Research
The Centre is committed to sharing publications and research that has helped to advance the field and break down barriers. Recently, the centre has also been able to conduct our own research as well. We hope to continue this work as the interest in inclusive post-secondary education grows.

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Relevant Work Produced by Others in the Field:​

A comprehensive resource list of works produced about accessibility and inclusive post secondary education is included below:

Work Produced by/in Collaboration with the Centre

Inclusion in the Trades at VIU
​(2024)

Funded by Vancouver Island University Engage Grant
This project uses a needs assessment methodology to learn about the capacity within the trades at VIU to include students enrolled through inclusive post-secondary education partnership. The needs assessment will also identify barriers and gaps that can be addressed to support students to engage authentically in trades training programs at VIU and complete apprenticeships.

Contemporary Issues in Student Mobility: Inclusive Post-secondary Education Initiatives (Current)

Funded by the BC Council on Admissions and Transfer
In progress
This project uses adn environmental scan methodology to:
  1. Describe existing admission models that provide access for students with intellectual disabilities in BC’s 25 public post-secondary institutions
  2. Gain deeper insight into the complexities related to modified course work and credit models within these admission models
  3. Identify ableist barriers that restrict student access and mobility
  4. Consider how institutional pathways can be reimagined to recognize modified coursework
  5. Provide useful information to registrar personnel, senior management, and public policy makes that will enable inclusive admission models

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Map of Student Diversity
(2023-Current)

The Mapping Student Diversity Project aims to create a new framework for understanding the spatial influence of accessibility, while also providing a new tool for both families and facilitators to better understand what accessibility may look like at different institutions in BC.
By Sam Mason (UVIC)

Inclusive Post-secondary Education as a Practice of Social Justice (2017/2018)

Funded by: SFU Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines - Teaching & Learning Development Grant
Simon Fraser University and the BC Initiative for Inclusive Post-secondary Education established an inclusive post-secondary education partnership in 2012. This project was focused on the experience of faculty who have included students  with developmental disabilities enrolled at SFU through the partnership in their undergraduate courses.  Students select their major focus of studies and as such have completed courses in a number of different faculties and departments.  Students enroll as participatory auditors, with the permission of the faculty, they are included in all aspects of the course, complete exams and assignments as outlined by the course syllabus, with necessary modifications. 

This project looked at the experience of professors and instructional staff, with a focus on the following questions:
  1. How have professors engaged with students in their classes?
  2. How does teaching students with developmental disabilities afford  insight and broaden professors understanding of pedagogy more generally?
The project output included the following white paper.