Research grants
Denov, M., Bond, S.,Blanchet-Cohen, N., D’Amico, M., Fraser, S., Ghayda, H., Guzder, J., Linds,W., Mitchell, C. and Linds, W. Children and Families Affected By War: ATri-Pillared Approach.. FRQSC Soutien aux Equipes de Recherche. Funded2016-2020.
Episkenew, J. A., Goulet, L., Linds, W.,Marchildon, G. (Co-Primary Investigators). Arnason, K., Boehme,G., Anderson, M., Christopher, S., Dell, C., Dewar, J.,Janzen, B., Jolly, R., Marsh, C., McKegney, S., Ranahan, P., Reading, C., Ribeiro. N., & Yuen, F.(Co-Investigators). (funded, September, 2013 – August, 2016). Kitinikewinmisiwanacihisowin: Researching arts-based wellness promotion for suicideprevention among Aboriginal youth. Operating Grant - PA: Applying the“Two-eyed Seeing” model to Aboriginal Health. Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch – Aboriginal People’s Health Institute.
Marchildon, G., Marsh, C., Poudrier, J. & Reading,C. (funded, April, 2013
– March, 2016). Iyiniw-OskâtisakPamihisowak: Using Indigenous KnowledgeFor A Healthier Aboriginal Youth. SaskatchewanHealth Research Foundation. (Team Member).
Episkenew, J., Goulet, L., Linds, W., & Schmidt, K. (funded September, 2009 – August, 2013). Development of Aboriginal Youth Health Leadership Through Theatre. Canadian Institutes for Health Research – Aboriginal People’s Health Research Centre.
Episkenew, J., Arnason, Karen, Brooks, C., Goulet, L., Linds, W.,Poudrier, J., & Ribiero, N. (funded, April 2013 – March 2014). Miywayawin Wahkotawin: A Roundtable onArts-based Innovations in Aboriginal Health Research. Dissemination Events: Fall 2012 Competition, CanadianInstitutes of Health Research. Co-Applicant.
Denov, M., Guzder, J., Mitchell, Cl., Blanchet-Cohen, N., Rousseau, C., Ungar, M., Frasher, S., Bond, S., Ives, N., Lemay, V., Linds, Wl. Ethier, M-A., & D’Amico, M. (2012-2014). Research Group on Children and Global Adversity. Fonds de Recherche du Québec sur la Société et la Culture, Soutien au,x Équipes de Recherche (Emerging Team Grant). Co-Applicant.
Linds, W., Blanchet-Cohen, N., Yuen, F., & Mann-Feder, V.(funded April, 2011 – June, 2012).
Transforming practices: Emancipatory approaches to youth engagement.Social Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilPublic Outreach Grant. Principal Applicant.
High, S. (applicant), Linds, W. & 34 other co-applicants, 4 collaborators, & 14 community partners. (funded September 2007 – August 2012). Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations – Histoires de vie des Montréalais déplacés par la guerre, le génocide et autres violations aux droits de la personne. Community-University Research Alliance. Member of the “Staging human rights” working group.
Recent conference presentations
Episkenew, J., Goulet, L., Brass, D., Linds,W., & Schmidt, K. (2014). TheImpact of Arts Programming on Well Being of Indigenous Youth. InternationalNetwork of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development (INIHKD) - NEAHR 2014 Conference, Winnipeg ManitobaOctober 5-10, 2014.
Pandey, M., Ribeiro, N., Episkenew, J., Goulet, L., & Linds,W. (2014). Arts and Health: TheHidden Connection. Poster Presentation to The Canadian PsychologicalAssociation's 75th Annual Convention, Vancouver, BC, June 5-7, 2014.
Episkenew, J., Goulet, L., Brass, D., Benjoe, D., Schmidt, K. &Linds, W. (2014). Iyiniw-Oskâtisak Pamihisowak: Indigenous Youth HelpingThemselves. World Indigenous People’s Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawai’i,May 19-24, 2014.
Mitchell, C., Linds, W., D’Amico, M.,Akesson, B., Khan, F., & Denov, M. (2014) Ethical Beginnings and Ethical Endings: Arts-Based ParticipatoryResearch with Youth Affected by Armed Conflict. 7th Annual Conference of the Canadian Associationfor Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). Montreal, Quebec, May 7-9, 2014.
Gareau,P., Lu, L., Ndjeru, L., Wong, A., Sajnani, N., Ward, D., & Linds, W. (2014). Living Histories Ensemble: Performing life onthe edge. Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Toronto, Ontario, May 22-25, 2014.
Linds, W. (2013). The Effect of Affect of Theatre of the Oppressed in a DecolonizingProcess. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed. Oxford, Ohio, June 27-30, 2013.
Linds, W. (2013). Engaging in Embodied Praxis (Reflection/Action) on our TO/PO work. Pedagogy and Theatreof the Oppressed. Oxford, Ohio, June 27-30, 2013.
Episkenew, J., Linds, W., Yuen,F. (2013). ``You mightas well call it Planet of the Sioux ”: Indigenous Youth, Imagination, andDecolonization, Canadian Applied Literature Association. Victoria, B.C., June 3-5, 2013.
Linds, W. & Episkenew, J.(2013). Applied Theatre’s Role in a Decolonizing Process.Seminar Presentation: No Happy Endings: What can Applied Theatre really do?Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Victoria, B. C., June 1-4, 2013.
Linds, W. & Ritenburg, H. (2013). Knowing through the body: An embodied approachto arts-based research. 9th International Congress ofQualitative Inquiry, Champaign Urbana, Illinois, May 16-18, 2013.
Linds, W., Ribiero, N., Ritenburg, H., & Yuen, F. (2013). Theaffect as effect in a decolonizing theatre process with Indigenous youth, Session Organizer. 9th International Congress ofQualitative Inquiry, Champaign Urbana, Illinois, May 16-18, 2013.
Linds, W. (2012). ThePoetics of Embodied Transformative Theatre: Limits and
Possibilities of Writing the Body. Conferenceof the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.,August 2-5, 2012.
Armstrong, A. E., Linds, W., Kuftenic,S., Snyder-Young, D., & Taylor, W. (2012). What Do We Know? Dialogues onApplied Theater Scholarship and Praxis, Conference of the Association forTheatre in Higher Education. Washington, D.C., August 2-5, 2012.
Linds, W., Ritenburg, H., Episkenew, J.,Goulet, L., Schmidt, K., & Whiteman, A. (2012). An embodiedexploration of decolonizing Indigenous methodologies.8hnternational Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois,May 16-20, 2012.
Sajnani, N., Linds, W., Ndjeru, L., Lu,L., Gareau, P., & Ward, D. (2012). The Bridge: Toward Relational Aesthetic Inquiry in the Montreal Life Stories Project. Living HistoryEnsemble. History, Memory and Performance Conference, University of Ottawa,April 19-21, 2012.
Linds, W. (2012). Session coordinator: The Roleof the Body in Indigenous and Decolonizing Research Methodologies. AnnualConference of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, B. C., April12-15, 2012.
Linds, W., Ritenburg, H., Goulet, L., Episkenew,J. Schmidt, K. (2012). The body speaks: Theatre as an embodied decolonizing methodology/. Annual Conference of the American Educational ResearchAssociation, Vancouver,B. C., April 12-15, 2012.
Sajnani, N., Linds, W., Ndjeru, L., Lu,L;, Gareau, P., Djaczman, C., & Ward, D. (2012). Workshop Presentation. Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral Historyin the Aftermath of Mass Violence Conference, Montreal, Quebec,March 22-25, 2012.
Malo, K., Braunstein, J., Messer, K. & Linds, W. (2011). What it means to be trigger/ed – AParticipative Workshop. CollaborativeAction Research Network. Vienna, Austria,November 4-6.
Ritenberg, H., Linds, W., Episkenew, J., Goulet, L., Schmidt, K. & Dieter, M. (2011). Swimming in the same waters? The dynamics of colonization and decolonization in a research project with Aboriginal communities. 7th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, May 19-22, 2011.
Sajnani, N., Linds, W., Ndjeru, L., Liu, L;, Gareau, P., Djaczman, C., & Ward, D. (2011). The Bridge: Developing, and exploring, a new Playback theatre form that brings teller, audience, and performers together in embodied dialogue. Festival for Playback Theatre North America. Acting for personal, organizational, and community change. Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 16-19, 2011.
Linds, W., Episkenew, J., & Ritenberg, H. (2011). Embodied research. Indigenous innovation integration. 11th National Gathering of Graduate Students, Regina, Saskatchewan, June 24-27, 2011.
Schmidt, K., Linds, W., Goulet, L., Episkenew, J., & Ritenberg, H. (2011). The dynamics of colonization and decolonization in a research project with Aboriginal communities. 1st Annual Aboriginal Health Networks Conference, June 27, 2011, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Linds, W., Sullivan, J., & Goulet, L. (2011). Decolonizing the imagination: Theatre of the Oppressed in colonized communities. 17th International Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 21-23, 2011.
Linds, W. (2011). What happens when we ask what happens: Processing Theatre of the Oppressed activities. 17th International Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 21-23, 2011.
Schmidt, K. , Linds, W., Episkenew, J., & Goulet, L. (2010). Exploring health issues with aboriginal youth through drama. Healing our spirit worldwide Hawai’i Ko Pae ‘Aina, the sixth gathering, Honolulu, Hawai’i, September 3-10, 2010.
Linds, W. & Trull, A. (2010). Developing ethical practice through inquiry: It’s not know-what, it’s know-how. Sense-making and changemaking in an educational context symposium, Organizational Development and Change Division, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 6-10, 2010.
Linds, W. & Goulet, L. (2010). Flexibility in Forum Theatre. 16th International Theatre and Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference, Austin, Texas, June 3-6, 2010.
Duffy, P. , Vettraino, E., Conrad, D., Kuftinec, S., Linds, W.,& Goulet, L. (2010). Youth and theatre of the oppressed. 16th International Theatre and Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference, Austin, Texas, June 3-6, 2010.
Sullivan, J., Linds, W. , Parras, B., Murillo, M., Pust, T., & Porto, L. (2010). The Role of Freirean Popular Arts & Education Methodologies in Democratizing and Enhancing Community-Based Participatory Research. 16th International Theatre and Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference, Austin, Texas, June 3-6, 2010.
Episkenew, J., Goulet, L., Linds, W., & Schmidt, K. (2010). De-Colonizing Workshops: Joint Action Through Forum Theatre to Overcome Oppression. Association for Bibliotherapy and Applied Literature Conference, Montreal, Quebec, May 31-June 1, 2010.
Sajnani, N., Linds, W., Wong, A., Ndjeru, L., & The Living Histories Theater Ensemble. (2010). The Living Histories Theatre Ensemble: Research Creation through Playback Theatre in an Oral History Project. Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference, Montreal, Quebec, May 28-31, 2010.