Federally Funded Research

2019

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant
Challenges to Newcomer settlement and integration in Atlantic Canada. (PI; Dr. Delores Mullings, Co-I; Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant (SSHRC-IG)

Promoting the transition to postsecondary education for African refugee youth in Canadian schools (Co-I; Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei)

2018
Public Health Agency of Canada Harm Reduction Fund
Assessing and building capacity for user-driven harm reduction interventions in Labrador’ Happy Valley–Goose Bay Region and 2) Mediating community conflict and supporting the emerging group by and for people who use drugs (PUD) on Bell Island, Newfoundland (NL): social enterprise, skills training, capacity building, and empowerment among NL-based PUD and their allies (Co-PI; Dr. Christopher Smith)

Harm Reduction Fund: I-TRACK (Phase IV) – Newfoundland and Labrador (PI; Dr. Christopher Smith)

2016
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (SSHRC-IDG)
Using Participant Generated Photography and Social Media to Explore the Social Location of Sex Workers in Newfoundland and Labrador (PI; Dr. Kathleen Sitter)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy

When your work makes you sick: Exploring disability policies for workers within government funded protective services (Co-I; Dr. Catherine de Boer & Dr. Kathleen Sitter)

2015
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant
Engaged Scholarship: Evaluation of knowledge mobilization for adults in the community (Co-I; Dr. Gail Wideman)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (SSHRC-IDG)

Effective Parenting: What people of African descents or black people in Toronto, Winnipeg, and St. John’s have to say about it (PI; Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei, Co-I; Dr. Delores Mullings)

Canadian Institute of Health Research

Partnering to promote health care equity for ethnic minority older adults (Co-I; Dr. Delores Mullings)