What is the lab: Led by Dr. Megan Mackenzie, this intensive in-person week-long lab trains students to rethink Canada’s military and defence spending in response to complex security threats. Participants will develop policy analysis skills, explore key security concepts, and collaborate on research into alternative spending priorities.

This year’s lab focuses on gendered forms of insecurity in Canada. Students will examine how issues such as gender-based violence, economic inequality, healthcare gaps, Indigenous women’s safety, and other structural inequalities create insecurity for many Canadians. Participants will analyze how government spending currently addresses security and develop alternative spending proposals that better respond to these gendered and human security challenges. Working in teams, students will present their findings through written reports and a public webinar.

Dates*:

• Application deadline: March 30th 

• Monday April 20 – Introductory meeting (virtual)

• Monday April 27 – May 1 – DREAM Lab (full days, in person at the SFU Harbour Centre)

• Wednesday May 6 – Presentation of findings (virtual)

Pay: Participants who complete the lab will receive a $500 honorarium.

Who can apply: Open to senior undergraduate and MA students across SFU and select UBC students. Students from all disciplines are welcome, though the lab may be of particular interest to those studying International Studies, Public Policy, Political Science, Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, and related fields.

To apply: Complete the linked application form.

Questions: imogen.fraser.2000@gmail.com

Find out more here. 

*You must be available for all of these dates to be eligible