2SLGBTQ+ Poverty in Canada: Improving Livelihood and Social Wellbeing

The Knowledge Mobilization Team works on effective mobilizing of knowledge and evidence related to the prevalence, risk, and experiences of poverty in 2SLGBTQ+ communities, and impacts on their social wellbeing, health, and socioeconomic empowerment.

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Our responsibilities are to

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Run the course of the study, undertake ethics and governance procedures, and begin participant outreach across Canada for the initial stages of both the quantitative and qualitative research.

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Develop and oversee a knowledge mobilization plan that articulates objectives, desired practices and outcomes for targeted audiences with measures of success evaluated. 

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Act as a catalyst in the exchange and dissemination of new and existing knowledge on 2SLGBTQ+ communities.

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Advise on knowledge mobilization efforts for the Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Teams by producing outputs of the findings that are reflective of these diverse experiences, allowing our 2SLGBTQ+ and anti-poverty advocates to generate inclusive and equitable policy recommendations.

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Actively engage with policymakers to ensure societal impact. This engagement will include webinars, “Breakfast on the Hill” with federal policy makers and politicians and periodic policy briefs.

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Advise on the best processes, tools and models for knowledge mobilization of research undertaken by the Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Research Teams.

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Build and leverage partnerships and contexts at academic, government, and community levels to combine resources and seek out mutually beneficial opportunities to exchange and disseminate knowledge regarding poverty in 2SLGBTQ+ communities.

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Ensure connectedness to other groups working on 2SLGBTQ+ and anti-poverty issues including research and evaluation to urge this subject is built into policy, planning, funding, and practices.

Community Co-chair of Knowledge Mobilization Team

Marie Geoffroy (marie.geoffroy@cbrc.net) is a queer Franco-Ontarian white settler currently located on the land of Anishinaabe Algonquin and Kanien’kehá:ka people (rural Eastern Ontario).

She is currently Associate Director of Research at the Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC). She has worked on numerous research projects focusing on 2SLGBTQ+ communities, in academic, community, and public settings, including at l’Université du Québec à Montréal and l’Institut national de santé publique du Québec. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her toddler, her friends and her family, as well as writing and working on different community projects.

Academic Co-chair of Knowledge Mobilization Team

Dr. Roya Haghiri-Vijeh (rvijeh@yorku.ca) is an assistant professor and researcher in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University which is situated on the treaty lands and the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. As a first-generation settler and an uninvited guest on this land, Roya is grateful for the opportunity to live and work here. Her scholarship, underpinned by Gadamerian Hermeneutics, interpretive phenomenology, and mixed methodologies is focused on underserved populations and individuals who identify at the intersection of identities. In particular, her focus is to enhance and advance the health and social care needs of 2SLGBTQIA+ migrants, youths, and older adults.