Current Projects
2023-2025
Worlding higher education differently: Co-creating a technology-art-science commons – New Frontiers in Research Fund, Special Call (Anita Sinner, Nominated Principal Investigator; Cristian Zaelzer, Co-Principal Investigator; El Sheikh, Vargas, Osler, Co-Investigators; Nakamura, Lin, Mejia, Pérez, Collaborators).
2021-2026
Geographies of Artwork Scholarship: Investigating impact literacies as ecologies of sensible practice – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant (Anita Sinner, Principal Investigator; Rita L. Irwin, Co-Investigator).
2021-2025
Retracing, reimagining and reconciling our roots – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant (Rita L. Irwin, Principal Investigator; Anita Sinner, Shannon Leddy, Valerie Triggs and Michele Sorensen, Co-Investigators).
2019-2023
Creation of the self: A museum-university collaboration – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant (Boyd White, Principal Investigator; Anita Sinner and Richard Lachapelle, Co-Investigators).
Past Projects
2019-2022
Mapping A/r/tography: Transnational storytelling across historical and cultural routes of significance – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Development Grant (Rita L. Irwin, Principal Investigator; Anita Sinner, Jun Hu, Koichi Kasahara, Alexandra Lasczik, Ricardo Marin Viadel, Joaquin Roldan and Valerie Triggs, Co-Investigators).
2016-2022
The transversality hub: Towards a new mode of learning for community arts practice – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant (Ching-Chiu Lin, Principal Investigator; Anita Sinner, Rita L. Irwin, and Peter Grimmett, Co-Investigators).
2016
Provoke: Visual art dissertations – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant (Anita Sinner, Principal Investigator).
2015-2018
The pedagogical turn to art as research: A comparative international study of art education – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Development Grant (Anita Sinner, Principal Investigator; Rita L. Irwin, Jeff Adams, Timo Jokela, Joaquin Roldan and Ricardo Marin Viadel, Co-Investigators).
2014-2016
Material culture and teacher identity development – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (Boyd White, Principal Investigator; Anita Sinner and Pauline Sameshima, Co-Investigators).
2012-2014
Community art education: An emergent model of innovative teaching and research in Canada – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insights Development Grant (Anita Sinner, Principal Investigator; Rita L. Irwin, Jeff Adams, Timo Jokela, Ricardo Marin Viadel and Joaquin Roldan, Co-Investigators).
2012
Participatory arts-based research: An interdisciplinary community arts workshop – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Aid to Workshop Grant (Anita Sinner, Principal Investigator).
2011-2014
Portrayals of teachers’ lives: Investigating teacher education through popular culture and digital media as arts education – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant (Anita Sinner, Principal Investigator; Carl Leggo and Erika Hasebe-Ludt, Co-Investigators).
2009-2011
Life writing in teacher education: Reshaping inquiry through creative nonfiction and new media applications – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Anita Sinner, Principal Investigator). Nominated for the 2009 Post-doctoral Prize.