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Doctoral Project

 My research has evolved where in the doctoral program in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, I began to examine the intersectional role of Black mothers and focus more specifically on Black students. The theoretical frameworks I use are Black and African feminisms, informed by anti-colonial and decolonial theory, anti-racist education, and Indigenous knowledges. My doctoral research is also informed by the findings I determined as a Research Consultant for the Peel District School Board’s (PDSB) We Rise Together report. In this research project, I interviewed over 100 Black male secondary school students and wrote a report which still informs the PDSB’s approach to race, racism, and anti-racist education. Overwhelmingly, focus group interviewees would state that their mothers are their primary, and in some cases only, source of support. This reminded me of my own experiences navigating white supremacy in the K-12 education system where my mother’s advocacy against anti-Black racism helped me, and other community members, to succeed. My current research examines the role of what I call a Black mothering approach, engaging in advocacy, survival parenting and forms of resistance for Black student learners all while navigating their own intersectional subject-positions. In my doctoral studies, I successfully interviewed over 30 Black mothers in the Jane-Finch community using a Participatory Action-Research (PAR) method informed by decolonial and Black feminist methodologies. My findings confirm that Black mothers not only fight for the education and schooling of their children, but that they use a community-oriented rather than an individualistic approach to Black students’ academic outcomes all while facing racism, sexism, and in many cases classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of oppression in their own personal and professional experiences. I have since partnered with a local community Jane-Finch community organization, the Firgrove Learning and Innovation Community Centre to continue community-based research and outreach through a ‘Parent Education navigation project’ to continue the action research component of the project through a $92, 400 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation and have also been recognized as a Graduate Research Fellow for the School of Cities at the University of Toronto to facilitate the action-research component of the study.   
 

School of Cities 2020 Fellow 


https://www.schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/events/virtual-research-festival-session-8#janelle-brady   


https://www.schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/news/sofc-fellow-janelle-brady-how-talk-about-racism-kids-nana-aba-duncan-cbc   


https://www.schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/care-in-community/lessons-in-giving-back   
 

Researcher for Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1327386  
Ghana Education Conference host 


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvdpi-afTWh6QGZvMzMM-CA
Incoming Managing Editor and co-collaborator of the CIARS Journal of Integrative Anti-Racism Studies    

Researcher for the SSHRC-funded ‘Supporting Refugee Students in Canada’ project

Report http://citiesofmigration.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Supporting-Refugee-Students-in-Canada-Full-Research-Report-1.pdf   


Learn more here: https://espminetwork.com/new-report-supporting-refugee-students-in-canada-building-on-what-we-have-learned-in-the-past-20-years/ 


Webinar here on ‘Teaching and Learning Resources’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Ja3kXFyEE&feature=youtu.be 


Policy Brief: https://espminetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Supporting-Refugee-Students-in-Canada-Policy-Brief.pdf 


What works Monograph: https://espminetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/What-Works-Monograph_Supporting-Refugee-Students-in-Canadian-Classrooms_Oct.-2017.pdf 


More here: https://espminetwork.com/new-report-supporting-refugee-students-in-canada-building-on-what-we-have-learned-in-the-past-20-years/ 



Research Consultant for Peel District School Board ‘We Rise Together’ report

 *see Featured for links and details  

Funding and Awards Received

RESEARCH GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Provincial and Federal Level Awards

  • 2018-2019 Ontario Graduate Scholarship  Amount: $15 000 (12 months), non-renewable  
  • 2017-2018 Ontario Graduate Scholarship  Amount: $15 000 (12 months), non-renewable  
  • 2014-2015 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarships  Master’s Scholarship. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.  Amount: $17 500 (12 months), non-renewable 

University-wide Awards and Fellowships

  • 2021 Doctoral Completion Award, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto  Amount: $10 000    
  • 2021 School of Cities Anti-Black Racism/Black Lives Fund  Amount: $10 000  Role: Co-Investigator  
  • 2020 School of Cities, Fellowship Award, University of Toronto  Amount: $ 2000  
  • 2019-2020   Doctoral Completion Award, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto    Amount: $10 000  
  • 2019     International Day for the End of Racial Discrimination (IDERD) Award, non-monetary      
  • 2018-2019     University of Toronto Fellowship  Amount: $9486 (12 months), non-renewable  
  • 2017-2018     University of Toronto Fellowship  Amount: $9486 (12 months), non-renewable    

School-wide: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Awards and Fellowships Doctoral Completion Award

  • 2017-2018   Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto Academic Excellence Award  Amount: $2000, non-renewable    
  • 2016-2017   Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto Graduate Funding  Amount: $12 924.50 (12 months), renewable    
  • 2015-2016   Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto Graduate Funding  Amount: $12 924.50 (12 months), renewable  

research projects

RESEARCHER FOR CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE ANTI-RACISM STUDIES

 Ghana Education Conference host: 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1327386 


Incoming Managing Editor and co-collaborator of the 

CIARS Journal of Integrative Anti-Racism Studies: 

www.youtube.com/channel/UCvdpi-afTWh6QGZvMzMM-CA  

more resources

Find out more about Janelle’s work on Researchgate and Academia.edu

  •  Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Janelle-Brady 
  •  Academia.edu: https://utoronto.academia.edu/JanelleBrady     .

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