Communities and Collections

Established in 2008, the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS) is housed in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. At iSMSS (http://www.ismss.ualberta.ca), research and advocacy via our programming and services are inextricably linked. We work with the spectrum of sexual and gender minority (SGM) or LGBTTIQQ2SA youth, with the acronym including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, intersex, questioning, queer, two-spirit and allied youth. We engage them in intervention and prevention programming, focusing on educational outreach, individual development, socialization, and comprehensive health. At iSMSS we emphasize growing into resilience as a process and an outcome. This work is about helping youth to deal with adversity and trauma as they deal with stressors and risk taking. We assist youth to (i) build assets (significant adult, institutional, and community supports) and (ii) show signs of thriving (positive outcomes built around recognition, respect, and accommodation of SGM youth).

The Institute for Space Science, Exploration and Technology (ISSET) is a University of Alberta institute that embraces a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines related to the exploration of space. ISSET builds on long-standing institutional excellence in space research in order to take advantage of emerging, cross-disciplinary opportunities and to develop partnerships with other institutions, agencies and industry.

The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) is a not-for-profit organization with key competencies in health economics & decision analytic modeling, health technology assessment and knowledge transfer and exchange. IHE's core objectives are:

Support decision making in health policy and practice with evidence from research in health economics and health technology assessment.
Assess the medical, economic, social, and ethical implications of both established and new health practices, procedures, and technologies.
Facilitate discussions and partnerships among government, academia, industry and healthcare providers to address important issues in health care.

The Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology (IPIA) is an Indigenous-led institute with a commitment to continuing to support Indigenous-engaged archaeological research, to developing pedagogical approaches to integrating Indigenous ways of knowing and being into archaeological teaching and training, and to changing cultural heritage policies in response to the needs of Indigenous communities in western Canada. The IPIA is the first of its kind in Canada and the first Institute focused on Indigenous archaeology in the world.

The Integrative Health Institute (IHI) at the University of Alberta is based on the concept of health in its broadest sense as defined by the World Health Organization: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Integrative Health recognizes both the rigourous and systematic science of conventional medicine and the values and traditions of complementary therapies such as acupuncture, herbs, mindfulness, among many more.

More than 100 dedicated Scholars are primed to collaborate to change how we promote health and manage illness, and they bring proven records of success in tackling major issues affecting healthcare today. IHI Scholars have considerable depth and breadth of expertise in integrative, traditional, and indigenous health. They pursue excellence by creating and disseminating high quality, meaningful research, teaching and mentoring future scholars and clinicians. They facilitate collaborations between the academic, industry, and public institutions that are important stakeholders in serving the public's interest in health and wellness. IHI will serve as a hub for interdisciplinary research and education, promoting innovative ways to study, apply, and promote evidence-informed patient-centered health care. IHI is building bridges and creating partnerships that will multiply our contributions and lead the way in fostering creativity, innovation and synergy towards a healthy future that will benefit all patients and those who support them.

The collection consists of images of the landscape, architecture, and culture. This is a collection of over 2,000 digital images.

The Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation is Canada's leading physical education and recreation faculty and is, truly, where the “Art and Science of Human Movement come Alive!”

With 43 faculty members on board, 15 coaches, over 1000 undergraduate and graduate students, more than 400 student-athletes, in a Faculty that spans studies from the cell to society, our Faculty is complex in nature, richly-diverse in its research, integrated in its make-up, weaving scholarly endeavour in human movement across the life and abilities spectra through its teaching, service and outreach.

Research in the Faculty of Law builds on the rich tradition of research at the University of Alberta. Faculty members are involved in a wide variety of innovative scholarship, in diverse areas ranging from the running of corporations to the running of countries, from legal theory to the law of taxation, from aboriginal law to biotechnology policy. Research at the Faculty is supported by federal as well as provincial research grants and leads to varied products, including books, journal articles, policy documents, government advisory papers, consultation documents and expert testimony before Provincial Legislatures and Parliament.

Our vibrant research environment is further enriched by the presence of several interdisciplinary centres and institutes, including the Centre for Constitutional Studies, the Health Law Institute, and the Forum on Civil Justice. The Faculty is also home to the Alberta Law Reform Institute and many Faculty members have contributed their research skills to Institute projects.

In addition to being on the cutting edge of legal scholarship, research conducted by members of the Faculty of Law is relevant and influential in law reform, and policy development.

The University of Alberta Library is an important stakeholder for scholarly publishing in Canada. Our open access publishing program supports open, sustainable, and responsible models of scholarly communication and helps to create a more equitable and robust scholarly communications ecosystem. Currently, we partner with Canadian organizations and individuals to publish fully open access scholarly journals, and with University of Alberta community members to publish open course textbooks.

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta has established itself as a major centre, both nationally and internationally, for graduate education and research in the empirical study of human language. Our faculty and graduate students are actively involved in a wide range of data-driven linguistic research with a strong focus on the empirical study of language through observation, fieldwork, and experimentation. We are also home to several major research grants in the areas of language acquisition, psycholinguistics, acoustic phonetics, phonology, field linguistics, corpus linguistics, and language revitalization.