Recipients 2023

For the 2023 calendar year, we were able to support the following seven projects:  

Conference Support Grant: ($1,000) 

Dr. Cheryl MacDonald (Associate Director of Outreach Centre for the Study of Sport & Health, SMU) 

Presentation: “First Nations U SPORTS athletes’ transitions to university.” This presentation will be held at the Indigenous Sport and Physical Culture symposium being held in Truro, NS, on July 14-16, 2023. 

We awarded four Research Grants (each $2,000): 

1. Dr. Nicole Conrad (Department of Psychology, SMU) 
   • Project: “Assessing the landscape of private literacy tutoring in Nova Scotia.” 
2. Dr. Jonathan Fowler (Department of Anthropology, SMU) 
   • Project: “Map unmarked graves at Fort Edward Garrison Cemetery and Ste-Famille Cemetery.” 
3. Dr. Tom Ue (English Department, SMU) 
   • Project: “Developing Communities, Growing Futures: International Students’ experiences of higher education in Atlantic Canada.” 
4. Wesley Weatherbee (Department of Anthropology, SMU) 
   • Project: “Collecting and submitting samples at the archaeological site of Oak Point in Minas Basin.” 

Partnership Grant ($3,000)  

Dr. Kirrily Freeman (Department of History, SMU) 

Project: “Loyalist Connections Podcast.” A platform to be designed by two students of the African Nova Scotian community (hired as research assistants) to highlight and build through an Africentric lens, a digital heritage repository that captures the significance of the Black and African Nova Scotian experience and its legacy on Nova Scotian and, more broadly, Canadian history.  

Community Initiative Grant ($3,000) 

Kudzi Marufu (Founder Multicultural Playtime Society, Halifax) 

Workshop: “Africentric Play-Based Learning.” A workshop organized by the Multicultural Playtime Society in collaboration with the Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute (DBDLI).