Recent Projects
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Beachville District Museum – Detouring on the Museum Grounds
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Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – Dish with One Spoon through Time
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Museum of Ontario Archaeology – Ideum Multitouch Table: Potential for Display and Engagement
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Museum of Ontario Archaeology – Educating through 3D Scanning and Printing of Archaeological Artifacts
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TMHC – Visualization of Remote Sensing Data
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Sustainable Archaeology – Indigenous Languages and Archaeology in Southwestern Ontario
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Sustainable Archaeology – Indigenous Place Names in Southwestern Ontario
About the Portal
The Heron Research Portal was first conceptualized in 2016 as part of a postdoctoral fellowship grant application to the Mitacs Elevate program with the support of Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants (TMHC) and Sustainable Archaeology @ Western. Once awarded, postdoctoral fellow Dr. Joshua Dent began working on the technical design and community networking necessary to realize a test version of the Portal. When the fellowship ended, Dent's work continued under the umbrella of TMHC.
The Portal Pilot Project is a free listing service for community-based re-search opportunities which originate from an non-academic organization’s own research objectives. This listing is provided to institutional researchers (faculty, graduate students, direct studies, etc.) to encourage research partnerships capable of achieving both academic and non-academic re-search goals.
Portal Objectives
Community-based, participatory research is nothing new. Conventionally, this research is initiated by academics approaching non-academic individuals and organizations with more or less fully-formed research projects which these communities review and then choose whether or not to participate. The Portal inverts this process by instead querying and listing community-sourced projects that can be adapted to academic research. Interested researchers contact designated community liaisons who then decide if the researcher is the right fit for their project.
Portal Terms of Use
Portal Academic User Guide
Portal Community User Guide
Insituated Privacy Policy
Portal Partners
Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants Inc.
Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants embraces the respectful conservation of Ontario's cultural heritage, working in partnership with municipalities, public and private organizations, Indigenous communities and other stakeholders, scholars and the general public. Through public outreach and the responsible recovery of remnants of the past, it is our goal to foster pride in our shared multi-cultural past and preserve its stories for future generations within the process of building for our future.
Sustainable Archaeology
Sustainable Archaeology is a collaborative initiative between the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, and McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, advancing a sustainable form of archaeological practice and research.
Mitacs
Mitacs builds partnerships between academia, industry, and the world - to create a more innovative Canada. Mitacs Elevate is a postdoctoral fellowship with a customized research management training component.
Researchers
Review project listings and reach out to project contacts with your CV if you're interested in partnering. Community's will review your information and follow-up with you if they decide to pursue a research relationship. Some listing are protected and researchers will need an account to review these projects, fill out the form below for more information.
Communities
If you want to list a project, fill in the form below with a brief description of your project and we will be in touch for more information.
