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" on September 21, 2023 from 12-1pm.

We are hiring a Community Research Coordinator for the Okanagan site of the Scaling Up project.

Inner-City Women's Initiatives Society (ICWIS), community co-lead for the Vancouver site ("STRENGTH") of the national Scaling Up project is now hiring for a Community Outreach Support Worker.

Capacity is looking for a UBC graduate student to join our Vancouver-based team on the Scaling Up project, to coordinate and conduct enrollments and surveys with study participants. For more details on the position, see the full posting here. Apply by submitting a brief cover letter and CV to capacity.research@ubc.ca by April 16, 2023.

Date: March 30, 2023 from 12-1pm Presented by: Cindy Elliott and Sunny Jiao Room: Online on Zoom Meetings The presentation is now available to watch here. Audio for the Q&A session is available here.  In this session, Cindy Elliott, Program Director for Emergency Services at Providence Health Care, and Sunny Jiao, PhD Student at the […]

Date: March 2, 2023 Time: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (ET) Presented by: #HASTalks is a seminar series curated by the Department of Health, Aging & Society at McMaster University Online Session: Register for this event via Zoom *This session is free and open to all members of the public. Please note: This session may […]

This month the UBC Knowledge Exchange (KX) spotlights the equity-oriented intervention programs and partnerships of Dr. Vicky Bungay and Capacity Research Unit. As director of Capacity Research Unit, Dr. Bungay works in close partnership with communities to close gaps in research and care for people regularly excluded from health and social policy programming, including women […]

Are you an experienced research assistant excited to work  on a community-based and community-led research project? We are hiring for our national partnership project.

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C. – Dec 17, 2022)  On International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers Capacity supports the leadership of sex workers worldwide in calling attention to the violence and hate crimes perpetrated against sex workers. We remember and mourn the lives lost to this violence and hate, […]