Grants and Projects
We are passionate about our work and believe in the many ways we collaborate locally, nationally and internationally to improve the human condition through education.
2023-2024
Dr. Anne Burke (Principal Investigator) Resilient Experiences and Agency of Youth and Children During the Pandemic: Re-visioning Education through Storytelling ( REAP) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Research for post-pandemic recovery - Full Application (TIPS) 2023
Dr. Andrew Coombs (Principal Investigator) The Future of Assessment in Canadian Schools: Addressing Systemic Challenges through a Pan-Canadian Study of Teacher Innovation Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant 2023
Dr. Dale Kirby (Principal Investigator) Student Financial Aid and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Response of Canadian Universities to Domestic and International Student Communities", European Conference on Educational Research, Yerevan, Armenia, August, 23-25, 2022 Memorial University of Newfoundland SSHRC Exchange - Paper Presentation at Scholarly Conferences 2023
Dr. Leslie Redmond (Principal Investigator) The comprehension and comprehensibility of police cautions and legal rights: A scoping review Memorial University of Newfoundland Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund 2023
Dr. Joelle Rodway (Principal Investigator) Learning Leadership: How School District Administrators Position Themselves as Learners within their Organizations Memorial University of Newfoundland Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund 2023
Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) Developing and piloting a culturally relevant and scientifically-grounded reading intervention for young learners Memorial University of Newfoundland SSHRC Explore 2023
Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) Developing and piloting a culturally responsive science of teaching reading Memorial University of Newfoundland Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund 2023
Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) Enacting a structured literacy curriculum: processes and outcomes Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Engage 2023
2022
Dr. Christine Arnold (Principal Investigator) Review and Analysis of Education Policy Trajectories in Newfoundland and Labrador: A 25-Year Retrospective (MUN Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund)
Dr. Anne Burke (Principal Investigator) Playing in the Digital Forest: Growing Children’s Place-based Ecological Imagination through Augmented Storytelling (MUN SSHRC Explore)
Dr. Anne Burke (Principal Investigator) Exploring the Power of Play for Resilience, Renewal and Recovery in Children’s Lives: A Historical Archive: Children’s Play Lives During the Pandemic Active (MUN Faculty of Education Res & Dev Fund)
Dr. Andrew Coombs (Principal Investigator) Exploring parental attitudes towards classroom assessment practice (MUN Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund)
Dr. Kimberly Maich (Principal Investigator) Electronic Data Collection to Measure the Back-And-Forth Utterances in Research & Clinical Practice for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or Other Social-Communication Issues (MUN Faculty of Education Res & Dev Fund)
Dr. Joelle Roday (Principal Investigator) Learning Leadership: How School District Administrators Position Themselves as Learners within their Organizations (MUN Seed, Bridge and Multidisciplinary Fund)
Dr. Joelle Roday (Principal Investigator) Decolonizing Professional Learning (SSHRC Connection Grant - Individual)
Dr. Jeanne Sinclair (Principal Investigator) Developing a culturally responsive, scientifically grounded reading intervention through educational design research (SSHRC Insight Development Grant)
Dr. Jeanne Sinclair Developing and piloting a culturally relevant and scientifically-grounded reading intervention for young learners (MUN SSHRC Explore)
2021
Dr. Anne Burke
The Possibilities and Necessities of Virtual Making in Makerspaces for Children (MUN SBM)
Dr. Antoinette Doyle
Developing professional learning communities in early childhood settings: Examining processes and learning outcomes (MUN SSHRC Explore)
Dr. Darron Kelly
Developing a Practical Discourse Survey Instrument for Assessing Dialogic Agency and Rational Trust in Educational Policymaking (SSHRC Insight Grant)
Dr. Kimberly Maich
Electronic Data Collection to Measure the Back-And-Forth Chains of Utterances in Research & Clinical Practice for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or Other Social-Communication Issues (MUN SBM)
Dr. Sylvia Moore
Teacher professional learning to strengthen culturally nourishing pedagogies in Nunatsiavut area schools (SSHRC PEG)
Dr. Joelle Rodway
Learning from High Impact Cases of Collaborative Research Networks, 2021‒2026 (Co-applicant) (SSHRC Insight Grant)
Dr. Joelle Rodway
Learning Leadership: How Senior School District Administrators Position Themselves as Learners within their Organizations (PI) ( MUN SSHRC Explore)
Dr. Gabrielle Young
Learning Disabilities Association of Canada (LDAC) Research Hub: Synthesizing the last decade of Canadian research on specific learning disorders (Learning Disabilities of Canada)
2020
Dr. Saiqa Azam
1) "Studying Experiences of Science Teachers: Exploring Personal Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Grade Six and Nine Teachers"; 2) "Pre-Service Science Teachers' Professional Learning Within Informal Science Learning Contexts: A University and Community Partnership"; 13th Conference of European Science Education Research Association (ESERA): August 28-30, 2019 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)
Dr. Cecile Badenhorst
Re-imagining doctoral writing- Publication Subvention Program (MUN Pub Subvention)
Dr. Cecile Badenhorst
"1 Origin Stories: Doctoral Writing Subjectivties" 2 Doctoral Student Writing: Uncertain Territories."; Writing Research Across Borders 2020: Xi'an International Studies University In Xi'an China: March 11-14, 2020 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)
Dr. David Buley
Community Music Literacy in Coastal Labrador (SSHRC PEG)
Dr. Anne Burke
Socially Innovative Interventions to foster and to advance Young Children’s Inclusion and Agency in Society through Voice and Story [AdVoST] (SSHRC Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) Social Innovation)
Dr. Antoinette Doyle
Developing Online Professional Learning Communities in Early Childhood Education Settings: Examining Processes and Learning Outcomes (MUN SBM)
Dr. Margarita (Margo) Kondratieva
"Teachers' Collaboration in Mixed Groups for Learning Mathematical Inquiry: A theoretical Perspective"; The 25th ICMI: Teachers of Mathematics Working and Learning in Collaborative Groups; Lisbon, Portugal; February 3-7, 2020 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)
Dr. Margarita (Margo) Kondratieva
External didactic transpositions in undergraduate university-level mathematics (Faculty of Education R&D)
Dr. Leah Lewis
The Hearthstone Community Art Hive (MUN SBM)
Dr. Xuemei Li
"An investigation of refugee students in the inclusive education system in a smaller Canadian city"; The 2020 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA; April 17-21, 2020 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)
Dr. Xuemei Li
An examination of post-compulsory education for migrant children in urban China (Mitacs Globalink)
Dr. Leslie Redmond
Using letter detection tasks to understand individual differences in reading processes in typically- aging adults (Faculty of Education R&D)
Dr. Leslie Redmond
"On the contribution of morphological awareness to reading comprehension: A comparison of French L1 and L2 students"; Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading; Newport Beach, California; July 8-11, 2020 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)
Dr. Leslie Redmond
A longitudinal study of emergent bilinguals: Oral language production in Early French Immersion (MUN SSHRC Explore)
Dr. Joelle Rodway
Leadership of Curriculum Teams (New Zealand Government)
Dr. Dorothy Vaandering
From Brazil to Canada and back again: The gift of Paulo Freire for Restorative Justice; Diverse Perspectives, Meaningful Solutions: 2019 National Restorative Justice Symposium; Banff, AB; November 16-19, 2019 (MUN SSHRC Exchange)
Dr. Dorothy Vaandering
Two-Eared Listening: Restorative Justice in Newfoundland and Labrador (SSHRC Connection)
Dr. Gabrielle Young
Using Online Tutoring to Support Literacy (MUN SSHRC Explore)