Federally Funded Research
2026
AtlanticOER Development Grant
Academic Integrity Module for Undergraduate Social Work Students (PI: Dr. Ami Goulden)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Aid to Scholary Journals
Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work (PIs: Dr. Sobia Shaikh; Dr. Julia Janes)
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2025
Accessibility Standards Canada Advancing Accessibility Standards Research Program
Promoting Family Inclusive Accessibility Standards in Canada: The Perspectives of Parents and Caregivers with Disabilities (PI: Dr. Laura Pacheco)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Catalyst Grant: Moving Upstream - Sex, Gender, and Health Inequities
Unveiling culturally responsive sexual reproductive health care services among female newcomers to Canada: A participatory community-based multi-method study in three Canadian provinces (Co-I: Dr. P.A. Issahaku)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant: IYS LHS Data Platform
Laying the foundation for an IYS Learning Health System: Building a youth and equity focused federated IYS data platform (Co-I: Dr. Kathy de Jong)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) IYS-Net Phase 2: Provincial/Territorial Networks
Enhancing Integrated Youth Services in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Mixed-Methods, Wholistic Approach Toward Improving Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Outcomes through Clinical and Wrap-Around Service Delivery (PI: Dr. Kathy de Jong; Co-I: Dr. Tsering Dolkar Watermeyer)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) IYS-Net Phase 2: Indigenous Network
Together towards bright futures: Strengthening network(s) to support Indigenous youth and communities through advancing, sharing and learning from wise practices, data and stories (Co-I: Dr. Kathy de Jong)
Mitacs Globalink Research Internship
Accommodation Experiences of Disabled Social Work Students in Canada: A Mixed-Methods Study (PI: Dr. Ami Goulden)
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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)
Understanding Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Transnational Spaces: Exploring the case of children in Ghana and African newcomers in Canada (Co-I: Dr. Paul Issahaku)
Violences reproductives et handicap: étude sur les discours entourant les violences reproductives selon la perspective des femmes en situation de handicap (Co-I: Dr. Laura Pacheco)
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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)
Stories of Unpacking Colonialism: A Decolonizing Journeys Documentary (Co-I: Dr. Julia Janes)
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)