Negin Dahya, University of Toronto

Research

refugee education education and technology collaborative decision-making co-design methods socio-technical theory technocolonialism postcolonial theory

Latest funding

Homeschooling as Infrastructural Practice: Gendered Labor, Civic Technologies, and the Future of Public Education in Ontario
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$104,474
Collaborative Decision-Making in Refugee Camps: Community Engagement in Education & Technology
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$38,803
School's Out: Ludic Pathways to STEM Equity?
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$101,680

All 3 grants and awards

Homeschooling as Infrastructural Practice: Gendered Labor, Civic Technologies, and the Future of Public Education in Ontario

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Sabie, Samar

$104,474

Collaborative Decision-Making in Refugee Camps: Community Engagement in Education & Technology

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dahya, Negin

Keywords: refugee education; education and technology; collaborative decision-making; co-design methods; socio-technical theory; technocolonialism; postcolonial theory

$38,803

School's Out: Ludic Pathways to STEM Equity?

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jenson, Jennifer

Keywords: gender; stem; game design; informal learning; girls; computational and digital literacies

$101,680

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: refugee education Dear Professor Dahya, 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 refugee 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 "Collaborative Decision-Making in Refugee Camps: Community Engagement in Education & Technology" (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]