Changing Needs
Our work is centred around anticipating, learning, and being responsive to the changing needs of diverse families and kin, lives and livelihoods, and living environments through research, teaching, and accessible knowledge sharing, including policy-relevant and community-engaged activities.
We work in five mutually reinforcing areas:
- Research Activities
- Student Engagement and Development
- Community Engagement
- Communities of Practice
- Knowledge Mobilization
Research Clusters
Beginning from the margins, our research is focused on five intersecting research clusters, with each cluster exploring complex themes and the ways they influence work, family and well-being in all their diverse forms. When we look at the research within and across each cluster and beyond, we explore the effects on diverse families and individual well-being, changes in work and livelihoods, factors that shape work and family relationships, needed policy changes and community actions.
"All My Relations" Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Explore relationships between living environments and well-being.
Disabilities, Access, and Inclusion
Learn about issues at the intersection of disability and livelihoods.
Displacements, Emergence, and Change
Explore how communities respond to social and political challenges.
Consider family, livelihoods, and living environments through feminist, anti-oppressive, and other critical perspectives.
Discover how sexual and gender diversity impact livelihoods.
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