Category: Research
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Kamloops Cultural Plan Nominated for National Award
The Community and Cultural Research Group is thrilled to see the You Are Here Kamloops Cultural Strategic Plan nominated for the Creative City Network of Canada Impact Award. The complete background to our collaborative planning initiative, including a detailed description…
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations-Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding
We are delighted to see cultural mapping, including our work on cultural mapping, referenced in this First Nations-led project detailing First Nations peoples’ approaches to conflict and its management in Australia. It describes a fully collaborative research approach to co-designing,…
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TRU researchers will study FireSmart uptake using new interactive museum exhibition
Thompson Rivers University researchers have teamed up with the Kamloops Museum and Archives to create a new interactive exhibit and research project that aims to learn more about community uptake of FireSmart principles. Hot Topic: A Cultural Mapping of the…
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International Journal of Cultural Policy
Lettau, M. (2025). Participatory methodological approaches for regenerative cultural policy. The case study of cultural mapping in the public library of Ravensburg. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 31 (4): 482-96. This recently published article draws upon aspects of our research…
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A Cultural Mapping of the FireSmart Program
In preparation for the upcoming Community Exhibition & Research Lab at the Kamloops Museum and Archives, the Research Group gathered for a cultural mapping workshop. Our newly hired student research assistants, Lauren Schneider and Suzette Netto, were introduced to university…
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Onboarding Activities for Student Researchers
Cultural Mapping of the FireSmart Program (May-June, 2025) Ethics To do Tools—finding them, using them Referencing Zotero is a handy, open-source (free) referencing tool that can help us store, annotate, and reference articles, websites, etc. This makes citations and the…
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The Future of Fighting and Preventing Forest Fires
From NPR’s public affairs program 1A, here’s a podcast on Wildfire, Mitigation Strategies, and Cultural Burning—provided here as background to our work on the Fire Smart Cultural Mapping Project. Abstract 80 years ago, Smokey the Bear was mostly talking about…
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Re-situating participatory cultural mapping as community-centred work
The Research Group is pleased to make available a typescript of a recent book chapter on cultural mapping: “Re-situating participatory cultural mapping as community-centered work,” by Nancy Duxbury (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal) and W.F. Garrett-Petts (Thompson Rivers…
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Map the System Research Competition: Undergraduate TRU Students Mapping Kamloops’ Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis
Jayse Heer-Matonovich, Bensly Pierre, and Loghan Eskritt were among the top three finalists and recipients of the People’s Choice Award at the 2025 Map the System Research Competition hosted by Thompson Rivers University. Their project, The Toxic Drug Poisoning Crisis in…