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Community-University Institute for Social Research (CUISR)

Last Updated on May 3rd, 2013
 

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.

Isobel Findlay, CUISR’s Academic and Research Co-Director, is leading the research being done in Saskatchewan. Dr. Findlay (M.A. Aberdeen, M.A. Sask, Ph.D. McGill) is an associate professor in the Department of Management and Marketing, and a Scholar with the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. She teaches business communication, business and community, co-operative studies, and law and culture. An active member of CUISR since 2003 and associate member of the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO), she is committed to interdisciplinary and collaborative research on Aboriginal and associative organizations, Indigenous women’s CED, membership and identity, law and culture, crosscultural communication, postcolonial education, community economic development, and justice. A proud recipient of a University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award, she is also co-winner of the Saskatchewan Book Awards Scholarly Writing Award, 2000.

 

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