Nimo Bokore

Education:

BSW (Ryerson University), MSW (University of Toronto), Neuroscience Graduate Diploma (York University), PhD (York University). I previously taught at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) before joining Carleton University. My professional experience includes community health organizations and centres serving immigrants and refugees.

Current Research Projects:

I am a member of Carleton’s “Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN),” which promotes refugee protection and durable solutions. Over the past six years, I have led the student training committee at LERRN, teaching the methodology course and mentoring graduate, postgraduate, and early-career researchers, with a focus on cross-cultural and cross-border research methods.

2025-2030: Reimagining Responses to Forced Migration Through the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN). Nominated Principal Investigator and project director (Dr. James Milner); Co-Director Rez Gardi; co-applicant and Training Working Group Lead (Dr. Nimo Bokore), along with several others from academia in the Global North and South, community organizations, and UNHCR representatives. Funding Agency: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant.

2025-2027: Children on the Move: Post-arrival Experiences of Young Refugees in Ottawa, Ontario. An interdisciplinary team of applicants, co-applicants (Dr. Nimo Bokore), and community collaborators is led by the nominated principal applicant, Dr. Doris Kakuru, a professor at the University of British Columbia. Funding Agency: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant.

2021-2026: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Regine King) SSHRC Partnership Insight Grants Stream-Awarded to contribute to the theorization of the Home Grown Initiatives
(HGIS) Both as a framework for socio-economic development and an evaluative mechanism of such initiatives in post-genocide Rwanda.

Past Research Projects:

2020-2022: Principal Investigator (Co-Investigators: Dr. Patricia McGuire, Dr. James Milner, Dr. Susan McGrath, Dr. Michaela Hynie and Dr. Regine King. Collaborators: Mr. Abdirizak Karod and Dr. Samer Al Jbawi). SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants. Research project: Re-Thinking Resettlement and Integration: Creating Culture-Based Trauma-Informed Intervention.

2020-2022: Principal Investigator
International Research Seed Grant. Awarded to develop a fully online training and research project: The Somali Translational Research Collaborative (STRC) Project. Committee Feedback: “The project has strong potential to develop a sustainable international relationship and long-term impact in the East African Region.”

2020-2022: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Michaela Hynie)
Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR).  Awarded to create a fully online  training and research project: COVID-19 Mental Health & Substance Use Service Needs and Delivery for refugee newcomers across Canada.”

2018-2025: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. James Milner)
SSHRC Partnership Grant. Global North and South collaborative research project (Kenya, Tanzania, Lebanon and Jordan): Civil Society and the global refugee regime: Understanding and enhancing impact through implementing global refugee policy.

2019-2021: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. James Milner)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Global Refugee Policy. Global Refugee Policy. This Fellowship is jointly funded by Carleton University’s Faculty of Public Affairs and the Office of the Vice President, Research and International.

2017-2018: Principal-Investigator
Ontario Black Youth Action Plan (BYAB) Grant. Postsecondary Education Connectors (PSEC) Research Project: Exploring the unique experiences, opportunities, and challenges in accessing post-secondary education for Somali-Canadian youth in Ontario.

2016-2018: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Sepali Gurage- Ryerson University School of Nursing)
SSHRC Individual Connection Grant. Research project: Emerging voices: How Syrian newcomers and other key stakeholders perceive Canada’s three sponsorship programs.

2016-2018: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Judith MacDonnell- York University School of Nursing)
Women’s Xchange: Women’s College Hospital. Research project: Finding a Space for Me Outside the Stereotypes: Building Service Provider Capacity

2009-2011: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Judith MacDonnell- York University School of Nursing)
Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Research Project: Finding a Space for Me Outside of the Stereotypes

2008: Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. Judith MacDonnell- York University School of Nursing)
Seed Grant from CERIS, Ontario’s leading network of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working in migration and settlement and York University. Research project: Finding a Space for Me Outside of the Stereotypes

Publications:

New Book:

Bokore, N. (2025). Trauma-Informed, Culturally Based Intervention: Integration of Neuroscience and Social Work in Supporting Refugees. (1st ed.). Springer.”

Chapters in Edited Books:

Bokore, N. (2021). Refugee Resettlement: Understanding the Refugee Experience in The Canadian Context. In: Sethi, B., Guruge, S., Csiernik, R. (eds.) Syrian Refugee Reflections on Canada’s Sponsorship Programs. Palgrave

Bokore, N. (2020). Forced Migration, Memory and Testimony. In: Meerzon, Y., Dean, D., McNeil, D. (Eds.) Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture (pp. 197-214). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles in Refereed Journals Include:

Judith A. MacDonnell (first author), F. Mahdieh Dastjerdi(first author), Nimo Bokore(second author),  & Wangari Tharao(third author),  (2025) Trauma and Activism: Using a Postcolonial Feminist Lens to Understand the Experiences of Service Providers who Support Racialized Immigrant Women’s Mental Health and Wellbeing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(8), 1229. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22081229

Bokore, N., Caabi, M.,  Moscovitch, A., Rahimpour, M., Awad, E., Ragheb,M. (2024). The Somali Transnational Collaborative Project (STCP) Capacity Building (CB) Through Social Work Education. International Journal of Social Work. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5296/ijsw.v11i2.22269

Judith A. MacDonnell, F. Mahdieh Dastjerdi, Nimo Bokore & Wangari Tharao (2023) Activism and immigrant women’s mental health and wellbeing: Building Canadian service provider capacity in the settlement and mental health sectors, Health Care for Women International, DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2023.2190981

Bokore, N. (2023).  Adapting A Culturally-based Trauma-informed Intervention (TICBI) Model: Working With Traumatized And Ethnic Minority Refugees.  International Journal of Social Work. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5296/ijsw.v10i1

Hynie, M.; Jaimes, A.; Oda, A.; Rivest-Beauregard, M.; Perez Gonzalez, L. Ives,N. Ahmad, F. Kou, B.; Arya, N.; Bokore, N.; McKenzie, K.(2022). Assessing Virtual Mental Health Access for Refugees during COVID-19 Using the Levesque Client-Centred Framework: What Have We Learned and How Will We Plan for the Future. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 9: 5001. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095001

Bokore, N. (2022).  Making Short-Term Research Projects A Success: Navigating The Unique Challenges of Researching With Marginalized Communities On A Tight Timeline. SAGE Research Method. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529601527

Bokore, N.; Premachuk, (2021). Community Service Provider’s Stories: COVID-19 Impacts and  Vulnerable Canadians.  Publication: Journal of Sociological Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5296/jsr.v12i2.18272

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