Federally Funded Research

2024

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Training Grant (CIHR-TG), HRTP - Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment in Aging (IA)

Brain Health Care (BHCare) and Support in Aging Research Training Platform (Co-I: Dr. Delores Mullings)

Mitacs Globalink Research Internship

A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Gender-based Violence among Disabled Women in Newfoundland (PI: Dr. Ami Goulden)

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

African Elders Critical Teachings (ELDERCRITS) as Epistemic Gift for Educational Reforms (PI: Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei)

Experiences of Reproductive Care and Decision-Making for Young Women with Disabilities in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Phenomenological Research-Creation Project (PI: Dr. Ami Goulden)

Resilience Redefined: Collaborative Exploration of Poverty Stigma to Support Trans Folks Living with Chronic Illness (Co-I: Dr. Sulaimon Giwa)

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2023

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant (CIHR-PG)

A Longitudinal Study of Correctional Services Canada's Correctional Workers Mental Health and Well-being: The Role of Prison Work and Prisons in Shaping Health, Organizations, Respect, and Knowledge (Co-I: Dr. Sulaimon Giwa)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Team Grant (Strengthening the Health Workforce for System Transformation)

Evaluating a complex, team-based primary care intervention in Newfoundland and Labrador: Advancing implementation science (Co-I: Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant (SSHRC-CG)

Respecting and Asserting First Nations Data Sovereignty in Research Data Management (RDM): Finding common ground for the co-development of RDM policy and infrastructure in Canada’s academic research environment (Co-I: Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei)

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

Critical thinking and transformative learning: Field Instructors Supporting students' transitions into the practice context (Co-I: Dr. Sherri McConnell)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant (SSHRC-PG)

Transforming the Lives of Black Children and Youths in Canada (Co-I: Dr. Delores Mullings)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Development Grant (SSHRC-PDG)

From Stories to Praxis: Transforming Community-based Support Services for Women with Disabilities who have Survived Intimate Partner Violence (Co-I: Dr. Laura Pacheco)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Synthesis Grant, Gender-Based Violence (SSHRC-KSG)

A Qualitative Meta-synthesis of the Lived Experience of Gender-based Violence among Women with Disabilities (PI: Dr. Ami Goulden; Co-I: Dr. Laura Pacheco)

Investigating Reproductive Coercion and Violence Towards Women with Disabilities (PI: Dr. Laura Pacheco; Co-I: Dr. Ami Goulden)

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2022

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Training Grant (Clinical Trials Training Platforms)

Increasing capacity for Maternal and PAediatric Clinical Trials (IMPACT) in Canada (Co-I: Dr. Delores Mullings)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant (SSHRC-PG)

The trans-LINK Canada Network: Partnering to Create and Exchange Knowledge on Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Survivors of Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence (Co-I: Dr. Sulaimon Giwa)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Special Initiatives Fund (Addressing Anti-Black Racism)

Anti-Black Racism in Health Care: The Experience of African, Carribean, and Black People in Atlantic Canada (PI: Dr. Sulaimon Giwa)

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2021

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant, Understanding/mitigating impacts of COVID-19 on children, youth & families

Mental Health of Black Youth after the COVID-19 Pandemic (Co-I: Dr. Delores Mullings)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Training Grant, Health Research Training Platform - Human Dev. Child and Youth Health

Empowering Next-generation Researchers in perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH) (Co-I: Dr. Delores Mullings)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Aid to Scholarly Journals (SSHRC-ASJ)

Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice (PI: Dr. Sobia Shaikh)

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2020

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)

Fostering Collaboration of Services for LGBTQ2S+ Newcomers in Newfoundland and Labrador (Co-PI: Dr. Delores Mullings & Dr. Sulaimon Giwa)

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

Decolonizing Journeys: Learning about decolonizing through Indigneous research and digital story work (Co-I: Dr. Julia Janes)

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2019

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CIHR-CRISM)

Exploring Cannabis Harm Reduction Strategies for Women and Gender Variant People through Community-based Participatory Research (PI: Dr. Stephen Ellenbogen; Co-I: Dr. Sulaimon Giwa & Dr. Julia Janes)

Public Health Agency of Canada Mental Health of Black Canadians Fund

Is Mental Health the Black Church's Business? (Co-I: Dr. Delores Mullings)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant (SSHRC-CG)

Building Student and Community Research Capacity through Scale-up Projects (PI: Dr. Stephen Ellenbogen; Co-I: Dr. Julia Janes & Dr. Sulaimon Giwa)

Challenges to Newcomer Settlement and Integration in Atlantic Canada (PI: Dr. Delores Mullings; Co-I: Dr. Paul Banahene Adjei)

Learning from Experience: Making Relational Restorative Justic Real in Newfoundland and Labrador (Co-I: Dr. Sulaimon Giwa)

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)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant (SSHRC-PG)

Transforming the Field Education Landscape: Intersections of Research and Practice in Canadian Social Work Field Education (Co-I: Dr. Sherri McConnell)

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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)

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2017

Dobbin Atlantic Scholarship Programme, Ireland Canada University Foundation

Workplace diversity: Promoting the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) police officers in Atlantic Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and the Republic of Ireland (PI: Dr. Sulaimon Giwa)

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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)

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2015

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant (SSHRC-PG)

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)