Katie Plaisance, professor, and chair of the Department of Knowledge Integration (KI) is Waterloo’s lead for a $2.5 million Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC-CRSH). The grant, which involves 15 academic institutions, eight regional United Way networks, and 18 other community partners across six provinces, supports a groundbreaking 6-year collaborative research project titled “Experiential Learning Toolkits to Increase Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (SSHA) Capacity for Research and Innovation in the Social Sector.”
The project aims to empower graduate students to address societal challenges, such as climate change, pandemics, poverty, and housing. To do so, it seeks to increase the capacity for research and innovation in the social sector by providing SSHA students with foundational skills training and community-based experiential learning opportunities.
The research partnership will also see the development and implementation of the Skills Articulation and Literacy Tool (SALT), a foundational element of the Partnership Grant project. Plaisance played a key role in developing this tool alongside principal investigator Lapointe, with contributions from a KI graduate who helped pilot the tool with over a dozen KI students.
Read more about Katie's contribution to this project through the original story published on Waterloo News.