Research Projects + Collaborations
ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies
Middle Eastern + Islamic Studies
The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Research Group aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars and students at the University of Alberta who are interested in the critical study of social, cultural, historical, religious and political themes related to the Middle East, Islam, and Muslim communities.
Email: meis@ualberta.ca
Faculty of Arts Signature Areas
In 2018, the Faculty of Arts launched a process for identifying and promoting up to seven Signature Areas of Research and Creative Collaboration. The Arts Signature Areas provide a mechanism for building research networks, facilitating collaboration, advancing cross-disciplinary research and creative activities, and enabling related teaching innovations. Each of the Faculty's signature areas will be supported for five years.
Digital Synergies
"Digital Synergies" supports research collaborations that address the unique challenges and opportunities that digital technologies present for scholars in the social sciences, humanities, and fine arts, focusing in particular on digital society, methods, and literacies.
Language, Communication + Culture
"Language, Communication, and Culture" supports interdisciplinary scholarship on the processes by which individuals, groups, and organizations from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds exchange information, and create and share meaning.
Mediating Science + Technology
"Mediating Science & Technology" supports research that explores the diverse ways science and technology have inspired acceptance and resistance in the arts, mass media, material culture, and in moral, political, and social practices, past and present.
Shifting Praxis in Artistic Research/Research-Creation
"Shifting Praxis in Artistic Research/Research-Creation" champions and supports an approach to knowledge that crosses traditional lines between practice and theory and situates the artistic process at the heart of the research and publication strategy.
Email: sparc@ualberta.ca
Stories of Change
"Stories of Change" aims to build a network of scholars engaged in research and creative activity at the interface of individual life stories and collective accounts of large-scale social and political transformations.
Email: storychg@ualberta.ca
Work, Employment + Labour Markets
"WELM-Arts" grouped together labour researchers within the University of Alberta. The Alberta Centre for Labour Market Research (ACLMR) has now taken this initiative province-wide, across five institutions, with funding from the Government of Alberta.
Email: aclmr@ualberta.ca
The Future of the Past
The focus of this network is the role of materiality in past and present human life-worlds. Humans and their material environment have their own life cycles and rhythms, yet each shapes the other.