Brittany Tomin, University of Regina

Research

Early Childhood Education Climate Literacies Environmental Education Speculative Pedagogy Storytelling World Building Arts-based Research Methods Participatory Research Methods

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
Imagination and Speculative World Building: Creating Climate Futures with Children
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$22,483

All 2 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

Imagination and Speculative World Building: Creating Climate Futures with Children

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Tomin, Brittany

Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Climate Literacies; Environmental Education; Speculative Pedagogy; Storytelling; World Building; Arts-based Research Methods; Participatory Research Methods; Project-based Learning; Childhood Studies

$22,483

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: Early Childhood Education Dear Professor Tomin, 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 early childhood 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 "Imagination and Speculative World Building: Creating Climate Futures with Children" (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]