The Capacity Research Unit at the University of British Columbia is an interdisciplinary team of researchers, staff, students and organizations working together to address discrimination and inequities in health care and social services.
Our research is shaped by community-academic collaboration. Together we strive to develop, test and inform practices, programs and policies that positively affect the well-being of people who regularly experience health and social inequities.

Acknowledgement of Indigenous Lands and Territories

We respectfully acknowledge that the Capacity Research Unit at the University of British Columbia is situated in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). We also acknowledge that we conduct and facilitate research activities across the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Capacity Research Unit engages with a diverse network of partners and organizations across Turtle Island, and we acknowledge and thank the traditional owners and caretakers of the lands upon which we carry out our collaborations and shared work.  We are grateful to the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island for the opportunity to form and strengthen research partnerships across the lands and waters they have cared for since time immemorial.


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Closed: Hiring Outreach Workers at Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society for the CLOE Project

As part of the Scaling Up project, the CLOE Project outreach team in Kelowna supports people who have experienced gender-based violence to engage with the outreach team in safe, respectful ways that foster trust and engagement and promote health, safety and well-being. Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society (COEFS), the project’s community co-lead, is now hiring two […]

Capacity Research Seminar Series Presents: Women Impacted by Forced Migration: A Community-Academic Research Partnership

Capacity Research Seminar Series Presents "Women Impacted by Forced Migration: A Community-Academic Research Partnership" on September 21, 2023 from 12-1pm.


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