Category: Research
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TRU’s Community & Cultural Mapping Research Group Member Nancy Duxbury awarded the 7th Edition International Award UCLG – Mexico City – Culture 21
Nancy Duxbury, researcher at the Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, was awarded in the “Individual” category, ex aequo, the 7th Edition of the International Award UCLG – Mexico City – Culture 21. Nancy Duxbury, Ph.D. in Communication from Simon Fraser…
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Practices, events, and effects: Improving causal analysis with the geographic information from cultural mapping in Canada
New, open access research article integrates traditional ecological knowledge with geographic qualities from cultural mapping studies to enhance causal analyses involving events of cultural practices and project proposals. The modified procedures employ both theoretical and empiricalapproaches, accounting for the historical…
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Addiction Awareness: It’s Time to End the Stigma
Addiction Awareness: It’s Time to End the Stigma Presented with support from the Aaron Manson Memorial Fund, Thompson Rivers University. Research group members attended and participated in a special event looking at the impact of substance use on those working…
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Critical Futures
Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation A new book! Two members of the Research Group have contributed to this cutting-edge collection on community engagement, now available from the University of Toronto Press. We express deep appreciation…
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Research Update: The September 5th, 2025 Hot Topic Open House
Research Update: The September 5th, 2025, Hot Topic Open House featured roundtable discussions with partners from TRU’s Institute for Wildfire Science, Resiliency, and Adaptation; FireSmart; United Way; Kamloops Fire Rescue; and the City of Kamloops and yielded crucial insights into…
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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…