Community Research Projects

Dr. Jessie-Lee McIsaac and doctoral student Nahal Fakhari will work with the Iranian Cultural Society of Nova Scotia (ICS) to complete an evaluation of the Farsi School, exploring the programming of the school and how it supports the students’ personal development as well as maintaining connections to Iranian culture.

The project team at ICS included Forough Parastar, Maryam Mirmoghisi and Majid Taghavi.

Pictured above is Dr. Yasushi Akiyama, Saint Mary’s University and Cora Cole, Coordinator of Connect Women’s Centres. Dr. Akiyama will work with Connect Women’s Centres to create a community-based dashboard that will profile the socio-demographic status of women and girls’ in rural Nova Scotia.

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Dr. Norine Verberg will work with Jack Beaton and the volunteers at Syria Antigonish Families Embrace (SAFE) to better understand the experience of older youth immigrants who seem to have greater challenges and barriers to their educattional success.

Cape Breton University researcher Dr. Andrew Carrier is shown updating Pictou Landing First Nations students on the deer hunt tissue analyses project at the PLFN school. Dr. Ken Oakes and Dr. Carrier worked with PLFN staff to provide testing and training expertise so the band could succesfully re-engage in their traditional deer hunt.

In the picture above, Calvin Stevens, a teacher at the Eskasoni Immersion School is showing students how to make a wooden whistle. Prof. Melissa Bishop from CBU will team up with Elaine Denny, Principal of the Immersion School to explore the impacts of land-based learning on students’ oral language production and comprehension competencies during the implemention of an outdoor learning space.

Eskasoni background photo courtesy of Sjoerd Witteveen

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