Opportunities
The Story Grounds is a creative research space rooted in collaboration, curiosity, and care. We welcome inquiries from people who are interested in arts-based research, film, storytelling, and community-engaged scholarship. Whether you’re a student, artist, researcher, or community partner, there may be ways to collaborate.
Research Assistant Positions
We periodically hire graduate and undergraduate research assistants to support projects with things like literature reviews, transcription, data collection, analysis, knowledge mobilization, and/or arts-based methods. For the most up-to-date positions, please visit: https://www.brandonu.ca/jobs/
Collaborative Research Projects
We partner with artists, community organizations, and other scholars on co-created storytelling projects. If you have an idea or would like to explore a collaboration, please contact us.
Student Research Supervision
Dr. Lam supervises graduate students working with arts-based, narrative, and participatory research, community-based research and education, storytelling, and innovative methodologies. If you are interested in pursuing a practicum in Community-Based Research, please visit: https://www.brandonu.ca/master-education/thesis-practicum-guidelines/.
We welcome expressions of interest from students, artists, educators, activists, and community organizations looking for ethical, story-based collaboration.
We approach all projects with a deep commitment to learning, ethical collaboration, respect for cultural protocols, place-based inquiry, shared ownership and reciprocity, deep listening, and respectful relationships.
If you have a project idea, please include a short description of your idea or area of interest, your background or connection to the topic, and any specific ways we can support you or how you hope to collaborate.