University Canada West’s Dr. Kaye Hare and Dr. Gitanjaly Chhabra have been awarded a grant by the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The UCW professors received the EDID Initiative Fund grant for their innovative Erasure Poetry and Decolonization workshops.
The EDID Initiatives Fund is intended to support innovative scholarly endeavours that advance Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization, or EDID, by providing up to $3,000 in financial support.
Their research project Erasure Poetry as Pedagogical Praxis: Exploring De/colonization with International Students in Canada investigates decolonial education through erasure poetry workshops with undergraduate students at UCW.
“By engaging students with Indigenous perspectives and their own global experiences of de/colonization, the study aims to deepen understanding of de/colonization while informing future pedagogical practices in higher education,” says Dr. Hare.
The Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences is the national representative body for humanities and social sciences, and it has a membership of more than 160 Canadian universities, colleges and scholarly associations that represent 91,000 researchers and graduate students. The EDID Initiative Fund, which supports up to 10 projects per round, is one of its programs promoting scholarly innovation across Canada.
