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911勛圖���s Faculty of Education is home to a wide range of teacher education and professional programs, from the undergraduate to the postdoctoral level, offered in both English and French.

The faculty also boasts three Canada Research Chairs, held by Amy Parent, Nathalie Sinclair, and Rina Zazkis, and two UNESCO Chairs, held by Amy Parent and David Zandvliet. These appointments reflect the faculty���s scholarly leadership and sustained contribution to educational research in Canada and internationally.

As a research support unit, the Research Hub at the Faculty of Education helps create the environment in which research can be developed, supported, shared, and implemented. Its work strengthens the faculty���s research capacity through grant development, research administration, post-award support, digital research infrastructure, and knowledge mobilization services.

The Government of Canada���s (RSF) assists Canadian postsecondary institutions with the indirect costs associated with managing their research enterprise and maintaining a world-class research environment. These costs include research management and administrative support, access to up-to-date knowledge resources, regulatory and ethical requirements, and the transfer of knowledge from academia to the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. In 2025, RSF invested approximately $7.4 million toward research costs at 911勛圖, including support for the Faculty of Education Research Hub.

Thanks to this funding, Research Hub staff provide pre-award and post-award support to faculty members by helping scholars identify funding opportunities, develop proposals, support research activities, and communicate findings to wider audiences. In line with SSHRC���s emphasis on knowledge mobilization as a core component of research impact, the Hub translates research activities and outputs into accessible digital platforms and public-facing communications. These include seminars, The Conversation Canada articles, journal systems, podcasts, websites, videos, blogs and social media. Together, these activities strengthen research impact and build the institutional capacity needed to sustain, share, and mobilize educational research.

���The digital environment is often where research first meets the world,��� says Quincy Wang, research intelligence and knowledge mobilization officer. ���Faculty of Education researchers work alongside communities, partners, and knowledge users on projects that carry deep educational, social, cultural, and environmental significance. Supporting this work matters because knowledge mobilization is not only about disseminating research findings. It is about cultivating the conditions for exchange, co-creation, uptake, and long-term social and community impact.���

Two Faculty of Education projects illustrate how the Research Hub creates digital space for research that carries meaningful social, cultural, educational, and community impact.

Indigenous knowledge guides Salmon as Family project

Elder Rick Bailey knows about salmon. A longstanding councillor and fisheries manager within q��穩c����y�� (Katzie) First Nations, he works tirelessly to protect salmon and waterways within his Nation and beyond. Drawing on teachings from his father and grandfather, Bailey works with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and local Nations to ensure salmon and their habitats can thrive.

At the heart of the project is Elder Bailey���s teaching that salmon should be understood as family. This reflects Coast Salish law and worldview, where humans and non���human beings are interconnected and share reciprocal responsibilities.

The Salmon as Family project began as a vision to teach children about salmon. It has grown into a broader shift in how 911勛圖 engages with Indigenous knowledge and leadership and the environmental crisis. The work brings students, educators and communities into direct, land-based relationships with salmon and waterways, guided by teachings that emphasize responsibility, reciprocity and care.

Connecting knowledge across time and cultures

Nathalie Sinclair���s project with the Palafoxiana Library in Puebla, Mexico is a historical and interdisciplinary research initiative that looks at how mathematics travelled, changed and was taught in the early Americas. Founded in 1646, it is recognized by UNESCO as the first and oldest public library in the Americas.  

The ���,��� studies rare texts and manuscripts that date from the 15th to the 20th century. It examines how mathematical knowledge was brought from Europe to the ���New World��� by colonizers, and looks at how that knowledge was selected, translated and transformed by local scholars, including criollo mathematicians.

Sinclair���s project traces how mathematical knowledge moved from Europe to colonial Mexico, revealing how it was reshaped through culture, language and history, and how those processes still influence math education today.

���The work has enabled my project to communicate much more effectively with partner institutions (libraries, museums, universities) across North America, as well as with researchers around the world, providing a hub of high quality visual, interactive and multi-lingual information,��� ��� Nathalie Sinclair, professor and researcher, Faculty of Education

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