Research

Recent Projects by Faculty

Books

Book Chapters

  • Lovrod, M. & Wood, K. (2014). “Chapter 10: Encounters with the Uncanny: Open-ended creative research with subalterned communities as ethical practice.” Eds. Curtis Fogel, Andrea Quinlan & Elizabeth Quinlan. Invited Chapter, Imaginative Inquiry: Innovation Approached to Interdisciplinary Research. California: Academica Press, 147-165 [double-blind peer review, 50%]. 
  • Lovrod, M. & Wood, K. (2013). “A Healing Centre of One's Own: Woolf's Legacy and Public Responses to Child Abuse." Ann Martin & Kathryn Holland (Eds). Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty- Second Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. South Carolina: Clemson University Press, 109-118 [double-blind peer review, 50%]. 

Journal Articles

  • Loewen Walker, R. & Hartman, A. (2022). Putting Universities at Risk: A Story of Fear and Self-Loathing. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning 8 (1). 
  • Loewen Walker, R. (2022) Call it Misogyny. Feminist Theory xx(x): 1-22 
  • Dykhuizen, M, Marshal, K., Loewen Walker, R., & Saddleback, J. (2022). Holistic Health of Two Spirit People in Canada: A Call for Nursing Action. Journal of Holistic Nursing xx (x): 1-14. 
  • David, M. "#Me Too in Postsocialist Countries: a Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Chinese Feminist Activism against Sexual Violence" In The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement, edited by Chandra Giti and Irma Erlingsdottir. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020. 
  • David, M. "Individualism, Free Love, and Eugenics in 1920s China" In Power and Pleasure: Writing the History of Sexuality in China, edited by Howard Chiang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 
  • David, M. "Female Gynecologists and their Birth Control Clinics: Eugenics in Practice in 1920s-1930s". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 35, 1 (2018): 32-62. 
  • York-Bertram, S., Lovrod, M. & Krol, L.(2017) “Decentering Expected Voices and visibilities in a Feminist Transnational Bridging Pilot.” Engaged Scholar Journal, 2(2): 65-83 [Funded by ICCC Catalyst Award; 45%]
  • Lovrod, M. with S. Bustamante & D. Domshy (2016). “Pathways: Community-Engaged Research with Youth Transitioning to Adult In(ter)dependence from Government Care” in Voices from the Prairies Series, #5, Celebrating Child Welfare Transformations: Interdisciplinary Practices, Field Education and Research. Eds. H. Monty Montgomery, Dorothy Badry, Daniel Kikulwe & Don Fuchs. Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 211-239.

Social Innovation Lab

The Social Innovation Lab on Gender and Sexuality (SIL) is made up of students, community partners, and scholars in gender and sexualities studies, community-based participatory research (CBPR), human rights law, and social justice. SIL is a community-university “laboratory” that brings communities and individuals together to collaborate on intersectional projects. The academic team members take responsibility for training and supervision, while community organizations lead and determine the scope, timelines, and goals of the projects. 

SIL amplifies the resiliencies of gender and sexually diverse communities, including their tremendous creativity and capacity for innovation. SIL’s inter-sectoral approach helps to explore social, cultural, legal, and political environments, supporting outcomes such as policy development around trans rights, supporting increased legal protections for 2SLGBTQ+ people in prisons, and advocating for access to comprehensive healthcare for gender affirming surgeries, among many other projects. 

Example Projects

Driving Transformational Change: A Funder's Guide to Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ Organizations

Chronic underfunding of 2SLGBTQ+ organizations hurts gender and sexually diverse people and demonstrates a missed opportunity for funders to drive equitable, intersectional, and sustainable change in order of everyone within the country, especially those who are the most marginalized, to exact their full potential. The funding landscape only changes at the hands of grantmakers and so this report is primarily directed at government funders, including federal, provincial, and municipal bodies. The recommendations are applicable to a broader audience, aiming to improve the funding processes and procedures of all grantmakers.

Mitacs Partnership: Truth and Reconciliation Through Treaty Implementation

An organizational document for Office of the Treaty Commissioner which envisions the future of their TRTI service, a facilitated process for organizations to map and grow their reconciliation efforts. This project aims to 1) build capacity and sustain continuity/accessibility of OTC's reconciliation-related offerings, 2) increase the overall impact of reconciliation efforts in Saskatchewan and beyond, through mapping, evaluation and data collection/analysis, 3) set growth objectives and outline financial, marketing and HR recommendations to achieve them.

Pandemic Evictions: An Analysis of the Eviction Decision of Saskatchewan’s Office of Residential Tenancies

An analysis of metadata extracted from eviction decisions rendered by the Saskatchewan Office of Residential Tenancies in 2021. This project is in partnership with CLASSIC and Professor Sarah Buhler. This project aims to highlight the gendered impacts of eviction hearings and their outcomes in the province of Saskatchewan.