Partnerships Behind Faculty Research

Friday, October 2, 2026

Grebel faculty build many different types of partnerships that connect their expertise with new perspectives, expand their research, reach across disciplines and borders, create opportunities for students, and bring new ideas to their work. The following are just a few examples of the many partnerships Grebel faculty have developed.

A Zoom screenshot with 8 participants smiling
Friday, October 2, 2026

Jeremy Bergen: Church Apologies

United by a common focus on church apologies for historical wrongs and related themes, eight scholars came together at Jeremy Bergen’s invitation to write a book. 

Nathan funk with collaborators
Friday, October 2, 2026

Nathan Funk: Peace Professionalism

Nathan Funk’s principal research focus is the Peace Professionalism Project (PPP), a SSHRC-funded, transnational, partnership-development research project.

Paul Heidebrecht shaking hands with the audience
Friday, October 2, 2026

Paul Heidebrecht: Building Peace

Paul Heidebrecht is working with Build Up, an international peacebuilding organization, to co-create the Build Peace annual conference taking place this fall in Waterloo. 

Jane Kuepfer and Kate Dupuis stand in front of a banner
Friday, October 2, 2026

Jane Kuepfer: Learning Modules

Jane Kuepfer has partnered with Kate Dupuis and the Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-term Care team at the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging (RIA) to create an online learning module for long-term care employees about moral distress and moral resilience. 

Grafitti that says Colombia, with a gun nozzel tied in a knot
Friday, October 2, 2026

Eric Lepp: Graffiti Revelations

As part of the International Consortium for Conflict Graffiti (ICCG), Eric Lepp shares a research agenda built around the idea that reading walls can reveal a lot about local experiences with conflict. 

The dining room filled with students
Friday, October 2, 2026

Reina Neufeldt: Productive Dialogue

To help students, faculty, and staff productively respond to difference on campus, the collaborative “Dialogue 4 Shared Futures” pilot project began two years ago. 

Ministry Forum Podcast with Derek Suderman
Friday, October 2, 2026

Derek Suderman: Better Bible Studies

As part of the Ministry Forum at Knox College (Toronto), Derek Suderman and John Borthwick have teamed up to create the “Catching the Spark” project. 

Musical manuscripts
Friday, October 2, 2026

Kate Steiner: Chant Manuscripts

Kate Steiner is a coinvestigator on a successful SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant led by Linda Pearse, titled “Cultural Transformation and Societal Need: Chant and Religious Music in Canada and the eastern USA 1600-1950.” 

Karen Sunabacka with her mother, Joyce Clousten
Friday, October 2, 2026

Karen Sunabacka: Family Composition

For more than a decade, Karen Sunabacka has partnered with her mother, Joyce Clouston, on music compositions. Joyce writes the text in collaboration with Karen, and Karen composes the music. 

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