RESEARCH
Wayfinding Peace: Museums in Conflict Zones - - (2014-present) - UBC Ph.D. Candidate Research
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education, Curriculum & Pedagogy, Art Education Committee: Dr. Rita Irwin, Dr. Samson Nashon, Dr. Wade Davis
Mapping A/r/tography: Transnational storytelling across historical and cultural routes of significance - (2019 - current) - UBC Ph.D Candidate Researcher
Supervisor: Dr. Rita Irwin
UBC Equity Enhancement Fund - Cultivating Creative Communities: Student Teachers and Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya (2016-2017) - UBC Graduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Dr. Rita Irwin
Teachers' Stories: Living, learning and teaching in Dadaab refugee camp - UBC Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant - (2014-2017)
Supervisor: Dr. Rita Irwin
Circumnavigating the Arctic (CTA) (September - December 2014) - Graduate Research Assistant - Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC. - (2014- 2015)
Supervisor: Dr. Ruth Beer
UBC Museum of Anthropology - Volunteer Associate Researcher - (2010-present)
Supervisors: Dr. Carol E. Mayer, Curator of Oceania & Africa, Dr. Nuno Porto, Curator Africa/South America, Dr. Anthony Shelton
Wayfinding Peace: Museums in Conflict Zones - - (2014-present) - UBC Ph.D. Candidate Research
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education, Curriculum & Pedagogy, Art Education Committee: Dr. Rita Irwin, Dr. Samson Nashon, Dr. Wade Davis
- This study explores the ways the Community Peace Museums Heritage Foundation (CPMHF), a collective of sixteen rural museums in Kenya employs Indigenous peace heritage traditions through the expressive arts to resolve contemporary conflict within local communities, and between ethnic minority groups. Moreover, this research considers how Indigenous peace heritage traditions may offer an alternative to liberal peace practices, by providing examples of Indigenous methods of conflict resolution and reconciliation leading towards sustainable peace. Additionally, this research provides peace museum professionals of the global north an opportunity to learn from collogues in the global south on how the CPMHF apply Indigenous peace heritage traditions in exhibits, public and school programs, and in the protection of the environment.
Mapping A/r/tography: Transnational storytelling across historical and cultural routes of significance - (2019 - current) - UBC Ph.D Candidate Researcher
Supervisor: Dr. Rita Irwin
- Working with Rita L. Irwin, Principal Investigator; Jun Hu, Koichi Kasahara, Alexandra Lasczik, Ricardo Marins, Joaquin Roldan, Anita Sinner - Co-investigators; 11 collaborators + 9 partners in Canada, China, Japan, Spain, United States of America, England, Brazil, Uruguay
- https://nicoleyslee.wixsite.com/mappingartography
UBC Equity Enhancement Fund - Cultivating Creative Communities: Student Teachers and Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya (2016-2017) - UBC Graduate Research Assistant
Supervisor: Dr. Rita Irwin
- Worked with the Living, Learning and Teaching in Dadaab Refugee Camp Research Team and Rita L. Irwin, Principal Investigator to apply for a UBC Equity Research Grant. Successfully granted to provide funds for teacher education workshops to enhance professional practice in the arts
- Developed and facilitated workshops to build global student relationships between UBC student teachers at the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Learning Centre, Dadaab, Kenya and the Teacher Candidates at the Vancouver Campus
- Indigenous Peace Education - Researched, developed and facilitated Indigenous peace education workshops with the UBC-Moi Student Teachers at the (BHER) Learning Centre, Dadaab, Kenya https://lltd.educ.ubc.ca/media/dadaab-stories/
Teachers' Stories: Living, learning and teaching in Dadaab refugee camp - UBC Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant - (2014-2017)
Supervisor: Dr. Rita Irwin
- Worked with research team: Cynthia Nicol, Principal Investigator; Rita L. Irwin, Samson Nashon, Karen Meyer, and George Belliveau and others, Co-Investigators
- The SSHRC project aims at improving the academic welfare of refugee teachers in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Northeast Kenya. LLTD is a collaborative research project with The University of British Columbia (UBC), Moi University, Kenya, and NGO Windle Trust Kenya.
Circumnavigating the Arctic (CTA) (September - December 2014) - Graduate Research Assistant - Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC. - (2014- 2015)
Supervisor: Dr. Ruth Beer
- The research project focused on the unprecedented changes in the arctic such as climate change, industrial expansion and migration. Through the multiple lenses of art, education, environmental and cultural sustainability, this project aims to understand shared public concerns across the arctic.
UBC Museum of Anthropology - Volunteer Associate Researcher - (2010-present)
Supervisors: Dr. Carol E. Mayer, Curator of Oceania & Africa, Dr. Nuno Porto, Curator Africa/South America, Dr. Anthony Shelton
- Researched a diverse range of projects including MOA's reclassification of the African collection, Chichewa potters of Malawi, Kenyan artifacts collection, Without Masks: Contemporary Cuban Art Exhibition, English Missionary John Williams (1796-1839) journals transcriptions, and the African collection artefacts for Dr. Carol E. Mayer, Curator of Oceania & Africa that were selected for the publication The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (2010).
