SJRI supports community partnerships by:
- making Community Engagement Grants available to affiliated members;
- making other SJRI resources (e.g. Director and FSC; Brock faculty and students) available to community groups to support the fulfillment of their specific research needs.
Please click on the links below for more information about recent SJRI-community partnerships.
PEPiN
In collaboration with United Way, Brock faculty members Jeff Boggs (Geography and Tourism Studies) and Jonah Butovsky (Sociology) explored the impacts of precarious employment in Niagara.
Indigenous Employment Engagement in Niagara
A team of Brock University researchers, in collaboration with peers researchers from the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre, studied barriers to employment engagement for Indigenous residents of Fort Erie as well as programs, supports, or resources that would assist Indigenous individuals to apply for, obtain, and remain in employment.
Niagara Prosperity Initiative
In partnership with the Niagara Region, a team of Brock University researchers evaluated the impact of the Niagara Prosperity Initiative (NPI), a program established to provide annual investments to poverty reduction and prevention activities.
Identifying Barriers to CEVAW
At the request of the Coalition to End Violence Against Women (CEVAW), a team of Brock University researchers investigated barriers that community members face when accessing and continuing to access CEVAW member organizations in relation to their experiences of gendered violence.
Understanding SMUN’s Radically Inclusive Service Model
In partnership with Start Me Up Niagara (SMUN), a team of Brock University researchers developed a mentorship-based project both to provide people who access SMUN programming with useful communication and networking skills and opportunities and to assist SMUN to identify those aspects of its service delivery model that most contribute to the organizations’ success.
