SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation

04/30/2026

Looking for a free space to co-work in? On Tuesdays and Thursdays the SHIFT Centre is open for co-working from 10-4pm!

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04/22/2026

Happy ! In this new publication in the SHIFT Journal, member of Climate Justice Montreal Nicolas Chevalier makes the case for how a justice-based approach can succeed where the moderate climate movement is failing.

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04/15/2026

Appel à tous les auteurs : le Journal SHIFT accepte jusqu'au 24 avril les contributions sur le pouvoir de la narration et de la création de contenu pour faire évoluer la culture et la société !

Vous n'arrivez pas à rédiger un texte à temps ? Pas de panique ! Nous acceptons les contributions tout au long de l'année. Suivez le lien dans notre bio pour plus de détails.

Bonne soumission!

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04/10/2026

"What is the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation and how do I get there?"

Follow Zariah and Jon Marvin to find out everything our space has to offer!

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03/13/2026

Reinventing the research approach: the SHIFT Research & Advocacy Program at Concordia University reframes the way higher education institutions can do research and who that research is for. 🎥 WATCH FULL VIDEO to gain insight on how we’re helping researchers address community priorities and turn research into socially transformative action.

Program fellow Elena Tresierra-Farbridge gets to the heart of it: “really what [research] is, it’s trying to understand the world and learn how to make it better for the people who live it.”


Thank you to our community partners, Tkà:nios - it Grows and JIA Foundation for experimenting with us!


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Réinventer l'approche de la recherche : le programme SHIFT de recherche et d’action collective de l'Université Concordia redéfinit la manière dont les établissements d'enseignement supérieur mènent leurs recherches et à qui celles-ci s'adressent. Regardez 🎥 cette vidéo pour découvrir comment nous aidons les chercheurs à répondre aux priorités de la communauté et à transformer la recherche en actions porteuses de changement social.




CommunityPower

02/24/2026

Learn about the growing movement for free, accessible, and expanded public transit, and the steps involved in achieving it in Montreal, with Nicolas Chevalier of Climate Justice Montreal (CJM),SHIFT Research and Advocacy Program Fellow Hope Moon, and Dr. Craig Townsend (Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at ).

More info in bio!

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02/14/2026

💕NEW in the SHIFT Journal💕

“Love letters to social transformation” is now live in time for Valentine’s Day! In this special edition of the SHIFT Journal, we invited submissions from our community about loving home & land. We split the submissions into three categories for easier reading. You can read them all online now, including Letters for Mapping Home:

Our memories of both tangible and intangible homes lay pathways for our internal journeys, sometimes “backward” to a home left behind, sometimes “forward” as maps to future places. Our bodies function that way too: through our senses we can exist again in different places, find places can truly “hold” us, and reach our hands across space to connect with what we’ve left behind or lost. The pieces in this section speak to that embodied experience of grief, strength, and what it means to move on.

Read more at the link in bio! 😘

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02/12/2026

💕NEW in the SHIFT Journal💕

“Love letters to social transformation” is now live in time for Valentine’s Day! In this special edition of the SHIFT Journal, we invited submissions from our community about loving home & land. We split the submissions into three categories for easier reading. You can read them all online now, including Letters for Cultivating Home:

To cultivate the land is to tend the soil, establish infrastructure, and sustain life. While cultivation can be physical, it can also be metaphorical. Cultivating home may be as simple as curating communication and planting the seeds needed to grow your community. To cultivate the land is to transform an unfamiliar environment into home, even if that is a second home, and surrender to the comfort of knowing and being known.

A huge thank you everyone who submitted their beautiful work!

Read more at the link in bio! 😘

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01/20/2026

How do we empower young leaders without placing an unfair burden on them?

This panel will showcase youth-led initiatives grounded in broader justice frameworks, featuring visiting professor Magalie Quintal Marineau and Christine Qillasiq Lussier of la Chaire-réseau de recherche sur la jeunesse (CRJ), as well as Adama Kaba, Mariam Untiveros Métellus, and Jessyarth Lopez Bonet (Harambec Freedom School).

Hope to see you there! Registration link in bio.

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11/18/2025

On December 2nd, join us for what promises to be an insightful discussion on community-led housing alternatives, tenant defence, and crisis-driven responses through transitional shelters with our partners from Logifem, Comité d'Action Parc-Extension (CAPE), and Li-Ber-T House, as well as Concordia’s Housing & Job Resource Centre (HOJO).

Tuesday, Dec. 2 12-2pm
LB 145
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

11/17/2025

“We’re looking forward to drawing lessons from the Pratt Center to inform the development of SHIFT’s research and advocacy program and impactful community-based research more broadly at the university,” says Elisabeth Cramer, manager of community-based learning and research.

Free and open to all, the event will connect insights from the Pratt Center for Community Development’s community-engaged research and participatory planning to SHIFT’s evolving practice around research and advocacy. The goal is to strengthen both university and community actors’ capacity to envision deeper collaborations for systemic change.

“Beyond Publications” will take place on November 19. 2025, from 12 – 2 p.m., at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation. 1400 Maisonneuve Boulevard W.

NOV. 19: SHIFT Centre to host dialogue on research for social change.