Research Institutes
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research: Community Learning and Engagement (CIR:CLE)
CIR:CLE has been developing collaborative projects in five core areas of focus: Aboriginal Community Development; Addictions Research; Safe Communities; Urban Sustainability; and South Asian Community Development. In the CIR:CLE, community based research is practical and applied, leads to action, explores academic as well as non-academic research, and creates sustained relationships between Kwantlen’s researchers and our community partners.
- Director: Stephen Dooley
- Cir:cle
Institute for Sustainable Horticulture
ISH has been created to act as a hub and network that will benefit the horticulture sector. Through “third party” informed analysis as well as positioning on critical public policy, business innovation and community relations issues, ISH is creating substantive partnerships.
- Director: Deborah Henderson
- www.kwantlen.ca/ish
Institute for Transborder Studies
Established in April 2002, the Institute for Transborder Studies (ITS) represents Kwantlen Polytechnic University's commitment to advance research and scholarly activity as a means to meet its goals.
ITS is dedicated to the promotion of co-operation across regional and national boundaries through teaching, interdisciplinary research, and public outreach concentrated on political, social, economic, and justice issues, and with special attention to the Pacific Northwest.
- Director: Noemi Gal-Or
- www.kwantlen.ca/its
