GRIMdata Research Projects

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Published human-rights research, available tools and planned investigations sit within an evolving research programme.

Active & Upcoming Projects

Track	Available work	Direction
SGBV-UPR	Published SADC legal and computational study (2022)	Complete original Cycle 3 coverage and extend Cycle 4 analysis globally
LittleRainbowRights	Research record, source-linked scorecard and public tools	Maintain evidence and evaluate coverage, interpretation and index methods
Canadian Projects & Environmental Oversight	Planned research	Build Canada and other major-project histories and oversight
Research Provenance & Institutional Continuity	Proposed research	Contributions, institutional transitions and research handoffs

Research track catalogue Programme directions

Canadian Projects & Environmental Oversight

Planned · Canada first

The planned stream will examine Build Canada and other major projects through public sources, project commitments, approval stages, oversight requirements and changes over time. Environmental consequences, Indigenous rights and land relationships, climate commitments and affordability claims require contextual analysis rather than relying on announcements alone.

Planned outputs include documented sources and methods, dated project histories and comparisons.

Questions, intended outputs and next stages

Research Provenance & Institutional Continuity

Proposed · Insight Grant direction

This proposed track examines contributions, methods, outputs and research trajectories across institutions and time. It asks how handoffs and institutional transitions preserve or interrupt research, with AI-assisted analysis subject to human verification.

The connection to Viability.^. concerns how continuity practices and institutional power affect the futures available to research and its contributors.

Questions and proposed approach

Research Evolution

The SGBV-UPR inquiry began conceptually in 2019, with computational exploration in 2020, presentation in 2021 and publication in 2022. LittleRainbowRights broadened geographic and source coverage; the index tracker emerged through reflection on the documented conditions.

Research history · Research context

Technical Stack

DigitalChild is the public LittleRainbowRights implementation, including document processing, rule-based analysis, scorecard tools and a self-hosted Flask API. The historical SGBV-UPR codebase is separate and private.

Technical overview · Software roadmap

Publications

LittleRainbowRights

Vollmer, D. T., & Vollmer, S. C. (2025). Queer AI for the digital child: Examining the response to advanced digital technologies on the human rights of LGBTQ+ children in Africa. Second International Conference on Children's Rights, Stellenbosch, September 2025. Project research and outputs.

SGBV-UPR

Vollmer, D. T., & Vollmer, S. C. (2022). Global perspectives of Africa: Harnessing the universal periodic review to process sexual and gender-based violence in SADC member states. Stellenbosch Law Review, 33(1), 8–41. Published article.

Examine the evidence

Public tools · Downloads · Methods · Documentation · Data governance