Community Health and Social Innovation (CHASI) Hub
Turning knowledge into action
On March 10, CHASI welcomed local visual artist and UFV alumni Faria Firoz to the Hub, where she joined our team for a dinner and conversations around her journey of art activism and community-minded creativity. We thank Faria for showing us how research, activism, and art can come together to create change, and appreciate her … Read more
UFV’s Community Health and Social Innovation (CHASI) Hub is excited to announce its Community Action Cohort (CAC) initiative which will support 24 student research assistant and intern positions through 2023 and 2024. These students will be involved in rich experiential learning opportunities working alongside research and knowledge mobilization professionals and supported by a faculty and … Read more
Digital Art Call for Entries DEADLINE EXTENDED: We’ve had a tremendously positive response to the Laramie Project art competition so far, but we’ve also heard from many students that they want to enter but the deadline was too short during a busy time in the semester. To ensure everybody has a chance to enter, we … Read more
A documentary created in collaboration between CHASI researchers and Chilliwack Youth will be screened as an official selection of the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival on Saturday, November 19. It will be screened in a block with five other short documentaries from around the world. The Channeling Youth Voices project covers such topics as mental and/or … Read more
Yesterday CHASI’s senior research assistant, Esther Jiménez Atochero, completed her final day in the CHASI Hub. Esther has been an integral part of CHASI since its earliest inception, and CHASI would not be what it is today without her dedication and hard work. Esther is departing to Ottawa to begin a master’s program at Carlton … Read more
The entire CHASI team offers our wholehearted congratulations to Dr. Sarah Beaulieu on her well-deserved tenure-track appointment to the School of Culture, Media and Society. As an anthropologist with a research focus in modern conflict anthropology, Dr. Beaulieu’s work is key to understanding facets of Canadian history that have remained in the shadows for too … Read more
The British Columbia Council on Admissions & Transfer (BCCAT) has recently launched an interactive dashboard to share the results of a national study conducted by CHASI on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-secondary students. The analysis includes a repository of publicly available COVID-19 student impact reports, a cross-national literature review, thematic analysis of … Read more
On June 2, we opened the doors to the CHASI Hub and invited friends and colleagues to reconnect and join us in celebrating our second anniversary! Our guests were treated to the big screen debut of Fragments of History: Unearthing the stories and artefacts of Monashee internment camp. The documentary, revolving around the work of … Read more
On Friday, May 27, Channeling Youth Voices, a year-long participatory research collaboration between CHASI researchers and Chilliwack youth, presented as part of a roundtable in the Community Engaged Research Initiative’s HORIZONS conference at SFU, hosting a documentary screening and panel discussion on their work over the last year and a half. The panel consisted of … Read more
CHASI works with a number of student research assistants and interns, each of whom serves a key role in CHASI’s mission to support the social, mental, emotional, physical, and economic health of those living in our communities. Here’s what some of our student coworkers have shared about their experiences. Ekaterina Marenkov — Research Assistant “I … Read more