Research Findings and Resources
The Research for Social Change Lab strives to share its findings in a variety of formats — from traditional journal articles to more digestible research briefs to zines and other creative projects. On this page, we’ve collected all of our recent publications and other research results. Please have a browse.
Research Briefs
How The Youth Protection System Can Help Prevent Homelessness
By the Youth Action Research Revolution (2023)
Peterborough’s By-Name List for People Experiencing Homelessness: What We Know
By Mary Anne Martin
How Schools Can Become Sites of Homelessness Prevention
By the Youth Action Research Revolution (2021)
The Need for Integrated Housing and Health Services
By the Youth Action Research Revolution (2021)
Zines
Data Justice: Data for Who? Data for What?
By Sarah Cullingham and Aron Rosenberg
Data Justice: What? Why? Where?
By Sarah Cullingham
Collaboration in a Time of Scarcity
By Mary Anne Martin and RSCL team members
Park Stories Issue Five: The Parks Bylaw
By Sam Blondeau and the BfE Supercrew
Park Stories Issue Four: Navigating the System
By Thamer Linklater and the BfE Supercrew
Park Stories Issue Three: Shelters
By Naomi Nichols and the BfE Supercrew
Park Stories Issue Two: Possessions
By Naomi Nichols and the BfE Supercrew
Park Stories Issue One: Jail
By Will Pearson and the BfE Supercrew
Stay in Line, People’s Experiences of Coordinated Access in Nogojiwanong-Peterborough, Ontario
By The BfE SuperCrew
Get in Line, A Guide to Peterborough’s Systems for Housing and Sheltering the Unhoused
By The BfE SuperCrew
Reflections on Chez Pops
By the Youth Action Research Revolution
Research Reports
Investigating Shelter (In)Justice in Peterborough: A Review of the Local Coordinated Access System
By Mary Anne Martin and Naomi Nichols (2023)
Data Justice for Youth in Care: Midterm Report for KH-CAS
By Jessa McAuliffe, Naomi Nichols, Aron Rosenberg, and Jimmy Frickey (2023)
Survey results: Housing and homelessness priorities according to local sector professionals
By Mary Anne Martin (2023)
Data Justice for Youth in Care: Midterm Report for CAS-T
By Naomi Nichols (2022)
“Youth Action Research Revolution: Partial Summary of Research on Youth Homelessness Prevention”
By the Youth Action Research Revolution
Research Report on Education and Youth Homelessness Prevention
By the Youth Action Research Revolution (2022)
Books
Youth, School, and Community: Participatory Institutional Ethnographies
By Naomi Nichols, 2019
Youth Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Youth Homelessness
By Naomi Nichols, 2014
Journal Articles
”Health System Access for Precariously Housed Youth: A Participatory Youth Research Project”
By Naomi Nichols and Jayne Malenfant (Society and Mental Health, 2022)
“Ethnography, Tactical Responsivity and Political Utility”
By Naomi Nichols and Emanuel Guay (Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2021)
“Enabling evidence-led collaborative systems-change efforts: an adaptation of the collective impact approach”
By Naomi Nichols, Kaitlin Schwan, Stephen Gaetz, and Melanie Redman (Community Development Journal, 2021)
“The Work of Being Well on Campus”
By Naomi Nichols and Sarah Lewington (Journal of Youth Studies, 2021)
“Chasing Funding to ‘Eat Our Own Tail’: The Invisible Emotional Work of Making Social Change”
By Jayne Malenfant, Naomi Nichols, and Kaitlin Schwan (Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2019)
“Producing youth ‘Out of sync:’ the intersectional social relations of educational inequality”
By Naomi Nichols (Journal of Youth Studies, 2017)
“The Social Organization of Access to Justice for Youth in ‘Unsafe’ Urban Neighbourhoods”
By Naomi Nichols (Social and Legal Studies, 2017)
“Technologies of evidence: An institutional ethnography from the standpoints of ‘youth-at-risk’”
By Naomi Nichols (Critical Social Policy, 2017)
“Community Safety, Housing Precariousness and Processes of Exclusion: An Institutional Ethnography from the Standpoints of Youth in an ‘Unsafe’ Urban Neighbourhood”
By Naomi Nichols and Jessica Braimoh (Critical Sociology, 2016)
“Investigating the social relations of human service provision: Institutional ethnography and activism”
By Naomi Nichols (Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2016)
“Strategies for Sustaining Complex Partnerships”
By Naomi Nichols and Stephen Gaetz (Scholarly and Research Communication, 2014)
“Knowledge Mobilization, Collaboration, and Social Innovation: Leveraging Investments in Higher Education”
By Naomi Nichols, David J. Phipps, Johanne Provençal, and Allyson Hewitt (Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2013)
(If you are unable to access any of these journal articles, please reach out and we can arrange sharing access.)