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Robert VanWynsberghe
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Research
Latest funding
- $74,626
When Strong Currents Meet: Swimming in the Waters of Transformative Social Innovation Pedagogies
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $270,703
Transforming city governments in response to disruptive change: meeting the challenges of colonization, inequity, and climate change
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $167,275
Cycling against poverty: researching a sport for development movement and an object in/for development
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
When Strong Currents Meet: Swimming in the Waters of Transformative Social Innovation Pedagogies
Principal investigators: VanWynsberghe, Robert M.
Keywords: Social innovation; transformative learning; systems change; sustainability; social justice; adult education; participatory action research
Transforming city governments in response to disruptive change: meeting the challenges of colonization, inequity, and climate change
Principal investigators: VanWynsberghe, Robert
Cycling against poverty: researching a sport for development movement and an object in/for development
Principal investigators: Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C.
Keywords: bicycles for development; sport for development; new materialism; multi-sited ethnography; postcolonial feminism; community-based research; Canada; Nicaragua; Uganda
Inquiry into the Nexus of Socially Effective Learning for Sustainability (INSELS)
Principal investigators: VanWynsberghe, Robert M.
Sport Mega-Event Impacts, Leveraging, and Legacies: A Two-Day UBC Workshop
Principal investigators: Van Wynsberghe, Robert M.
Keywords: event; leverage; legacy; impacts; think tank
Climate justice paths to an equitable and sustainable BC economy
Keywords: climate change; inequality; urban planning; carbon pricing; environmental justice; mitigation; adaptation; labour market
Agency, social capital and sustainable development
Principal investigators: Dale, Ann
Keywords: sustainable community development; social capital; agency; regional development; network dynamics; on-line collaboration; e-dialogues; e-clustering
Community-based coalitions and mega-events: a case study of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics as a healthy communities initiative
Principal investigators: VanWynsberghe, Robert M.
Keywords: community-based coalitions; mega-events; Olympic Games; capacity building; communtiy engagement; impacts; health communtiy
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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