Graphic Designer Needed for Research on Gender-based Violence

For this project the student will be creating social media materials and infographics for research on gender-based violence. The work will also involve developing an existing project website. Familiarity with Wordpress and Google Sites is required. The projects the student will be creating media materials for focus on gendered violence in two ways. They firstly investigate feminist methodology and pedagogy related to gender-based violence in order to build understanding about how to best prevent and respond to this violence. A second and larger part of the research aims to address gender-based violence against 2SLGBTQI+ people. This research examines how centering queer joy in conversation about gendered violence disrupts the cultural norms such as homophobia, transphobia, racism, and ableism which lead to gendered violence. The student will be comfortable and enthusiastic about creating materials for research on gendered violence and 2SLGBTQ+ communities.

Transcription for Project- Duo-ethnographic Enquiry on Consent as Pedagogy

The student will be responsible for transcribing two multi-hour interview recordings from a project titled "Consent as pedagogy: A duoethnographic dream-mapping inquiry into the (im)possibilities of consent in K-20 schools." The student will also be responsible for drafting an article based on the transcripts. The project is a duoethnographic (Sawyer & Norris, 2012) dream-mapping project (Cavanaugh, 2022), where two educator-researchers reflect on how consent was absent in theory K-20 experiences and restory (Coleman, 2020; Thomas & Stornaiuolo, 2016) consent as a pedagogical framework. Through dialoguing and creating dream-maps, they imagine consent as an anticolonial, antiracist, queer/trans, femme-inist, crip, and mad logic. The findings of this project will contribute to education research aiming to develop anti-violent, trauma-informed K-20 schools.

Queer Joy Project Research Assistants for Data Analysis and Knowledge Dissemination (Phase 3)

The student on this project will be part of the The Queer Joy project's exploration of what queer and trans epistemologies about consent and queer joy offer the project to end gender-based violence. This contract is for the first part of the project which will involve engagement in data collection and analysis processes and which may include: helping recruit participants, supporting the process of onboarding participants, assisting with the facilitation of data collection, and analyzing data. The goal of the project is to draw upon queer and trans epistemologies to develop more effective gender-based violence prevention education--and specifically consent education--for all youth.

Literature Review: Trauma-informed Pedagogy Related to Gender-based Violence

The student's goal on this project is to produce a literature review on trauma-informed pedagogy related to the topic of gender-based violence. The literature review will contribute to a broader project that is investigating how contemporary conversations about sexual violence post-#MeToo have seeped into classroom conversation at post-secondary institutions (both in courses that are directly on the topic on sexual violence and those that are not) and require educators to be able to navigate these conversations in trauma-informed ways. There is a gap in the literature pertaining to best practices for effectively engaging in challenging classroom dialogue about gender-based violence using a trauma-informed approach, and this project will contribute to theory and praxis related to addressing these challenges.