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Welcome! SPOTLIGHT From: Research Office To: All Academic Administrators; All Administrative Staff & Managers; All Deans & Associate Deans; All Faculty Subject: PULSE: Research & Innovation Newsletter, October 2020 Date: October 2, 2020 10:59:33 AM Attachments: image008.png image011.png image014.png October 2020 Welcome! The Office of Research & Innovation supports research and scholarly activity at OCAD University. We help OCAD U researchers to find funding, develop projects and partnerships and engage students. Contact us today to learn more about how we can support you in all things research at OCAD University. The OCAD U Research Ethics Board (REB) provides an independent, impartial, and equitable ethics review of all research at OCAD U that involves human participants. Learn more about the REB and its processes here. **If you require information published in this newsletter in an alternate format, please forward your request to [email protected] and let us know what format is preferable. We will provide you with an accessible version.** SPOTLIGHT Meet Kathy Moscou Assistant Professor Kathy Moscou’s research of pharmacogovernance and comparative health policy addresses equity in drug safety and governance to foster healthy communities. Recent community- based participatory action research with Indigenous youth explored their perspectives on success, leadership and the intersectionality between holistic health and a healthy neighborhood. Her Urban Garden project was a community-based research partnership with Indigenous organizations in Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba. The goal of the project was to improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous youth by identifying culturally relevant indicators for holistic health. The research also investigated the holistic health benefits of urban gardening for individuals and neighbourhoods. Kathy’s Health and Aboriginal Land-based Education Research (HEALER) project was aimed at developing an interdisciplinary collaboration of university, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI), and VOICE Project partners to identify research priorities to improve health literacy and the health status of FNMI communities. The HEALER project specifically examined the role of Aboriginal knowledge-based programs, such as land-based education and cultural proficiency, on literacy and health literacy. At OCADU, Kathy’s research focus will expand to explore BIPOC perspectives of the intersectionality between governance, African and Indigenous ontology and human-centred design to foster social justice, health equity and healthy communities. Meet Michael Lee Poy Assistant Professor Michael Lee Poy is an Afro-Caribbean artist-activist and architect in Trinidad and Tobago. His practice and interests are centered on post-colonial Caribbean design and fabrication in the festival arts – especially Carnival. A graduate of Pratt Institute of Technology in architecture (B. Arch.) and the Yale Graduate School of Architecture, Environmental Design (MED), Michael aims to use interdisciplinarity to augment the innovative, creative, and collaborative process of design. Since 2015, Michael has been teaching the Hero's Journey process as a design curriculum for graduate students in the Creative Design Entrepreneurship (CDEN) program in the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine campus. By introducing the class to familiar and unfamiliar local icons, Michael actively decolonizes learning, and deconstructs the “expert” paradigm. He does this in order to generate and inspire new and sovereign knowledge – allowing students from various backgrounds and disciplines to delve into both their historical and creative psyches. For the past 5 years, Michael has been incubating the Moko Jumbie Mas Camp workshops for children aged 7-17. The masquerade (mas) camps were designed and implemented as socially conscious design/build and fabrication/studio/lab workshops. They operate like a small design incubator/facilitator – just like typical Carnival mas camps. The students learn leadership training, team building, and balance and acrobatics. Eventually, the older students become experts and mentors for the younger ones. Michael’s architectural and design portfolio includes two buildings at the UWI, St. Augustine campus, the Trinidad Hilton Conference Centre port cochère, in addition to numerous commercial interiors throughout the island. He was co-chair of the UWI Ministry of Design: From Cottage Industry to State Enterprise Symposium (2015); and his work has been featured in Caribbean Beat Magazine (January 2018). Meet Kestin Cornwall Assistant Professor Kestin Cornwall: “I create art to document change and to ask questions. I try to approach my work as a visual thinker and aim to think critically. Media has often distorted representations of Black and Brown males; how we speak, love, and live. The North American media industry is the largest globally, which significantly affects how the world views minorities. This large consumption of media affects the public's attitudes towards Black and Brown men. These preconceived notions and perceptions of us have directly affected Black and Brown men's treatment within our society. It also affects self-realization and individual development, punitive laws, and police practices that, in the end, impact and change our communities and how we all interact within them. I aim to add beauty to the world while documenting and asking questions through images. Race, ethnicity, and visual culture are impossible to disentangle or separate. They are linked, and visual art presents a direct site to challenge old views and add new images.” Meet Angela Bains Assistant Professor Angela Bains: “I have a commercial practice, TransformExp (strategy and graphic design firm) which encompasses commercial and social change projects. The Vancouver Safe Injection Site (the first in North American) and the Black Youth Training Scheme (in-house graphic design training with no high school grades required) are excellent examples of the kind of work we do. We are currently working on the first integrated community health centre serving the local community and marginalized populations (homeless, sex workers etc.) My business practice has a one-for-one business model, meaning, for every project we complete we invest a percentage of our profits to support an entrepreneur in the developing world by lending all or part of an ‘interest free’ micro loan through crowd funding with lendwithcare.org. These entrpreneurs would not qualify for traditional bank loans. The loans are repaid and this money goes back into supporting other entrepreneurs. At OCADU I will be expanding my work with Black youth, digital futures and creative entrepreneurship.” VP MESSAGE Message from Dr. Ashok Mathur, Interim VPRI: Greetings all. I am truly excited to step in as Interim VP of Research and Innovation and I look forward to doing whatever is possible to enhance research opportunities and support in the coming year. Along with my interim role, I will be maintaining my decanal post in Graduate Studies, and while both portfolios carry varied and differential duties, there are also wonderful synergies I intend to explore as fully and fruitfully as time allows. As the University undergoes considerable changes, I intend to ensure that research continues to grow at OCAD U and that our various support mechanisms similarly flourish. Supporting emerging, mid-career, and senior researchers will be a priority, particularly as we welcome new faculty into our fold. To this end, I am pleased that the Research Office is at the forefront of issues that support BIPOC faculty – one of these avenues is the expansive decolonization project underway which will ensure that Equity/Diversity/Inclusion is concretely reinforced through our office. Part of this project will engage equity issues in our Canada Research Chair appointment plan and develop a physical space for racialized and other diverse researchers. We are also actively pursuing mentorship and other assistance models particularly for emerging researchers as they embark on careers here at OCAD U. As a start, I have been meeting with CRCs and other researchers to determine how best to support them in these challenging times and into futures that we all hope will offer myriad opportunities to engage the social spheres within which OCAD U exists. More and more, researchers at OCAD U are partaking in Tri-Council competitions, and with considerable success, as evidenced in this edition of Pulse. And as we grow our research culture, a strong focus needs to be increasing our access to SSHRC, NSERC, and CIHR to take advantage of such opportunities by our coterie of active researchers, and expanding this to others who are seeking to enter this world. We also continue to develop industry and other partnerships, and for this I am grateful to be working alongside my longtime colleague, Dr. Glen Lowry, Executive Director and Advisor to the Provost, who will be steering the innovation portion of the office. Finally, we continue the work so critically put into play by Dr. Robert Luke, who performed phenomenal duties during his four-year tenure as VPRI and is now undertaking new and related challenges as CEO at eCampus Ontario. Part of this legacy is the development and deployment of policies that support researchers at OCAD U, and we are well underway to presenting a much-needed Policy on Research Organizations that will come before Senate presently. Despite challenges before us,
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