The SPAR Research Team

SPAR’s research team is a broadly multi-disciplinary group involving individuals from the University of Regina, the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Melbourne.
This research project involves a broadly multi-disciplinary research team. With a strong base in the arts, particularly community-based art practice, the team also involves researchers with other types of backgrounds suited to a broader understanding of artist networks and connections between artists and their communities. The team includes individuals from sociology, sustainability studies, economics, health, aboriginal studies, geography and cultural mapping as well as individuals with experience in a range of relevant research approaches (quantitative and qualitative methodology, ethics).

Julia SiemerJulia Siemer (Associate Professor, Geography, University of Regina) worked on the Regina Cultural Mapping project (the city’s subsequent version of the map won ESRI’s 2011 Award of Excellence; Graney, culture.regina.ca), and her familiarity with valuable related spatial data is an asset to our research. As a GIS cartographer she will integrate data from our partners and Community of Understanding and make our own research data accessible in GIS format for comparative analysis. Applying qualitative as well as quantitative mapping approaches she is responsible for creating the interactive cultural mapping materials on our website.

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