Research Projects

Most of these projects involve training of graduate student researchers at UBCO, as well as community researchers located in the communities affected by the research projects. Researchers at the ICER are committed to participatory and inclusive forms of research.

ICER researchers are or have been involved in the research projects listed below. Please click on the links below for more information and to view associated videos and or reports.

2021-2022 Matchmaking Project: Bridging Community Research Interests

The Matchmaking Project was created to strengthen community-university research relationships in response to the pandemic. Each participant in the project recorded a video interview where they shared areas for potential research collaboration. Participants in this project include Okanagan non-profits, as well as University of British Columbia Okanagan students, faculty, and campus services. Through the videos below, our goal is to connect campus and community partners, and to encourage entry points to conversations and possible collaborations.

We would like to thank Kelly Panchyshyn and Adam Kunis for their dedication and work as the coordinators and videographers on this project. And we would also like to acknowledge the generous support from UBC Studios Okanagan with both equipment and expertise shared with Kelly and Adam.

Questions? Please contact icer.ok@ubc.ca

Institute for Community Engaged Research

UBC Okanagan Students

ICER Community Partners

ICER Researchers and Colleagues

2016-2019 Honoring Cultural Diversity through Collective Vocal Practice

This film is an outcome of Dr. Virginie Magnat’s SSHRC funded project, “Honoring Cultural Diversity through Collective Vocal Practice.” This project was developed in close consultation with Indigenous Advisory Committee members Syilx Elder Delphine Armstrong, Cree Elder Dr. Winston D. Wuttunee, and nêhiyo itâpsinowin Knowledge Keeper Joseph Naytowhow, the late Dr. Carolyn Kenny, Dr. Vicki Kelly, Dr. Manulani Aluli-Meyer and Dr. Jill Carter. This film is 15-minutes long, and was edited by Syilx graduate student Mariel Belanger. It is a companion piece to the chapter “Experiencing Resonance as a Practice of Ritual Engagement” co-authored by the Advisory Committee members; UBC Okanagan Syilx graduate research assistants Cori Derickson and Mariel Belanger; UBC Vancouver graduate research assistants Julia Ulehla and Claire Fogal; and Dr. Virginie Magnat, for the book Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships co-edited by Shawn Wilson, Andrea Breen and Lindsay DuPré (Canadian Scholars 2019).

Further context for the documentary film “Experiencing Resonance as a Practice of Ritual Engagement” is provided through a series of selected clips featuring research collaborators and participants:

2016 A Living Wage for Revelstoke, BC: An Economic Impact Assessment Report

Kenneth Carlaw, Mike Evans, Lindsay Harris, and John Janmaat
Institute for Community Engaged Research, UBC Okanagan, November 2016.

The Revelstoke Community Social Development Committee requested members of the Institute for Community Engaged Research, and the Interior Health Community Health Facilitator collaborate with them to answer the question: What are the potential impacts of introducing a living wage in Revelstoke? We are pleased to share the findings of this research project in the report Analysis of a Living Wage for Revelstoke Nov 12 2016 .

We are also sharing a tool with the primary data used to generate the estimated impacts of increasing the wage earned by people in the lowest wage category. The sheets in this worksheet have all been locked, except for those that need to be used to adapt the model to a different community.

Cultural Safety Symposium May 2015

Immigration Symposium 2015