DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
Our bilingual, interdisciplinary, pan-Canadian partnership aims to widen, deepen and institutionalize access to higher education, research and training opportunities to bridge the gap between the talents of students and researchers with lived experiences of forced migration, and opportunities in Canadian research communities and labour markets.
We leverage complementary expertise, knowledge and methodologies of 13 academic, research and community partners from across Canada: Access Alliance, Amnesty International, Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC), Laval University, Research Nova Scotia, Saint Mary’s University (SMU), University of Ottawa (uOttawa), University of Winnipeg (uWinnipeg), World Education Services (WES), World University Services of Canada (WUSC) and York University.
Together We Will:
Generate direct new research and career training and mentorship for 650 undergraduate students, 42 graduate students and 30 postdoc researchers with lived experiences of forced migration. Our bilingual training resources will be compiled in an open access repository, providing learning opportunities for an unlimited number of students, highly qualified personnel, administrators and faculty members
Create, analyze and disseminate an open access database of existing initiatives for displaced scholars and researchers across Canada. The current patchwork of scholarships, training and research opportunities is haphazard and confusing, inhibiting transformational change.
Through research placements with community partners, generate data on solutions to structural barriers to research jobs for internationally trained, highly qualified displaced personnel.
Mobilize research and promising practices to increase equitable access to education and research through open access publications, multimedia resources, media interventions and bilingual workshops for administrators, faculty and students.
​Co-produce multimedia knowledge with displaced students to provide meaningful research opportunities, and also empirical data on promising practices to address inequities in Canadian higher education and labour markets.
​Propose recommendations for changes to institutional Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policies to better reflect the unique experiences of displaced students and researchers.
