Funded Projects
Stream 1: Innovative Projects
Stream 2: Transformative Projects
Stream 3: Student-led Projects
Special Fund for Graduate Research (one-time-only)
| Unit | Stream | Principal Applicant | Campus | Project Title | Funding Amount | Project Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Science | 1 | Alon Eisenstein | Okanagan | UBC Okanagan Indigenous micro-forest | $98,312.00 | 1 year |
| Applied Science | 2 | Andrew Jamison | Vancouver | Geering Up Indigenous pathways program | $100,000.00 | 2 years |
| Applied Science | 2 | Dana-Lyn Mackenzie | Vancouver | Indigenous Design & Engagement in Applied Science and Land and Food Systems (IDEAL) | $160,400.00 | 3 years |
| Applied Science | 3 | Chris Paul | Okanagan | Building capacity in community outreach, professional development for Indigenous students in science, engineering, technology and mathematics programs on the Okanagan campus | $34,435.00 | 12-18 months |
| Arts | 1 | Camilla Speller | Vancouver | Developing new platforms for reciprocal training between Musqueam (xwməθkwəy̓əm) Indian Band (MIB) and the Laboratory of Archeology (LOA) | $75,540.00 | 1 year |
| Arts | 1 | Marie Nightbird | Vancouver | Moving beyond a statement of accountability and commitment: Actions towards Indigenous resurgence in the School of Social Work | $96,000.00 | 2 years |
| Arts | 1 | Amanda Engen | Vancouver | Arts Indigenous Student Advising Indigenous coaching program | $98,580.00 | 2 years |
| Arts | S | Corrina Sparrow | Vancouver | Lighting the Fire: Land-based 2Spirit Identities & Cultural Resurgence | $30,000.00 | 12-18 months |
| Arts | S | Mercedes Peters | Vancouver | Lnuskwaq Mawita’jik: Wabanaki Women’s Grassroots Networks, Organizing, and Support in the Late 20th Century | $17,000.00 | 12-18 months |
| Arts and Social Sciences | 1 | Mandy Jimmie | Okanagan | Interior Salish language digital resource creation progress | $99,881.00 | 2 years |
| Arts and Social Science | S | Suzanne Sterling-Bur | Okanagan | Nłeʔkepmx Spilahem Stories: Supporting Indigenous Children with Disabilities Through Our Stories | $20,000.00 | 12-18 months |
| Creative and Critical Studies | 1 | Kerrie Charnley | Okanagan | Indigenous-led Syilx TEK informed storied sustainability internship course | $61,450.00 | 1 year |
| Education | 1 | Margaret Kovach | Cross-Campus | Building upon and expanding the Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement (SAGE) program success at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan campuses | $98,165.00 | 2 years |
| Education | 3 | Lisa Winsome White | Vancouver | Re-storying our journeys – mentorship, relationship-building, and skills development through writing retreats | $33,711.60 | 12-18 months |
| Education | 3 | Aurea Maria Vericat Rocha | Cross-Campus | Indigenous Collaborative Education, Development, Advocacy, and Research (CEDAR): An online hub for students, researchers, and the larger UBC community to enact reconciliation, on Indigenous terms | $50,000.00 | 12-18 months |
| Education | S | Cheryl Inkster | Vancouver | Health and Wellness for Metis Youth in Foster Care: Exploring Cultural Connection through Metis Beadwork Using Photovoice | $28,803.40 | 12-18 months |
| Education | S | Rachel Dickens | Vancouver | Tee Cha Chitl – Getting Well Again, Whole Community Engagement for Diabetes Prevention and Wellness Through Nuu-chah-nulth (NCN) Food Systems | $30,000.00 | 12-18 months |
| Education | S | Shawnelle Blackbird-Riley | Vancouver | Healing our Nation through Queer Movements | $8,539.00 | 12-18 months |
| Forestry | 1 | Carlos G. A. Ormond | Vancouver | UBC Haida Gwaii Institute certificate in natural resource conservation | $94,323.00 | 2 years |
| Forestry | 3 | Alexandra Thomas | Vancouver | Homegrown climate justice: Building climate resilience through community | $31,400.00 | 12-18 months |
| Graduate Studies | 2 | Rebecca Jules | Cross-Campus | Indigenous pathways to graduate school | $171,000.00 | 3 years |
| Graduate Studies | S | Hannah Pilat | Okanagan | Predicting the distribution of skwenkwínem (Western spring beauty, Claytonia lanceolata) in Secwépemculw | ||
| Health and Social Development | 1 | Tanya Forneris | Okanagan | Community engaged development of an Indigenous health certificate at UBC Okanagan | $65,385.00 | 2 years |
| Health and Social Development | 1 | Judy Gillespie | Okanagan | Indigenizing UBC Okanagan’s Masters of Social Work (MSW) curriculum to enhance culturally respectful clinical social work practice with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples | $73,942.00 | 2 years |
| Health and Social Development | 1 | Donna Kurtz | Okanagan | Traditional knowledge and Indigenous wellness in graduate nursing education in BC: The time for transformation and reconciliation | $99,927.00 | 2 years |
| Health and Social Development | 3 | Sarah Blair Martin | Okanagan | Indigenous food security in Syilx territory – community engaged review of challenges, priorities, and opportunities | $40,875.00 | 12-18 months |
| Health and Social Development | S | Helen Hamel | Okanagan | Indigenous Nurses Sharing Knowledge of MSN/MN Education in BC | $22,581.00 | 12-18 months |
| Leadership | 1 | Jean Ruiz | Vancouver | Interactive Indigenous research ethics repository | $97,316.00 | 2 years |
| Leadership | 1 | Gä̀gala-ƛ̓iƛ̓ətko (Nadia Joe) | Vancouver | Yeendoo diinehdoo ji’heezrit nits’oo ts’o’ nan he’aa (in the future, after we are gone, how will the world be?) | $100,000.00 | 2 years |
| Leadership | 2 | Shelly Morrison | Cross-Campus | Consultation and plan development: Indigenous procurement strategy | $200,000.00 | 2 years |
| Leadership | 2 | Freeman Woolnough | Vancouver | Decolonizing mental health services on campus | $68,202.00 | 2 years |
| Library | 1 | Patty Kelly | Vancouver | “Elements of Indigenous style”: Advancing Indigenous principles of writing and editing in English | $83,310.00 | 2 years |
| Medicine | 2 | David Thompson | Cross-Campus | Laying the foundation: Establishing fundamental knowledge for faculty and partners for implementation of Faculty of Medicine commitments to TRC | $166,592.15 | 3 years |
| Medicine | 3 | Kailey Lund | Vancouver | Masters of Physical Therapy Indigenous Student Collective (MPT ISC) | $50,000.00 | 12-18 months |
| Medicine | S | Holly Reid | Vancouver | Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA+ peoples’ experiences of occupational opportunities and engagement: determining research priorities | $6,969.00 | 12-18 months |
| Michael Smith Laboratories | 1 | David Ng | Vancouver | An environmental DNA outreach program for Indigenous youth to explore Indigenous and western views of science | $31,504.00 | 2 years |
| Museum of Anthropology | 2 | Jill Baird | Vancouver | Reframing the power of art in place: A digital walking tour of Indigenous art at UBC Vancouver | $183,353.00 | 2 years |
| Nursing | 1 | Leanne Currie | Vancouver | School of Nursing community unlearning and engagement series | $99,600.00 | 1 year |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | 2 | Clara Ng | Vancouver | Decolonization and Indigenization strategist in Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences | $150,000.00 | 3 years |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | 3 | Lindsay Ellefson | Vancouver | Indigenous student collegium for the Entry-to-PharmD program | $43,350.00 | 12-18 months |
| Science | 1 | Andrea Reid | Vancouver | Inaugural first salmon ceremony at UBC: Sustaining inter-cultural relationships for our shared future | $55,000.00 | 2 years |
| Science | 1 | Zachary Hudson | Vancouver | UBC Experience Program in Chemistry (EPIC) | $80,000.00 | 2 years |
| Science | 1 | Shandin Pete | Vancouver | Towards the development of an Indigenous science research course series | $80,000.00 | 2 years |
| Science | 2 | Christopher Addison | Vancouver | Culturally-relevant chemistry: Exploring the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and chemistry | $88,500.00 | 3 years |
| Science | 2 | Dianne Newell | Vancouver | Transforming the “UBC IOF Aboriginal Fisheries Research Unit Strategic Plan 2017” into Indigenous Fisheries Action at UBC | $109,650.00 | 3 years |
| Science | 2 | Margot Hessing-Lewis | Vancouver | Piloting a new UBC-Haida co-created graduate course in Oceans and Fisheries | $138,690.00 | 3 years |
| Science | S | Maxwell Reese Miner | Vancouver | Learning from Lax Kwil T’Siit: pairing Indigenous and Western ways of knowing to explore human-environment interactions on the Northwest Coast | $29,980.00 | 12-18 months |
ISI Fund Cycle 1: 2021-2022 Adjudicators
| Name | Affiliation | Campus |
|---|---|---|
| Adrienne Vedan | Senior Advisor to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal on Indigenous Affairs Director, Indigenous Programs & Services | Okanagan |
| Allison Beardsworth, MA | Associate Director, Strategic Indigenous Enrolment Initiatives, Enrolment Services | Cross-Campus |
| Amy Perreault, MLIS | Senior Strategist, Indigenous Initiatives, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology | Vancouver |
| Andrea Reid, PhD | Assistant Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Principal Investigator, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries | Vancouver |
| Bernard Perley, PhD | Director, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies Associate Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies | Vancouver |
| Brad Wuetherick, PhD | Associate Provost, Academic Programs | Okanagan |
| Braden Te Hiwi, PhD | Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies, Community, Culture and Global Studies, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Okanagan |
| Charles Menzies, PhD | Professor, Anthropology and Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Joint Faculties Senator, UBC Vancouver Senate | Vancouver |
| Daniel Justice, PhD | Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and English, Faculty of Arts Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture | Vancouver |
| Dominique Alexis | Event and Project Manager, Indigenous Programs & Services | Okanagan |
| Dory Nason, PhD | Associate Professor of Teaching, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies | Vancouver |
| Elana Mignosa, MBA, CPA/CGA | Associate Vice President, Finance & Operational Excellence, Office of the Vice President Finance & Operations | Vancouver |
| Frances Butterfield | Bachelor of Science Student, Biochemistry | Vancouver |
| Janey Lew, PhD | Senior Educational Consultant, Indigenous Initiatives, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology | Vancouver |
| Jannik Eikenaar, PhD | Associate Professor of Teaching, School of Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science | Okanagan |
| Jennifer Grenz, PhD | Assistant Professor, Forest Resources Management and Land and Food Systems, Faculty of Forestry | Vancouver |
| Jessie Penner | Indigenous Strategic Programming Manager, Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives | Cross-Campus |
| Kate Ross, PhD | Associate Vice President, Enrolment Services & Registrar | Cross-Campus |
| Kerrie Charnley, PhD | Assistant Professor of Teaching, English and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies | Okanagan |
| Kristen Pike | Associate Director, Indigenous Programs & Services | Okanagan |
| Lauren Casey | Indigenous Support Specialist & Educator, Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office | Vancouver |
| Lee Schmidt, LLB | Associate Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law | Vancouver |
| Leona Sparrow, JD, MA | Director of Treaty, Lands and Resources, Musqueam Indian Band Musqueam-UBC Liaison | Vancouver |
| Lerato Chondoma, MBA | Associate Director, Indigenous Research Support Initiative, Office of the Vice President Research & Innovation | Vancouver |
| Matthew Evenden, PhD | Associate Vice President Research & Innovation Professor, Geography, Faculty of Arts | Vancouver |
| Matthew Norris, MA | Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations and Affairs Candidate | Vancouver |
| Namaste Marsden | Director, Indigenous Engagement, Faculty of Medicine | Vancouver |
| Noah Chenoweth | Bachelor of Arts Student, Indigenous Studies | Okanagan |
| Sandra Fox | Indigenous Community Liaison Coordinator, Office of the Vice President Research & Innovation | Okanagan |
| Sheryl Lightfoot, PhD | Senior Advisor to the President on Indigenous Affairs Associate Professor, Political Science and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Arts Faculty Associate, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies Canada Research Chair in Global Indigenous Rights and Politics | Cross-Campus |
| Tanya Bob | Associate Director and Practicum Coordinator, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies | Vancouver |
| Tricia Logan, PhD | Assistant Professor, School of Information, Faculty of Arts | Vancouver |
| Vicki George, MBA | Associate Director, Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives | Cross-Campus |
We honour, celebrate and thank the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam) and Syilx Okanagan peoples on whose territories the main campuses of the University of British Columbia have the privilege to be situated.