Peace and Reconciliation Centre’s BMO Collaboratorium
UFV PARC is excited to offer the Community-engaged BMO Collaboratorium for summer 2025! Building on the success of past years—including receiving the Outstanding BC Heritage Award in Indigenous and Diverse Cultures in 2022 and facilitating 17 unique projects with 18 student research interns and 5 community partners in 2024—we’re eager to continue fostering impactful partnerships and innovative research.
Student applications will open in mid-February 2025. Check back soon for updates and the application link.
Interested in partnering with us? Email PARCcollab@ufv.ca to start the conversation!
The BMO Collaboratorium is designed to provide community organizations with sophisticated research services at an affordable rate, while providing UFV students with opportunities to deploy and enhance the research skills they have been developing in their classes. The BMO Collaboratorium therefore bridges both the expectation and skills gap by providing training, intercultural awareness, and administrative and academic oversight, for passionate undergraduate students and community partners to conduct research that contributes to building a foundation for peace and reconciliation.
The BMO Collaboratorium is unique in the sense that it allows communities to identify and direct the research project that holds the most importance to them. The research carried out through the BMO Collaboratorium seeks to build a foundation for making the world a genuinely better place in which the communities are better able to tell their story, achieve their goals, and meet their member’s needs.
"I conceived the idea for the BMO Collaboratorium when I saw that there were many students from the College of Arts who were developing critical research skills and experience but not being provided the opportunity to apply them", Professor Keith Carlson, PARC Director explains.
"Likewise, there were community organizations who had research questions but did not necessarily have the time or capacity to design a project and oversee a student to complete it. The BMO Collaboratorium brings these needs together in a way that is nurtured and supported by faculty and university staff.”
If you, or someone you know, is interested in participating in the BMO Collaboratorium or would like to learn more, please email PARCcollab@ufv.ca.
2024
A huge thanks to all of our Summer 2024 Collaboratorium partners providing meaningful opportunities and mentorship!
Care for the Life Spirit of the Hope Slough project
Community Navigator Feasibility project
Indigenous Fishing on the Fraser River, in connect with Fort Langley project
Curriculum Development and Lesson Plans project
Coast Salish Child Rearing and Parenting Practices project
Cultural Sites project
Semáth Xhotsa Database Research project
2023
A huge thanks to all of our Summer 2023 Collaboratorium partners providing meaningful opportunities and mentorship!
2021
Thank you to all of our Summer 2021 Collaboratorium partners who provided meaningful opportunities and mentorship to UFV students!
We're honoured to win the Outstanding BC Heritage Award in Indigenous and Diverse Cultures. Thank you to Heritage Abbotsford for the nomination and recognizing PARC Director, Dr. Keith Carlson's, dedication to the Collaboratorium project.
The Heritage BC Awards celebrate incredible achievements in heritage across the Province of British Columbia every year. You can
view other amazing 2022 award winners and read about what made each one stand out.
