RESEARCH & CONSULTING

I believe in the importance of ‘researching up’: learning about issues people experience on the ground, analysing the data and presenting themes, insights, and activity recommendations to decision makers and governments. My research is impact driven, working to first understand, and then improve the conditions of marginalised people in Canada and the Pacific.

Some of my projects:

  • Strengthening employment and skills pathways for school drop outs and marginalized young women in Majuro, Marshall Islands.

  • Breaking down barriers faced by women and people with disabilities in continuing education in Port Vila, Vanuatu

  • Building institutional capacity to provide higher impact social services for Canadian newcomers

  • Understanding what ‘living a good life’ means for unhoused men and women in several cities in Canada.

  • Designing new supports to minimise social isolation of older adults in several cities across Canada.

  • Building more context appropriate services for Indigenous adult’s stuck in the Canadian criminal justice system.

  • Understanding the social and economic strategies of school drops outs in Port Vila, Vanuatu

  • Designing social protections for paid domestic workers in Port Vila, Vanuatu

Organisations I have collaborated with:

  • Asian Development Bank

  • Marshall Islands Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs, Marshall Islands

  • Vanuatu Ministry of Education, Vanuatu

  • Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Vanuatu

  • Vanuatu Institute of Technology, Vanuatu

  • Toronto Brookfield institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Toronto Canada

  • Canada Department of Justice

  • MARS Solutions lab, Toronto Canada

  • Health Commons Solutions Lab, Toronto Canada

  • Canada Ministry of Employment and Social Development

  • West Neighbourhood Community House, Toronto, Canada

  • Canadian Imperial bank of Commerce

  • The City of Vancouver, Canada

  • The City of Edmonton, Canada

  • Boyle Street Community Services, Edmonton Canada

  • West Lodge Community Housing, Toronto Canada

  • InWithForward, social service design lab, Vancouver + Toronto Canada

  • Allies in AGEING, Vancouver Canada

  • Recover Edmonton Project Canada

  • North York Community House, Toronto Canada