The research section of this website is intended for faculty members, researchers, and graduate students who wish to know more about the research activities carried out by REACH affiliates.

 

1) The 2009 HELP-UVic: REACH graduate student Early Years Scholarships are awarded. There were many excellent, worthy applicants for these awards and the selection was very difficult. The recipients were outstanding in their achievements and their proposed areas of research focused on early childhood (0-5 years) and were directly applicable to REACH's mission and priorities. Recipients are:

2009 REACH Early Years - Doctoral $7,500 - Scholarships:

Kate Randall (PSYCH)
Subilaga Kejo (EDCI)

2009 REACH Early Years - Masters $5,000 - Scholarships:

Carol Rowan (SCYC)

Jennifer Gibson (EPHE)

Emily Cartledge (PSYCH)

 

2)  HELP-UVic: REACH is pleased to announce recipients of the following awards:

• Recognition for Exemplary Graduate Research Awards
• Small Grants Awards; and
• Thesis Funding Awards.

Please click on this link for details.

3) Final reports on 08/09 Small Grant awards and thesis summaries for the Thesis Funding awards are available. Please click on this link to view: 2008/09 Awards

 

4)  Below is a summary of research projects and activities carried out by REACH affiliates.

Investigators	Project Title
Jessica Ball (UVic)	Educational equity for children from diverse language backgrounds: Mother tongue-based bilingual or multilingual education in the early years
Sibylle Artz (UVic) Coleen Kasting (Burnside Gorge Community Association)	Homelessness Outreach Project for Single Parent Families
Jessica Ball (UVic)	1. Early Childhood Care and Development in First Nations Communities: Evaluating Strategies for Improving Outcomes 2. Early Language Development and Facilitation Strategies in First Nations Childcare Settings 3. Aborigiinal Fathers' Involvement in Child Care and Development
Jessica Ball (UVic) Barbara Berhnhardt (UBC) Laura Fraser (UVic, Nuu-Chah-Nulth) Katherine Fraser (UVic, Nuu-Chah-Nulth) Carolyn Johnson (UBC)	Identification of Features of Canadian Aboriginal English Dialect(s) and Implication for Understanding and Assessing Aboriginal Language Proficiency in the Pre-School Years: Pilot Study
Wanda Boyer (UVic)	Foundational Measure of Early Childhood Development of Self-Regulation
Roy Brown (UVic) Grace Iarocci (SFU)	Family Quality of Life and Disability: A Comparative Study
Michael Chandler (UBC) Chris Lalonde (UVic)	1. A Developmental Analysis of the Identity Formation Process in Native and non-Native Youth: Cultural Control and Health 2. Aboriginal Youth Suicide and Community Intervention 3. International Workshop on Aboriginal Youth Suicide
Lily Dyson (UVic)	Child Development and the Psychosocial Contexts of Children in Elementary Schools in Low-income Neighbourhoods: From Home to School
Francis Lau (UVic) Theresa Hunter (UVic) Denise Cloutier-Fisher (UVic) Debra Greig (ShirWin Knowledge and Learning Systems)	Enhancing Parent-Child Relations Through Knowledge Management
Margie I. Mayfield (UVic)	Community Play Spaces
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (UVic)	1. A Study of First and Second Language Issues Among Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Care System 2. The Construction of Linguistic, Cultural and Racial Minority Groups in BC Early Childhood Care and Development
Alan Pence (UVic)	1. Canada First Nations Research and Development 2. International and Cross-Cultural Early Childhood Development Capacity Building
Alison Preece (UVic)	Fat Kids' in Children's Literature, Ads, and TV: Implications, Attributions, and Consequences for Self-Image
Laurene Sheilds (UVic) Valerie Kuehne (UVIC)	The Effectiveness of a Multidisciplinary Communiy-Based Early intervention on the Health of Young Children in Care and their Readiness to Learn: A Comparative Outcomes Study Project Temporarily on Hold

To contact faculty who are involved with these projects, please view the People page.

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