Projects and Research:
Making a home on campus: UBC’s International House and student housing policy, 1945-1975
Collaborators: Dale McCartney (Co-PI), University of the Fraser Valley; Gerardo L. Blanco, Boston College; Roshni Kumari, University of British Columbia.
Campus Photography
See also amyscottmetcalfe.com
Campus Rephotography
re/take: campus rephotography
Alternative Campus Tours
de/tour: alternative campus tours
Campus Trees
Previously Funded Research:
The Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society (APIKS) (2016-2023)
The Changing Academic Profession (CAP) project was an international, collaborative survey of academics in 20+ countries, including Canada. The APIKS project aims to revisit many items on the CAP survey as well as other areas related to academic researchers.
Collaborators: Glen Jones (PI), Grace Karram Stephenson, OISE University of Toronto; Olivier Begin-Caouette, Université du Québec à Montréal
Building Cascadia U: Settler Colonialism and the Cascadia Innovation Corridor
(2019-2022)
This project examines the early histories and public policy contexts of three leading research universities in the “Cascadia Innovation Corridor”: the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, the University of Washington-Seattle, and the University of Oregon. Supported by UBC Killam Research Fellowship, 2019-2020.
The Difficult Knowledge Project (2014-2018)
In addition to creating socially useful knowledge, universities are sites of difficult knowledge: the material manifestation of collective trauma. By addressing the difficult knowledge of the university at the university, campus/community/classroom are intertwined so as to potentially form new networks for knowledge production and social understanding. This multi-campus study will explore how universities approach their difficult knowledge.
Difficult Knowledge and the University: Race, Redress and (Re)presentation in the Exclusion Zone
UBC Hampton Established Scholar Award, 2015-2017, Amy Scott Metcalfe, PI
Project description:
This project will examine textual and visual materials associated with ceremonies held from 2008-2012 on selected university campuses in the United States and Canada to confer honorary degrees to former students of Japanese ancestry who were forced to leave their studies in 1942 as part of WWII internment orders. The literature on institutional racism raises questions of institutional responsibility and the potential or limitation of redress efforts undertaken in part through honorary degree ceremonies, particularly considering the overlapping concerns of the racialized and marketized university.
Education Policy Analysis for a Complex World: The Possibilities of Post-structural Policy Analysis (2013-2014)
Collaborator: Kalervo Gulson, University of New South Wales, Australia
Funding Agency: SSHRC Connections Grant
Special issue of Critical Studies in Education
Edited book: Educational Policy Analysis for a Complex World (2017, Routledge)
Project website: https://blogs.ubc.ca/poststructural/
Public lecture video, Working the Ruins of Educational Policy
Transnational Academics: Effects of Policy Interactions on Identity and Research Outcomes (2011-2013)
Funding Agency: UBC HSS Seed Grant
Gender and Academic Capitalism: Men and Women of the Entrepreneurial Academy (2008-2011)
Collaborator: Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia
Funding Agency: SSHRC
Research in and through the Arts:
An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Research in Education and Arts (2009-2011)
PI: Donal O Donoghue, UBC, Co-PI: Amy S. Metcalfe
Funding Agency: HSS Grant, UBC
The Changing Academic Profession in Canada (2006 – 2011)
Funding Agency: HSS Seed Grant 2009-2010, Participation in the Changing Academic Profession Research Consortium: Understanding the Professoriate in a Transnational Perspective (Don Fisher, PI; Amy Metcalfe, Co-PI).
Funding Agency: HSS Small Grant 2009-2010, The Changing Academic Profession: North American Faculty Collaboration.
Funding Agency: HSS Small Grant 2007-2008, Research Capacities and the Changing Academic Profession in Canada and Beyond.
Images of Academic Science: Photographic Evidence of Scientific Research at the University of British Columbia (2006 – 2009)
Funding Agency: Hampton Grant
Intermediary Organizations and Canadian Research Policy (2006)
Funding Agency: The University of British Columbia