Recipients 2023
For the 2023 calendar year, we were able to support the following seven projects:
Conference Support Grant: ($1,000)
Dr. Cheryl MacDonald (Associate Director of Outreach Centre for the Study of Sport & Health, SMU)
Presentation: “First Nations U SPORTS athletes’ transitions to university.” This presentation will be held at the Indigenous Sport and Physical Culture symposium being held in Truro, NS, on July 14-16, 2023.
We awarded four Research Grants (each $2,000):
- Dr. Nicole Conrad (Department of Psychology, SMU)
- Project: “Assessing the landscape of private literacy tutoring in Nova Scotia.”
- Dr. Jonathan Fowler (Department of Anthropology, SMU)
- Project: “Map unmarked graves at Fort Edward Garrison Cemetery and Ste-Famille Cemetery.”
- Dr. Tom Ue (English Department, SMU)
- Project: “Developing Communities, Growing Futures: International Students’ experiences of higher education in Atlantic Canada.”
- Wesley Weatherbee (Department of Anthropology, SMU)
- Project: “Collecting and submitting samples at the archaeological site of Oak Point in Minas Basin.”
Partnership Grant ($3,000)
Dr. Kirrily Freeman (Department of History, SMU)
Project: “Loyalist Connections Podcast.” A platform to be designed by two students of the African Nova Scotian community (hired as research assistants) to highlight and build through an Africentric lens, a digital heritage repository that captures the significance of the Black and African Nova Scotian experience and its legacy on Nova Scotian and, more broadly, Canadian history.
Community Initiative Grant ($3,000)
Kudzi Marufu (Founder Multicultural Playtime Society, Halifax)
Workshop: “Africentric Play-Based Learning.” A workshop organized by the Multicultural Playtime Society in collaboration with the Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute (DBDLI).