From the Office of Research and Graduate Education: Congratulations to recent grant recipients

Unearthing Healing Through Anti-Racist, Decolonizing, and Community-Engaged Methods to (Re)imagine Inquiry as Restorative Practice

• PI: Giovanni Dazzo, assistant professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
• Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Amount: $100,000

Congratulations to Giovanni Dazzo on receiving an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This project will support the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Supporting and Expanding the Field of Equitable Evaluation program by strengthening the adoption of equitable evaluation practices and principles among various actors in the evaluation field by promoting the acceleration of decolonized, community-based, anti-racist evaluation methods.

Our Input Matters: Black Mothers’ Agency in the Formation and Implementation of Anti-Racist School Policies in Multicultural Toronto

• PI: Tianna Dowie-Chin, assistant professor, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education
• Sponsor: Spencer Foundation Racial Equity Research Grants
• Amount: $71,588

Congratulations to Tianna Dowie-Chin on receiving an award from the Spencer Foundation Racial Equity Research Grant Program. This study seeks to explore the extent to which Black mothers have been included and involved in the development of education policies related to anti-blackness. The analytical arguments derived from the experiences of these mothers may offer insight into educational policy around anti-blackness, which could serve to inform various educational stakeholders.