Carla Ginn, RN, MScN, PhD
MScN University of Lethbridge, CanadaPhD University of Calgary, Canada
Areas of Research
Resiliency while Experiencing Vulnerability; FNMI Health and Wellbeing
My program of research is focused on resiliency in individuals, families, and communities experiencing vulnerability and I have expertise in community-based, PAR, patient-oriented, longitudinal, and mixed methods research focused on constructivist grounded theory. In my CIHR-funded MScN (2010) I engaged in PAR with urban First Nations grandmothers, exploring health promotion in families and communities, learning much about Indigenous ways of knowing. Since 2013 I have been engaged in a Faculty of Nursing University of Calgary Community Partnership with CUPS (https://www.cupscalgary.com) which my doctoral supervisor, Dr. Karen Benzies initiated in 2001. My fully funded (Stephanson Cooke) doctoral research was a community-based, mixed methods (constructivist grounded theory) longitudinal study with families experiencing vulnerability following a two-generation preschool program after age 10 years in inner-city Calgary. Families were living with less than half of Canada’s low-income cut-off, and experiencing addiction, mental illness, and/or social isolation. I have continued engaging in community-based research at CUPS, funded by the Max Bell Foundation. As a Co-I on the Family Research Agenda-Initiative-setting project (FRAISE) with young families who are pregnant and parenting children under 2, I have ensured that those families experiencing vulnerability were included in this patient-oriented research. I am the PI on a Faculty of Nursing University of Calgary Endowment Award “Exploring health protective factors for mental health and addiction in the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) – Region 3." I am the University of Calgary Community Collaboration Representative in a research partnership with Inn From the Cold (IFTC), Calgary’s Family Emergency Shelter (https://innfromthecold.org/). I am currently the PI on a CIHR Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research (Early Career Investigator), "Connection to identity/ancestry, community, land, and spirituality: Exploring individual, family, and community wellbeing within the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) - Region 3."
My program of research is focused on resiliency in individuals, families, and communities experiencing vulnerability and I have expertise in community-based, PAR, patient-oriented, longitudinal, and mixed methods research focused on constructivist grounded theory. In my CIHR-funded MScN (2010) I engaged in PAR with urban First Nations grandmothers, exploring health promotion in families and communities, learning much about Indigenous ways of knowing. Since 2013 I have been engaged in a Faculty of Nursing University of Calgary Community Partnership with CUPS (https://www.cupscalgary.com) which my doctoral supervisor, Dr. Karen Benzies initiated in 2001. My fully funded (Stephanson Cooke) doctoral research was a community-based, mixed methods (constructivist grounded theory) longitudinal study with families experiencing vulnerability following a two-generation preschool program after age 10 years in inner-city Calgary. Families were living with less than half of Canada’s low-income cut-off, and experiencing addiction, mental illness, and/or social isolation. I have continued engaging in community-based research at CUPS, funded by the Max Bell Foundation. As a Co-I on the Family Research Agenda-Initiative-setting project (FRAISE) with young families who are pregnant and parenting children under 2, I have ensured that those families experiencing vulnerability were included in this patient-oriented research. I am the PI on a Faculty of Nursing University of Calgary Endowment Award “Exploring health protective factors for mental health and addiction in the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) – Region 3." I am the University of Calgary Community Collaboration Representative in a research partnership with Inn From the Cold (IFTC), Calgary’s Family Emergency Shelter (https://innfromthecold.org/). I am currently the PI on a CIHR Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research (Early Career Investigator), "Connection to identity/ancestry, community, land, and spirituality: Exploring individual, family, and community wellbeing within the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) - Region 3."
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