Mission:
We aim to implement interdisciplinary, inclusive, and collaborative research and incorporate Indigenous framework, approaches, and practices into research impacting Indigenous people.
In addition, we seek to strengthen community engagement based on reciprocal and respectful relations, bring Indigenous people's voices and knowledge into research, advance Indigenous research sovereignty and transform the theory, methodology, and academic research practice.
Goals:
- Generate research that will benefit Indigenous people and Canadian society. Our research goals align with UBC ISP (UBC, 2021), UNDRIP (UN General Assembly, 2007), MMIWG Calls to Justice (MMIWG, 2019), and TRC Calls to Action (2015).
- Support growth, development, and advancement of Indigenous academic leadership and ensure equitable participation in research that supports Indigenous research, self-determination, and IKS.
- Create opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaboration and mentorship of early Indigenous scholars and increase research support to Indigenous researchers and communities to promote research excellence, interests, reciprocal accountability, and ethical practices.
- Build an Indigenous research network to support and implement Indigenous community-led research, community capacity, knowledge translation and dissemination, and reciprocal community engagement toward collaborative relationships.
We respectfully acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver-Point Grey academic campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and UBC Vancouver, more generally, are also on the territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)
