Biography
My research program focuses on the intersections between critical community-engaged scholarship and public policy. I am interested in 1) exploring how community engaged scholarship (CES) can become more critical and attentive to the knowledges and practices of often-invisible communities; 2) fostering innovations in public policymaking through critical CES; and 3) facilitating critical CES capacity-building. I am involved with a number of collaborative projects that consider how public policy-making processes and outcomes can be more attentive to the experiences and knowledges of invisible and hyper-visible communities, and welcome students working in these areas.
Research
Levac, L. & Chan, W.Y. (2025). Advancing the collaborative and democratic practices of policy innovation labs with community engaged scholarship. Policy Design & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2025.2514336
Levac, L., Pin, L., Buchnea, A., Malenfant, J. & Annan, J. (2025). A national housing strategy for whom? Possibilities and limits in Canada’s National Housing Strategy (NHS) for a rights-based housing regime. International Journal of Housing Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2025.2484046
Levac, L. & Gillis, J. (2025). Inclusive and participatory policymaking at the local level: Problems and possibilities. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 16(1). https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/17224
Socially engaged research
Malenfant, J., Annan, J., Pin, L., Levac, L. & Buchnea, A. (2024). Toward the right to housing in Canada: Lived experience, research, and promising practices for deep engagement. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v10i2.70850
Pin, L., LeBlanc Haley, T. & Levac, L. (2024). Using Community-Engaged Arts-Based Methods to Explore Housing Insecurity in Rural-Urban Spaces. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 10(2), 23-41. https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v10i2.70849