Anti-Racism Initiative Grant

All LTSI grants are open to:

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

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

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

Successful proposals will include a:

1. clear specific statement of what the applicant would like to achieve
2. well-articulated plan for how to proceed and principles that will guide the process
3. description of the proposed significance of the project in terms of contributions to teaching and student learning and UVic’s commitment to anti-racism and the values of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging
4. brief, targeted review of the literature that supports the plan
5. commitment to sharing the project goals and outcomes with the UVic community
6. sustainable and reasonable budget (not exceeding $7,500)

Complete your grant application using Survey Monkey. The platform enables you to save your materials midway, so no need to complete the application in one sitting.

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

Download the scoring rubric.

• 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)