{"id":2157,"date":"2025-11-28T23:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2025-11-28T23:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:49:35","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/2025\/11\/28\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our Founder<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Darlene E. Clover<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Victoria<\/strong>
Founder, Feminist Imaginary Research Network (FIRN)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Darlene Clover is an internationally recognized scholar in feminist adult education<\/strong>, arts-based research<\/strong>, and community cultural leadership<\/strong>. For more than three decades, her work has challenged conventional boundaries of learning by integrating creative, aesthetic, and activist approaches to social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research has explored:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • feminist arts and cultural practices<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • museum and heritage studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • adult and community education<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • social justice leadership<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • gender, equity, and cultural representation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Dr. Clover has published widely and has collaborated with educators, artists, activists, and cultural organizations across Canada and around the world. Her work foregrounds how creative, feminist approaches can unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions, foster critical reflection, and imagine new social futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Why She Founded FIRN<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Dr. Clover envisioned FIRN as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • a creative research hub<\/strong> where feminist ideas can grow<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • a collaborative space<\/strong> for scholars, artists, and community partners<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • a platform<\/strong> to amplify feminist research, stories, and aesthetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • a network<\/strong> that centres imagination, creativity, and lived experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • a resource<\/strong> for those working toward equitable and feminist futures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Her commitment to art, imagination, and feminist pedagogy shapes the heart of FIRN. The Network reflects her belief that feminist knowledge-making is most powerful when it is collective, creative, and connected to community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Our Mission<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

      To support innovative feminist research, creative projects, and community learning that challenge inequality and reimagine social and cultural futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Our Values<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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      • Creativity<\/strong> \u2014 valuing aesthetic and artistic forms of knowledge<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Collaboration<\/strong> \u2014 working across disciplines and communities<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Equity & Justice<\/strong> \u2014 centring feminist principles in all we do<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Accessibility<\/strong> \u2014 producing knowledge that is open, inclusive, and engaging<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Imagination<\/strong> \u2014 embracing possibility, transformation, and alternative futures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Our Founder Dr. Darlene E. Clover Professor of Leadership Studies, University of VictoriaFounder, Feminist Imaginary Research Network (FIRN) Dr. Darlene Clover is an internationally recognized scholar in feminist adult education, arts-based research, and community cultural leadership. For more than three decades, her work has challenged conventional boundaries of learning by integrating creative, aesthetic, and activist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21960,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/comarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}