Tristan Hopper, University of Regina

Research

recreation sport wellness after-school programming relationships Indigenous qualitative youth-led participatory action research

Latest funding

Compassion, Care and Coercion: Discursive Pathways to Involuntary Substance Use Treatment in Western Canada
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
$78,340
Co-Designing a Research Agenda on Urban Design and Mental Health: A Community-Engaged Planning Initiative in Regina
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Stories to lead by: Attending to Indigenous youth as they compose their lives as leaders
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$65,156

All 5 grants and awards

Compassion, Care and Coercion: Discursive Pathways to Involuntary Substance Use Treatment in Western Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2026Insight Development Grants

Principal investigators: Novotna, Gabriela

$78,340

Co-Designing a Research Agenda on Urban Design and Mental Health: A Community-Engaged Planning Initiative in Regina

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Khayatzadeh-Mahani, Akram

Keywords: Community-Engaged Research; Health Equity; Healthy Cities And Communities For All; Intersection Of Urban Design And Mental Health; Intersectionality Framework; Marginalized Population; Multi-Stakeholder Policy Roundtable; Research Co-Design

$20,000

Stories to lead by: Attending to Indigenous youth as they compose their lives as leaders

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Dubnewick, Michael

Keywords: Indigenous youth; Leadership; After-school programming; Recreation, sport, and wellness; Familial knowledge; Narrative inquiry; Community-based research

$65,156

Living relationally in afterschool wellness programming: Experiences of Indigenous youth

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Hopper, Tristan

Keywords: sport; recreation; wellness; after-school programming; relationships; Indigenous; qualitative; youth-led participatory action research; policy

$61,860

Youth homelessness and the importance of accessible recreation programming

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Hopper, Tristan D.

Keywords: homelessness; recreation; youth; youth development; evaluation

$23,482

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: recreation Dear Professor Hopper, 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 recreation 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 "Living relationally in afterschool wellness programming: Experiences of Indigenous youth" (2021), 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]