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Community-University Institute for Social Research (CUISR)

Last Updated on April 22nd, 2010

 

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 Saskatchewan Co-operative Sector: Mapping Development Needs of Co-operatives in Emerging, Under-represented, and Struggling Sectors (CL1-17-SK)
• Assessing Partnership and Collaboration for Improving Quality of Life for people with Disabilities. What is the Role of the Social Economy? (CL1-25-SK)
• Building a Long Term Strategy for People with Disabilities: The Case of Ile-a-la Crosse (CL5-19-SK)
• Building Social Economy Support in Urban Settings (CL5-20-SK)
• Collaborative Governance Model Initiatives (CL3-05-SK)
• Community Resilience, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Case of the Social Economy in La Ronge (CL4-03-SK) | Completed
• Cypress Hills Abilities Centres, Inc.: Exploring Alternatives (CL1-16-SK) | Completed
• Evaluation of Crocus Co-operative (CL4-07-SK)
• Evaluation of Saskatoon Urban Aboriginal Strategy (CL1-23-SK) | Completed
• Exploring Key Informants’ Experiences with Self-Directed Funding: A Research Report (CL5-06-SK) | Completed
• Exploring Social Entrepreneurship in Saskatchewan (CL5-16-SK)
• Factors Affecting the Decisions of International Students and their Spouses to Settle in Saskatchewan/Canada (CL5-17-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)
• Leading a Vibrant Co-operative Sector: A Communications Strategy for Saskatchewan Co-operative Association (CL1-18-SK)
• Lessons Learned on the Justice Trapline (CL5-18-SK)
• Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Sustainable Social Economy Organizations in Rural, Southeast Saskatchewan: A Research Report (CL4-02-SK) | Completed
• Mapping Health Disparity: The Role of the Social Economy in Duck Lake (CL1-26-SK)
• Mapping Social Capital in a  Network of Community Development Organizations (CL4-05-SK) | Completed
• 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) | Completed
• Self Directed Funding Supporting National Partnership Building and Developing a Model that can Work for All (CL5-21-SK)
• Sharing our gifts: The Story of Ohpahow Wawesecikiwak Arts Marketing Co-operative Limited (CL1-20-SK)
• South Bay Park Rangers Employment Project For Persons Living with a Disability: A Case Study in Individual Empowerment and Community Interdependence (CL5-15-SK) | Completed

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

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