Centres and Institutes
Our interdisciplinary research environment is further enhanced by the presence of several world-class research institues and centres.
The Canadian Centre for Research on Literacy (CCRL) is the first formally established academic body in Canada for research on literacy across the continuum from emergent to third-age literacy. CCRL promotes the consolidation of research interests and expertise to create a new substantive research focus within the University. Read more...
Global citizenship education scholarship critically deals with all aspects of social, educational, cultural, political and economic development of societies. With a vision to create a comprehensive understanding of the research and dissemination of global citizenship education project that enhances and sustains basic citizenship rights for all people. Read more...
CRTED plays an important role in the Faculty’s graduate studies and research by serving as a faculty wide centre for research for teacher education and development. Ideas, beliefs, and theories about teaching and teacher development, their nature and methods, are numerous, diverse, and often conflicting. The Centre intends to reflect this diversity by adopting a comparative, critical approach to research and development. Read more...
The central purpose of CRAME is to conduct high-quality research and provide outstanding graduate programs in the areas of measurement, evaluation, and cognition--our current areas of interest include cognition applied to assessment, advanced psychometric and statistical modeling, and program evaluation. Read more...
iSMSS is an interdisciplinary "hub" for scholarly work in sexual-minority studies. The Institute's mission is to help enhance possibilities for groundbreaking research, policy development, education, community outreach, and service provision focused on sexual minorities and their issues and concerns. Read more...
The mission of Das Centre is to provide research, training, and some clinical services to children and adults with developmental, perceptual and learning disabilities. Global developmental disabilities affect all areas of learning while specific developmental, learning, and perceptual disabilities may affect only one or a few areas of learning (e.g., reading or attention disorders). Read more...
Western Canadian Centre for Studies in Deafness (WCCSD) works with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities to support community capacity building. Read more...