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Community-University Institute for Social Research (CUISR)

Last Updated on February 9th, 2009

 

Based in the city of Saskatoon, The Community-University Institute for Social Research (CUISR) is a partnership between community-based organizations and researchers (both students and faculty) at the University of Saskatchewan. The alliance not only serves to improve the research capacity of organizations but also enhances the quality of life of the people within those communities. CUISR focuses on three main research modules: community health determinants and health policy; community economic development; and quality of life indicators.

Linking, Learning, Leveraging research projects being led by CUISR are:

• Aboriginal Funding Database (CL1-14-SK) | Completed
• Advancing the Co-operative Sector: Mapping Development Needs of Co-operatives in Emerging, Under-represented, and Struggling Sectors (CL1-17-SK)
• Advancing the Saskatchewan Co-operative Sector: A Communications Strategy (CL1-18-SK)
• Artisan Co-operative Business Development (CL1-20-SK)
• Cypress Hills Abilities Centres, Inc.: Exploring Alternatives (CL1-16-SK) | Completed
• Evaluation of Saskatoon Urban Aboriginal Strategy (CL1-23-SK) | Completed
• Exploring Client Experiences with Direct Payments and Direct Support Payments (CL5-06-SK)
• Exploring Collaborative Governance Models (CL3-05-SK)
• Growing Pains: Social Enterprise in Saskatoon’s Core Neighbourhoods (CL4-04-SK) | Completed
• Houses and Communities: Learning from a Case Study of Co-operative Assisted Home Ownership in Saskatchewan (CL5-14-SK)
• Investing in the Successful Reintegration of Aboriginal Peoples Returning from Incarceration in Federal, Provincial, and Youth Institutions (CL1-19-SK)
• Mapping Social Capital in a Community Development Network (CL4-05-SK) | Completed
• Mapping the Social Economy in Saskatchewan: Rural Area (CL4-02-SK) | Completed
• Mapping the Social Economy in Saskatchewan: Northern Area (CL4-03-SK)
• A New Vision for Saskatchewan: Changing Lives and Systems Through Individualized Funding for People with Intellectual Disabilities (CL1-15-SK) | Completed
• Self-determination in Action: The Entrepreneurship of the Northern Saskatchewan Trappers Association Co-operative (CL3-01-SK)

Member of the Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships

Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada / Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada

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