Aaron Franks Email & Phone Number

Ottawa And Akwesasne

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

Montreal, Canada Area

I work with Editor in Chief Michelle MacArthur, Associate Editor (Reviews) Sarah Waisvisz, our amazing contributors, board and designers to publish alt.theatre magazine three times a year, Canada's only professional journal examining the intersections between politics, cultural plurality, social activism, and the stage.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Ottawa, Ontario

Aaron will be supporting SSHRC in its response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action 65. By keeping his affiliation as a postdoctoral researcher at Queen’s, Aaron will be able to work independently as a “critical friend” embedded at — but not employed by — SSHRC. Aspects of reconciliation he will examine include autonomous spaces for Indigenous research and researchers; spaces for settler inquiry and education; connections between Indigenous knowledge systems and interdisciplinarity (e.g., in the area of research-creation); decolonization and training in mainstream research and governance structures; and the implications of evolving nation-to-nation relations for research policy and administration.Aaron is of mixed European-Métis-Mushkegowak decent, from a family shaped by colonialism, changing labour and migration. He is working with colleagues in his communities to strengthen and make better use of his knowledge as an unlanded Métis scholar and resident of unceded Algonquin territory.

Queen'S University, Kingston, On

Researcher with the Indigenous Public Art project, a component of the SSHRC Insight grant "Sensate Sovereignty: Indigenous Public Art and Performance Interventions". PI Dylan Robinson, CI Candice Hopkins.Researcher with the Indigenous Arts Summer Workshop at UBC Okanagan and the Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Book project, funded by SSHRC Insight grant "Creative Conciliations". PI Keavy Martin, Co-I’s Dylan Robinson, Ashok Mathur, David Garneau, Jonathan Dewar.Assisting development of Indigenous Arts Conversation series at Queen’s UniversityPreparing SSHRC Insight Development and Connections grants

Queen'S University, Kingston, Canada

My work featured project management of two ongoing research projects. These were the CIHR-funded "Knowledge Leaders in Children's Environmental Health"​ pilot study (2012-2013), and the SSHRC-funded project "Revitalizing 'Japantown'​?: a unifying exploration of Human Rights, Branding and Place in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside"​ or 'RJ'). I was project coordinator for the Right to Remain Community Fair participatory arts research project of RJ, and a core member of our successful SSRC Connections Grant application team. I also worked closely on multiple major CIHR and other grant applications, guest taught, mentored CEHE students, and co-edited and managed the website and newsletter. I am currently finishing two major end of project community reports, as well as preparing book chapter and journal article.

University Of Manitoba

My work featured project management of two ongoing research projects. These were the CIHR-funded "Knowledge Leaders in Children's Environmental Health"​ pilot study (2012-2013), and the SSHRC-funded project "Revitalizing 'Japantown'​?: a unifying exploration of Human Rights, Branding and Place in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside". I also worked closely on multiple major CIHR and other grant applications, guest taught, mentored CEHE students, and co-edited and managed the website and newsletter.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

So We Stand exists to support communities living in high emissions areas (for example near to power stations or airports), and other areas of environmental injustice.Anything that prevents people from living in a clean and healthy environment is an environmental injustice.Those who are exposed to environmental injustices may have little power within existing systems of governance, consultation and economic and political inequality to make changes to improve or protect their environment. We see climate change as perhaps the starkest and biggest example of environmental injustice. Those who have created the problem through pursuit of power and profit have better resources available to them to escape from the consequences. Meanwhile, the poorest people, who have made less contributions to greenhouse gas emissions, are unable to change their environment or move away when there’s a drought, a hurricane, a tsunami, a famine. On a smaller and more local scale within the UK, those living under flight paths, next to motorways, or on the sites of planned open cast mines, are not those who stand to profit from these things.So We Stand aims to support people whose voices are not being heard in organising together, on a local and national scale in the UK, to make the changes that are important to them and to take back control of their locality.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Human Geography

Activities and Societies: Radical Geographies Reading Group; Hetherington Research Club Co-chaired Radical Geographies Reading Group.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Social Justice And Equity Studies, With Distinction

Received Distinguished Graduate Student Award, 2009

Diploma Level Coursework, Food Security; Geography; Social Policy

- took online course in Food Security; courses in Political Science and Geography on campus

Correspondance Course, Democratic Politics And The State

- took correspondence course on the Modern Democratic State

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Acting, With Distinction

- graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts (with Distinction), 1996