Scholarly and Professional Activities
Areas of Special Interests and Accomplishments
- First nations' art, culture, and pedagogy
- In-service arts teacher education, art production, and art pedagogy
- Development of a/r/tography as a research methodology and as a form of pedagogy
Recent Research or Equivalent Grants
2024-2027 - Australian Research Council: Advancing Child and Youth-led Climate Change Education with Country
Principal Investigator: Amy Cutter-Mackenzie Knowles; Co-Investigators: Tracey Bunda, Alexandra Lasczik, Louise Phillips, Kim Snepvangers, Rita Irwin, Shannon Leddy
2023-2025 - SSHRC Convergence: Frontiers Grant: Re-storying community: Arts-based digital storytelling for community inquiry
Principal Investigator: Ching-Chiu Lin; Co-Investigators: Rita Irwin among others
2022-2025 - SSHRC Partnership Development Grant: Learning with the Land
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin; Co-Investigators: 24 Co-Is and Collaborators
2021 - RISS [Fac of Ed, Research Infrastructure Support]: Learning with the Land
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin
2021 - 2022 - Scholarly Publications Fund, UBC Provost Office: A/r/tography: Essential Readings and Conversations [subvention]
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin
2021-2025 - SSHRC Insight Grant: Retracing, Reimagining and Reconciling our Roots
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin; Co-Investigators: Shannon Leddy, Anita Sinner, Michele Sorensen, & Valerie Triggs
2021 - 2026 - SSHRC Insight Grant: Geographies of Artwork Scholarship: Investigating Impact Literacies as Ecologies of Sensible Practice
Principal Investigator: Annita Sinner; Co-Investigator: Rita Irwin
2021 - Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy: Pedagogical Propositions: Playful Walking with A/r/tography
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin
2019-2022 - 2019 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition, UBC (including trainee and bridge funding)
Principal Investigator: Leslie Roman; Co-Investigators: Rita Irwin and 19 others
2019-2022 - SSHRC Partnership Development Grant: Growing Innovation in Rural Sites of Learning
Principal Investigator: Leyton Schnellert; Co-Investigators: D. Butler, G. Giles, K. Sanford, M. Latta, P. Fisher, S. Davidson + Collaborators: R. Irwin, A. Priest, W. Carr, L. Kanevsky
2018-2021 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant): Mapping A/r/tography: Transnational storytelling across historical and cultural routes of significance
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin; Co-Investigators: Jun Hu, Koichi Kasahara, Alexandra Lasczik, Ricardo Marins, Joaquin Roldan, Anita Sinner, Valerie Triggs + 11 collaborators + 9 partners
2017-2020 - RISS Funding [Faculty of Education Research Infrastructure Support]: Mapping A/r/tography: Transnational storytelling across historical and cultural routes of significance
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin
2018-2019 - RISS Funding [Faculty of Education Research Infrastructure Support]: Three Research Conferences in
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin and George Belliveau
2016-2019 - SSHRC Insight Grant: O Canada! Reimagining Canadian Identity: A Cosmopolitan Approach to Teaching and Learning
Principal Investigator: Rita Irwin; Co-Investigators: George Belliveau, Peter Gouzouasis, Carl Leggo, William F. Pinar, and Ching-Chiu Lin
2016-2019 - SSHRC Insight Grant: The Transversality Hub: Towards a new mode of learning for community arts practice Principal Investigator: Ching-Chiu Lin; Co-Investigators: Rita Irwin, Anita Sinner, Peter Grimmett, J. Wicks
* For information on earlier grants, please see Rita Irwin’s full CV.