Research

Research Grants:

  • 2019- ongoing PI: Goldberg, L. Co-Is: Aston, M., Christie, S., Krug, K., Morley, C., Wright, K., & community partnerships across rural NS. Theatre as Bridge to Empathy and Healing: Learning from Queer Birth Stories: SSHRC Connection Grant, $49,644; $28,425: Matching/in-kind Theatre Production and Provincial Tour
  • 2019-ongoing Co-PIs: Aston M., Price, S. (Co-PIs): Etowa, J., Tomblin Murphy, G.,  Sim, M., Rose Elliott, A., Goldberg, L., Lukeman, S., Olivier, R. Partners: Kay, J., Hart, C. Mommy Dialogues. Social Mapping. Nursing Research and Development ($5,000).
  • 2017 - 2018 PI: Goldberg, L. Co-Investigator: Aston, M. Theatre as Bridges to Empathy: The Untold Stories of Queer Birthing Women. NSHRF: Knowledge Sharing Support Award (KSSA), $9555 Theatre Production       
  • 2012-2017 Co-PI (Nominated): Goldberg, L., & Aston, M., Co-Is: Burrow, S., Guptill, B. Birthing Relationships and Rural Health Practices: The Experiences of Queer women and their Perinatal Care Providers. CIHR Priority Announcement: Gender, Sex and Health Research: Work & Health & Sexual Health, Institute of Gender and Health (IGH), $100,000; CIHR-NS Regional Partnership Funding, $94,842 (CIHR; NSHRF); Third Party Matching Funds $31,614 (SON & FOH).  Website: http://qrbnsandbeyond.ca
  • 2012-2013 Co-PIs: Bryson, M., , J. Gahagan, S. Hart, & G. Rail. Co-Is: Batt, S.,  Dharamsi, S, Doll, R., Fitch, M., Frank, B., Goldberg, L., Haythornthwaite, C., Holmes, D., Kazanjian, A., Murray, S., Noble, B., Sinding, C., Willinsky, J. Choreography of Knowledge: Genders, Sexualities and the Queer Biopolitics of Access to Health Knowledge Mobilization in Locations of Persistent Inequality. CIHR Priority Announcement Funding $100,000.                                   
  • 2011-2012 PI: Goldberg, L. Getting to the Queer of it: The Relationships of LGBTQ Women and Perinatal Care Providers in the Context of Birthing Care.  NSHRF Team Development Grant, $9,968.71.
  • 2009-2012  Co-PI (Nominated): Goldberg, L., & Beagan, B. Co-Is Bryson, M., Heyes. C., & Atkinson, S. Healthcare Practices and Relationships: The Experiences of Queer Women and Primary Care Providers. CIHR.  $293, 875. Website/Report: http://lgbtqhealth.weebly.com
  • 2005-2008 PI: Goldberg, L. Co-Is: Evans, J., Campbell, S., Frank, B. Bodies of Sameness in Places of Difference: Lesbian Couples’ Birthing in Relationship with Perinatal Nurses. NSHRF, $117,671. (*Dr. Campbell, after courageously facing breast cancer, died February 12, 2011. She was a remarkable mentor, friend and colleague and is greatly missed*).
  • 2003-2004 PI: Goldberg, L. The Perinatal Nursing Relationship: In Search of a Woman-Centered Experience, $5,000.  Caritus Health Research Trust. (Doctoral Research) 

Educational Scholarship Funding

  • 2014 PI: Goldberg, L. Reclaiming the Postmodern Body in Education Through Love: Becoming Caritas. Emancipatory Pedagogy in Education Panel, 20th International Caring Consortium (ICC), Dearborn, MI. Learning and Teaching Travel Grant, Centre for Teaching and Learning, Dalhousie University, $750.00
  • 2014 PI: Goldberg, L. Caritas Coach Education Program (CCEP): Application to the Watson Science Caring Institute. New Ventures Fund, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University, $2,000.         

Internal Funding with Students

  • 2019-2020 PI: Murphy, S. Co-Is: Goldberg, L., Sheffer, C., Aston, M. Exploring how the experiences of Birth Trauma impacts Birthing Parents in their First Year Postpartum. Nursing Research Fund, SON, Dalhousie University, $1897.95
  • 2014-2015 PI: Einardottir. Co-Is: Goldberg, L., Santos-Salas, A., Tamlyn, D. The gendered experiences of nurses in understanding hope in palliative care. Nursing Research Fund, SON, Dalhousie University, $4556.50.
  • 2009-2010 PI: Inglis, D. Co-Is: Goldberg, L., Aston, M. Understanding mothering in the experience of kangaroo care within feminist phenomenology. Nursing Research Fund, SON, Dalhousie University, $5,000.
  • 2006-2007 PI: Simmons, H. Co-I: Goldberg, L. The Experience of High-Risk Pregnancy Following Perinatal Loss. IWK Health Centre Category A Research Grant, $3,400.
  • 2005-2007 PI: Ryan, A. Co-Is: Goldberg, L., Evans, J. Wise Women: A Phenomenological Exploration of Nurse-to-Nurse Mentoring in the Perinatal Setting. IWK Health Centre, Category A Research Grant, $5,000.