Anti-Racism Initiative Grant

All LTI grants are open to:

Single or co-applicants who directly support student learning and the student experience at UVic are eligible to apply for LTI grants including:

• research stream faculty
• teaching stream faculty
• sessional lecturers
• laboratory instructors
• academic units
• staff

Previous LTI grant recipients may apply. If your grant is still active, you must close it out before applying for a subsequent LTI grant. You may not apply to more than one LTI grant in the same year.

Successful proposals will include a:

1. Clear and feasible learning outcomes stating what students will know, do, or become through this project
2. Project context, goals, activities, and timeline including a thorough description of:
   The context for the project
   Clear, achievable goals
   Activities that align with and support the goals
   A reasonable timeline to complete the project
3. Integration of anti-racism principles describing how the project fully integrates principles of anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging, demonstrating alignment with UVic’s Equity Action Plan
4. Project impact explaining how many students will benefit from the project and for how long
5. Literature review providing a thorough, well-detailed review of relevant literature that informs the project
6. Budget providing a clear, well-elaborated budget that is directly linked to the project’s goals and learning outcomes

Complete your grant application form using Survey Monkey. 

Adjudicators will use a scoring rubric to assess your proposal, with rating scores ranging from 1.0 to 5.0.

View the scoring rubric.

• Amanda LaVallee, School of Social Work
  Tâpwewin: Confronting Indigenous-Specific Racism in the Academy ($7,498.41)
• Navneet Popli,Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Integrating Anti-Racism and EDI Principles into Software Engineering Capstone Projects ($7,500) 

• Mylène Dorcé, Department of French and Francophone Studies  
  The History and Evolution of Black People in Canada through Literature, Media and Culture ($5,738)
• Laura Minet, Department of Civil Engineering 
  EDI and anti-racism in the design of sustainable cities: teaching inclusivity, safety and resilience notions to graduate civil engineers ($7,290) 

• Willow Allen, Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
  Designing an antiracist and anti-oppressive research methods course for education and social sciences undergraduate students ($5,345.60)
• Moustapha Fall, Department of French
  The Missing Link to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in the Context of Canadian Mainstream Culture: Understanding Black-Indigenous identities & cultures ($7,379)
• Adam Monahan, Faculty of Science
  Developing a New EDI Training Module for Faculty of Science Students ($7,500)
• Jennifer Thom, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
  Living Curriculum in a New Key: Ted T. Aoki’s Life, Lessons, and Legacy ($7,500)

• Rita Dhamoon, Department of Political Science
  Program and Course Development: Critical Studies of Race, Colonialism, and Liberation ($4,536.80)
• Laura Minet, Department of Civil Engineering
  Transportation accessibility and equity, environmental justice and anti-racism practices for transportation engineers ($7,434) 

• Arif Babul, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  History of Physics and Astronomy: Redressing the European Male-centric Narrative ($5,580)
• Mark Bridge, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
  Commerce 402 / Commerce 302 – Anti-Discrimination and Racism Case Presentation Studies ($2,400)
• Jane Butterfield, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  Dismantling an exclusionary perspective, and building a multicultural approach, to the history of mathematics ($7,480)
• Zhongping Chen, Department of History
  Everyday Racism against Ethnic Chinese on Vancouver Island, 1858-1947 ($7,466)
• Darlene Clover, Department Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies
  ED-D 591 Anti-Oppression Education and Activism ($5,869)
• Dzifa Dorduno, School of Nursing
  Supporting anti-racism learning of nursing students  ($7,500)
• Tom Gleeson, Department of Civil Engineering
  Developing a new teaching module on environmental justice and racism in hydrology and civil engineering ($7,430)
• Aditi Gupta, UVic Libraries
  Developing an open toolkit for inclusive pedagogy in library instruction and consultation ($7,208)
• Yin-Man Lam, Department of Anthropology
  Presenting alternative perspectives on African archaeology in the classroom ($4,944)
• Kerry Robertson, Department of Curriculum and Instruction/Teacher Education
  An Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative in Teacher Education ($7473.24)