Past Projects
Funding: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Funding: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Ciann L. Wilson is the recipient of a Canadian Foundation for Innovation's John R. Evans Leaders Fund and Ontario Research Fund grant to establish a Community-based Research (CBR) media lab at Laurier. The CBR media lab is the first facility of its kind in Waterloo Region and will make media equipment available to students, faculty, staff and community partners. Available media equipment will include: cameras; laptop and desktop computers equipped with relevant software; and audio-visual equipment. The media equipment is for arts- and digital media-informed collaborative research both in the field and on-site at Laurier. The CBR media lab will function as a multi-use space where research outputs produced from the ongoing work in the lab can be exhibited and shared.
Funding: John Evan’s Leaders Fund, The Canadian Innovation Fund and the Ontario Research Fund
Wilson is a collaborator on The Outlook Study (Travers, Coleman and Cameron), which is an Ontario HIV/AIDS Treatment Network funded project that explores the health service needs of LGBT people in Waterloo Region. To date, the Outlook Study has collected over 500 surveys.
Funding: The Ontario HIV/AIDS Treatment Network
Ciann L. Wilson is the principal investigator on The Adinkrahene: Improving Access to HIV services for African, Caribbean and Black people (ACB) in Waterloo Region, Ontario study. Conducted in collaboration with the AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA), this qualitative needs assessment is intended to garner an understanding of the HIV service access needs of African diasporic communities in Waterloo Region.
This project focuses on access to health care for ACB people as well as their health in general, and not on one specific health issue. It is also concerned about access to community services designed specifically for ACB people and the ways that they prefer to be engaged by those services.
Funding: Laurier Internal Grants Competition A
Funding: Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research
Wilson is the principal investigator on the Proclaiming our Roots: An oral history project by and for mixed Black and Indigenous people project, which utilizes digital storytelling (personal videos), community sharing circles, community mapping and interviews:
- To explore the intersectional forms of personal, institutional and structural violence, and erasure Aboriginal and Black peoples face, and how this relates to service access.
- To create a written, visual and narrative archive of the histories, geographies and realities of people of both African diasporic and Indigenous ancestry in Canada.
Funding: Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant
Funding: Peel HIV/AIDS Network
Funding: Ontario HIV/AIDS Treatment Network Community-Based Research and Evaluation Fund
Wilson is the principal investigator on the Women in Health Working Toward Health: Connecting the Narratives of Women of Color for our Wellbeing project (Women’s College Hospital, 2015), which utilized digital storytelling and orative story circles to explore the impact of intersectional oppression in work environments on the wellbeing and lived experiences of women of color in Ontario and Quebec.
The narratives and arts-based outputs of this project have been used as discussion starters within community forums to name and address work stress and institutional oppression on the embodied physical and mental health of people of colour.
Collaborators
- Strachen Frederick, BrAIDS for AIDS
- Nakia Lee-Foon, St. Michael’s Hospital
- Melissa A. Cobbler, McGill University
- Marvelous Munchenje, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands
Funding: Women's Xchange Fund