SDG 1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Key Stats
Progress on SDG1: low income students who have received financial aid from 2020 - 2024.
Source: Student Financial Support
2024 Research Impact
№ relevant publications: 29
№ citations: 69
Courses
- SOC 260 - Inequality and Social Stratification
- AUCRI 222 - Canadian Social Issues
- AUSOC 218 - Sociology of Global and Development Issues
VIDEOS
Institutional Stewardship Initiatives
Student Financial Supports
The University of Alberta provides a number of financial supports to students. These include needs-based scholarships and awards, such as the Discover University of Alberta Award, which assists domestic students who have demonstrated financial challenges and barriers to attending university. The University of Alberta also provides bursaries and emergency funding to cover unexpected financial shortfalls, and Child Care Grants to help offset the costs of child care for students and support their degree completion.
University Anti-Poverty Programs
The University of Alberta offers a number of support programs and resources to the campus community, including students from low income families. The Campus and Community Resources webpage lists numerous programs that are available on campus and beyond, including mental health, medical, legal, and housing and accommodations resources. The Campus and Community Resources webpage also provides information on food security, furniture and clothing, employment, child and family support, employment and financial resources.
Research Institutes, Centres & Projects
All In For Youth
AIFY is a model for delivering social support to children experiencing vulnerability in their school communities. “Wraparound” support provides students with life coaching, mental health treatment, nutrition, out of school care and more across five inner-city Edmonton schools. Since the start of the initiative, AIFY has been able to provide wraparound support to over 2,200 students and their families each school year. Since 2016, CUP has supported the annual evaluation of the AIFY initiative using a participatory research approach.
UofA Public Health Research
Public health research by Maria Mayan and her team is supporting the work of the non-profit EndPovertyEdmonton. The research forms the basis for EndPovertyEdmonton’s work encouraging innovative approaches to creating good jobs for a broader range of people as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.