Claire Ahn, Queen's University

Research

Critical social justice education High school youth Teacher professional development HEADSUP Anti-oppressive praxis Sociology of absences and emergences Post abyssal education Multimodality

Latest funding

Anti-colonial land-based climate justice pedagogies for Canadian secondary classrooms: Education for repair, healing, joy, and "relational renewal"
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$379,736
Anti-oppressive Knowledge Sharing in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom: A Critical Social Justice Approach to Curriculum Planning and Pedagogy
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$41,928
Disrupting the "checkbox" pedagogy: Advancing critical social justice education in secondary English Language Arts classrooms
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$64,158

All 5 grants and awards

Anti-colonial land-based climate justice pedagogies for Canadian secondary classrooms: Education for repair, healing, joy, and "relational renewal"

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pillay, Thashika

$379,736

Anti-oppressive Knowledge Sharing in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom: A Critical Social Justice Approach to Curriculum Planning and Pedagogy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Ahn, Claire

Keywords: critical social justice eduction; teacher education; knowledge sharing; English Language Arts

$41,928

Disrupting the "checkbox" pedagogy: Advancing critical social justice education in secondary English Language Arts classrooms

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Ahn, Claire

Keywords: Critical social justice education; High school youth; Teacher professional development; HEADSUP; Anti-oppressive praxis; Sociology of absences and emergences; Post abyssal education; Multimodality; Critical consciousness

$64,158

Strengthening immigrant seniors' digital literacy during the COVID-19 infodemic through social support networking

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Ahn, Claire

Keywords: newcomers; seniors; information literacy; digital literacy; community based education; collaborative research; gerontology; COVID-19

$23,529

PhoneMe app: An innovative research approach to community literacy

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021New Frontiers in Research Fund - Special Call

Principal investigators: Balyasnikova, Natalia

Keywords: engaged research-creation community mapping poetry literacy digital media teacher education adult education media and communication curriculum digital literacy community education

$168,325

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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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Critical social justice education Dear Professor Ahn, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on critical social justice education connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Anti-oppressive Knowledge Sharing in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom: A Critical Social Justice Approach to Curriculum Planning and Pedagogy" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]