Our Network
The BRN spotlights Black research excellence that plays an integral part of what makes the University of Toronto the top university in Canada. We are a vibrant network of award-winning, multidisciplinary and leading researchers shaping a better future, with local and global impact.
Network Features
Lauren Cramer recognized with Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award
Lauren Cramer, an assistant professor at the Cinema Studies Institute in the Faculty of Arts & Science has received a…
Kamari Maxine Clarke receives SSHRC’s 2025 Insight Award
Kamari Maxine Clarke, a Distinguished Professor of transnational justice and sociolegal studies, and director of the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal…
BRN IGNITE Grant helps researcher develop AI tool for community-based disease surveillance in Ethiopia
When Gelan Ayana Zewdie was growing up near Bedele in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, his community became deeply concerned when a…
Connaught Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers
Coordinated in collaboration with the Black Research Network, the purpose of the Connaught Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers program is…
Black Research Network members receive Canada Research Chairs
Four members of the Black Research Network have been awarded Canada Research Chairs in recognition and support of their work. Abdi Aidid, an…
IBET Momentum Fellow Paige McFarlane aims to use microfluidics to design faster, more accurate medical tests
For Paige McFarlane (EngSci 2T5, BME PhD student) biomedical engineering was the perfect middle ground between two paths. “Where I come from, there’s this…
BRN IGNITE Grant 5.0
The Black Research Network (BRN), an Institutional Strategic Initiative at the University of Toronto, is excited to announce the launch…
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