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Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham

ResearcherTrinity Western University

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Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham

Researcher

Health Sciences

Trinity Western University

Langley, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
16 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 6 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (5 SSHRC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2022.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Research

Albinism Case Study Equity Focus Groups Gender Equality Global Health Human Rights Knowledge Translation

Latest papers

Curriculum Resources for Integrating Respectful Maternity Care Into Health Professions Education: A Rapid Scoping Review.
Journal of midwifery & women's health · 2026 · senior author
Interrogating the philosophical grounds for advancing equity-oriented arts-based spiritual support in Canadian healthcare.
Journal of religion and health · 2026
A Comparative Analysis of the Critical Resilience and Gender Equity of Mothers Impacted by Albinism: Promising Practices From Tanzania and South Africa
Public Health Challenges · 2026 · first author

All 43 publications

Latest funding

Arts-based Spiritual Care to Advance Equity in Healthcare: An Interdisciplinary, Cooperative Investigation
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Kitchen Stories: A digitally mediated study for conservation, mobilization, and integration of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
$105,000
Advancing Equity-oriented Arts-based Spiritual Care in Healthcare Services through an Interdisciplinary Investigation
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 16 grants and awards

43 publications.

Curriculum Resources for Integrating Respectful Maternity Care Into Health Professions Education: A Rapid Scoping Review.

Rieger KL, Ohene L, Nesengani TV, Pallangyo ES, Leech R, Dixon D, Buyco M, Watts I, Mokwele T, Wilson J, Mayich K, Ero I, Mooa RS, Astle B, Reimer-Kirkham S

Journal of midwifery & women's health2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/jmwh.70129 PMID: 42083903

Interrogating the philosophical grounds for advancing equity-oriented arts-based spiritual support in Canadian healthcare.

Rieger KL, Reimer-Kirkham S, Penner MA, McFadden A, Tuppurainen A

Journal of religion and health2026

DOI: 10.1007/s10943-025-02553-7 PMID: 41548169

A Comparative Analysis of the Critical Resilience and Gender Equity of Mothers Impacted by Albinism: Promising Practices From Tanzania and South Africa

Reimer‐Kirkham S, Astle B, Ero I, Beaman L, de Waal M, Ibhawoh B, Imafidon E, Kromberg J, Leech R, Mazibuko N

Public Health Challenges20261 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1002/puh2.70239

A participatory systematic review on human rights and the birth of a child with albinism in sub-Saharan Africa

Reimer-Kirkham S, Rieger K, Astle B, Buyco M, Daklo KA, Dixon D, Ero I, Ibhawoh B, Keitseomore IT, Kromberg J

Women's Health20252 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1177/17455057251395420

Global Nursing Conversations on Pandemic Ethics.

Reimer-Kirkham S

Journal of Christian nursing : a quarterly publication of Nurses Christian Fellowship2024First author

DOI: 10.1097/cnj.0000000000001127 PMID: 38044511

Reframing covenant for nursing: From individual commitments to covenant with society.

Wolfs D, Jantzen D, Fowler M, Musto LC, Reimer-Kirkham S

Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/nup.12498 PMID: 39169690

Deepening Our Understanding of Disability Ethics.

Reimer-Kirkham S

Journal of Christian nursing : a quarterly publication of Nurses Christian Fellowship2024First author

DOI: 10.1097/cnj.0000000000001187 PMID: 38853311

The social relations of prayer in healthcare: Adding to nursing's equity-oriented professional practice and disciplinary knowledge.

Reimer-Kirkham S, Sharma S

Nursing inquiry2024First author

DOI: 10.1111/nin.12608 PMID: 37869907

Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project

Reimer-Kirkham S, Astle B, Ero I, Beaman L, Ibhawoh B, Imafidon E, Sawatzky R, Tettey W, Buyco M, Strobell E

International Journal for Equity in Health20245 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12939-023-02064-5 PMID: W4390490378

A Christian Ethic for Nursing in Multi-Faith Contexts.

Reimer-Kirkham S

Journal of Christian nursing : a quarterly publication of Nurses Christian Fellowship2023First author

DOI: 10.1097/cnj.0000000000001102 PMID: 37653649

Arts-based Spiritual Care to Advance Equity in Healthcare: An Interdisciplinary, Cooperative Investigation

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant - PA: Research in First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis Health

Principal investigators: Rieger, Kendra L; Tuppurainen, Anne

Keywords: Arts; Arts-Based Knowledge Translation; Arts-Based Research Methods; Case Study; Cooperative Inquiry; Health Equity; Healthcare Services; Spiritual Care; Spiritual Care Practitioner; Traditional Healer

$100,000

Kitchen Stories: A digitally mediated study for conservation, mobilization, and integration of Indigenous Food Sovereignty

SupervisorCIHR2023Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Lounsbury, Kathleen

Keywords: Arts-Based Research; Decolonizing Lens; Digitally-Mediated Indigenous Knowledges; Ethnography; Food Sovereignty; Indigenous Knowledges; Indigenous Methodologies; Indigenous Storytelling; Knowledge Keepers; Lands-Based Local Knowledges

$105,000

Advancing Equity-oriented Arts-based Spiritual Care in Healthcare Services through an Interdisciplinary Investigation

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research

Principal investigators: Rieger, Kendra L; Tuppurainen, Anne

Keywords: Arts; Arts-Based Knowledge Translation; Case Study Research; Health Equity; Healthcare Services; Participatory Action Research; Realist Evaluation; Spiritual Care; Spiritual Care Practitioner; Traditional Healer

$100,000

A Decolonizing Exploration of Anti-racist, Arts-based Responses to the Violence Described in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Report across the Context of Higher Education

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Rieger, Kendra

Keywords: Anti-racist; Arts-based; Critical participatory action research; Decolonization; Expressive arts; Indigenous; Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls; Pedagogy; Post-secondary; Truth and Reconciliation

$39,267

Étiologie des compétences en lecture: rôle des facteurs génétiques

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022SSHRC Doctoral Awards

Principal investigators: Remon, Alexandra

Keywords: développement de l'enfant; interactions gènes et environnement; compétences en lecture; edophénotypes de la lecture; environnements périnataux et postnataux; génétique moléculaire

$48,686

A Human Rights and Equity-Oriented Response to the Birth Stories of Families Impacted by Albinism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Intersectoral Partnerships for Enhanced Health Professions' Education

Nominated PICIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl; Astle, Barbara J; Ero, Ikponwosa; Mogale, Ramadimetja S

Keywords: Albinism; Case Study; Equity; Focus Groups; Gender Equality; Global Health; Human Rights; Knowledge Translation; Perinatal; Sub-Saharan Africa

$489,600

Mothering, albinism, and human rights in Africa: Mapping patterns of resilience at the juncture of gender, colourism, and religion

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl M.

Keywords: human rights; albinism; resilience; well-being and security; gender; religion; mothierng

$289,592

Structural Vulnerability, Aging, and Care at the End of Life

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Stajduhar, Kelli I

Keywords: Aging; Dissemination; End Of Life Care; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Research Planning; Structurally Vulnerability

$20,000

The welfare and security of persons with albinism: Developing a Research-Policy Network to address the interplay of spiritual/cultural practices and human rights.

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl

Keywords: (1) human rights; (2) policy research; (3) albinism; (4) religious diversity; (5) culture; (6) Africa; (7) meta-narrative review; (8) modified Delphi survey; (9) research-policy network; (10) citizen engagement

$59,890

Prayer as transgression: exploring accommodation of and resistance to prayer in public spaces

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015

Principal investigators: Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl M.

Keywords: littérature québécoise; Louis Dantin; correspondances littéraires; édition critique; critique littéraire; histoire du livre; histoire culturelle

$245,301

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Curriculum Resources for Integrating Respectful Maternity Care Into Health Professions Education: A Rapid Scoping Review.

Interrogating the philosophical grounds for advancing equity-oriented arts-based spiritual support in Canadian healthcare.

A Comparative Analysis of the Critical Resilience and Gender Equity of Mothers Impacted by Albinism: Promising Practices From Tanzania and South Africa

A participatory systematic review on human rights and the birth of a child with albinism in sub-Saharan Africa

Global Nursing Conversations on Pandemic Ethics.

Reframing covenant for nursing: From individual commitments to covenant with society.

Deepening Our Understanding of Disability Ethics.

The social relations of prayer in healthcare: Adding to nursing's equity-oriented professional practice and disciplinary knowledge.

Mapping a research-advocacy-policy agenda on human rights and albinism: a mixed methods project

A Christian Ethic for Nursing in Multi-Faith Contexts.

Arts-based Spiritual Care to Advance Equity in Healthcare: An Interdisciplinary, Cooperative Investigation

Kitchen Stories: A digitally mediated study for conservation, mobilization, and integration of Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Advancing Equity-oriented Arts-based Spiritual Care in Healthcare Services through an Interdisciplinary Investigation

A Decolonizing Exploration of Anti-racist, Arts-based Responses to the Violence Described in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Report across the Context of Higher Education

Étiologie des compétences en lecture: rôle des facteurs génétiques

A Human Rights and Equity-Oriented Response to the Birth Stories of Families Impacted by Albinism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Intersectoral Partnerships for Enhanced Health Professions' Education

Mothering, albinism, and human rights in Africa: Mapping patterns of resilience at the juncture of gender, colourism, and religion

Structural Vulnerability, Aging, and Care at the End of Life

The welfare and security of persons with albinism: Developing a Research-Policy Network to address the interplay of spiritual/cultural practices and human rights.

Prayer as transgression: exploring accommodation of and resistance to prayer in public spaces

Frequent collaborators

Richard Sawatzky

Barbara Astle

Richard Sawatzky

Kelli Stajduhar

Barbara Pesut

Kelli Stajduhar

Bonny Ibhawoh

Carolyn Tayler

Kara Schick-Makaroff

Bruce Wallace

Ryan Mcneil

Kendra Rieger

Cash Ahenakew

Sally Thorne

Jennifer Baumbusch

Colleen Varcoe