GROUNDED RESEARCH

As an anthropologist my methods focus on ‘grounded research’ - using ethnographic and qualitative research methods to to draw conclusions about social processes. Grounded Research involves spending time with people in their communities to understand how societies and individuals function, about social behaviours, 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 impactful projects:

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

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

• Building institutional capacity to provide higher impact social services for Canadian Filipino women work migrants (North York Community House, Toronto)

• Developing new social services for unhoused women across Canada (City of Edmonton Recover Project)

• Reducing social isolation of low-income older adults across Canada (Allies in Aging, Vancouver and West Neighbourhood House, Toronto)

• Improving services for Indigenous adults in Canadian courts and jails (Department of Justice, Canada)

• Context scan of the social and economic strategies of at-risk young men in Port Vila, Vanuatu (PhD. project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council)

• Designing social protections for paid domestic workers in Port Vila, Vanuatu (MA project funded by the Ontario Graduate Studies Scheme)