Founding Cohort
The May 2026 Founding Cohort
The first cohort to run the Micro-Exp Internship end to end — twenty-seven students from four universities, partnering with community organizations across Montréal, Kingston, Toronto, and British Columbia.
Cohort at a glance
- Launch date
- May 11, 2026
- Participants
- 27 students
- Universities
- McGill University, Queen's University, University of British Columbia, Concordia University
- Programs (12)
- Education in Global Contexts, Education and Society, Educational Leadership, Educational Studies, Rehabilitation and Health Leadership, Journalism, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Quantitative Biology, Political Science, English Literature, Environmental Studies
- Community partners
- Community programs at organizations in Montréal, Kingston, Toronto, and British Columbia, including Chez Doris, Tyndale St-Georges, The Refugee Centre, West Island Assistance Fund, AIDS Community Care Montréal, Mission Monarque, International Bureau for Children's Rights, DocTocToc, Kingston Community Health Centres, ACAS, BC Care Providers Association, Fondation Béati.
- Length
- Two to four weeks, about 15 hours of student work
- Publication window
- Late spring 2026
- Pilot pricing
- Free
Why “Founding Cohort”
The May 2026 cohort is the first to run the Micro-Exp Internship end to end, from the kick-off workshop through partner outreach, student-authored publication, and peer reviews. It is offered at no cost so the program can be shaped in real time, with real students and real community partners. What this cohort produces, in publications and in feedback, sets the template for every cohort that follows.
How it came together
The Micro-Exp Internship grew out of work at the McGill Faculty of Education on knowledge mobilization and community-engaged learning. Hamid Golhasany founded ScienceReach to build the knowledge-mobilization (academia–community) infrastructure his doctoral research identified as missing, then connected with educators and graduate students at McGill to design a short-format internship that connects student learning with community knowledge.
Team and supervision
Hamid Golhasany
Project Lead, ScienceReach
Olivia Shaw
Supervisor
Randi Dalquist
Supervisor
Farzaneh Sanei
Supervisor
What’s next
Cohort 1 publications go live in late spring 2026 and will be linked here as they publish. The next Micro-Exp cohort will open later this year. Authors who want to publish independently can also use the upcoming CKP Publishing Service.
