This structured service learning program for professional and skilled immigrants will provide opportunities for newcomers to make community connections and gain experience in Canadian workplaces, all while improving language and intercultural communication.
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Working in partnership with the Calgary Public Library, Where I belong: public spaces and everyday acts of inclusion seeks to increase our understanding of practices within public spaces that promote belonging among racialized, newcomer youth.
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Responding to a gap between identified workplace needs and current training offerings for the growing numbers of IT service desk technician positions, this program prepares newcomer learners for the Alberta job market.
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Developed by School of Global Access language learning experts, this communication training module for Alberta’s Health Care Aide Workers is a set of workshops combined with coaching that focuses on health and safety communications training for English language learners and is an excellent complement to the Health Care Aide Certificate.
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This structured service learning program for professional and skilled immigrants will provide opportunities for newcomers to make community connections and gain experience in Canadian workplaces, all while improving language and intercultural communication.
Working in partnership with the Calgary Public Library, Where I belong: public spaces and everyday acts of inclusion seeks to increase our understanding of practices within public spaces that promote belonging among racialized, newcomer youth.
Responding to a gap between identified workplace needs and current training offerings for the growing numbers of IT service desk technician positions, this program prepares newcomer learners for the Alberta job market.
Developed by School of Global Access language learning experts, this communication training module for Alberta’s Health Care Aide Workers is a set of workshops combined with coaching that focuses on health and safety communications training for English language learners and is an excellent complement to the Health Care Aide Certificate.
To address a need for anti-racist action on our campus and across our community, an exploratory project funded by the Bow Valley College General Research Fund is collecting data to investigate how and what anti-racist resources might best support our learners, our diversity and inclusion efforts, and our wider campus community.
The Intercultural Conflict Resolution Micro-Credential explores competency-based learning to develop soft skills while offering a micro-credential, a shareable endorsement, in resolving intercultural conflict. We are still currently accepting applications for this pilot. Reach out to Anne Marie Espiritu (aespiritu@bowvalleycollege.ca) to find out more.
Vicarious trauma in the classroom: Exploring language instructor experiences is a three-year project funded by the Government of Canada that will engage language instructors and newcomers in a co-creation process to develop, pilot, and evaluate evidence-based strategies to support faculty in preventing and coping with vicarious trauma.
Exploring the unique workplace integration needs of newcomer youth by examining the challenges they face in the workplace.
For more information on our applied research projects contact 403-410-3400 or email sgareception@bowvalleycollege.ca
For more information on our applied research projects contact 403-410-3400 or email sgareception@bowvalleycollege.ca
We offer a wide range of resources focused on language and workforce development. We are committed to sharing our expertise. Learn more
We offer a wide range of resources focused on language and workforce development. We are committed to sharing our expertise. Learn more
Our innovative applied research projects focus on immigrant advancement, diversity and inclusion, civic engagement, and resource development. Learn more
Our innovative applied research projects focus on immigrant advancement, diversity and inclusion, civic engagement, and resource development. Learn more
April 2021 to February 2023
Working in partnership with the Calgary Public Library, Where I belong: public spaces and everyday acts of inclusion seeks to increase our understanding of practices within public spaces that promote belonging among racialized, newcomer youth.
April 2021 to February 2023
Working in partnership with the Calgary Public Library, Where I belong: public spaces and everyday acts of inclusion seeks to increase our understanding of practices within public spaces that promote belonging among racialized, newcomer youth.
June 2020 to May 2023
A national network exploring vicarious trauma in the language classroom and an educator’s perspective of the challenges and benefits of working with traumatized populations.
June 2020 to May 2023
A national network exploring vicarious trauma in the language classroom and an educator’s perspective of the challenges and benefits of working with traumatized populations.
April 2020 to March 2022
Conflict Resolution Across Culture explores competency-based learning to develop soft skills while offering a micro-credential, a shareable endorsement, in resolving intercultural conflict.
April 2020 to March 2022
Conflict Resolution Across Culture explores competency-based learning to develop soft skills while offering a micro-credential, a shareable endorsement, in resolving intercultural conflict.
We are committed to sharing and translating our work not only with our academic colleagues both on campus and beyond, but with project stakeholders, policy makers, sector and community agencies, employers, learners, and the public at large.
A central component in the end-of-grant phase of all applied research work is publishing articles in peer reviewed journals of record. This article discussing the results of the Enhancing Wellbeing and Civic Engagement of Immigrant Women Retirees project was a key element of our knowledge mobilization plan.
A central component in the end-of-grant phase of all applied research work is publishing articles in peer reviewed journals of record. This article discussing the results of the Enhancing Wellbeing and Civic Engagement of Immigrant Women Retirees project was a key element of our knowledge mobilization plan.
This toolkit is an outcome of Enhancing Wellbeing and Civic Engagement of Immigrant Women Retirees and it offers service providers information and resources relevant to meeting the needs of this growing population.
This toolkit is an outcome of Enhancing Wellbeing and Civic Engagement of Immigrant Women Retirees and it offers service providers information and resources relevant to meeting the needs of this growing population.
Our Enhancing the Wellbeing of Immigrant Women Retirees research team welcomed more than 25 interdisciplinary academics and service providers to a collaborative workshop and research panel focused on co-creation methodology and community-based applied research.
Our Enhancing the Wellbeing of Immigrant Women Retirees research team welcomed more than 25 interdisciplinary academics and service providers to a collaborative workshop and research panel focused on co-creation methodology and community-based applied research.
