Maria Mayan, PhD

About

Maria Mayan is a Professor, and Vice Dean, and an Associate Director of the Community-University Partnership in the School of Public Health. She is an engaged scholar who situates her work at the intersection of government, not-for-profit, structurally disadvantaged, and clinician communities. She grounds her work in the policy environment and focuses on how we can work together on complex health and social issues. Her work focuses on the causes of marginalization and how to mobilize against systems of inequity, using primarily qualitative and community-engaged research in rigorous and creative ways.

As a qualitative methodologist, she has studied, written about, and conducted qualitative research since the early 1990s. She spent over ten years at the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology learning and teaching qualitative inquiry locally and internationally. She has been invited to teach qualitative inquiry by government, not-for-profits, the private sector, and the academic community worldwide. Her qualitative expertise has culminated into a book, Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry; the second edition by Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Essentials-of-Qualitative-Inquiry/Mayan/p/book/9781629583273

One of her most valued activities is joining with colleagues and graduate students to use both conventional and unconventional qualitative and community-based methods to explore intriguing and pressing health research issues.

Her current research program is embedded in community economic development in Drayton Valley, Alberta.

Research

• Qualitative research
• Integrated knowledge translation
• Policy and systems change
• Poverty
• Community-based participatory research

Teaching

• Qualitative research
• Community-based participatory research

Currently teaching in new Master of Arts in Community Engagement program

INT D 500 - An Introduction to Community-Based Participatory Research

An introduction to conceptual and methodological foundations of community-based participatory research in the health and social sciences.

MACE 501 - The Practice of Community Engaged Scholarship

An introduction to the conceptual foundations of the practice of community- engaged research and evaluation, with application across diverse disciplines, and forms of engagement (e.g., health care, community development) and community contexts, (e.g., government, Indigenous). Students will examine models, processes and practices of community engagement that incorporate principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization. A required course for students in the Master of Arts in Community Engagement program; others interested must seek consent of the instructor.

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Started: 2014

The EndPoverty Edmonton vision is to eliminate poverty in Edmonton within a generation.