LevelUP - Research Assistant - Linguistic Landscape Project

The research assistants will support the research initiatives under the guidance of research faculty. Research assistants will contribute to a linguistic anthropology research project that is now moving into its second stage. They will assess the presence of Indigenous languages within the linguistic landscape of Edmonton. There are a variety of tasks available, that can involve conducting an analysis of previous data gathered from earlier project stages; helping with Research Ethics Board applications; developing a survey; conducting interviews; transcription (of interviews and public talks and other fora); and background research.

LevelUP - Phase III - Design Team for 'Playbook' (community-based research)

This is Phase III of an Edmonton based research project. Goal: The goal of this phase is to find design students who will help draft a printable template for a playbook as the 'final step' of a community based research project. Background: During the Fall 2021 term, students from MacEwan's ethnographic methods class conducted and analyzed interviews with a key stakeholder working at the City of Edmonton. Our goal is to craft a template of the playbook that could be published - as part of the knowledge translation activities of this research project. Please note: You must be a Canadian citizen. Please use your MacEwan email to register

Spatial Documentation of Fraser Lake Fur Trade Post

The main goal of this project is to spatially document information on changes in the position and lay-out of the fur trade post called Fraser Lake Post, British Columbia (AKA Fort Fraser). As is typical of fur trade posts, Fraser Lake Post underwent cycles in its operation, periodically closing and reopening in a different location, as well as being frequently remodeled and repaired. The faculty researcher has various nineteenth and early twentieth century maps, photographs and written descriptions of the layout of the fort, as well as historical and modern aerial images of the vicinity of its locations. The student research assistant will georeference images of the fort and help the researcher to relate the images to descriptions of changes in the fort’s location.

Analyzing the spatial distribution of trace elements in bone

The Canadian Light Source, a synchrotron facility in Saskatoon, SK, has a multi resolution X-ray Fluorescence Imaging beamline that is used for health-related studies of metals in living systems. This 80-hour project will involve working remotely to learn and use the software for analysis on data that will be collected during an eight-hour test scan of a bone thin section to identify the spatial distribution of trace elements such as strontium and zinc.