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PublishedCommunity Knowledge Publication
Founding Cohort
The May 2026 Founding Cohort
The founding cohort of the Micro-Exp Internship included 27 students from four Canadian universities. Students learned and practiced knowledge mobilization and connected with community organizations across Montréal, Kingston, Toronto, and British Columbia.
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Cohort at a glance
Who took part, what they studied, and the communities they worked with.
Launch date
May 11, 2026
Participants
27students
Length
2 to 4 weeksabout 15 hrs of student work
Publication window
Late spring 2026
Pilot pricing
Free
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Universities
McGill University
Montréal, QC
Concordia University
Montréal, QC
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
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Programs
Education in Global ContextsEducation and SocietyEducational LeadershipEducational StudiesRehabilitation and Health LeadershipJournalismBiochemistryMicrobiology and ImmunologyQuantitative BiologyPolitical ScienceEnglish LiteratureEnvironmental Studies
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Community organizations
Students connected with community programs and their knowledge across four regions. Below are some of those organizations, listed under the city where each program runs.
Montréal· Québec9 organizations
- Chez Doris
- Tyndale St-Georges
- The Refugee Centre
- West Island Assistance Fund
- AIDS Community Care Montréal
- Mission Monarque
- International Bureau for Children's Rights
- DocTocToc
- Fondation Béati
Kingston· Ontario1
- Kingston Community Health Centres
Toronto· Ontario1
- ACAS (Asian Community AIDS Services)
British Columbia1
- BC Care Providers Association
Why “Founding Cohort”
The May 2026 cohort was the first to experience the Micro-Exp Internship end-to-end, from the kickoff workshop through community outreach, student-authored publication, and peer review. The cohort’s experiences and feedback on the workshop, peer-review process, and publication authoring, as well as their interactions with the community organizations, will set the process and improve the experiences for future cohorts.
Team and supervision
The people who built and supervised the founding cohort.
Hamid Golhasany
Project Lead, ScienceReach
Olivia Shaw
Supervisor
Randi Dalquist
Supervisor
Farzaneh Sanei
Supervisor
Publications from this cohort
Community Knowledge Publications authored by founding-cohort students.
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PublishedCommunity Knowledge Publication
Lifelong Exclusion, Lifelong Learning (Montreal, QC): How RECLAIM Literacy and Literacy Unlimited Address Literacy Gaps Among Seniors with Disabilities
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PublishedCommunity Knowledge Publication
Tyndale St-Georges Community Centre (Montréal, QC): The B-Hive program; building belonging and community for teens in Little Burgundy
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PublishedCommunity Knowledge Publication
When the Remedy Is Belonging (Kingston, ON): How Kingston Community Health Centres Practices Social Prescribing
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PublishedCommunity Knowledge Publication
Remember the Monarchs (Montréal, QC): How Mission Monarque Mobilizes Citizen Science for an Endangered Species in Quebec
Coming soon
More Community Knowledge Publications from the founding cohort are on the way. Additional titles will appear here as they are published, through late spring 2026.
Join the next Micro-Exp cohort
May 2026 Founding Cohort publications are published here as they go live. The next Micro-Exp cohort is now open for registration. Authors who want to publish independently can also use the CKP Publishing Service.
