelle Rodway Leadership of Curriculum Teams (New Zealand Government)

Dr. Dorothy Vaandering From Brazil to Canada and back again: The gift of Paulo Freire for Restorative Justice; Diverse Perspectives, Meaningful Solutions: 2019 National Restorative Justice Symposium; Banff, AB; November 16-19, 2019 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)

Dr. Dorothy Vaandering Two-Eared Listening: Restorative Justice in Newfoundland and Labrador (SSHRC Connection)

Dr. Gabrielle Young Using Online Tutoring to Support Literacy (MUN SSHRC Explore)