Honouring Dr. Helen Burt After more than four decades of service and leadership at UBC, Dr. Helen Burt will embark on a new chapter in life at the end of February, when she retires from her position as Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation. We are extremely grateful for Dr. Burt's support of IRSI, a unit she worked to co-create beginning not long after she assumed her role with the VPRI. In our latest blog post, we reflect on Dr. Burt's work as an ally, supporting a new and better approach to Indigenous community-driven research and engagement and helping to drive institutional change at UBC. Read the blog post HERE. Pictured, from left: Qátuw̓as Brown, Wigvilhba Wakas' (Hereditary Chief, Harvey Humchitt), Chief Marilyn Slett (Heiltsuk Nation); Dr. Helen Burt, and Lerato Chondoma (UBC) following signing of an MOU between Heiltsuk Nation and UBC. | Q&A with Dr. Andrea Reid Indigenous fisheries scientist, conservation biologist, and Nisga’a Nation member Dr. Andrea Reid joins UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) this January as an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Fisheries Science and Principal Investigator of the new Centre for Indigenous Fisheries (CIF). Dr. Reid comes to UBC from Carleton University, where she completed her PhD in Biology and received the Governor General’s Gold Medal and University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work at the Doctoral Level. She is a Co-founder of Riparia, a National Geographic Explorer, and has worked extensively with Indigenous fisheries and fishers around the globe. She is excited to bring her experiences home and to collaborate on conservation initiatives with Nisga’a and other Indigenous Nations throughout BC and beyond. LEARN MORE in this Q&A on the IRSI Blog. Image by Collin Middleton | | New Map Feature on IRSI Website We have recently added a new map feature on the PROJECTS page of the IRSI website. The map allows site visitors the opportunity to navigate spacially to explore recent, current and emerging research collaborations between UBC and Indigenous community partners. It also lets users select from a number of layers, derived from outside sources, to view features such as Indigenous place names, reserve boundaries and waterways. Projects currently depicted on the map are those that have received support by the IRSI office and all content has been vetted by project partners. In the coming months, we hope to expand the project pages by adding more Indigenous research collaborations at UBC--both supported by IRSI and others. If you are engaged in an Indigneous, community-based research collaboration and would like to share it on the IRSI Projects Map, please contact us at irsi.info@ubc.ca. | Past Event: Indigenous Futurisms Webinar On Thursday, February 25th we were pleased to co-present a roundtable dialogue on Indigenous futurisms—the projection of Indigenous peoples into imagined futures—within the contexts of the “apocalypse.” Looking specifically toward cultural and political resurgence, panelists Dave Gaertner and Dallas Hunt (UBC) and Karyn Recollet (U of Toronto) engaged in a moderated discussion with filmmaker Lisa Jackson about representations of the apocalypse in Indigenous literature, film, and new media while tracing out the practices of care and compassion that will sustain us in the age of the postapocalyptic. This event is part of the IRSI Speaker Series and was presented in partnership with the Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health and the UBC Learning Circle. A recorded version of the event will be available on the IRSI Youtube channel and the UBCLC Youtube channel soon. | In Good Relations: Ethics and Recipricity within Indigenous Research March 25th, 2021 | 10 - 11:30 AM Dr. Margaret Kovach (Sakewew p’sim iskwew) is a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at UBC and the author of the seminal text Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. In this free, online event, she will unpack the concept of reciprocity as it pertains to doing research that includes, impacts, or pertains to Indigenous peoples. LEARN MORE and REGISTER. | | Gender, Race and Sexual Equity in Health Care April 27th, 2021 | 10 - 11:30 AM In April, we are pleased to present Drs. Brittany Bingham and Lindsay Farrell in conversation with Leslie Bonshor on the topic of gender, sexual and race equity in the health care system, particularly as it pertains to Indigenous people. Dr. Bingham is of mixed ancestry and a member of the shíshálh nation on the Sunshine Coast of BC. She is the Director of Indigenous Research at both VCH Aboriginal Health and the Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE) as well as incoming CGSHE/UBC partner Faculty in the Division of Social Medicine. Dr. Farrell is Anishinaabe and grew up in Thunder Bay. She is the Director of Indigenous Wellness, Reconciliation & Partnerships at Providence Health Care (PHC). Leslie Bonshor, who is a member of Tzeachten First Nation, is Aboriginal Health Executive Advisor at Vancouver Coastal Health and a member of IRSI's Indigenous Advisory Committee. READ MORE. | What I Learned in Class Today Launch The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology's renewed What I Learned In Class Today project recently published two Faculty Perspectives videos that continue the work begun with the Students Speak video in the late 2000s. Join us for a film sscreening and panel discussion with student, staff, and faculty representatives, including IRSI Community Liaison Adina Williams, on Indigenous engagement across the University focusing on what it means to do this work with care. Dr. Dory Nason will moderate a conversation around key themes from the WILICT films including cultivating a positive classroom climate, the need for administrative change, equal distribution of labour in responding to the 2020 Indigenous Strategic Plan, and more. LEARN MORE & REGISTER. | All My Relations: Trauma-Informed Engagement Mar. 2, 2021: 10AM - 12PM Trauma. It’s not visible and though its presence can be felt, it often goes unacknowledged. A trauma-informed approach is a key part of public engagement that can bring a group to new levels of depth while reducing the impact of trauma on individuals. Join us on March 2 for the 2021 Bruce & Lis Welch Community Dialogue with Dr. Karine Duhamel, Director of Research for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Register Here | Social Work and the Sixties Scoop featuring Dr. Raven Sinclair Mar. 2, 2021: 5 - 6:30PM This it the first talk in the School of Social Work's Distinguished Indigenous Speaker Series. This presentation explores key events and forces shaping social work involvement in the Sixties Scoop and the Indigenous Child Removal System in Canada from the 1940s to the 2020 establishment of the National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation arising out the Brown v Canada (2017) class action lawsuit. Learn More | Research with Indigenous People: Ethical Considerations & Community Engagement Mar. 3, 2021: 9 - 10:30AM PT Harvard University Native American Program and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine present: Alexandra King, MD, FRCPC (Nipissing First Nation), Cameco Chair in Indigenous Health and Wellness, Assistant Professor General Internal Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Co-Chair of International Group on Indigenous Health Measurement; and Malcolm King, PhD, FCAHS (Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation), Professor of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, Director Saskatchewan Centre for Patient-oriented Research. Learn More | | Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium (Virtual) Mar. 6 & 13, 2021:
9AM - 3PM PT Join us for the 18th Annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium. The IGSS will be held over two Saturdays with a keynote address on the opening day and student presentations to follow. Keynote speaker, Dr. Alex Wilson (University of Saskatchewan) will be presenting on March 6.
Contact grad.sage@ubc.ca for more information, and to register, click the link below. Learn More | Indigenous Fisheries Science with Dr. Andrea Reid Mar. 18, 2021: 11AM - 12PM Reid will use the life history of salmon as a metaphor to share her fisheries research and the story of how her work as a fish and fisheries scientist reconnected her with her Indigenous roots. She will speak on the brilliance of Indigenous fisheries science and why we stand to gain so much by embracing more than one way of knowing. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required for Zoom access Learn More | Two-Spirit Reconcilia(a)tion in Research Mar. 18, 2021: 12 - 1PM How can health research(ers) collect Two-Spirit data in a culturally safe and affirming way, in order to better promote rigorous science that considers biological sex and all genders (with a focus on Two-Spirit)? Harlan Pruden discusses how to expand our collective understanding(s) of health within a diversity framework that considers the way determinants such as ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, migration status, age and geography interact with sex and/or gender. By bringing these considerations into focus, we can better formulate health research, policies and programs that are relevant, respectful and mindful to Two-Spirit people and communities. Learn More | | Our office is always open to community members and researchers. We'd love to hear about the work you're doing with Indigenous communities this year! You can reach us at irsi.info@ubc.ca, or at 604-827-2801.
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