GROUNDED RESEARCH

As an anthropologist my methods focus on ‘grounded research’ - a qualitative research method where data is collected through observations, interviews, and surveys, and then used to draw conclusions about social processes. Grounded Research involves spending time with people in their contexts to understand how societies and individuals function, about social behariouvs, practices, beliefs, attitudes, values and social change. I work in Canada and the Pacific region including Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Email daniela@researchup.ca to find out more.

Some of my most recent projects:

  • Strengthening informal livelihood skills pathways and social supports for vulnerable women and at-risk young people in Majuro, Marshall Islands (ADB funded)

  • Developing vocational skills (TVET) opportunities for women and people with disabilities in Port Vila, Vanuatu (ADB funded)

  • Building institutional capacity to provide higher impact social services for Canadian Filipino women work migrants

  • Developing new social services for unhoused women across Canada.

  • Reducing social isolation of low-income older adults across Canada.

  • Improving services for Indigenous adults in Canadian courts and jails.

  • Context scan of the social and economic strategies of at-risk young men in Port Vila, Vanuatu

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

Organisations and Government Ministries that 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